Awesome of the Day: Professor Pulls Prank For April Fool's Day
April Fool’s Day can be fun, annoying or a challenge. Thinking up a great prank can be difficult, and often jokes can get out of hand or fall flat. One of our favorite pranks is by Matthew Weathers, a professor at Biola University, who uses his computer to get a laugh from his class.... read more
Awesome of the Day: Mitch Hedberg Compilation
Yesterday marked the sixth anniversary of comedian Mitch Hedberg’s untimely death. Pay your respects by checking out the following two awesome compilations of his jokes.... read more
Radiohead Fans Seek Help
Radiohead is well known for polarizing fans and critics alike with just about every album they’ve released since 1997’s OK Computer. Whether you love the band or not, their music draws some pretty intense opinions from listeners.... read more
Willie Nelson Sings His Way Out of Jail Sentence
Willie Nelson has managed to elude jail time and a fine on the condition that he sings “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain” to the Texan court that heard his case. Last November, the heralded country songwriter had been charged for possessing marijuana after six ounces were found in a search of his tour bus. The amount was lessened to three ounces after the search, downgrading the charge to a misdemeanor that could have netted Nelson up to a $2,000 fine and 180 days in jail.... read more
GIRP, From the Creator of QWOP
This is the story of a little flash game called QWOP. It is a heartwarming tale of an underfunded Olympic running program. And by heartwarming, I mean maddeningly difficult. Rather than controlling the character’s actual motion, you control his muscles. Now, the game’s creator, Bennet Foddy, has released a new game: GIRP.... read more
John Legend Covers Adele's "Rolling in the Deep"
Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” needs no improvement; the song is amazing on its own.... read more
Movie Barcodes Compresses Entire Movies Into Single Image
Ever wonder what your favorite movie looks like in a single image? Now there’s a blog that does that for you. Movie Barcodes compresses every frame within a movie into one panoramic frame. If you look closely enough, you can see different scenes in each movie changing based on the color —Fargo’s bleak winters, Requiem For A Dream’s changing seasons or Memento’s shifts between color and black and white. While the film-compression Tumlbr page publishes new movie barcodes almost daily, we took the liberty of selecting some of our favorites. You can check those out in the gallery below.... read more
Comic Books Redesigned as Cheap Paperback Novels
Over the years, comic books have grown from what were once considered to be throw-away funny rags for children to a well-respected form of storytelling for all ages. The graphic designers at Fonographiks.com have taken the literary merit of comic books to the next level with their re-interpretations of classic comics as cheap paperback novels.... read more
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Star Wars
Apparently, on the set of Paul in 2009, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost set out to create a shot-by-shot remake of the original Star Wars trilogy. Only one scene was completed.... read more
Mario, The Hipster Tale
We’ve shown you live action versions of Super Mario Kart and Doug, and Zelda reenacted as an 80s movie. Now, from the mean streets of Austin, Texas comes this live action film bumper from SXSW 2011, “Mario.”... read more
The Guiltiest Dog Ever
Dogs can have extremely expressive faces, and Denver here is no different; he actually winces with shame after his owner finds out he got into the cat treats. The sad music really doesn’t hurt, either.... read more
Beatles' Tennis Shoes Hit The Streets
Recently, The Beatles and Apple Corporation gave French Commes des Garcons and Spring Court permission to create shoes branded with their logos.... read more
What Rebecca Black's "Friday" Would Sound Like if it was Sung by Bob Dylan
Rebecca Black’s “Friday” video is currently making its rounds across the Internet, popping up here and there and trending on Twitter. Why? Well mainly because it is massively terrible and that is hilarious, but really, it is so bad that we are not even going to post it here.... read more
Famous Objects from Classic Movies
It’s one part pictionary, one part hang man, one part movie trivia and all parts addictive. Famous Objects from Classic Movies is a simple browser based game that displays a silhouetted image of an object and tasks the player with determining what movie it comes from. Three wrong answers and you fail. I’m currently 66 and 40.... read more
Our Favorite Musicians On Fuck Yeah Nouns
‘Fuck Yeah’ memes have dominated internet humor for quite some time now. In particular, Fuck Yeah [Insert Artist] Tumblrs have become the new media version of fan forums for indie rock artists including Beach House, Death Cab For Cutie, Vampire Weekend and LCD Soundsystem. Whether musically related or not, the signature of a well done Fuck Yeah meme is the combination of a ridiculous, satirical photo with the caption ‘Fuck Yeah [Subject Matter].’... read more
Salem Warlocks, Witches Hold "Magical Intervention" for Charlie Sheen
It’s hard to tell what’s going on with Charlie Sheen these days, but one thing is for certain—he is not a warlock. That is, at least according to the witch and warlock community. Between winning and pumping tiger’s blood up to that unpredictable melon of his, the recently-fired star of popular sitcom Two and a Half Men took to his webcam to stream a live rant to the masses.... read more
At Long Last, a Creepy-Realistic Humanoid Robot
For decades, we’ve seen movies depicting futuristic robots that are nearly-identical to human beings. But we haven’t actually seen a machine that could truly be mistaken for a person. That is, until now.... read more
The House From Up is Real—and it Flies!
The house from Pixar’s Up has been created in real life, balloons and all. The folks at National Geographic recreated Carl Fredricksen’s airborne abode at a private airfield in Los Angeles as a part of an upcoming series, How Hard Can it Be?, which premieres this fall.... read more
reALIze: Muhammad Ali Punching Bag Portrait
Artist and sculptor Michael Kalish worked for nearly three years to produce the 22-foot high portrait of Muhammad Ali.... read more
One Hello World Composes Voicemail-Inspired Soundtracks
Voicemail has increasingly become an obsolete form of communication. These days, the idea of calling an arbitrarily assigned number, dealing with an automated message system and then listening to a rambling message feels almost unnecessary. But One Hello World doesn’t approach the technology as a thing of the past, instead sees voicemail as an opportunity to give individuals a much-needed, well, voice.... read more
