A few years ago, a then-girlfriend gifted me this genuine Masonic handbook, printed in 1920, as a Christmas present. (I wish everyone had such a good understanding of my tastes.) The entirety of the manual is written in nigh-impenetrable code and shorthand, save passages like that in the middle of the left-hand page, quoting from Genesis.
Today on clusterflock I found this little treasure of national secrecy. In this flickr set you will find pictures from an enciphered Masonic
handbook from 1920. chronicling their rituals and
speeches. Due to this handbook being printed prior to 1923, the text is open to the public as per current US copyright laws. Here's hoping he puts up the entire handbook for our viewing pleasure in the near future. I love that it's written in shorthand and that I am capable of following most of it due to my grandfather haven given me books on how to read and write shorthand many years ago. Truly fascinating. [ King Solomon And His Followers Flickr Set ]
As the 25th anniversary of RETURN OF THE JEDI approaches, this man reminds us not to forget about the heroic Ewoks. To be honest, I find this video rather terrifying. Yet I watched it 3 times in a row.
Awwww. Workout guide on the youtubes worth watching is hard to find. Will "Stud Muffin" Jones' videos might be something I tune back into. I just want to give him a hug. You know, when he puts his pants back on..
What better mentor for a 10-year-old than Charles Manson? Little Billy seeks life advice, and America's most notorious killers are happy to oblige.
In the late '90s, pop-culture historian Bill
Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of
stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed
thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most
powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious
10-year-old named Billy.
Hey guys, umm certifiably insane Charles Manson would like to know where his PAPER is?
Also..seriously, Richard Ramirez has personalized stationary? Hope our tax dollars didn't pay for that.
I think it's time I sent Charles Manson a little letter. Maybe it will go something like this.
Dear Charles Manson,
Today the elephants finally turned on me, with the peardrops in
conspiracy. Watch out for the Hillbillies with lazers, they are the
killer, peardrops, PEARDROPS.Peace.
Anyway, make sure to read some of the comments people left on this Radar post.Specifically the post from bobolikesbeer. [ The Billy Letters ]
Johan Lorbeer is a German street performer. He became famous in the
past few years because of his “Still-Life” Performances, which took
place in the public area. His installations includes “Proletarian
Mural” and “Tarzan”, which are famous in Germany. Several of these
performances feature Lorbeer in an apparently impossible position.
Maybe you have seen a few stories about Johan Lorbeer's still-life performances around the internet from time to time. But I imagine this site is the only place you will find a collection of fantastic photos of his work all over Europe. I think if I saw a man, stuck to the wall, I would bring him a beer and a book. What would you bring him? [ Still-Life Tarzan ]
I got a bunch more photos out of him, and he’s right … these are way, way more fun, especially this Iron Man remix:
If only all poster advertisements around cities everywhere would be so awesomely mashed up on a daily basis. I would probably ride public transit more if I had something funny to look at. Also, Ironman opens tomorrow and you can color me excited, I just hope Tony Stark actually has a pink purse in every scene. [ Subway Ad Mashups ]
Get it straight: Hops only started being used in
brewing about 1,000 to 1,200 years ago. Up until then, for at least
five millennia, beer was flavoured with a wide variety of spices, herbs
and, yes, fruits. In fact, archeological research has shown that King
Tut drank fruit beer, and he was one dude you could hardly consider
“girly.”
Yeah you heard the man. King Tut was no lady. Get your facts straight. Fruit beers are for Kings and girls of legal drinking age. [ 15 most popular beer myths ]
Hi, I'm Tim Nolan and I have never, nor will I ever, touch a woman. This guy is living proof that even though the definition of insanity is
repeating a task over and over again expecting and a different result,
that same neurotic devotion can pay off. Excuse me while I go wash my
hands fifteen times.
Joshuadamon's Halotography flickr set is easily the best game fan photo art I have ever seen. I want them framed and over my tv. Absolutely brilliant. [ Halotography ]
Master Flynn runs a gym where members embody Star Wars characters to harness the Force and improve their lives. Little does everyone know how real the Force is.
Coming to a film festival near you.
Ahhh the do's and don'ts of pregnancy. So many rules these days, I am sure pregnant women everywhere were just waiting for a visual how to guide for what is proper pregnant lady behaviour and what is most definately not... [ Pregnancy Tips ]
Starcade! G4tv used to even show reruns of Starcade back when they first started. If only I could have been on this show. Seriously, those kids sucked
at Time Pilot. At that time video games were getting so big that TV executives were scrambling to
get anything video game related on TV. Hey we know! A game show!
