File this under incredible ideas I wish I'd had.

Well done (and slightly old) article about nuclear deterrence.

If anything on Wikipedia can still surprise me with its comprehensiveness, this is it.

An excellent round-up of great journalism from 2009.

I hope that I too can one day turn my family pictures into elaborate jokes.

This photo is just plain awesome.

I can't even pick a favorite. Also, this may be the least useful "reference" on the internet.

I really could just do a whole blog on hilarious patent diagrams.

How Facebook users cluster geographically.

Oh, Dolph.

The Garry Shandling Movie Poster Project is exactly what it sounds like.

How the army camouflaged a giant Lockheed plant to look like a suburb during WWII.

Great McSweeney's list. (thanks Josh)

Biggest loophole ever? (thanks Josh)

A National Geographic feature on the Moken (sea gypsies in the Andaman Sea).

They had me at "Mr. T fighting a mechanized Nazi army in the South American jungle."

Fine, I admit it. Dolphins are smart.

Clever way to ensure your luggage doesn't get lost.

This list is everything that is great and unbearable about McSweeney's on one page.

A blog devoted to questionable Wikipedia claims. And no, I didn't create it.

Great pictures from the 2010 Dakar Rally.

Paprika Mars!

Great use of tilt-shift and time-lapse together.

I do not understand grown men who are fascinated by trains, even though I'm one of them.

I agree completely with this piece on how unnecessarily bloated newspaper writing is.

This is utterly bizarre. I had no idea.

Who wants to go?

Book covers.

Photos from 1962 Paris.

NEW FAVORITE. (thanks Dan)

A "glossary" of publishing terms.

Very well done photo of the day site. Some great photos (Dec. 17 is a favorite) and some even better captions.

Quiz: name all the things Right Said Fred is too sexy for. (thanks Josh)

Remix using loops from the movie Up.

Time-lapse video of the Northern Lights.

Interesting experiment on the importance of narrative in economic choices.

A huge collection of movie title cards. (thanks Sarah)

How have I never heard of this?

A slideshow of politicians' holiday cards. Orrin Hatch: still creepy.

This is an awesome idea. I would have also included "close the loop" and "come to Jesus moment."

The top 11 Coast Guard rescue/interdiction videos of 2009.

I'm surprised this list isn't longer, actually.

Incredible photos from the Himalayas.

The year in media corrections.

These are very Terry Gilliam. (thanks Sarah)

My new favorite Wikipedia article. Oh, who am I kidding? I can't play favorites with my children.

Montage of zoom/freeze/enhance scenes from TV and movies. See also: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnhanceButton

I've always been fascinated by tiffin carriers. See also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/meanestindian/sets/72157622787019009/

Zooming out on the universe.

A list of the most talked-about movie scripts currently in the pipeline.

This is cool and bizarre.

Ansel Adams photos of 1940s Los Angeles.

Book recommendations from Foreign Policy's list of global thinkers.

The New York Times Magazine annual "Year In Ideas" issue - surprisingly underwhelming this year.

This is awesome - look at ZIP code groupings digit by digit.

Photo gallery of Omo River Valley tribes in Ethiopia.

A gallery of beautiful libraries.

Nice Venn diagram.

A list of 2009 lists, updated regularly.

A gallery of the world's strangest roads (in this case "strange" appears to just mean "steep and/or windy"). The Cherohala Skyway is beautiful.

Based on this montage, it looks like Steven Seagal: Lawman is even better than I could have hoped. And by better I mean worse, but the good kind of worse.

National Geographic video on a town in Brazil where the rate of twin births is ten times the global average.

Quick thinking.

I had no idea this was even a thing - now I want to see a list of distinctions that most languages make, but English doesn't.

Outlines of the 50 largest metro areas and the 50 US states with those metro areas cut out, scaled by population. OK, that explanation doesn't make any sense, just look at it.

Okay, this is hokey, but I liked it: animated retellings of Australian Aboriginal dreamtime myths.

The finalists for the 2009 "Bad Sex In Fiction" award.

Interesting aerial shots and history of California City, CA (I've driven through a few times - it's a weird place).

Interesting that the lack of people on the sidewalks doesn't jump out at all, only the lack of cars.

Pretty clever simple Flash game. (thanks Britanie)

I don't know why this article is written as if it's about a public health crisis, but I like it.

This might be the most impressive overview section of any Wikipedia biography I've seen so far.

A gallery of Chinese ethnic groups.

I don't know which is cooler: the story or the photos.

Some more outstanding Afghanistan photos.

The US interstate system in the style of a subway map (Note: requires Yahoo! login).

Whenever you start to forget how gigantic the US economy is, look at this map. (thanks Dan)

Guess the movie based on the drawings.

A live map of ships in the world.

An incredible project from the Denver Post, which tracked a soldier all the way through his enlistment, basic training, deployment to Iraq, and return home. The short version: http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/09/10/ian-fisher-american-soldier/

I've been meaning to set up an interface to let people create their own "this-or-that" guessing games. Every time I find one like this, it re-motivates me for about 30 seconds until I get distracted by a shiny object (read: Wikipedia article).

A veteran crime reporter for the Wichita Eagle posts short videos covering all manner of details about the criminal justice system. Cool.

This is a prime example of something where I probably read this Wikipedia article two years ago, forgot all about it, and then had my mind blown again when I read it this morning.

The cable car leading up to Tianmen Shan in China (4.6 miles one way). Jesus Christ.

