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Gripping tale of a wild ride upon the high seas.

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YouTube has the trailer for an upcoming short film called The Inventor starring a wild-haired David Serra.
"Great catch. Oh! Hey!"

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Yeeesh! Hey Now! What's wrong with this woman's eyes?
She looks like the kid in sixth grade who could turn his eyelids inside out and make milk come out of his ears.

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Beautiful beautiful new Bob Dylan video
put together by the guy who did Capote and starring a certain Scarlett Johansson.



How Dylan got a hold of my home movies, I'll never know...

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Dog's Driving Lesson Ends In Crash
With a headline like that, you kinda don't need the story...but:

The woman, identified only by her surname, Li, said her dog "was fond of crouching on the steering wheel and often watched her drive."

"She thought she would let the dog 'have a try' while she operated the accelerator and brake," the report said. "They did not make it far before crashing into an oncoming car."

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Moving article and photos of New Orleans a year after Katrina.
"If in reading this post and looking at [these] photos, you feel that they are valuable, please pass the links along to others who might be interested."

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Very unusual musical game involving being the Sun(?) and sunburning girls in bikinis(?)...I don't really know.
Fun tho'

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iPod + Colbert = funny.
They really should have used that song by Jet though.

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Catch you later! I'm hangin' with these bros!

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No DataWhat today...I'm trying to set up Tivo but the picture is only in black & white.

I can run all of the cables directly from the cable box to the TV and color is fine (both coaxial cable and RCA cables), but anything through the Tivo is like Leave it To Beaver. The weirdest thing is that even the Tivo menus are in B&W.

Any clue?

Anyone?

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Really well told recounting of the events of 9/11 in graphic novel form including concurrent timelines of all four planes, and some explanation of the 9/11 commission's findings.
Sounds alternately morbid and dry, but the layout possibilities of the graphic novel format make this possibly the best way of representing how it all went down.

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Yogabeans: "your internet source for plastic action figures demonstrating ashtanga yoga"
Made me laugh. I don't get it, but it made me laugh.

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Fantastic entry for Stephen Colbert's Greenscreen Challenge: Colbert vs. the Rancor
And here's the original if you didn't catch it...

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Real estate website featuring Jack White's Detroit home. The 360° Views are nice, but the Tour section shows the place off really nicely. For only $930,000, this piece of rock and roll history could be yours.
In the walk-in closet you can find the hardest button to button, in the attic I think I smell a rat, on the front door you can ring my doorbell, and while it doesn't look like there is a single little room to be found...uh...Let's build a home?

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Speaking of Detroit rock legends, nice Detroit News article featuring The Sultan and Big Matt from MotorCityRocks.
By far and away the most attractive male bloggers in the whole article.

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From Esquire Magazine:



Q: Book you’re reading right now?
A: Jitterbug Perfume.

sigh...

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Ballsy video for "Walk Away" by the James Gang.
Discovered via Goldenfiddle under the title "Fuck Wolfmother" and y'know what? They're right. Joe Walsh looks like a fucking tiger and he just EATS that guitar, man. What a monster.

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Spirit Airlines is running a weird Mullet Sale.
Business in the front, party in the back I guess...

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Attention Lost fans who like spoilers: Some guy who has been playing The Lost Experience game all summer is posting his findings here.
I haven't had a chance to dig through it, but some of the stuff is really choice. DeGroot!

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This lady seems pretty upset: she's selling her husband's bass on eBay.
She also seems very British, and they swear really weird over there. I mean really f-----g weird. Sometimes it's G--D----d hard to understand what they're s----g.

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Brenda?


Geez, what is happening with Shannen Doherty's face?
Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where they take the bandages off
and Ellie Mae is beautiful but everybody else has those pig noses...


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So in this clip from Clerks, the Animated Series, the writers could not figure out what to do with the rest of the episode, so they just pretended that the end of the script got lost on the way to Korea and so the Korean animators just finished it in their own way.



