Really Just Odd:

Melty Bunny - Video

The People's Mario - Video

Garfield Minus Garfield

Though that last is also genius. (An extension of this.)

My six word motto: Thankfully, Americans Aren't Always This Lame.

Airtoons

At Flickr, Disturbing Sculptures.

Via Monster Brains.

I hadn't seen the original for a while but it's still as good as ever: Creature Comforts.

Minimal Lemmings

Looking for something else on Digg I found these two joke movie trailers based on American Psycho.

American Psycho, the romantic comedy

American Psycho plus Batman Begins equals...

Previously, previously, previously.

Dust On The Stylus - An eclectic MP3 blog of obscurities and oddities of the vinyl era

Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of nature) (1904)

I guess you would have to be Australian to understand why we find something like this so entirely hilarious.

"Aussie cheese fries"? OK - first of all, it's chips, and no self-respecting Australian would put cheese on them. "Boomerang shrimp"? Americans, please pay attention - they're called prawns. And we'd much rather have baby octopus or Balmain bugs. Well, I wouldn't but local seafood eaters would. "Walkabout soup"? Would you go to an American restaurant and expect to be served "Native American Spirit Quest soup"? Actually I suppose you might.

This is funnier than watching Yanqs try to do the accent.

Chinese Alphabet Blocks for Learning English

Via Language Log.

Beware Google Maps

Via Pharyngula.

Similar but different:

Shift

Yin Yang

Fordlandia--Henry Ford's manufacturing center in the Brazilian jungle

In August 1928 the steamer Lake Ormoc, pulling the barge Lake LaFarge, left Dearborn. Four months later, it unloaded its first cargo on a murky, malarial shore of the Tapajos. Motorboats, a steam shovel, a pile driver, tractors, stump pullers, a locomotive, ice-making machines and crates of food were hauled from the barge and ship, along with prefabricated buildings, the components of a powerhouse taken from the Highland Park plant and a disassembled sawmill. With the equipment, Ford’s new firm, the Companhia Industrial do Brasil, was born. And a hilly riverside spot known until then as Boa Vista—Portuguese for “good view”—was christened Fordlandia.

Also:

A short history at Fordlandia.com

Fordlandia at Damnedinteresting.com

The Freakonomics blog seeks six-word mottos for the United States of America

Via alicublog - well, actually via Lileks but, as amusing as Regrettable Food was, I have better things to do with my time than read tiresome crusadi wankers. It's amusing how decidedly uninteresting the suggestions became after, presumably mustered by righty bloggers, the nationalists rushed over to praise the clod of dirt upon which they were accidentally born.

Ugliest Buildings in London

Ugliest Buildings in New York

Via ... *cough* ... err, I stuffed around with the previous post for so long I forgot.

Fourteen Years of Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue: The Annie Leibovitz Covers

APRIL 1995: "HOLLYWOOD HIGHEST—THE CLASS OF 2000" Jennifer Jason Leigh, Uma Thurman, Nicole Kidman, Patricia Arquette, Linda Fiorentino, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Julianne Moore, Angela Bassett, and Sandra Bullock.

APRIL 1996: "BOYS' TOWN" Tim Roth, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Rapaport, Stephen Dorff, Johnathon Schaech, David Arquette, Will Smith, and Skeet Ulrich.

APRIL 1997: "THE NEXT WAVE" Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Claire Danes, Renée Zellweger, Minnie Driver, Alison Elliott, Jada Pinkett, Jennifer Lopez, Charlize Theron, and Fairuza Balk.

APRIL 1998: "THE HOT NEXT WAVE" Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn, Natalie Portman, Djimon Hounsou, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Claire Forlani, Gretchen Mol, Christina Ricci, Ed Furlong, and Rufus Sewell.

APRIL 1999: "NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK" Adrien Brody, Thandie Newton, Monica Potter, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Stiles, Leelee Sobieski, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Polley, Norman Reedus, Anna Friel, Omar Epps, Kate Hudson, Vinessa Shaw, and Barry Pepper.

APRIL 2000: "SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS" Penélope Cruz, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Marley Shelton, Chris Klein, Selma Blair, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, and Sarah Wynter.

APRIL 2001: "MASTER CLASS" Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Vanessa Redgrave, Chloë Sevigny, Sophia Loren, and Penélope Cruz.

APRIL 2002: "RHAPSODY IN BLUE" Kirsten Dunst, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Connelly, Rachel Weisz, Brittany Murphy, Selma Blair, Rosario Dawson, Christina Applegate, and Naomi Watts.

APRIL 2003: "ALPHA LIST" Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Ewan McGregor, and Matt Damon.

APRIL 2004: "SEND IN THE GOWNS" Julianne Moore, Jennifer Connelly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Naomi Watts, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Aniston, Kirsten Dunst, Diane Lane, Lucy Liu, Hilary Swank, Alison Lohman, Scarlett Johansson, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

MARCH 2005: "NOT SO DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES" Uma Thurman, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Claire Danes, Scarlett Johansson, Rosario Dawson, Ziyi Zhang, Kerry Washington, Kate Bosworth, and Sienna Miller.

MARCH 2006: "FORD'S FOUNDATION" Scarlett Johansson, Tom Ford, Keira Knightley, and Scarlett's …

MARCH 2007: "MEN IN BLACK" Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Chris Rock, and Jack Black.

MARCH 2008: “FRESH FACES” Emily Blunt, Amy Adams, Jessica Biel, Anne Hathaway, Alice Braga, Ellen Page, Zoë Saldana, Elizabeth Banks, Ginnifer Goodwin, and America Ferrera.

FetusMart

Via World O' Crap.

Top 10 Bizarre Mental Illnesses

Hitchcock Cameos

Dead Malls
Live Malls
Sick Malls
Abandoned Malls
Malls of the Past
Malls of America
Mall Memories
Mall Hall of Fame
Big Mallrat
Labelscar, the Retail History Blog
Grocerying
Pleasant Family Shopping
Cinema Treasures
Roadside Architecture
Roadside America
Recent Past Preservation Society
Plan 59
Yesterday LA
Bright Lights, Dim Beauty
History of Levittown
Art in Ruins
Communist Shop Windows

Via Strange Maps thence leapfrogging through blogrolls of the above.

And while we're at it, here's Victor Borge's "Phonetic Punctuation".

Tom Lehrer on Youtube

See also Tom Lehrer Tribute on MySpace.

Battle of Gettysburg Counterfactual Simulation

Via Millard Fillmore's Bathtub.

Also at Youtube, Johnny Cash Impersonates Elvis

Via alicublog.

Never seen this before: Kiwi!



Awwwwwwww.

The cuteness - it burnnnns.
Baby Porcupine