Video portraits from downtown San Francisco.

Interesting article on water supply issues in Yemen.

A gallery of photos from a marijuana harvest in Mendocino County.

Whoa.

Local newscasts are a YouTube gold mine.

I'm a little bit of a supply chain management nerd.

Yikes. (thanks Dan)

This video provides an important caution about school safety, if your school is in a John Woo movie.

The description of this deadly riot takes an unexpected turn pretty quickly.

Some pretty good classic video game theme song covers.

How the Red Cross delivers letters to hostages.

I would watch reels like this from pretty much any major city, all day long.

Slate pays a visit to the annual convention of the Association of Correctional Food Service Affiliates (a.k.a. the prison food association).

Too many easy jokes.

I want all of these. (thanks Sarah)

I don't know if this is accurate, but if it is I'm fascinated.

Easy website gimmick #4,059,182 I wish I'd thought of first.

The Benin Empire (1440-1897) might have the best flag ever.

Well, he's certainly found his artistic niche.

This is both useless and incredible.

More great Afghanistan photos.

Well, this is a depressing chart.

1000 words on tamales in the Mississippi Delta.

Some great time lapses from around the Bay Area - the clouds coming over the reservoir blew my mind.

Well, I guess he's had a lot of practice, but this is still weird. (thanks Sean)

I've always wondered about this.

Venezuela photos.

OK, this is kind of cool.

William: "That is the fantasy of every single person who owns a samurai sword."

This list is about 73% dead-on, 27% total bullshit.

Cool tornado photos (unfortunately my favorite is ruined by a layer of captions).

Apparently living in China is like being a contestant on a horrible episode of Double Dare. (thanks Dan)

Let's bring these back in style.

A great collection of Afghanistan & Pakistan photos.

Cool trivia puzzler from the New York Times.

A great collection of rare soul/funk/jazz tracks, if you like that sort of thing.

This is bizarre.

Need a more graphical representation. (thanks Sarah)

To do: all of these.

INSTANT RSS SUBSCRIBE!

Charting the incidence of different objects on fantasy book covers.

This is probably in the top 10 weirdest product ideas I've ever seen. (thanks Dana)

Mind-blowing long exposure of a helicopter taking off.

I should really just start a separate blog devoted to Wikipedia entries about North Korea. (thanks Josh)

A surprisingly good mixtape based on classic NES music tracks.

"Flight to Boston"? Really?

Whoa.

A great counterpoint to the Michael Pollan school of agrinostalgia.

The onomatopoeias used to market Rice Krispies in different countries.

Brilliant.

A portrait series from child beauty pageants that's even creepier than you think.

Interesting.

Based on the title and cast, I expected more from the trailer, but I'm still hopeful.

"Please feel to stay world's best place, Somalia." (thanks Claire)

I could probably stare at this for hours.

I will post absolutely any Point Break parody. It's one of my rules.

Great headline.

Nice work, Slate.

"If Spammers Wrote Cialis Ads."

I just discovered this thanks to XKCD, and might never come up for air again.

Photoessay on the modern KKK.

Barbara Walters interviews the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Serious journalism.

A video slideshow of absurd G.I. Joe moments.

God this is disturbing.

Wow, this commercial takes me back. (thanks Dan)

190 drawings of Bill Cosby.

I don't know why I had never thought about this before, but this blew my mind.

A look at the similarities between popular movie franchises with messianic plotlines.

So this is basically twenty versions of the same trick shot, but it's still impressive.

Great optical illusion.

A bunch of great baseball infographics.

John Hodgman on Obama's nerd credentials.

While we're on the subject of diasporas, did you know there were Confederate cotton planters in Brazil?

This is bizarre and fascinating to me.

I think Australia has the highest number of bizarre historical episodes per capita.

This is exactly how nerdy I like my webcomics.

A wiki for strange locations all around the world.

I laughed.

An article on California's proposed high-speed rail line from this Sunday's New York Times.

Self-explanatory. (thanks Josh)

Another solid DJ Earworm mashup.

Comparing some inflation-adjusted prices between 1969 and 2009. These are surprising.

Yahoo! Answers has really exceeded my expectations in the unintentional comedy department.

Zach Galifianakis at a preschool.

I can think of some good replacements for "lairs," but an otherwise solid headline. (thanks Josh)

A comparison of 30 Rock and The Muppet Show.

First crunchberry lawsuit ever?

Rejected Onion headlines. I can't believe "Daughter Of Slain Parents No Longer Grounded" didn't make it. (thanks Sarah)

The voice in this bit reminds me of something, but I can't quite place it.

Clever.

My new favorite Yahoo! Answers question.

Cameron's house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off is for sale.

A clever and addictive online synth toy. (thanks Dan)

Great cast.

Identify the meme from the background image.

The most elaborate analysis of movie time travel I've ever seen on the internet, which is saying a lot.

When the USF-UConn baseball game was in a rain delay last week, the two times passed the time with a dance-off.

All I really have to say about this is that if I ever meet the person who wrote it, I'll probably want to marry him or her.

Every Tracy Jordan line from the 3rd season of 30 Rock, somehow even better out of context.

I can't say I agree with everything in this New York Times article on manual labor and the knowledge economy, but it has some interesting points.

This writing style isn't as hard to read as I thought it would be.

There are so many wonderful things about this page, I don't know where to start.

I'm speechless.

Metro area subway maps adjusted to the same scale. (thanks Robby)

Cool night sky time lapse.