Everyone loves game shows! I highly recommend watching episodes #59, #127 and #62. It's hard not loving it when a 14 year old says his favourite activities are tennis and the stock market. COME ON.... Gold. [Starcade Series ]
The Something Awful Forum Goons took a big pile of movies and edited them to show how they would appear when viewed through the eyes of the typical elementary school kid. I'm a huge fan of the blade runner one. [ Movies Through The Eyes of Kids ]
Stick Figures in Peril is a Flickr photo pool of real (and really hilarious) warning
signs showing stick figures in often perilous situations such as the sign above taken at the Georgian Aquarium by Flickr photographer TX Jayhawk. It appears this poor stick figured man ventured into wrong fish tank. That's no ordinary goldfish... [Stick Figures In Peril ]
OfficeTally.com (your perfect Office Fan site for all your Office obsession needs) now has 21 pages of pictures of Tanster's tour of NBC's The Office set. She'll make you incredibly jealous as you see every girls favourite tv boyfriend with his arms around her as she plays it cool. You'll find pictures of Pam's desk, makeup rooms to pictures of Angela's cat pictures. Be sure to check out the Adventures with Angela video section, as Angela goes baby clothes shopping and gets a few tips for the baby. Perhaps you would like to watch a few deleted scenes from this week's episode "Night Out". Enjoy and try not to be too jealous at least she took pictures of everything to share with the masses. [Office Set Tour 2008 ]
As you may or may not know, ROFLcon is one of those ideas that is either going to be a fantastic
one of a kind convention or a complete and total mess; either way it does promise to
be memorable. The premise is pretty simple; assemble a famous
"Internet Memes" and see what shenanigans take place.
Why you would want to watch this live ROFLCon feed all day, I DUNNO. But hey, Tron Guy is on the feed and really, who doesn't love being blinded by old dude in a spandex leotard? [ ROFLCON Live Feed ]
For some hilarious pictures such as the one featured above, check out the Flickr ROFLcon picture pool.
Every so often you find a story that is so sweet and ridiculously precious that you just feel the need to share it with everyone. This story is a website full of such sweet love that it's guaranteed to make you feel like you don't appreciate your own life
as much as you should. The sort of sweet optimism that is displayed here has quickly become a new daily read for me in hopes it will make me a less cynical person and appreciate how important it is to love your friends, family and partner on a daily basis and never to let them forget it. SAPPY RIGHT? I know. It did that to me and it's great.
Meet Kevyn and Stacy and they have the best life ever. Here you will find daily inspirational posts with fantastic photos from both Kevyn and Stacy. They continue to grow stronger as a couple after 10 years of marriage and hey... they just want the whole world to know it. Cue all your awwwwww's for their posts please. Their reason of sharing their own happiness with others? They hope their posts will inspire others to find the happiness in their own lives and to never take life for granted.
Okay now you can "awwww" a few more times. Fall in love with Kevyn and Stacy's story. I have gone through the archives and find it impossible to find any fault in this truly lovely love story.
First non-official video clip made for Zombie Zombie, the electrifying French duo of Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Neman. Directed by Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann thanks to their favourite toys... the GI Joes ! The video is an hommage to the director AND soundtrack composer John Carpenter, especially one of his masterpieces : THE THING.
There are a lot of things that make me happy in life. Combining GI Joe and John Carpenter's "The Thing" is one of those things. Awesome on so many levels I don't even know where to start. I really doubt I can top this video today but I'll try.
You may want to sit down for this news. Snopes, the self-appointed buzz kill of the web has revealed that the most spectacular assemblage of trailer homes presented as The Redneck Mansion was indeed fake (as in not actually a mullet habitat). Turned out it was just a set for an outdoor play at a theater called the Openluchttheater in Amsterdam.
What happens when you get a bunch of Russians together online and pose the simple request along the lines of "can you visually compare LSD with alcohol and its relationship to trees"? Apparently that was the challenge on the table at Leprosorium.ru recently. Wallout.com explains the site:
Leprosorium.ru is truly a gem of Russian Internet. It’s a place
where talented people meet, famous and not yet famous. It’s a unique
community where users actually select their moderators through weekly
elections, which mimic quite closely a real thing. They also have a
voting system for posts, which is even more democratic then Digg. At
least you can see who is burying your submitions. Membership in
leprosorium.ru is by invitation only.
The result of this particular challenge is creative, beautiful, and in some cases NSFW. Earth Day we haven't forgotten about you yet!
Almost two years ago the odd phenomenon of dropping Mentos into two-liter bottles of Diet Coke took the world by storm. Driveways and backyards across the country were filled with giddy teens dropping candy into soda and watching the lo-calorie sugar-water soar into the sky.
Europe seems to really love these group erruptions. Last year in Holland over 800 geysers were let loose and recently within Ladeuzeplein square in Leuven, Belgium 1,500 students brought Mentos, Diet Coke, rain ponchos, and almost doubled the previous recrod. But was there a catchy soundtrack to go along with it?
Until there is we will continue to give love to the original EepyBird.com video above, but if you want to see photos from the Belgian world record click here.
Once again, here is A Major Way (Click on picture for full-size strip). A Major Way is currently exclusive to the L.A. Times Funny Pages, until the creator, Jon Blair. has his site up, which should be sometime this month. Because I for one, am getting impatient.
