Now I need to try to get a video of Backup Dog howling along with this video of the puppy howling along with the video of the wolves…!

—

The Wrongulator — a calculator that always gives you the wrong answer. Tee hee hee.

—

Walt Disney’s home. No, really.

—

Peep Show beer glasses… actually, any of the glasses in that article.

—

A t-shirt with 79 fictional weapons (how many do you recognize?).

—

A map of Manhattan using 91 movies as features.

—

Mr. Tea teapot. Heh. I pity the fool!

—

Come to the dark side! We have coffee!

—

Skeleton cutlery.

—

Need to open a bottle of wine? Try this Screwnicorn! HAR!

—

I’m not in the market for some salsa right now, but if I was, this ad campaign would win me over.

I love abandoned places. Old falling-down houses, bricked-off subway stations, hotels that were never finished, power plants left to rot, empty hospitals and institutions. There’s just something so lonely, so stark, such a sense of death and decay (and maybe a little horror movie) to most of them. Here are a few that I’ve been saving to share…

I would be hard-pressed to choose a favorite photo from the Ruins of Gary, Indiana.

This abandoned theme park in New Orleans makes me think of Something Wicked This Way Comes (yes, even though that was a traveling circus).

An abandoned power station from the 1940s makes me think of all kinds of post-Apocalypse scenarios.

This 50-story building in Bangkok was never finished.

After touring seven abandoned breweries, yes; I would want a beer.

A Japanese pop-singer’s abandoned house and belongings.

More story than photos, but still good – Into the Tunnels of NYC.

Speaking of tunnels, how about the Paris Metro? Or the London Post Office Railway?

Most of you know that I’m fascinated with the website My Parents Were Awesome; sometimes I just like the look of the person, sometimes I love that the photo is so indicative of a time, sometimes I wonder and imagine what that person might have gone on and done with their lives. Here are some of my favorites from the last little while.

—

Dexter and Doris are rocking the swimsuits.

Melanie kicks ass.

Andrei rocks the bad-boy look.

Dan and Francesca look like movie stars.

Heinz and Lola look like they were having a good time.

Patricia looks like a free spirit.

I don’t know whether to hope that Mike and Diane were dressed up for a Halloween party… or hope that they weren’t!

Lisen looks like someone I would have hung out with when I was in Art School. Actually, so does Cate.

Let’s get this party started with the South Florida Raging Grannies wearing crazy pink outfits and singing a fabulous angry song about Florida and not being able to say the word “uterus.”

Holy crap — forget Unicorn Chasers; from now on any time I need to see something cute I’m going to watch this cat and dolphin playing together -

It’s Transformer Owl! (“more than meets the eye”)

Once you’ve seen the first 30 seconds of this one, you’ve pretty much seen the whole thing, but… Jack-in-the-Box cat!

Here’s the answer to a question I know a couple of my friends have been asking themselves… How many sugar gliders CAN fit into a container of Cool Whip?

I think probably everyone has already seen this talking dog video, but it’s still damn funny -

OMG I WANT TO TICKLE A PENGUIN NOW -

And having saved the best for last… ooo, now I get to use the “zombie” tag!

—

Here’s one for my geeky sewing friends: Gingham Invaders cloth!

—

How have I never seen this before? Yuri Gagarin archive video (you may want to turn your volume down, the music is pretty hideous) -

—

From the Department of WTF: Toddler asks for apple juice; gets Margarita. Drinks it. Hilarity ensues. OK, seriously? Who is so dumb they can’t tell apple juice from a Margarita? It’s not like they’re the same color. Or consistency. Or smell the same. :headdesk:

—

Slightly cute, slightly creepy: Sculptures carved from bananas.

—

Also from the Department of WTF, coupled with the Department Of Why I Hate Flying, Haven’t You People Seen Any Irwin Allen Movies: Pilot sucked out broken cockpit window, and believe it or not this story has a happy ending.

—

And now for a Unicorn Chaser, how about some Regretsy on those Keep Calm signs? Hee.

—

OK, no, really, I have one more WTF – Ohio man fused to chair he sat in for two years. AUGH! I think I just threw up a little, in my mouth.

—

Yeah. Right. That needs something funny after it, too. How about a little “Simon Pegg and Nick Frost do Star Wars”…?

—

Loving Converse high-tops as much as I do, this gave me the giggles.

—

see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!

But wait! I have lots more!

Cars sliding down an icy road

Scientologist refuses to answer the volcano question

This possessed cat really freaked out the dog when I played it

After that, I think we need an octopus chaser

This looks like fun. Very, very, very cold fun.

If, like me, you missed them, here are all the Watson/Jeopardy episodes.

Totally ganked this from my friend Beth – parenting tips!

I could only dream about being stuck in an airport and this happening

This made my geeky little heart tear up a little; a wakeup call to Discovery on their final mission.

—

From Regretsy, we have… My potential future – Turn down that damn Victrola when I’m talking to you; and Unique? You keep using that word (I used to love Octopi); and Heart On, which made me choke on it’s snarky simplicity.

—

From The Customer is Not Always Right we have something that you might not think would be true, except I used to work at a bookstore and we got this ALL THE TIME a;djfa;dfja;dfj… ; and a swift comeback that made me chortle; something I can’t decide is funny or sad; and what the kids are saying today.

—

From Lovely Listing, we have… Isn’t the Driveway Gorgeous? and apparently that’s all, which is odd, because I thought I’d saved three or four of them. Whoops.

—

see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our

—

For the most part I don’t like to recommend videos that are very long – I don’t like to sit and watch long boring shit that someone else has said is the best thing since sliced bread, why should you?! But even at nine minutes long I found this a very easy watch. Partly it was because the man is a hoarder, partly because he’s actually quite interesting and creative.

Marathon: a 92-year old cabinet maker

—

Twenty hours of a blizzard in about 45 seconds

December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.

—

Maybe I should have saved this for a Song of the Week – Nick Cave and Shane McGowan sing “What a Wonderful World”

—

But wait! There’s more!

Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse

Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse from William Castleman on Vimeo.

—

270 movies that came out in 2010… in six minutes.

—

What patty-cake playing cats are actually saying

—

So, so brilliant. A martini kit made from an altoid tin.

—

Remember Dramatic Chipmunk…? Now there’s Dramatic Eagle!

—

Every time I see beautiful shiny pictures of snow, I wish we lived somewhere that it snowed. HOWEVER. This may change my mind.

—

Awesome woman calls out flasher on NW subway.

—

Housecat attacks alligator!