Even though this video is a silly novelty, I'm genuinely impressed by the workmanship.

The trailer for Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus which is, as far as I can tell, a real movie.

They're remaking Cliffhanger. Also in the works: Predator and Robocop remakes. This is getting out of hand.

A bizarre (and real) furniture commercial. (thanks Sarah)

A detailed review of the good and bad science in the new Star Trek movie (spoilers, obviously).

A Daily Show segment on Arizona State.

I'd support a system in which Zach Galifianakis did every music video.

A baseball game between the Ku Klux Klan and the Hebrew All Stars in 1926 (note: the Klan won 4-0).

Find out how many nuclear warheads are within range of your city.

A William Shatner fan fiction novel.

Whenever I start to think our generation has the stupidest fads, I read about things like this.

IBM's AI designed to answer Jeopardy! prompts is going to get a chance to compete on the actual show.

Well, this is horrifying. (thanks Dan)

A discussion thread listing the crimes committed by Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

NPR charts the complete history of the piano sample in "C.R.E.A.M." by the Wu-Tang Clan.

Article on the absurd authentication process for baseball memorabilia.

A brutal but beautiful photoessay about a wedding where the bride is a late-stage cancer patient.

Oh dear.

Seth Rogen's stand-up act at age 13.

A list of 13 things science can't explain yet.

Old but good: "The Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game."

Fun with censorship in Saudi Arabia.

#2 in what will be a never-ending series of old New York Times stubs. (thanks William)

A short film about childhood misconceptions of sex.

A car gets obliterated by a rocket sled on Mythbusters.

WWI reenacted by dogs.

Supernatural's 7-minute freestyle of the Rock The Bells lineup.

What to do if you accidentally swallow the Higgs boson.

I sometimes wonder what our grandchildren will think when they see that we made things like this. (thanks Julie)

Is there a university that will let me do a dissertation on the Terminator multiverse?

Self-explanatory. (thanks William)

A T-rex throws out the first pitch at a baseball game (sort of). (thanks Dan)

"The 9 Levels of Hell for the Living."

Old New York Times article stubs are a goldmine.

Are you a typography nerd like me? Oh, you're not? OK, don't read this.

The Complete Drunk Athlete Web Photo Index.

The director of Commando gives a detailed scene-by-scene analysis of the movie.

I really hope they actually make this.

American remake and/or sitcom please! (thanks Spencer)

The Bruno trailer. (slightly NSFW)

What an unfortunately named toy.

Japanese commercials featuring Nicolas Cage.

I can't believe this commercial is real.

The first page of Amazon.com search results for "girl scout cookies" includes: sexy girl scout costumes, wolf urine, a Morgan Freeman cookbook, and vaginal specula. Not listed? cookies.

A promising new webcomic.

I would LOVE to know how many RSS subscribers Montgomery County's Division of Solid Waste Services blog has.

The definition of cognitive surplus. Also, it makes me wonder if there is an inverse correlation between Wikipedia edits and employment. (thanks William)

The trailer for "Where The Wild Things Are" is finally here, and it looks amazing.

My favorite government website of all time.

This would be more fun if the earth weren't so covered with water. On the plus side, now I know what "antipode" means.

Watch anonymous Wikipedia edits in real time.

The inability to be convicted by DNA evidence is an upside of being a twin that I hadn't really thought about.

I hope Jack Webb has seen this.

A great set of digitally-manipulated photos as conceptual art.

Another thing filed under "wish I had thought of it first."

The least interesting Flash game ever.

IRONY.

A solid essay on the past, present, and future of newspaper journalism.

Old and modern cultural photography - slightly NSFW for National Geographic sorts of nudity.

Why isn't this list longer????

The case against Delaware (thanks Dan).

Immigration Explorer, a great new data visualization app by the New York Times. I'm surprised at how closely matched LA and New York are for most groups. Also, what's up with all the Indian immigrants in Houston?

If Charlie Brown were created by Frank Miller.

A cool data visualization project from the Berkman Center (still very much in beta).

An 8-bit hip hop medley. See also: http://www.doctoroctoroc.com/video-game-inspired-music/8-bit-jesus-new-christmas-chip-tune-album/

A thoughtful take on information glut and technological messianism dug up from the early days of the personal computer boom.

An account of a cross-country train trip, something I've always wanted to do. Who wants to join me?

Hearing "Sufjan Stevens" and "rap mixtape" is usually my cue to leave, but these tracks are actually quite well-done.

A long, disturbing article about infants being left in cars by accident.

Watchmen as a Saturday morning cartoon.

This seems like it should be the name of a band.

A software analysis of which bands' drummers use a metronome for their studio recording.

A public radio piece on the random family-specific slang words that every family seems to have.

An awesome and surreal mixtape composed entirely from YouTube clips.

An interesting tool for improving the browser reading experience - only seems to work on news articles so far.

I've always felt that whoever created Comic Sans set digital typography back at least a decade. (thanks Josh)

The science of Back To The Future, from the site "Overthinking It," a blog dedicated to pointless analyses of popular culture. I don't know how I didn't know I never found this before.

A race of "sea gypsies" in Southeast Asia who develop superior underwater vision diving for food.

Headline: "Radioactive sex offender on the run"

A video piece on the unfortunate shutdown of the Rocky Mountain News.

Video from a 4085-square-mile salt flat in Bolivia that acts as a natural mirror when wet.

Coming soon to a fun facts status message near you.

A network of live border cameras where you can watch and/or report illegal immigration.

