December 2008
32 posts
Get a human on the phone for crying out loud! →
A repository of ways to get through automated call centre systems and talk to a real person. This has the potential to be an awesome resource if you live in Canada, the USA or the UK.
Real vs. fake: Which tree is greener? →
A pretty epic dissection of Christmas trees, real or fake, and their impact to our planet. A festive read for sure.
Top Gear Winter Olympics Special →
If you missed this last year you really missed out. The main highlight comes at the end when they take a car off the ski jump. Some kind soul has put it online where anyone outside the UK can watch it.
The Buzzwords of 2008 →
My favorite (because I think I need one): staycation - A vacation from work or school that does not involve traveling.
(via NYTimes.com)
Quick tip: Add Bacon to Any Website. →
Just add http://bacolicio.us/ to the front of any url you send someone and KAPOW, instant bacon on your dictionary definition of vegan.
What has to be one of the best Craigslist Ads Ever →
Some highlights from this ad for a ‘97 Infiniti: “The front driver-side power window is not working but can be easily slid up and down with ones outstretched palm and a little finesse. All the other windows work perfectly (Except the rear drivers side window, which really doesn’t like to go down more than a quarter of the way”, “There is a deep crescent shaped scratch on...
thedailywhat:
Artist Reza Dolatabadi used over 6000 individual paintings to create his animation masterpiece Khoda.
The film, which lasts just over 4 minutes, took 2 years to complete.
(via.)
Link: How globalization may be affecting the way... →
(via patrickpending)
The Devil Went Down To Georgia - 100% Guitar Hero... →
Ridiculous GH skills. Impressive if you like that sort of thing.
All the stuff in Candian beer that doesn't have to...
The scariest things on this list for me have got to be hydrogen peroxide and something very non-specific called a stabilizing agent.
Beer
Shall be the product of the alcoholic fermentation by yeast of an infusion of barley or wheat malt and hops or hop extract in potable water and shall be brewed in such a manner as to possess the aroma, taste and character commonly attributed to beer; and
May...
Official Woverine trailer →
Looks like another guilty pleasure.
Great for Snipe hunting. All you need is a stick and a burlap bag along with...
– Bizarre review for a head lamp I was looking at on Deal ExtremeExtreme.
Batman’s New Voice-Over Career
Great short! The inner monologue is hilarious.
Ruby Rocket, Private Detective at aniboom
I’m not a big fan of this song at all but this lizard is ill.
Go Shorty - CollegeHumor video
The PEDALMAFIA Has THE Coolest App For (Virtually)... →
Mine has a rad blue chain matching grips. Take that fixie hipsters!
THE PARK
Child on a swing
Daddy, daddy, higher please
But he is texting
– via:Banterist - Five Haikus About People and Their Frickin’ BlackBerrys
I actually saw this guy (the one in the Haiku) almost everyweekend when I took my daughter to the park in the Summer. Sad. So sad.
A fisherman rowing his boat on a very small lake... →
This is Why You Don't Steal from Cracked →
Ha! They learned ‘em good.