Hollywood is a land of money and cowardice. Every big film is basically a $150 million gamble, so they tend to play it safe and stick to a successful formula.Nowhere is this more evident than in the genre of big-budget superhero franchises.
One might say there is an exact formula to comic book films. A set of rules and guidelines to ensure we will eat everything they toss at us up with little to no complaints. Henry A Lee has narrowed it down to 8 pointless laws that all comic book movies follow shamelessly. [8 pointless laws of comic book films ]
Mark Rayner's Vintage Ads of Fictional Futures contest is coming to a close. I am finding it too difficult to pick a favourite yet again. I'm going to just say I love all the finalist's submissions. Here is your chance to see the finalist entries before the vote and you can find all 30 entries here. [ Vintage Ads of Fictional Future Finalists ]
A quick and easy way to turn your photos into old timey photos with old photo generator. The site is in Japanese but you shouldn't have a difficult time figuring out how to use it. [ Old Times Photo Generator ]
A human recreation of the most played computer games ever, snakes. To find oput more visit www.get-out-and-play.com
Here is a human recreation of a favourite time wasting game of all time, snakes. If you are now jonesing to play a little snake, you can find several web versions out there.
My life has changed a lot since i started this, so I thought it
appropriate to include my friends, family and loved ones since they all
were on my mind throughout the creative process. Enjoy!
The video is a condensed time lapse of screenshots over a several month
period of a brilliant Chad Pugh illustration from start to finish completely in HD. Total physical drawing time is close to 40 hours. A
screenshot was taken every 5 seconds, which actually results in a full
18 minute video.
The cog factory has cut back on it's workforce leaving only you in charge of sorting all the cogs used to make their 'machine'.
Your objective is to group the same colored cogs together in sprocket spirals. Once three or more cogs of the same color are adjacent to one another, they will connect themselves to the 'machine' in the background.
The number of sprocket spirals increases as you progress through the game and the 'machine' gets built.
Think carefully about which cog you send down which spiral - plan ahead. You only have a limited time before the cogs get ejected from the cogregator - so think quick!
Look out for power-ups they'll help you when you need them most.
Cog Factory is a fun logic game and your objective is to sort the different colored cogs into receptacles, keeping the same colors together. If you get three in a row, they disappear. Use the left and right keys to rotate the discharger and the space key to discharge. [ Cog Factory ]
American Idol always has its horrible singers that are good for a laugh or two, but because the show has spread its wing around the globe we can now start laughing at foreign singers whose dreams are being crushed. Valentina Hasan is a nice Bulgarian woman who really loves Mariah Carey and found herself auditioning for Music Idol. Only problem: Hasan doesn't really understand English. Of course that's where the hilarity begins (since the song is really called "Without You"). Hasan was laughed off the audition stage but after the show aired all of Bulgaria knew her name.
Just like with William Hung on American Idol, Music Idol figured out a way to milk the national joke and invited her back to mess up belt out "Ken Lee" in front of a live audience later in the season. Sadly she had learned English a tad better and that performance can be seen after the jump.
Mashup of Rocky with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Yo, Adrian! It's me, Barack-y. Admit that would be awesome if he incorporated that phrase into one of his famous speeches. It would be. Don't lie to yourself.
Check out this updated 2008 list of the coolest Lego creations anywhere
in the world. These amazing Lego structures are proof that Lego isn't
just for kids – not by a long-shot! People have made just about
anything that you can think of out of Legos including portraits of
famous people, life-size replica cars, full scaled-down cities, and
even working computers made of Legos! You won't believe what
Lego-lovers come up with when they have their creative juices flowing.
Check out the best of the best!
It's difficult to pick just one favourite so I'll go with saying I love the entire list but most especially the Miller Park creation, Invisible Hand and the Han Solo frozen in carbonite creation. Honestly though, I love all of them! [ 33 Lego Creations ]
This stop-motion animation of Adam and Eve is so beautiful, so entrancing, so subtle and highly skilled that I honestly don't think I will find anything on the net this year to top it. The Animator is created by Nick H. You can find more of his work featured on MyToons.
If you've got some 3D glasses hanging around your place, now is the time to toss them on and experience Halo in 3D format. You have 3D glasses for a rainy day right? [ Halo In 3D ]
An online poll conducted in the '90s set Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and
David Soldier on a quest to create the most annoying song ever. After
gathering data about people's least favorite music and lyrical
subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single
monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum
percentage of listeners. The song is not new, but it recently
resurfaced on Dial "M" for Musicology.
Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world? It's supposedly scientifically proven to be the most annoying song ever. How that's possible, I don't know. I'll leave it to science. But If you want to test your patience out, here's your chance. [ Most.Annoying.Song.Ever.]
Meow fttt ftt! Mrs. Jessica Rabbit looks much better than untooned Homer and Mario. Roger Rabbit must have one lucky rabbit foot. [untooned Jessica Rabbit ]
A dash of hilarity and a touch surreal, Charlie Rose interviews Charlie Rose in "'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett". Let the video warm up a bit and Enjoy.