Anyone want to go halvsies on this?

Puzzling anti-drug PSA #2

Puzzling anti-drug PSA #1

A notorious Greek criminal broke out of prison by grabbing onto a rope ladder hanging from a helicopter...AGAIN. He was on his way to a hearing regarding his 2006 escape, in which the helicopter had been piloted by a bank robber considered by some to be the Greek Robin Hood. This event is particularly significant because it led me to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_prison_escapes

Some good commentary on the political dysfunction of California.

It says a lot about me that Netflix recommended a movie about a wrestling giant squid to me.

A Peter Bjorn & John music video centered on a Japanese rockabilly dance crew.

30 Rock episode plot, please!

Who would of thought the Kool-Aid Man would turn out to be such an enduring pop cultural icon? (thanks William)

Campaign to get black people to replace the n-word with the word "president." I really, really, really wish I had thought to register this domain name before this guy did.

An elegantly animated 10-minute explanation of the credit crisis.

"We will review tax laws that affect folks working in the sex industry, specifically helpful to those who work as independent contractors, whether in a club or doing private work. Topics for discussion include the pros and cons of income and tip reporting, what receipts to save and what records to keep, how to write off expenses for costumes, shoes, sex toys, computers, cell phones, etc."

Self-explanatory.

I'm fascinated by this.

Includes such science projects as "How Many Condoms Can You Wear at Once?" and "The Cheney Shotgun Experiment." (thanks Dan)

Someone tries to see how weird he can make his signature on credit card receipts without arousing suspicion.

A diagram of a sentence from one of Obama's press conferences. I wish we had learned how to do this in school. See also: http://www.slate.com/id/2201158/

Nine Inch Nails as performed by an animatronic house band from a pizza parlor. For an explanation of why this is awesome, see: http://starsof.com/fans/

META.

I don't really know what to say about this video. (thanks Phil)

Absolutely absurd dust storm.

A new favorite in the fake celebrity Twitter account genre.

Photo series ("photoessay" is a bit of a stretch) on Japanese knifemaking.

Ken Jennings takes a crack at listing the best novels set in each of the 50 states - he did a similar list for bands a while back.

An article about the relationship between technology and the Amish, something I've always wanted to learn more about.

WHAT HAPPENED TO JOAQUIN PHOENIX??

Another classic Norm MacDonald appearance on Late Night - (skip to 18:45 and watch until 33:30).

State comptrollers should make more videos like this. (thanks Robin)

A great Conan O'Brien bit.

Every swear word from The Sopranos. See also: http://waxy.org/2008/04/fanboy_supercuts_obsessive_video_montages/

"Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill was a British soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a bow, arrows and a claymore."

From the "Ideas I Wish I Had Had First" file.

Well this is just weird.

Canada is really on a roll in the PSA department.

The internet's going to have a lot of fun with these.

Parody of the NY Times Weekender commercials.

MTV is going to air a weekly news show where all the reporters are mentally handicapped.

An artist got an email from a stranger offering to donate $200 to a charity of his choice in exchange for having him and his wife over for dinner. Cool idea. But I was annoyed that he went on about how many homeless people $200 could feed and then bought a bouquet of roses for the table ("Because how can you entertain without candlelight and roses?"). If they really wanted this to be some great charitable experience, shouldn't they have gotten Happy Meals for dinner and donated the surplus?

The best Maury paternity test episode reactions. Incredible.

A great article on how movies are marketed.

Someone ran the vocals from "Running With The Devil" through Microsoft Songsmith and the result will change your life.

The most exhaustive analysis of "Trapped In The Closet" you will ever see.

A style guide for spam.

The "Charlie's Angels Pose" photo pool.

Beastmaster, Jr.

A bunch of great photography.

A printed newspaper compilation of the best of the internet in 2008. Seeing this makes me mad that I didn't think of it first.

Balloon animals having sex.

Awesome retro book cover designs for famous movies. See also: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/14/cool-stuff-olly-mosss-poster-remakes/

"Issei Sagawa is a Japanese man who in 1981 murdered and cannibalized a Dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt. Since his release, Sagawa has become a noted food critic." (thanks Dan)

Star Wars, as summarized by someone who's never seen it.

Laser Cats 4.

Self-explanatory.

This is more viral marketing from Ray-Ban, but I like the idea anyway.

Apparently there's a magazine for Jewish hipsters called Heeb.

Another fun Wikipedia list.

How to beat Marble Madness in under 3 minutes.

A list of the year's best moments in cinematography.

A short story told piece by piece, all across the Internet. The story itself sucks, but the concept is fun.

An absurdly detailed history of the desk in the Oval Office.

Some data analysis of the Billboard Top 100.

Just when you thought Detroit couldn't get any more depressing.

A slideshow of the most gerrymandered congressional districts. Some of these made me laugh out loud.

Some nice aerial/satellite imagery.

A cool (but long) article on personal genomics by Steven Pinker.

The first thing I thought of was that the cat seems like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain.

An article about drug addiction among anesthesiologists.

PBS is airing a miniseries about comedy in America. Looks interesting.

OK, one more.

You shouldn't laugh at this.

Will Broken Lizard will make a second non-awful movie? Hard to say.

There's a park in Mexico where you can pay for an illegal immigration simulation.

This YouTube genre is getting a little stale, but I'm posting this anyway.

What is it like in Detroit?????

