Animated Iconic Paintings

Revived Artworks is the latest project from Feel Desain. Inspired by the world’s current love of all things animated, they've brought some of the most famous portraits from history to life, like The Girl With The Pearl Earring, Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe and Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Taking these iconic images, they put some expression back into the subjects faces, and now they can look at you right out of your screen. The collection is comprised of 9 images, and they’ll be adding others soon.

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Sincerity Machine: The Comic Sans typewriter

"Sincerity Machine: The Comic Sans typewriter was made after viewing a document with a typewriter font present in it; Jesse England realized there was nothing stopping him from altering a typewriter to write in a different font. He used a laser engraving machine to etch new letters out of acrylic, and glued them onto the strikers of a 70's era, Sears-branded Brother Charger 11 typewriter, which he found in the street a couple years ago. He also used a vinyl cutter to make new key covers as well."

Watch a video of the typewriter.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game - 30th Anniversary Edition

The BBC has released a new version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based adventure game to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

The original Infocom Game released in 1984

"There was a time when computer games didn't have graphics. Or at least they couldn't have graphics and sound at the same time. They certainly couldn't have graphics, sound and enough content to keep even a human being amused for more than a few minutes. The original game launched in 1984 was a text game where you type instructions and the game responds with a description of your surroundings and what has happened as a result of your last action.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game - 20th anniversary edition

The 20th anniversary edition was still essentially a text game. The Infocom origins of the game were still evident, from the opening credits to the 'Help' message.  It was not an attempt to produce a fully animated version, the graphics as followed in the tradition of E. H. Shepard's illustrations for A.A. Milne's books - they didn't reflect all the events described. Most of the images rightly remained, to quote Simon Jones, "in the universe of your head."

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game - 30th anniversary edition

The 30th Anniversary Edition game is still the same wonderful piece of interactive fiction that Douglas Adams wrote and Steve Meretzky programmed, but in finding it a new home, a few changes needed to be made. The old Flash game would not work on the new servers, and in porting it to a new HTML5 incarnation, several innovations took place. We were able to build in a larger, handier interface, with additional keys and functionality, and build in the ability to tweet from the game. The game remains essentially unchanged and the original writing by Douglas Adams remains untouched. It is still played by entering commands and pressing return. Then read the text, follow your judgement and you will probably be killed an inordiate number of times."

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7 Reasons Why You Will Never Do Anything Amazing With Your Life

7 Reasons Why You Will Never Do Anything Amazing With Your Life shows "a unique perspective on what it takes to succeed". It's a reality check at the kind of skills you'll really need if you want to do something great, and explains why you probably don't have those skills (even if you think you do). View Source

Google Street View World

Google™ Street View refers to panoramic 360° images taken by a special camera mounted on various types of vehicles. These images are view-able via Google Maps™, Google Earth™ and custom applications and websites developed using the Google™ Street View Image API. Google Street View started capturing images a way back in 2007. Since then, Google™ Street View has captured images from over 56 countries and hundreds of attractions ranging from walking trails to theme parks, museums to zoos, and everything in between.

Google™ Street View World endeavors to capture some of the more “interesting”, funny, and crazy situations passed by via the Google™ Street View project.

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The Nine Eyes of Google

Artist Jon Rafman created this compelling collection of images from Google Map's massive Street View project to photograph the world's highways and streets. Scroll through the fascinating photos or click the 9-camera image on top to read Rafman's essay about the project.

The artist explains: "Google sent out an army of hybrid electric automobiles, each one bearing nine cameras on a single pole. Armed with a GPS and three laser range scanners, this fleet of cars began an endless quest to photograph every highway and byway in the free world. Every ten to twenty meters, the nine cameras automatically capture whatever moves through their frame. Computer software stitches the photos together to create panoramic images. To prevent identification of individuals and vehicles, faces and license plates are blurred."


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My Food Looks Funny

If your food ever looks funny, take a picture and send it to this website.

Funny Foods

Your Logo Makes Me Barf

"YourLogoMakesMeBarf.com is intended to be a humorous look at what can go wrong when an unskilled person (your neighbor’s brother’s uncle’s friend anyone?!) designs a logo. Good logos require time and involve great forethought. A good logo should be a financial investment but also something that will benefit the long term growth of a company.

So leave the designing to the designers and browse through some of these fine examples of what not to look for in a logo. Barf bags recommended."

View more barf here...

Indexed

Caption: “I’m not here to make friends.”

"Started in August of 2006, Indexed has been noted around the web—much to my continued shock. Thank you to everyone who has shared the link and joined the party.

Originally, I described this site this way: “This is a little project that allows me to make fun of some things and sense of others without resorting to doing actual math.”

Today, I’d have to take the word ‘little’ out of that line."

Get Indexed!

The Sticky Note Experiments

"Fritz & Stephen, the madmen behind the Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments, now cause chaos in the office with over a quarter of a million sticky notes! From waterfalls to wheels, all this craziness is made out of nothing but sticky notes -- the zigzag pads made from pop-up dispensers."

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Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie

"This site is dedicated to spreading the word about the Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie and how it can help the average human. Here you will find a description of AFDBs, how to make and use them, and general information about related subjects.

What Is An AFDB?

An Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie (AFDB) is a type of headwear that can shield your brain from most electromagnetic psychotronic mind control carriers. AFDBs are inexpensive (even free if you don't mind scrounging for thrown-out aluminium foil) and can be constructed by anyone with at least the dexterity of a chimp (maybe bonobo). This cheap and unobtrusive form of mind control protection offers real security to the masses. Not only do they protect against incoming signals, but they also block most forms of brain scanning and mind reading, keeping the secrets in your head truly secret. AFDBs are safe and operate automatically. All you do is make it and wear it and you're good to go! Plus, AFDBs are stylish and comfortable."

What are you waiting for? Make one today!

Bad Haiku

"There are many rules to take into consideration when writing formal haiku, but the advantage of bad haiku is that you don't really have to follow any of them. On this site, most people do 17 syllable haiku structured in a 5 / 7 / 5 form.

So, basically, if (so ba si cally if)
you can speak in syllables (u can speak in syl la bles)
you can write haiku. (u can write hai ku)

The Bad Haiku site has been on the internet and accepting poetry since 1996.


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Five Hoaxes that Fooled the World

"Long before Bonsai Kittens and the tourist guy, hoaxsters have been wreaking havoc on the gullible to amuse themselves and maybe gain a little notoriety. Here are a few hoaxes that pre-date the Internet, in some cases by centuries."

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Name That Theme Song Game

Name That Theme Song Game - TelevisionTunes.com

"How many TV theme songs can you name?"

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Very Funny Ads

"VeryFunnyAds.com is a website about - you guessed it - very funny ads. The TV commercials you see are some of the funniest from around the world. Some that were too racy to be aired in the United States."

Have time to waste? Visit Very Funny Ads

Sarcasm, Sarcastic Comments, Quotes, Remarks, Dark Sarcasm

"Welcome to the Sarcasm Society!
There is nothing more beautiful than sarcasm. That is definitely an overstatement but it should balance the moronic comment which says that sarcasm is the lowest form of humor. Sarcasm usually requires a quick wit, and the ability to extract the minutest points of weakness in a conversation. So it is quite unlikely that it is the lowest form of humor as some would like to call it. Perhaps not being able to enjoy sarcasm is directly related to not having the ability to come up with sarcastic comments, which in turn creates a feeling of inadequacy, which in turn can spawn a Napoleon complex, that can cause someone to logicise that sarcasm is the humor of the stupid."

In need of some Sarcasm, Sarcastic Comments, Quotes, Remarks, Dark Sarcasm

The Human Clock

"Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time, with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occurring minutes on Earth!) Thus you end up with a rotating picture clock sorta deal.

How the time is actually displayed is a whole different matter. A lot of photos have the time written on a crummy cardboard sign, while other photos might have the current time in a more edible format, such as olives. There are photos below sea level and ones over two miles above sea level. There are even clock pictures with people who played at Woodstock.

Many people viewing this website end up sending in their own clock pictures, be they in an airplane, installing brakes, or on a playground in Missouri. There are clock pictures from all over the world ranging from Outback Australia to Canada to Pakistan to Antarctica to Italy to Brazil. Other people travel around the American Southwest and end up taking a clock photo on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. There are even enough clock photos now to have pictures from Phoenix Arizona, Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, LA, and Northern California."

What time is it? Check at: The Human Clock - A Clock Photo for Every Minute of the Day

Airline Meals

"This is a website about nothing but airline food. There are over 15,000 pictures, meals from more than 500 different airlines, sent in by travellers from every corner of the world. First class meals, business class meals, economy class meals, but also crew meals, vegetarian meals, gluten free meals, children's meals...or just a bag of peanuts."

Hungry for airline food, visit: Airline Meals.net - Airline catering * largest site about airline catering and nothing but that... :-)

Totally Absurd Inventions & Patents

"Totally Absurd Inventions explores the funnier side of our inventive spirit by featuring actual USA patented products. Obtaining a patent is a costly and time consuming process. Inventors must have unstoppable faith in their vision in order to realize their dream of acquiring a patent. But sometimes these inventions come from a creative place so deep, they can be perceived by some as offbeat, unusual and possibly a bit eccentric. And that's where we step in… unveiling America's Goofiest Patents!"

View more examples: Home - Totally Absurd Inventions & Patents, America's Goofiest Patents

Lord Whimsy : Mammal of Paradise

"Lord Whimsy, also known as Breaulove Swells, is a noted dandy, raconteur, cape enthusiast, rogue, poison dwarf, contributing writer and associate editor for the PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT, founder of the Hermetic Order of the Bagatelle, renowned lepidopterist, editor of the AFFECTED PROVINCIAL’S QUARTERLY, exemplar of male splendor, connoisseur of borrowed wit, doyen of culture, impresario, professor emeritus of the inconsequential and subculture critic. Whimsy is a walking contradiction; a degenerate voluptuary that wishes to reintroduce ancient charms to the den of ubiquity that is modernity. He rails against the leveling effects of the blind egalitarianism that mows down all flowers that dare peek above the crabgrass. He is a perfumer of curls that wishes to reawaken the poetry of the human soul. He does not seek to destroy modernity – he just wishes to make it hospitable. He is, in short, an ambassador of Heaven."

Lord Whimsy : Mammal of Paradise