Personally, I think the original Ephron-spawned dimple-fest was horrifying enough, but this makes a nice counterpoint to Shining:

Horror movie trailer for Sleepless in Seattle.

It was on Boing Boing so I'm guessing you already saw it.

I'll bet this is super-old: How to Destroy the Earth

Mission Statement

For the purposes of what I hope to be a technically and scientifically accurate document, I will define our goal thus: by any means necessary, to change the Earth into something other than a planet. Any of the following forms could represent success: two or more planets; any number of smaller asteroids; a dust cloud; a more exotic object such as a quantum singularity.

Patriot Search

Whether you are a normal searcher, someone trying to download illegal material, a terrorist looking to build a bomb, or just hunting porn, we at Patriot Search welcome you!

Our mission is to provide the best possible search engine to you while at the same time, making sure the government is informed should you search for something obscure, illegal, or unpatriotic.

Instead of letting the government waste tax money by going through complicated procedures to get user and search data from Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves or Google, users of Patriot Search make sure their queries end up right where they belong – in the databases of the government and its various agencies.

Via Eyeteeth (You're probably better off just going there.)

Protrude, Flow

Japanese interactive art installation involving magnetic fluids. Be sure to watch a video if you can.

There's a whale in the Thames



No panic on the streets of London, tho'.

Update: Sadly, attempts to transport the whale to safety resulted in its death. Y'know, if I was some kind of right-wing tosser, I bet I could use this incident as an example of the destructive effect of the culture of dependence that stems from an over-reliance on government help; at least, as it applies to whales.

An International Catalogue of Superheroes

Stone me! I never realised the bloke responsible for Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About is also involved in another vaguely humourous net project called The Weekly. Well, stap me vitals!

Incidentally, "those" of you who read this shortly after I put it up will realise I'm a sodding liar when it comes to the posting date. What you gonna do about it, eh? Eh?

It's never too late to read So You've Decided To Be Evil.

Here's an intriguing FlickR pool - supposedly photos of people taken the moment they first glimpse the famously obscene net-legend picture known by its original web address of "goatse.cx". It's a pity the Guinness Book of Records people don't have a category for Most Famous Rectum. Or maybe it isn't.

Digest of movie monologues

Ten Most Beautiful Scientific Experiments
via Interconnected

The Cthulhu Circus

The comments from the guy who originally put these on his LiveJournal site about why he then took them down are interesting too.

Y'know, I did it to amuse myself and the few people on my friends list who dug the humor and added themselves to the community. I didn't want a fuckload of eyes on it, I don't need to be worrying about lawyers coming after me, and I myself was not the fucking thing's biggest fan in the first place. You take a cartoon and you stick someone else's words under it big deal. Not what I really wish to put energy into, become notorious for, or catch legal bullets for.

Fame can be such a burden.

Ever wondered if The Shining would have been better as a heart-warming family dramedy? Wonder no more.

Trailer (Quicktime Movie)

Funniest goddamn thing I have ever seen.

Many adorable photographs of adorable creatures, and links to other collections of adorable photographs of adorable creatures, can be found at Cute Overload. Flip through a few pages of this and in no time at all the angry voices in your head will stop telling you to expend your rage and frustration by burning things, and instead suggest you turn to more life-affirming projects, possibly involving burning things.

Back in the day, World Domination Softdrinks Incorporated created a commercial tie-in site for their brand Fanta Shokata, in which you could add captions to scenes from bad Bollywood flicks. That site - and all the films thus created - is lost to the ether, but now there is BombayTV which works on the same principle. The site is in French; I guess you'll have to use your noggin.

Oh, and Happy New Year! Or, as I like to say, "Happy Let's Hope This Year Won't Be As Astonishingly Crappy As The Last One". Or "Let's Pretend", for you glass-half-empty types.