A cool animation that shows contributions to the OpenStreetMap project (a free, user-edited map of the world) in 2008. Especially interesting to note where the edits tend to be concentrated.

A map of all the undersea telecommunications lines in the world.

I gather that this is viral marketing for sunglasses or something, but it doesn't really matter. I laughed.

The weirdest Wendy's training video you will watch today. See also: "Don't Copy That Floppy."

From the Family Matters general page: "Critics claim the show jumped the shark in the later seasons that introduced Steve Urkel's many outrageous inventions, turning it from a down-to-earth family show into a science-fiction-based show. These plot lines served to bend the reality of the show, as it seemed hard to believe that the lives of the characters would continue so normally with the discovery of such groundbreaking inventions. These inventions included Steve's UrkelBot, an intelligent robot that fell in love with Laura, and briefly became a police officer; Steve's "transformation chamber" that turned him into Stefan Urquelle as well as other odd characters; a cloning machine, which allowed Stefan to become a permanent character; Steve's weight-shrinking machine; and his teleportation pad. Steve's inventions never made him famous, however, in the final episode he goes into space to test an anti-gravity invention of his."

Apparently prison rape has become so accepted that even judges are willing to use it as a deterrent. Also, Sexual Gorillas will be the name of my next band. (thanks Dan)

The reviews are the best part.

The biography of a 6'6" giant from Brazil who fought in the American Revolution and without whom, George Washington said, we might have lost.

Slugs having sex.

Brittany Murphy is starring in a movie about an American girl in Tokyo training to become a Ramen noodle chef. Yes, really.

Pole dancing robots? Don't mind if I do!

A lengthy, but useful op-ed on the government response to the financial crisis.

Apparently about 2/3 of the US population lives within 100 miles of a land or sea border. Honestly, I'm surprised that figure isn't higher.

Another wingsuit jumping video.

The 50 Greatest Charles Barkley Quotes. Outstanding. (thanks Dan)

An interesting and very long discussion thread about intentional mispronunciations of words.

"Today Was A Good Day" by Ice Cube, in flowchart form.

A technically-oriented look at the top 50 movie special effects shots.

Self-explanatory. (thanks Dan)

I have never seen a field goal curve as much as these do.

I enjoyed this list of the "40 Greatest Lost Icons In Pop Culture History."

The David Hasselhoff activity book.

I don't know if this is true, and I don't care.

I would say at least 25% of these sound like sex acts.

This video is genius. My kind of genius.

Best rap album cover ever.

"When Singleton was picked up by police, he was naked, covered in blood, standing in the middle of the street and staring at the sky."

Someday I'm going to stop linking to the Boston Globe's photoblog, but until that day comes, here's their roundup of pictures from 2008.

Dolphin stampede (make sure to watch the whole thing).

The Smoking Gun's best mugshots of 2008.

Some great science photography.

"Flame," the beef-scented body spray from Burger King. Yes, you can actually buy it. Yes, I did. (thanks Dan)

This will haunt my dreams forever. (thanks Sarah)

The year in newspaper corrections.

Headline: "Lawyers to serve notices on Facebook." (in Australia, but still...)

This might be my favorite Wikipedia list yet.

A paper about single serving sites. The best piece of scholarship I've seen since the term paper I wrote about NBA Jam.

Add the Benny Hill theme to any YouTube video.

40 inspirational movie speeches in 2 minutes.

A song about how to get famous.

A video of swirling paint that I could probably watch for hours.

The Christmas episode of the short-lived Rambo cartoon series. (thanks Dave)

Recreating 9/11 using only movie clips.

Martijn Hendriks digitally removes people from YouTube videos.

"My wife would like that!"

An interesting book cover contest.

How hot dogs are made. You probably shouldn't watch this if you like hot dogs and want to keep eating them.

My favorite is "Team Building Exercises."

Presenting: Blackbird, the web browser for the African American community.

This list is disappointingly short.

Fake Michael Bay's Twitter feed. (thanks Dan)

Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed into Single Sentences.

I enjoyed these diagrams of the button configurations AT&T considered before settling on the standard phone grid.

Self-explanatory.

A tool that shows the relative popularity of search queries by state, and correlates it with other data like obesity rates and income. I will never stop playing with this.

Some great pictures of Dubai.

25 Days of Christmas Parody Theme Songs For Famous Movies by Randy Newman. Whoever started this is a special kind of genius.

Chainsaw bayonet.

This wikipedia article includes the phrase "Penis-melting Zionist cyborg combs."

I don't know how I didn't know about this before: a huge database of hip hop samples and breakbeats. The interface isn't great, but you could spend hours on here. And by 'you' I mean 'me.' And by 'could' I mean 'did.'

I have to watch any YouTube video featuring Lil Jon. It's in my contract.

I'm betting that the book "A Time to Dance, A Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518" will be a movie on Lifetime someday.

A completely ineffective but fascinating ad.

Shaq has a twitter account. My world will never be the same.

A & E is working on a reality show called "Steven Seagal: Lawman." (thanks Sarah)

I love this chart of the interstate system for reasons I can't fully explain.

One man's collected life wisdom for his future son.

If this is wrong, I don't want to be right.

"Blahyi got his nickname – General Butt Naked – from his nakedness, supposedly demanded by the Devil." (thanks Dan)

"A search of his car uncovered pornography, a homemade sex aid, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier."

Well, THAT's awkward.

This made me laugh for at least 6 different reasons.