Transformers, Axel Foley, Tom "You can't handle the Truth! Show Me the Money!" Cruise, Judge Reinhold...it gets pretty crazy.

The first time PJ and I watched this on the DVD, we were both crying with laughter. Thak you YouTube.

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You Ain't Go No Alibi



Another good batch of horrid '70s interiors on Flickr.

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Beautiful and haunting Acoustic cover of "Hey Ya" played by a beardy white guy.
Proof that a good song is a good song.

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A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation to Jerusalem. While they were there, the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here, in the Holy Land, for $150." The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home.

The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your wife home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?"
The man replied, "Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."

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People take light pens and long exposures and make cool little animations.
I don't know how somebody has the physical dexterity to keep drawing the same invisible thing over and over again (especially when you can't really see what you're doing)...I would screw it up.

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Cheap USB drive: 1GB for $23 after shipping and what-not.
The folks at Digg say it's good, so it must be. Teh Innarweb doesn't lie, does it?

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This waxen image is only made even stranger
when you notice she's holding a copy of Trout Mask Replica



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Really amazing Lego reproduction of New York City.



Oh, and this guy needs a girlfriend, stat.

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Jamie Monger put together a terrific Guide to Sea Chanteys on AMG's home page today.
"Paul Clayton and Dave Van Ronk, use their earthy harmonies to convey the (pre-hurling over the edge of the boat) excitement of young men leaving port who are oblivious to the fact that their diet for the next year will consist only of tar, salt pork, cod, and rotten limes."

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Animated GIFs of cats in record stores with headphones on.
Sounds lame, but Hardcore Steve had me cracking up.

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I dunno if you want to watch this or not...it's a pretty complete video collection of G. Dub's horrible speaking gaffes ("You are a soverign nation" anyone?) which is funny and all, but as it went on, I just got more and more depressed.
Fool me once you can't get fooled again

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Hundreds of dirty words you can't get on an NFL jersey.

Some of my faves:

ASS BLASTER
ASSBAGGER
ATHLETES FOOT
BARF FACE
CRABS
DAHMER
DICK FOR BRAINS
LADY BOOG
JUGGALO
JUGS
K MART
SEX FARM
SMAGMA
TANG
WILLIE WANKER

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Funny picture of Prince Harry and Prince William where Prince Harry is grabbing some girl's boob while they're all drunk as Englishmen.
To him I say: Bravo. Young English royalty should be grabbing boobs.

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Dan came up with this douchy photo of a guy offering his wares as a web designer:


but then Mike came up with what must be his personal HTML code:
<douche style="hair:roxette;phone:1991;">Jim Rolt</douche>

Dorkilarious!

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"But now I can penetrate hardly and give the pleasure to every woman!" - spam I got

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The Visual Dictionary is trying to amass visual representations of words.



quite a nice little project.

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No Sizzurprises. Skeet Spirit: A Crunk Tribute to Radiohead.
Flamboastin' Android.

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The Seven Ways that People search the web:
#7 The Basket Case: "I stumbled across queries like "i hate my job" and "why am i so ugly." For me, one log entry stands above the rest: "i hurt when i think too much i love roadtrips i hate my weight i fear being alone for the rest of my life." Me too, 3696023. Me too."

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Sunday night 8/20
William Shatner Roast
10pm Comedy Central.
If it's as funny as the Pam Anderson roast, Penny is going into labor.

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Barber College is as good as paid for: For some reason Jeff Foxworthy is giving away $50,000 to the first baby born on Labor Day weekend:
The mother of the baby born in America at exactly 8:30/7:30c* the night of Friday, Sept. 1, 2006, will receive $50,000 for a Big Night Out on CMT. The big cash giveaway will celebrate the "birth" of Jeff Foxworthy's "new baby" -- his 12 episode Friday night TV series Foxworthy's Big Night Out -- premiering at 8:30/7:30c* on CMT.

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I dunno where Natalie Portman is, but it must be cold there.
Ding-Dong!

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A journalistic exclusive from Junkiness.com:
First Photo of Baby Suri!!!1!



