Sunday, November 29, 2009

You are too a beautiful and unique snowflake

Just because Guinness snubbed your world record claim of Most Chicken Faces Drawn In One Minute (18) or your Most "The Big Lebowski" Catchphrases Recited In One Minute (23) doesn't mean that all that hard work and training were for nothing.

Oh, who am I kidding? Of course it was for nothing! Even so, The Universal Record Database wants to know about it! (via In4mador!)

From their About page:
Let's see what humans can do.
What world record are you capable of setting? We believe every person on earth has potential to be the world's best 'something'. URDB's mission is to become the database where all such achievements will live.

What record categories are acceptable?

The general guidlines are simple: every record in the database must be a) quantifiable, b) breakable and c) legal. If you want to set a record for, say, "Fastest Time Eating a Banana While Standing On The Great Wall of China and Wearing A Purple T-Shirt", go for it. Creativity is highly encouraged.

While not mandatory, achievements that positively impact mankind are encouraged. For example, think "Most Soda Cans Recycled in 24 Hours" instead of "Most Oil Spilled Into a Lake". Let's build a site we'll all feel good about.


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OK Go lets you taste the rainbow


WTF?

OK Go | MySpace Music Videos

The video from the first single off OK Go's latest, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky makes me feel like someone may have dosed my Diet Coke.

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The Living Camera


Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic man also known as "The Living Camera" for his ability to recall and sketch landscapes with incredible detail after viewing them only once. Here he draws from memory a 17-foot long aerial recreation of the city of Rome after seeing it for the first and only time on a 45-minute helicopter ride. Astounding. (via Bits & Pieces)

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

I had no idea that chickens could do the Fandango


The Muppets - Bohemian Rhapsody (thanks, Tim!)




The six kinds of wonderful Julia Nunes - You're My Best Friend




Freddie Chin - Bicycle Race




My favorite Queen song, the one that always puts a big dopey smile on my face (and looks of consternation on everyone else's when they hear me trying to sing along), Queen - Somebody to Love

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Tipping Point


Walter Wick's "Balancing Act" manages to put 117 toys on a single Lego brick without glue or supports. Stick around for the "unbuilding" section at the end. (via The Awesomer)

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Five Leaves Left


Christoph Niemann explains a lot of concepts using just leaves in his latest picto-piece called Bio-Diversity. (via kottke)

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Monday, November 16, 2009

Selling It

AdweekMedia put together some of the most epic commercials of the 2000s. How many do you remember?

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Scaring off the visitors


Four words. Dread. Zeppelin. Immigrant. Song.

Wait. Does "Waah-ee-aaaaaaaa-hah!" count as a word? Then five words.

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The Song Remains the Same, and the Same, and Still More of the Same


Stairways to Heaven, Stairways to Hell - One man, one song, 101 ways.

Ken posts at WFMU's Beware of the Blog and has just completed a quest to collect as many unusual covers of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" as possible, including a banjo version (Todd Taylor), a mashup with Laurie Anderson's "O Superman" (DJ Earworm), a Gregorian chant, and, unless my math fails me, 98 other versions. (via Mookie)

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Monday, November 09, 2009

Operation Freedom Clump


Take the "U.S. Military Operation or Brand of Cat Litter?" quiz!

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Video Mixtape


The Golden Age of Video’ by Ricardo Autobahn (via Cynical-C)

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Moving Pictures, Sitting Still


Name That Movie: Each series is a sequence of six drawings of shots from classic films (in the order they appear on screen.) No portraits of movie stars, just iconic images from the film.

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Thursday, November 05, 2009

You're drinking what now?

17 Obscure Brands of Soda Pop (#17 - #7), includes Pickle Juice "Sport", which not only looks and tastes like pickle juice, it is pickle juice. Carbonated pickle juice.

Continuing on... Obscure Brands of Soda Pop (#6 - #1)

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Sunday, November 01, 2009

The Story of ________




The Story of John F. Ptak and His Large (90,000) Collection of Pamphlets From the Library of Congress, and How Many of The Publishers Tried to Spice Up The Somewhat Mundane Subject Matter by Using the Narrative Form "The Story Of ________" In Their Title

Get the full story (and lots of other examples) here. (via Growabrain)

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Because the original title of "Excuse me there, Jude. I was wondering if I could have your attention, please?" lacked a certain punch


Hey Jude: The Flowchart (click to automagically embiggenate) (via Bits & Pieces)




Hey Jude: The Diaper Years




This has been kicking around for years and years. Linda McCartney's isolated vocal track of "Hey Jude" from a live show in 1990.

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