This article makes me very happy: "Tracy High security guard Marcos Madril has seen more dance battles break out on campus than when he started working at the school three years ago, but he said they’re usually playful, and only a couple have gotten 'hyped up.'"

100 Movie Spoilers in 5 Minutes. B for concept, C- for execution.

"Most of the customers in the bank must happen to be wearing Nixon masks, so when we come in wearing our Nixon masks it doesn’t alarm anyone."

The fact that this chart exists is not at all surprising.

An NBA on ESPN commercial with Shaq playing Scrabble.

A map that compares US cotton production in 1860 with counties carried by Obama in 2008.

Absurd names of rock star children. Too many favorites to list.

A photoessay of American farmers.

President Bush giving The Shocker with the Arizona State track team.

Fetus cookie cutters. (thanks Dave)

"Instead of the worst day of your life and then a joke at the end, this is the reverse. This is the best day of your life, and then we arrest you."

Another great Wikipedia list.

What an unfortunate diagram.

A picture of an orangutan fishing with a spear.

"You have a gun right? Someone from the campaign's gonna come by and take it for the 'Give All The White People's Gun To The Black People' program." (thanks Alissa)

The top 50 basketball commercials of all time.

The strange story of the first African American governor.

The guilt I feel about contributing to the ruination of this girl's life is outweighed by my need to share this.

A list of icons for industrial accident warnings.

There are too many good ones to choose a favorite.

A cat trying to fit in a yogurt box (a Japanese cat, obviously).

The creepiest robot ever dancing to Mambo #5.

"Now the koala is climbing a eucalyptus tree...big fucking surprise."

Headline: "Cheetah gets loose in cargo hold of passenger flight"

Good job Colombia. (thanks Dan)

Self-explanatory. (thanks William)

Louis CK on Conan.

A game in an all-white maze where you navigate by shooting black paint to find the walls. Insert Robert Mapplethorpe joke here.

An AC/DC music video made from ASCII art and Excel macros.

How globes are made.

A lion riding a horse in the Chinese circus. (thanks Dave)

Robocop on a unicorn.

If McCain's campaign ads were directed by John Woo, Kevin Smith, and Wes Anderson.

Chemistry works!

Headline: "Parkway West Middle students to be punished for 'Hit A Jew Day'" (thanks Julie)

My favorite Google image search ever.

Self-explanatory.

Upside Down Dogs

A PowerPoint presentation by Steven Pinker comparing the relatives merits of latkes and hamantashen that contains the phrase "Strong Whorfian Linguistic Determinism Hypothesis." See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Latke-Hamantash_Debate

"Police in Ohio say an 89-year-old woman is facing a charge of petty theft because neighborhood children accuse her of refusing to give back their football."

"Two Frito Lay delivery trucks traveling in opposite directions collided on Highway 701 in northern Georgetown County Saturday morning."

McCain Family Slave Reunion! (thanks William)

The Brokers With Hands On Their Faces Blog.

The British SAS started a bomb-sniffing laundromat to combat the IRA in Belfast.

A video of a guy playing the banjo during brain surgery so that the surgeons could get feedback on whether electrical leads were in the right place.

A cover of "Lollipop" by Lil Wayne.

An archive of campaign commercials since 1952.

Lil Wayne has a sports blog. (thanks Phil)

I want to be this guy.

A shopping penguin. This site is quickly turning into a "Weird Things in Japan" YouTube video series.

As if a restaurant that uses monkey waiters could be somewhere OTHER than Japan.

I read about this game a long time ago but had forgotten about it. Any "sport" that requires beer and an accordion is all right by me.

A severed snake head attacks.

The Ukulele Orchesta of Great Britain performing the theme from Shaft.

Sarah Palin dog costume.

This is a great way to start off a press conference.

This video of a chef stretching dough into noodles makes me happy.

Wow. Just wow.

"100 Skills Every Man Should Know" from Popular Mechanics. I'll be honest, I'm OK with not knowing how to "sweat copper tubing."

This is a pretty cheap joke, but I like it anyway.

An extremely homoerotic jeans commercial.

An article on the underground mackerel economy in US prisons.

Search Google's index from 2001.

"Given that Internet porn is the only fundamentally sound engine of the American economy, we’re playing with fire here. If that stalwart industry is allowed to fail, Asian porn companies will rush to fill the void, offering porn that is both cheaper to produce and way hotter than ours."

Japan!!!!! (thanks Sarah)

Yum!!!

Sarah Palin in the Miss Alaska pageant.

This "SFW Porn Ad" is still arguably NSFW (but funny).

"Super slow-motion videos of anything" is pretty high on my list of things you can never have too much of.

A patent for "decorative penile wraps." PLEASE check out the illustrations, especially Fig. 10.

A long New York Magazine feature on the publishing industry.

Some before and after photos of Hurricane Ike.

Headline: "Court sides with husband in coma sex case."

Hand paintings.

The weirdest Nike commercial ever.

Freestyle Rap Battle: Translated (thanks Sarah)

An ad for personal lubricant. If you don't get it, keep looking.

"Two actors were shot dead and another three wounded while filming a crime drama in the Angolan capital, Luanda, on Monday when police mistook them as armed robbers..."

I'd like to see this in person.

I love Alec Baldwin.

How you're going to die.

This immediately became one of my favorite Onion headlines ever.

I can honestly say this is the best Nickelback cover I've ever heard.

A shot-for-shot recreation of the Dark Knight trailer, done by children.