If you don't know why this is funny, more information here.

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By the power of YouTube: Steve found these two clips of John Frusciante from the Red Hot Chili Peppers busting out The Bee Gees' "How Deep Is Your Love" and Simon & Garfunkel's "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her" performed on solo guitar and John's sweet fragile voice right in the middle of a Chili Peppers concert.
Now there's a dude that doesn't get enough respect...to be able to bust out two spectacular covers all by himself and have them be so entertaining and yet so off the cuff...whatta champ.

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Sci-Fi is going to piece together Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far to air before season 3 starts up.
So if you haven't started watching this spectacular show, this is a good way to catch up.

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This nerd set up a water fountain and a series of strobe lights so that when it runs it looks like the water is dripping backwards.
The whole thing has this weird "Tool video" kind of skittery choppiness to it...cool and weird.

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When I first saw this photo of INXS, my initial thought was
"Who's that homeless guy next to Justin Timberlake?"

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My buddy Matt Knee offers these great photos of his trip to Japan and South Korea.
Man, I dunno if I could sleep on the floor of a monestery then wake up at 3 in the morning for bells and chanting. Kudos to you, sir.

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This Moronic Study Just In: TV Watchers Watch More TV.
Film at Eleven.


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This brilliant company does what it calls "Assvertizing "
which means that they take a company's logo and put it on a pair of underwear
and then pay models to drop small things and then bend over to pick them up.



The amazing thing is that this photo is for a Kodak assvertizing campaign,
which seems a little lowbrow for them...I wonder if George Eastman would approve?

W.W.G.E.D.?

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Speaking of advertizing: The Ten Creepiest Icons in Advertising History.
Can I just say that the Lamasil toenail fungus bug should be even higher than number 4. "I just love watching insects lift toenails to about a 45 degree angle, and then crawl under and start digging a foxhole." No shit, buddy. And those snot globules for Mucusil (or whatever) that have suitcases and are living in your lungs or sinuses really oughtta be on there too.

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The most funnest thing evar:

Goggles is a flight simulator crossed with Google Maps. You get to pilot this little plane up and down through the Google Maps of L.A., or Paris, or San Francisco....buncha places.
Sounds kinda dorky, but when you get bored you can totally crash the plane.

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A guy in Russia stumbled across a copy of Harry Proglotter and the Magic Shawarmatrix:



Woe, as it happens, crept up unnoticed. Harry Proglotter, a student in the magic school Hobotast, carelessly ate a Magic Shawarma, which contains the roots and offshoots of Universal Evil. And this Evil is growing inside the young wizard, threatening universal catastrophe. Harry must set out on a risky, distant expedition for the healing antidote. He is helped by his friends James Barahlow and Molly Kozazel, and also by master Yoda, who in those days wasn't yet a Jedi teacher.

More here(?)

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Anybody into RockStar: Supernova whatever the fuck Izzy Stradlin is doing now should revisit the Sweet Child O' Mine video.
Man, Gilby Clarke Izzy Stradlin looks like a little kid guitar player...

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This teaser for the Transformers movie is pretty well done.
The Mars stuff is what is cool.

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WTFSturgeon?!!11!!1
ZOMG!

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Big congrats to Chris Easthope, our re-elected 5th Ward councilman.
Can I take the sign out of my yard now?


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any guess as to what flavor Doritos these are?

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This has to be totally illegal, so I don’t know how long it will last, but FreeTube is streaming like every TV channel, even HBO.
ESPN, Sci-Fi Movies, C-SPAN, a whole bunch of stuff. Watch it while you can, criminals!

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Speaking of busted, this photographer got busted for photoshopping photos to make war look worse.
Horribly too...first day with the clone tool there big guy?

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This just in: Siskel and Ebert were two little bitches. This YouTube clip shows them sniping at each other like an old married couple.
I can't tell which one I want to punch first...probably Ebert 'cause he's still alive.

