Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Joss Whedon (the creator of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Movie and TV Series, as well as Firefly and Serenity) has joined forces with friends of his to create Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It stars Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day and is a supervillain musical that’s quite funny. It’s only going to be on the website for this week and will go away after Sunday the 20th. So click the image above and check it out.
For those interested, Neil Patrick Harris is best known as Doogie Howser and currently stars in “How I Met Your Mother” on CBS. Nathan Fillion was in Buffy, Firefly and Serenity ( as well as a bit part on LOST ). Felicia Day was also on Buffy and has a pretty funny web video called “The Guild” that’s based around World of Warcraft.
Sorry for the “ad”, but I thought this was funny and that their work should be appreciated by as large an audience as possible.
iPhone 3G: Will it blend?
Gay Zombie
For some reason this just struck me funny.
Here’s hoping Apple Rejects iPhone Apps Based on Terrible UIs
This picture says a lot about why maybe it is a good idea Apple is going to be the gatekeeper for allowing iPhone apps into the App Store.
(via DF)
Guitar sound on a keyboard
Amazing electric guitar sound from a keyboard by Ronald Jenkees.
via Twitter
Usher’s “Yeah!” - A Cappella
Great rendention by Divisi, the female A Cappella group from the University of Oregon.
(thanks Will)
Amazing tornado photo
link (via Daring Fireball)
Distracting Miss Daisy
And so I came to reflect on the mundane details of traffic-control policies in Great Britain and the United States. And I began to think that the American system of traffic control, with its many signs and stops, and with its specific rules tailored to every bend in the road, has had the unintended consequence of causing more accidents than it prevents. Paradoxically, almost every new sign put up in the U.S. probably makes drivers a little safer on the stretch of road it guards. But collectively, the forests of signs along American roadways, and the multitude of rules to look out for, are quite deadly.
My Guitar Hero
An amazing video of the hardest song on the hardest level, 100% perfect. My hands hurt watching it.
via Kotaku
Sex On Star Trek
via The Daily Dish
Dear Clusterflock,
Memorial Day or Labor Day?
Google Street View Has Everything
Including gun play:
( click for larger )
via Twitter
Some Unix Geekery
The following is a great set of actual Unix commands:
unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; find ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; fsck ; umount ; sleep
The innuendo is fun, and yes, I am that much of a geek.
Benchcoach
A couple of friends of mine, Will Schenk and Sang Park, have launched their amazing fantasy baseball analysis site, Benchcoach. From Will’s announcement:
Benchcoach is the best analytic fantasy baseball scenario evaluator website the world has ever seen. Period. Without clause, caveat or qualification, you will not find a better site with which to see the effects of hypothetical trades and lineup movements in the context of your league with both user and adaptive algorithmic projections and wood paneling graphics ANYWHERE! Count on it.
If you’re into fantasy baseball, I highly suggest you check them out.
Actual Fight Club
I know since the movie there have been reports of Fight Clubs operating. This one appears to have gotten its inspiration before the movie. I’m guessing one of the guys read the book.
100 MPH Baseball to the head
via The Big Lead
Calculator made from wood and marbles
In essence, this is how computers do math
via Will
Campaign Logic
We realize that it’s sometimes difficult for the common man to understand the goings-ons in the political landscape. So in the interest of education, we sought to strip down the messages of the Hillary Clinton campaign into short parables, just like how the Bible does it.
6 more in the series. Thanks Coudal Partners. ( via Will )
Crying, while eating
I don’t know exactly what to say about this site. It’s…odd. Videos of people crying about things while eating food. What would you eat and cry about?
Now that’s a party
When Robert and Julia Anscomb arrived home the next day they found their dog Bailey unconscious. He had overdosed on ecstasy tablets. Their dining room floor was covered in four inches of beer, their lap-tops, iPods and jewelery had been stolen and they found handcuffs and underwear in their eight-year-old daughter’s bedroom.
Perfect timing pictures
From the downright hilarious to the utterly painful this collection of ‘taken just at the right time’ pics will have you cringing or laughing out loud (depending on how you view the world). The following are our most favourite ‘caught just at the right time’ pics. If you have seen better we’d love to hear from you.
A couple of these are photoshopped, but several are definitely great “perfect moment” snaps.
Smoke on the water - Ancient Japanese style
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sEYIouqEdU[/youtube]
via Twitter
Daring Furball
Oh hai! I’ve been working an a rather unusual project, a website, actually: Daring Furball (http://daringfurball.org), a translation of John Gruber’s Daring Fireball into LOLspeak. It gets updated once an hour (no feed, yet). Read it and enjoy. Let’s hope Gruber keeps on using “jiminy” as I quite like the LOLspeak translation.
As a regular reader of Daring Fireball, this made me smile.
Fan Wins $1 Million
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBVFXT84vhA[/youtube]
That sure beats the fan I saw win $10,000 at a Dallas Stars game
Hey Jude
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrrQwLdME8[/youtube]
via iacas