The IMDB page for the porno version of Thriller. Be sure to check out the plot keywords. (thanks Dana)

I still think The Onion should do an "Obama Promises To Dunk On Iran If Elected" headline.

Reason #1004398 why I love Wikipedia.

The "theme song" from Indiana Jones. I also can't watch an electric violin solo without thinking of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzAJs7NutM

An outstanding (and very copyright-infringing) gallery of the best photos from the Olympics. Warning: pages 1 and 3 each include one mildly NSFW photo.

Coming soon to a fraternity hazing near you: the vomit flashlight. (thanks Dave)

A map of US military presence by country.

Do you want to see a video of a guy wearing a creepy exploding banana mask? Of course you do.

I really, really, really love DARPA.

Headline: "Priest organizes beauty contest for nuns."

FUPA rap. See also: http://fupahunter.blogspot.com/

The new single "Dat Baby." (thanks Dan)

Close-ups of food to make you hungry.

The title of this journal article is "Amputation of the penis by human bite: a case report." You probably think it can't get any worse until I tell you that the victim was a 3-year-old, the biter was an insane person, and the kid had to undergo a "meatoplasty."

A brief look at just how ridiculous Michael Johnson's world record 200m sprint in 1996 was.

An article about scientists who have fitting names for their profession (example: astronomer Sumner Starrfield). See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

I'm excited for the "rayguns that come out of the sky" era of warfare.

I don't know which is more absurd - the fact that Chuck Woolery is hosting a cat game show, or the fact that this blog announcing it is called "Wag Reflex."

The top 10 declassified secrets.

That giant inflatable dog turd is out of control!

As someone with a geocoded data fetish, I am very excited about this.

Lightning in slow motion.

A quiz: name the movie based on one letter from the poster.

Ridiculous things on Google Street View has become one of my favorite genres lately.

"Durham, 33, struck a plea bargain last month in which he was guaranteed a meal of KFC chicken, Popeye's chicken, mashed potato, coleslaw, carrot cake and ice cream - in return for pleading guilty to murder."

A sport that "combines lacrosse, hockey, and basketball with bumper cars."

A timeline of memes.

Satirical maps of WWI.

Apparently director Roland Emmerich has a diorama of the JFK assassination in his apartment.

"We have to go back and save 9/11!"

Headline: "Man calls 911 after Subway left sauce off sandwich"

A court transcript in which a father tries to explain why he named his child "Weather'By Dot Com Chanel Fourcast Sheppard."

"15 Lombard St. is a rigorously researched masterplan of how to rob a particular bank in the City of London. By observing the daily routine in and around the bank, Kerbel reveals the most detailed security measures such as: the exact route and time of money transportation; the location of CCTV cameras in and around the bank along with precise floor plans that mark the building's blind spots. Kerbel's meticulous plans include every possible detail required to commit the perfect crime."

Ten weird Japanese beverages.

Watch this a few times (with sound on), then read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone

Reason #883020 why I love Wikipedia.

A meat commercial from Soviet-era Estonia.

Headline: "Boy exits child care, goes to Hooters."

A blog devoted to reviewing movies on Lifetime. Scores are awarded in the following categories: "Actual Awesomeness," "Ironic Awesomeness," "Lifetimeness," and "Hey! It's That Guy!"

Lego Stephen Hawking.

A town on the border of the Netherlands and Belgium with very complicated geography. My favorite part: "Women are able to choose the nationality of their child depending on the location of the room in which they give birth."

Video description: "Roomba With Animatronic Chimp Head"

Baby's First Internet

Scott Peterson has a blog.

Apparently when Bill Frist was in medical school, he ran out of cats for his research so he went around to local shelters, adopted a bunch of cats, then drowned them and cut up their remains.

A website devoted to one of my favorite things, the fictional characters that famous people look like.

Somehow it gets even better after the headline, "Balloons carried gun away in Red Lobster executive's 'CSI'-like suicide"

Reason #691410 why I love Wikipedia.

The history of the Dikembe Mutombo finger wag.

"In the last five minutes, spectators were treated to the incredible sight of both team's defending their opponents goal against attackers desperately trying to score an own goal and goalkeepers trying to throw the ball into their own net."

An index of swimming holes in the US.

"Supplemental materials" to be used in Louisiana science classrooms include episodes of the Flintstones and a book called "Evolution, Schmevolution."

Just a great headline: "Angry flier uses emergency slide to exit Delta jet."

A number of chemical elements are going "extinct."

Pictures of a Spanish town built on the edge of cliffs.

Rejected WiiPlay Games.

An online third nipple resource center.

This unnecessarily in-depth analysis (my favorite kind) includes graphs of moving averages of Miss America age and the average age of incoming porn stars.

Reason #433102 why I love Wikipedia.

Identify the candy bar by its cross section.

Hmm...

Even though Simon Rich essentially just keeps writing the same humor piece, I'm still enjoying it.

The name of this Japanese alarm clock translates to "Wake up! First Sun Warrior of the Morning - Challenger Kit"

McSweeney's summarizes literary classics in three lines or fewer.

Some cool forest fire photographs.

Guantanamo Bay has a gift shop?

Pictures of breakdancers in the supermarket.

A group of high school students made a pact to get pregnant, and they succeeded. Money quote: "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy."

Watermelon viking.

A ridiculous subway station map.

I *heart* anecdotal evidence about unorthodox police tactics.

A play about slavery, written by fifth graders.

An extensive chronicle of Kanye West's production history.

An interesting, (though a bit over-the-top) article on the insulating effects of elite universities.

