Chris Jordan Photography

From:

Intolerable Beauty
Portraits of American Mass Consumption

See also:

Running the Numbers
An American Self-portrait

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.

Courtesy of Pihus.

Matthew White's Surreal Histories

Impossible World

Impossibottle

Art Pad

Seattle Space Needle Webcam

Includes timelapses.

Oldish article by Czech surrealist film-maker Jan Svankmajer - famous for his weird and dark stop-animation films - about his participation in an LSD experiment in 1972.

Svankmajer on Youtube

Trailer to "Sileni"
Et cetera
Meat Love
Darkness/Light/Darkness * †
Flora
Historia Naturae
Virile Games - Pt. 1
Virile Games - Pt. 2
Dimensions of Dialogue Part 1 * (Slightly better quality clip of the opening Arcimboldoesque segment here)
Dimensions of Dialogue Part 2 *
Last Trick Pt. 1
Last Trick Pt. 2
Food - Breakfast
Food - Lunch
Food - Dinner
Punch And Judy
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (from memory, NSFW - includes collages of 18th century porn)

etc... (and tributes)

* personal favourites
† now I think of it, contains one possibly NSFW gag. As might any of the others.

Oh, goody! Youtube has Bill Plympton shorts too! (Assume NSFW unless confident otherwise.)

The Library Catalogue Card Generator

Via the Prof.

Via the boings, Postal Experiments from Improbable Research.

Wrapped brick. Wrapped in brown paper; posted in street corner box with same amount of postage as was strapped to unwrapped brick. Extreme weight for size made package seem suspicious. Notice of attempted delivery received, 16 days. Upon pickup at station, our mailing specialist received a plastic bag containing broken and pulverized remnants of brick. Inside was a small piece of paper with a number code on it. Our research indicates that this was some type of US Drug Enforcement Agency release slip. The clerk made our mailing specialist sign a form for receipt.

If you're interested in seeing an animatronic muppet laughing hysterically while it burns, here's the place to go. See how long you can watch before getting totally weirded out.

3D Logic Puzzle Game

See also, Addictive Little Online Games (and thread) at kottke.org.

Adamant reconciles the geological/palaeontological/archaeological timeline and the young earth creationist one.

* A.D. 31: Miracle of the Loaves and Ichthyosaurs.

* A.D. 70: Paul, formerly Saul the Tarsier, develops opposable thumb and writes Epistle to the Cephalopods.

Via Pharyngula.