car shaking

Man, those Polish dudes love a good prank.



update: I can't read the comments on this one, because they're all in Polish, but things like "polskie świnie !!" and "ale chała...co to za parówy?!" -- combined with with monostar rating -- give me the impression they're not pleased. Maybe the guy in the video is some kind of national hero or is dead or something. By the way, that video hit the top 100 most viewed videos on YouTube (in the comedy category) that week I posted it.

But the Japanese (and general boobs enthusiasts) seem to have taken to this project a lot more enthusiastically.

"subtitling" project

Here's a stupid-ass project I thought up: find the most popular foreign language clips on YouTube, add subtitles, and re-post them as "SUBTITLED". The idea is mainly to confuse people.

T-shirt idea

Hitler alerts!

It seems CNN is offering e-mail alerts on somc current news topics.
I don't know about you, but I was having a lot of trouble keeping on top of all this fast-breaking Hitler news.

the future of air travel

... is going to be very awkward.

Bob Ayers, an associate fellow at Chatham House in London and vice president for homeland security for Selex Sensors & Airborne Systems of Italy, an arm of Finmeccanica SpA, said that "the best and optimal way to make sure no one carries something dangerous onto a plane is to make people fly naked and with no baggage."

(emphasis added)

Excellent advice in general

I was just poking around the BBC News site, reading about the heat wave that's melting pavement in the UK. The "Have Your Say" section solicits readers' answers to the question "How has the weather affected you?"

Best response, by far:

Sit outside on the shaded side of the house with a glass of ale and chat to passers-by.

-- Andrew Parr, Croydon, United Kingdom

Duane Reade sells bread

A very enticing pitch about the availability of bread at Duane Reade store #173.

Stereotypical crooks on the loose

We got this scary notice from the police department the other day saying there have been some burglaries in the neighborhood.





... so I'm keeping an eye out for this guy:

Have we learned nothing from H.P. Lovecraft?

According to this press release, the University of Calgary is sending researchers to investigate an "alien-like glacier" deep in the Arctic Circle.

Beauchamp discovered the spring in the mid-1990s when he noticed a yellow stain on the snow while passing over the Borup Fiord Pass in a helicopter. He eventually visited the site and noticed the strong smell of rotten eggs that indicated the presence of sulfur. Grasby then visited the in 1999 and 2001 and collected samples of the water and mineral deposits from the spring, which contained new forms of bacteria and an extremely rare mineral known as vaterite.

Somewhere, Cthulhu's laughter rings out.

Anal trivia

For lack of anything better to do, I was rummaging around on our company's intranet when I came across an archive of trivia questions that had been in the newsletter. Among them, this one:

Question: Which is the only planet in our solar system to rotate on its side?
Answer: Uranus

As it turns out, you can substitute "Uranus" for any answer and it's hilarious:

Question: What is the name of the cat in the smurfs?

Question: Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?

Question: What animal is responsible for the most human deaths worldwide?