June 17, 2009

SKIPNOTE: I'm going to be on vacation starting next week, so regular "Website Wednesday" mailings will resume on July 15. I've tried to make this one a bit longer to make up for the missed weeks.

When I'm feeling down, I try to think happy thoughts.
When that doesn't work, I get even more depressed,
so I try to think even *happier* thoughts.
Inevitably that fails, so I suddenly rip out as many
nose hairs as I can grab between the nails of my
middle finger and thumb, and that *always* results
in me rolling on the floor in rapturous laughter
-- right alongside my writhing, screaming co-worker.


Top of the Heap: Universal Studios Free Photo Booth Prank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GSVP5Z95c8

"If I Watch This I Hope the Moon *Will* Hit the Earth" (Wait... I'll be on vacation and I'm going to have to miss it. Rats.)
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/15/if-i-watch-this-i-hope-the-moon-will-hit-the-earth/

In the "Looks-Like-a-Saturday-Night-Live-Sketch-But-It-Isn't" Department - the Comfort Wipe!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfGXmxJ1vM&e

Laugh With Your Fingers!
http://hahahaha.fr/

Pretty cool - a Full Earth Rise, as recorded by Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter
http://www.space.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=080414-Kaguya

A nice collection of early Beatles pictures (when they were the Quarrymen)
http://www.taringa.net/posts/imagenes/2621410/Fotos-ineditas-de-los-beatles-en-sus-comienzos.html

R2D2 and C3PO in Raiders of the Lost Ark
http://imperialwizard.tumblr.com/post/121377790/mindingmybusiness-inothernews-r2-d2-and

Wondering Why India's Kung Fu Movie Industry Failed?
http://www.criticker.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/10/wondering-why-india%E2%80%99s-kung-fu-movie-industry-failed/

Movie Rumor Roundup
http://cinestuff.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/the-round-up120609/

The 50 Most Frequently Looked Up Words on NYTimes.com
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/ny-times-mines-its-data-to-identify-words-that-readers-find-abstruse/

The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company - the online purveyors of high-quality crimefighting merchandise
http://www.superherosupplies.com/

The Worst Job in the World
http://www.photoshoptutors.com/2009/06/worst-job-in-the-worldworst-job-in-the-world/

Interactive Psychedelic Kaleidoscope (try it on "Full Screen")
http://lsdex.ru/fla/interactive-kaleidoscope/

How to read Wine Label Information
http://www.wine-searcher.com/wine-label.htm

This could come in handy - the Affluent Pauper - Learning to Live Large on Very Little (read: "free stuff")
http://affluentpauper.blogspot.com/

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/40-examples-of-incredible-photo-manipulation/

12 Terrifying Pieces of Furniture That Will Give Your Children Nightmares
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/furniture-will-give-you-nightmares

If wedding invitations are the bomb, this one is the Weapon of Mass Destruction
http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2008/11/married/

Currency Collages
http://www.bextim.com/mark-wagners-currency-collages.html

Creating a Nation of Wimps (Amen.)
http://www.freemindsmedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=158&catid=1

10 Things I Learned From Superman
http://trueslant.com/mikeharvkey/2009/06/16/10-things-i-learned-from-superman/

10 Fantastic Futuristic Materials That Actually Exist
http://weburbanist.com/2009/06/16/10-fantastic-futuristic-materials-that-actually-exist/



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And, from Jack's Sunday Paper...

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupckaes
http://amypaul.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-cupcakes/
Most Of Us Have Seen It Before, But IT's Still Funny: Old Guy Laughing
At The Comedy Barn
http://www.videosift.com/video/Old-guys-laugh-totally-upstages-comedian-115
Awesome Simpsons Intro
http://www.geekarmy.com/funny-pictures/994/awesome-simpsons-intro/


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