… no matter how you try. Click and regret.
(Blame Frëd for this one.)
Trivia that matter
… no matter how you try. Click and regret.
(Blame Frëd for this one.)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the condensed version:
CHAPTER TWO: DURSLEYS’ HOUSE
HARRY does some room-cleanin’, some bleedin’, and some reminiscin’. He picks up the newspaper and gets a nasty shock.
RITA SKEETER: (in the interview) I’ve just completed a 900-page book on Dumbledore!
READERS: 900 pages? Jeez. She must have the same editors as Rowling.
By the same author: The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
Update: another condensed version.
Spy style. Shamus tells you how.
From Thog’s Masterclass:
`Big boogers of uncertainty were beginning to form.’ (Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End, 2006)
Also from Ansible:
Martin Morse Wooster was deeply thrilled by junk mail from `a company called Hawthorne Village, which has the Official Lord of the Rings Express Diesel Locomotive. This heirloom quality train — richly adorned with scenes and characters from the movie trilogy including Elven text and a working headlight on the diesel locomotive — will have you reliving this epic saga every time the train journeys around the tracks. You know, when I mentally visit the rugged, primeval landscape of Middle Earth, I think to myself, “You know, these trees and rocks are OK. But WHERE are the toy trains?”‘
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(Via Peeve Farm.)
Addendum: See also Whitespace.
(Via Chizumatic.)
An interview with Berkeley Breathed:
QS: An Opus film had been announced awhile back – what is its current status? Are plans for it to be live action or animated?
BREATHED: Wonderfully dead. As it shall remain.
QS: Doonesbury was a musical – why not Bloom County?
BREATHED: The first part of that question is the answer.
(Via Cartoon Brew.)
Time for some eccentric videos. Even without sound, this is the greatest shampoo commercial ever made:
… when Cthulhu will swallow your soul! This is how to do a talk show:
Find more episodes of Calls for Cthulhu here.
(Via From the Shattered Drum.)
I don’t much care for Mexican food, but I’m nevertheless quite impressed by the The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel.
(Via Haibane.info.)