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Bleh:
"If a label has signed a new artist and wants to reduce risk , Hit Song Science is being used as a production tool to help calibrate the music for hit potential as it is being created. The label can put their producer of choice in touch with Polyphonic HMI or the label can contact Polyphonic to inquire about available producers."

More at the shiny new website for MusIntelligence.com

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Borat Movie trailer.
Looks funny. I always liked Borat better than Ali G.

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Also funny: The Peter Pan Guy, the Tron guy and the Horrible Sweater Lady all singing about net neutrality.
I have to say though, I expected the Tron Guy do do a better robot dance than that. He looks stiff, but in the wrong way.

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This guy in the UK who digs tunnels under his house (and possibly other people's houses) has been ordered to stop.
Man oh man do I want to see his basement.

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How to DJ your first set without really knowing how.
What's fun is all of the DJs in the comments bitching "That's not DJing, that's just playing a playlist."

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Top Ten Closet Stoners in TV History:


Heh heh...Muttley.

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My buddy Chris turns in a nice recap of the San Diego Comic Con
complete with behind the scenes pics like this one:



Peek-At-You

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Speaking of nerdy things, here is a video collection of times the Wilhelm Scream was used in movies.
After a while of listening for it, it doesn't even seem real.

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A verrry strange series of Garfield strips from 1989 where garfield wakes up and finds his house long abandoned and himself left behind.
I'm used to Garfield being unfunny, but these get downright depressing.

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Really really spectacular home video of Britney Spears discussing time travel.
"Y'know that movie Back to the Future? Can that really happen?"

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Super fun video of the pop band OK Go on treadmills.
I can't imagine how many takes that took, 'cause the treadmill stuff is super complicated.

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Photos of the usually more careful Jessica Simpson in a see-through dress.
The first couple photos don't really look a lot like her, but later you can really tell...plus it looks like there is ketchup on her arm, and that seems very Jessica to me.

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Americans on the street get quizzed on world affairs.
You can guess the rest.

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Amazing cloud formations in Antarctica that only occur when it is below minus 176 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Uh...Bea Arthur and Rock Hudson performing a ragtime vaudeville song about drug use? I guess so...
Amyl Nitrates? Hash? Acid? Blow? Who taught these old people the cool words for drugs?

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The adventures of Chad Vader, day shift manager in a small grocery store.
The part where he calls his boss "The Emperor" is pretty funny.

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On this game show contestants have to recite a tongue twister under a certain amount of time or they get slapped in the balls.
Take that Deal or No Deal.

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Nice mention of Tapestry in this Digital Journal.com article.
"The new kid on the block — so new, in fact, that it’s not quite out yet. But it has incredible potential."

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A live demo of Microsoft's voice recognition technology goes horribly wrong.
"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"...sounds like something a computer would say.

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TiVo plus one year's service for $83.50.Looks like they are refurbished units, but that's cool by me...maybe the last guy taped some cool stuff and it's still on the hard drive.
I figure that even if I get Tivo and don't like it (or more accurately if I get Tivo and start watching like 70 hours of TV a week) I can just ditch it after the year and I'm only out 80 bucks. You can just quit Tivo, right? Guys?

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A pretty funny video where these construction workers dug a big pit, filled it with water and covered it with leaves, and then filmed it as people fell in.
Worth watching just for the bikes alone.

So in trying to track down that video it led me to this website that archives movie scenes where women fall into water or get hit in the face with pies.
It's a weird world out there folks. Be careful.

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If you can't guess from the URL, IHumpedYourHummer.com is just photos and videos of people dry-humping Hummers in parking lots. Pretty funny.
The one called "Holy H2 Humping!" with the guy and the Red Hummer is really entertaining -- From the James Brown soundtrack to the emphatic faces the guy makes.

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I'm not really into the collective figurine scene, but these Lost figures look really good.
Locke and Jack especially.

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Entertaining video where this guy tries to interpret what this heavy metal band is singing.
I'm pretty sure "Bill's Thighs!!! Yellow Lips!!! Treble, Let it Rip!!!" are not the first lines of this song, but I'll be damned if it doesn't sound like they are.

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