Terry Gilliam's Storytime (1968)

Terry Gilliam, the Monty Python animator, and later the director of Brazil, Time Bandits, and Baron Munchausen, got his start with animated shorts like Storytime (1968).

Most Frustrating. Super Mario level. Ever.

This is a video of a particularly evil fan-created level for Super Mario.

Just watching is painful - I can't believe the player didn't throw their controller through the wall.

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The women of the in-flight safety cards

(see also safety.mania.ru)

Vicious Cycles

Kids, before there was digital, there was frame-by-frame stop motion animation.

Amadeus in 5 seconds

Irrefutable proof that Wikipedia is better than Encyclopædia Britannica

The award for most authoritative and encyclopedic Wikipedia article you'll never see in Encyclopædia Britannica goes to: Heavy metal umlaut. Here's an excerpt.

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The first gratuitous use [of the umlaut] appears to have been either by Blue Öyster Cult or by Black Sabbath, both in 1970. Blue Öyster Cult's website states it was added by guitarist and keyboardist Allen Lanier,[3] but rock critic Richard Meltzer claims to have suggested it to their producer and manager Sandy Pearlman just after Pearlman came up with the name: "I said, 'How about an umlaut over the O?' Metal had a Wagnerian aspect anyway."[4] Conversely, Black Sabbath, on a rare 7" single version of Paranoid (with the b-side Rat Salad), for no forthcoming reason, renamed the single "Paranoïd" with a diaeresis above the "i".[5] (In French, the words paranoïa, paranoïaque, paranoïde properly have the trema.)

On their second album In Search of Space (1971), Hawkwind wrote on the backside of the cover: "TECHNICIÄNS ÖF SPÅCE SHIP EÅRTH THIS IS YÖÜR CÄPTÅIN SPEÄKING YÖÜR ØÅPTÅIN IS DEA˝D". To add to the variation, Danish and Norwegian letters Ø and Å are added. While the Å being a separate letter sounding like the word "Oh", the Danish Ø is actually pronounced exactly like the German and Turkish Ö. And also the diacritical mark on the last " A˝ " is the "Hungarian umlaut" or double acute accent ( ˝ )—two short lines slanting up and to the right rather like a right double-quote mark—instead of dots (Hungarian uses neither the ( ˝ ) nor the traditional German umlaut ("Ä") over the letter "A", though, and ( ˝ ) is used only on the letters "Ő" and "Ű"). This was before Lemmy, later of Motörhead, had become a member of the group.

Star Wars Death Star dogfight

An incredible performance of the final dog fight over the Death Star, done with hands.

Leave your tinfoil hat at home

Spray-on Defense from WiFi and Cellphones

via Treehugger

Spam Musubi

Spam Musubi
Originally uploaded by ptufts.

This is the apex of Japanese-Hawaiian cuisine.

If McDonalds had started in Edo around 1000AD, all sushi would look like this.

Classic Silent Star Wars

I know, you found yourself wondering, "what if Star Wars had been made during the silent film era?"

Now you know.

French ad for March of the Penguins

The French title for the movie was "March of the Emperor".

Harrison Ford: Wife Force One

Filed with love under "way to much time on their hands," Youtube user RoninGraffiti has created the ultimate Harrison Ford movie, "Wife Force One."

Tony vs. Paul

Tony vs. Paul is a silly, wonderful stop-motion movie of two friends pulling pranks on each other. It has a stop-motion logic all its own, and at the same time makes me wish that I could drop everything and spend a week with my best friend making a movie just like this.

Borat in the news

"Kazakhstan's largest chain of cinemas, Otau, said in September it will not show the film."

Cthulhu License Plate

Cthulhu License Plate
Originally uploaded by sigsegv.

Guinness Record for most t-shirts worn at once

Man sets Guinness Record for most t-shirts worn at once.



According to video information on Youtube, this is Matt McAllister of 99.9 KTYD in Santa Barbara, CA.

Mysteries of sushi explained

This brilliant video made the rounds a few months ago, but I somehow missed it. It's a video by the Rahmens, a Japanese comedy duo. In it, they explain the mysteries of sushi. The subtitles were done by a fan.

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Apple NYC creates new display: iCustomers

Ryan over at Ranex photoblogged about his friends getting trapped in the Apple NYC store's glass elevator for 45 minutes. The photo reminds me of Logan's Run; I think they were on their way to Carousel.

This photo is the answer

carleen fredricks
Originally uploaded by sharpeworld.

This photo is the answer.

The question is: "what do you get when you cross a Mouseketeer with a Vegas cocktail waitress?"

Darth Vader's secret hobby

Many faces
Originally uploaded by doc18.