Wednesday: March 10, 2010
- The top ten movies that should never, ever be converted to 3D.
It wasn’t bad enough that he made Greedo shoot first; now he wants to mess around with the whole look and feel of the movies. If we haven’t made our case yet, we have but three more words for you: 3D Jar Jar.
Friday: March 5, 2010
- Jon Stewart and the Daily Show take ChatRoulette for a spin.
The Internet is like mexican food, every site has the same ingredients - just in different combinations. But go ahead and investigate, I wonder what your reporters will find on this video-based anonymous stranger-finder.
- Movie title mix-ups through the mixed up eye of Photoshop.
Another fine Photoshop Phriday event from the fine folks/goons over at SomethingAwful. Said mix-ups range from hilarious to the just plain wrong. You have been warned.
- Funeral for Internet Explorer 6 held yesterday over in Colorado.
Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as 'IE6,' is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight. To better accommodate the overwhelming response, we're changing the venue.
Friday: February 19, 2010
- The Gettysburg Address delivered as a Powerpoint presentation.
Good morning. Just a second while I get this connection to work. Do I press this button here? Function-F7? No, that's not right. Hmmm. Maybe I'll have to reboot. Hold on a minute. Um, my name is Abe Lincoln and I'm your president.
Friday: February 12, 2010
- A Star Trek invasion as seen through the bold eye of Photoshop.
Five pages of nerdy and hilarious fun for the closet (or out of the closet) Star Trek fan in each of us. For those looking for additional laughs, this video review of Star Trek: Generations serves as a great distraction.
Tuesday: February 9, 2010
- The top eleven undocumented features of HTML5.
3. Enhanced support for people with disabilities by automatically correcting 'its', 'it's' and 'your', 'you're' mistakes on pages. Hey, what happened to item number four?
Monday: February 1, 2010
- De-motivational posters through the ultimately motivating eye of Photoshop.
Go ahead, hang some of these up on your walls (framing optional) and start demotivating yourself today. You'll thank yourself later when you start to feel motivated again. Just look up, problem solved.
Friday: January 29, 2010
- Acts of bad construction through the non-constructive eye of Photoshop.
Another fun Photoshop contest/theme from the fine folks at Worth 1000 highlighting what could happen when construction goes horribly wrong. Watch out for that iceberg er, bridge.
Tuesday: January 26, 2010
- The top eleven unlikely features of the Apple Tablet.
Given the amount of secrecy around this product one of these unlikely features may actually turn out to be true. Alright, all things considered it won't probably won't turn into a robot ...or will it?
- An illustrated guide to proper use grammatical use of the semicolon.
Read over this informative post by The Oatmeal next time your thinking about adding a semicolon to that sentence. Use it improperly and an angry gorilla will come to maul you (notice the lack of semicolon in this description).
Wednesday: January 13, 2010
- The top eleven signs your New Year's resolution has already failed.
Yes, clicking over to the source link and reading this list counts as an admission that you failed to keep your resolutions (see number three). Better luck next year.
Monday: January 11, 2010
- Nine of the most terrifying attempts to improve popular foods.
Covers everything from spray-able pancake batter and carbonated yogurt all the way over to colored ketchup and edible plates (Ritz crackers are a quick substitute for this as well - thank you Mitch Hedberg). So, who's hungry?
Friday: January 8, 2010
- The top ten things one can learn from the past twenty years of television.
Presented by Homer Simpson on Late Night with David Letterman. Sadly, 'Cougar Town' is not a show about people getting attacked by giant cats.
Thursday: January 7, 2010
- Eleven of the most painfully obvious newspaper articles ever.
Seriously, you'd think that most of these headlines would have come right out of The Onion - but no, sadly these are all real headlines. My personal favorite: 'Report on reports sees too many reports'. That's some good reporting.
Monday: January 4, 2010
- Six transportation ideas that are actually more baffling than the Segway.
Crossing any body of water is always a hassle. But, as a cynical, jaded, 21st century consumer, the last thing you want is a boat. What with their ability to float, ease of use and general reliability, boats are just so passe.
Wednesday: December 30, 2009
- Ten words that you really need to stop misspelling.
I'm pretty sure that I'm guilty of screwing up the 'you're, your' and 'it's, its' rules on multiple occasions. My apologies to all of the English majors who happen to frequent this site.
Wednesday: December 23, 2009
- The top ten Christmas carols of the 2009 holiday season just for you.
A very entertaining collection of carols for the whole family. Be sure to use these when caroling around the neighborhood, you'll be sure to elicit some kind of reaction from families and friends. Merry holidays.
Tuesday: December 22, 2009
- Five gaping plot holes that Hollywood hopes you'll never notice.
The same T-Rex sneaking up and saving our heroes from the raptors like he's Mr. Miyagi. We don't know the T-Rex is there until it's snapping raptors in half, and by then everything's way too awesome to wonder where all the goddamn earth quaking disappeared to.
Monday: December 14, 2009
- Six Lord of The Ring characters who totally dropped the ball.
He has his human enemy on the ground at his feet. One enemy, with tens of thousands at his back. He then sloooowly reaches out with his ringed hand, allowing his finger to get chopped off. The ring is detached, he dies, his entire empire collapsing with it.
Monday: December 7, 2009
- Eleven of the most embarrassing songs of the 2000s.
...it might as well be the most successful single (it hit #1 in May '07) by the guy who made himself a multi-millionaire by taking his questionable singing voice and using auto-tune to transform himself into a pitch-perfect robot.
Tuesday: December 1, 2009
- The top eleven imaginary features of the imaginary Apple Tablet.
9. The startup sound has the ability to tame unicorns and capture leprechauns. My other personal fav: 6. Does not even have a battery to remove. Powered only by your awesomeness.
Monday: November 30, 2009
- Twenty-nine of the best chalkboard gags ever to appear on The Simpsons.
Hard to believe that there are over four-hundred variations of the chalkboard gag from over twenty seasons of The Simpsons. Want to watch a video of said gags? There's a YouTube video for that.
Tuesday: November 24, 2009
- Five materials that will make the world as we know it obsolete.
Researchers say metamaterials could eventually be used to divert matter the same way the invisibility cloak redirects light waves (feel free to read researcher Shuang Zhang's paper on the matter). At that point pretty much anybody who wears it is a wizard.
- Eleven more signs that you're at a geek's house for Thanksgiving.
8. Turkey outfitted with fans to keep it cool, and neon lights to make it glow.
Monday: November 23, 2009
- Looking for a thrilling new vacation destination? Try Dagobah.
Everything you want to know about the galaxy's most extreme vacation destination summed up in a one minute video. Paid for by the Dagobah Tourism Bureau. DAGOBAM!
Thursday: November 19, 2009
- The top eleven reasons why Darth Vader would make a bad lunch date.
3. Keeps saying 'I have you now' every time he picks up something with the chopsticks.
Monday: November 16, 2009
- Fifty of the worst video game voice acting moments that you've ever heard.
The entire video is worth watching just to get to the number three moment on the list (Mega Man 8). Dr. Light sounds a tad inebriated ('foiynd dat meat-e-oy'). Wow.
Wednesday: November 4, 2009
- The top eleven things nerds can do that regular people can't.
4. Fix your computer just by using it, even though it kept crashing for you before.
Monday: November 2, 2009
- A collection of strange and funny Japanese inventions for you to gawk at.
Most of these are actually strange and funny with the lone exception of the 'butter stick'. I'm surprised that this hasn't gained a more widespread popularity worldwide. Portable, easy to apply, and best of all its butter on a freakin' stick.