Among these very helpful signs that you may have a meth problem: "Using more Meth than intended."

Time-lapse video of the 2005 Simi Valley fire.

I'm surprised this kind of thing doesn't happen more often, actually.

I'm sure that girl loves that she will always be known as "incest dungeon teen."

This article had me at "secret lair."

Nathan Myhrvold being awesome, as usual.

I love pun store names.

Driving on Salvia (Thanks Dan)

"The Santa Ana Jail is pleased to host a full range of alternatives to traditional incarceration..."

Using fake bus stops to prevent Alzheimer's patients from wandering off.

A GRAPHIC video about a Papua New Guinea tribe that gives its members "crocodile scars."

A great photoblog from the Boston Globe that shows a big version of an interesting news photo (almost) every day.

"For the fourth time in less than a year, a right human foot has been found off one of four different islands in the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia." I don't know which part of this article is the weirdest.

An article with at least a dozen hilarious anecdotes about being a black person in Utah.

A photoseries of a chicken embryo developing.

How to tap a watermelon.

Free Idea Factory.

"A documentary now in limited release, "Twisted: A Balloonamentary" examines the world of professional balloon twisters, who make everything from life-size racing cars to their own wedding dresses. It also exposes the rift — who knew? — between the "gospel twisters," who use their craft as a way to teach Bible lessons, and the "adult" twisters, who use balloons for more prurient entertainment."

24: Season Two, The Musical

Australia's national holiday in remembrance of the mistreatment of Aborigines is called "National Sorry Day."

A recipe for wiener water soup.

A short documentary on check cashing joints.

The headline is all you need: "Chinese mag shut down over 'sexy' quake pics"

Punctuation crusaders.

Pictures of sea slugs.

Headline: "Man dies in spitting contest plunge"

A blog dedicated to things younger than John McCain, such as the Golden Gate Bridge and Mt. Rushmore.

Cool photo series of people washing the Space Needle.

A list of reasons for which potential jurors were dismissed in the R. Kelly trial. Example: "When the judge asked one prospective juror about his feelings regarding Kelly, he cryptically answered: 'R. Kelly may have led the Taliban in attacking us on 9-11, but you can't prove it.'"

Beyond the edges of classic album covers (slightly NSFW, for the naked baby on Nirvana's Nevermind).

A blog devoted to things that look like ducks.

This is my new go-to idiom.

A "Marital Rating Scale" from 1939.

Girl wins high school TEAM track & field title by herself.

A stick figure cartoon explanation of the subprime mortgage "crisis."

The Journal of Cartoon Over-analyzations. Sample entry: "Bestial Sexuality in He-Man and She-Ra"

The ACLU's demonstration of why civil liberties are important is based on pizza.

"The Kingwood teenager's story of decapitating a corpse and using the head to smoke marijuana was so outlandish that at first Houston Police Department senior police officer Jim Adkins did not believe it."

Brawndo, the sports drink from the movie Idiocracy that is now ACTUALLY AVAILABLE.

A cool site for sharing mp3 mixes.

"The Phoebus cartel was a cartel ... that existed to control the manufacture and sale of light bulbs."

Interesting collection of US maps with an overlay of every single road.

Cats that look like Wilford Brimley.

Synchronizing 5 metronomes.

I hope that someday my wikipedia entry has a "Morbid obsession" section.

An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of facebook.com, from a New Yorker magazine fact checker.

TREE PEOPLE.

Headline: "Was Woman Raped On Telephone?"

New Steve Nash Nike commercial.

"Before coming to Boston, Fluffy actually belonged to a drug dealer in New York who used the turtle to guard his stash."

A slideshow of strange homes.

I will never do work again.

EAGLE VS. GOAT

Interesting New Yorker article about revenge and revenge killings.

VD Valentines.

An imploding tanker railcar.

17 scientists list books that changed their lives.

Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama on WWE Raw.

A fun Discovery Channel commercial.

A New York Times article about surname popularity.

Droste Effect Packaging refers to food packaging that has a picture of itself on it.

An oldie but goodie: one man's index of absurd Utah baby names.

Bad CNN headlines as crude drawings.

A Cookie Monster monologue.

A rap video about getting high with dinosaurs.

Walrus Attack!!!!

A dog who taught himself to use an ATM machine.

"She was trapped inside the elevator with his head for more than an hour."

"Regenerative braking is also disabled if it is normally used, shunting energy collected from downward travel, and thus the gravitational potential energy of passengers, into a resistor network. This prevents violation of the Shabbat prohibition against doing useful work."

Sock Puppet Portraits

One of the few moments in American history where the phrase "30-foot wall of goo" is appropriate.

The music video for "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah"

Don't live in Haiti!

Homeless James Bond.

Stop wasting time on the Internet and get yourself onto this list.

"Some of Riches' prior complaints have been dismissed, including a $662 trillion suit filed in the Northern District last summer against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick. The suit alleged that Vick was attempting to "kidnap" Riches' mind and to force him to lose weight, and demanded that the $662 trillion be delivered -- in "British gold" shipped via truck -- to the front gates of the prison where Riches is incarcerated."

The Register always has the best headlines.

Octopus escape!

"Not since Scott Baio has there been a more in-demand man by starlets in Hollywood than Rodman." Really? Scott Baio?

"The 2006 nickel is the first circulating U.S. coin to have a forward-facing portrait; it is considered by coin aficionados to be an engraving tour de force."