But this wrestling video is just downright ridiculous:
Thanks Robert for the tip.
Where Am I?
Ever seen a pictures online and wonder “Where is that?” Despite the profanity, Where The F**k Is This might be able to help.
The Final Four Is Over, But The Pick ’em is Not
Usually by this point in the Pick ’em, we already have the top spots all figured out. But as I mentioned last week, since Connecticut won today, the top three spots won’t be completely finalized until after Monday’s game (read last week’s post for how it can all shake out).
Today’s game didn’t change the standings for the bulk majority of the folks, as not too many people had any of these teams in their Final Four, but “Casebeer” (Case) and “Canadian Invaders” (Andrew) shot up to fourth and fifth, respectively. The only two folks who have points still to score are “TeamTopflite” and “windy wandle”, who will get first and second if UConn wins. The full spreadsheet is here.
April Fools 2011
It’s April Fools 2011, and as usual, the Internet is full of stupidity and jackassery. Among funny ones that I’ve seen today:
- Hulu’s partying like it’s 1990.
- Mentioned this last night, but Woot’s Crapshoot to get a bag of crap was entertaining.
- Have a web cam? Control your Gmail with Motion.
- YouTube has added a “1911” button to most of their videos, making the video appear to be old silent movies (with piano soundtrack and everything). Click through some of the videos on yesterday’s dump and click the 1911 button.
- Give your fingers and exercise with Chromercise.
- As usual, Thinkgeek comes up with April Fools products that need to become a reality.
- In an effort to save money, WestJet is filling their planes’ cabins with helium.
- Search for Comic Sans on Google. Watch the typeface as Google’s switching to Comic Sans.
Feel free to share your favorites in the comments below. If I get motivated (’tis my day off, and there are “Honey-Dos” to be done) I’ll post more later today.
Update: A few more my wife spotted:
- Kodak unveils a system to automatically purge an unwanted person from photos.
- 3D Movies make you sick? De-3D them.
- The Anti-Social Media blog suddenly loves social media.
Time Killers For The Evening
- From the creator of the basically impossible QWOP comes stupidly-impossible GIRP.
- In Dung, you’re a dung beetle, looking for dung, avoiding bugs. Sounds silly, but it’s a fun little time killer.
- If you want to get a random bag of crap from Woot, now’s your chance, but you have to play a flash game to get it.
- No Time To Explain — can you save the future?
Bandwidth Suck Time
It’s video dump time. Check them all out after the jump…
What if Peanuts Didn’t Have a Punchline?
It’s quite depressing, actually.
(Reminds me of another similar favorite of mine.)
Expect To See This On ESPN X-Games Really Soon
Dogboarding is the the latest extreme sport sweeping the nation. Check out this video:
Video created by these guys.
Reading Material
- Why we don’t hire .NET programmers.
- Great wallpaper resource: InterfaceLIFT.
- How to beat the salad bar (be sure to look at the useful graphic).
- The Future Shock, a three-year cross country adventure to save the world.
- Sprint makes switching to Google Voice very easy. Sign up here..
- The world’s best designed newspaper is in Portugal.
- How to remotely control your PC, even if it crashes (too bad none of the computers in my office support this feature).
- WebWrapper a simple wrapper for HTML 5 based web applications on Android devices (similar: PhantomJS is a full web stack, in JavaScript, no browser required)
- 12-year-old genius studying at IUPUI.
- Use WordPress to run your church site. Or Typo3, if you’d rather (I use the latter on a site I manage, but it’s entirely overkill and difficult to manage for simple stuff, so I might be moving it to something else).
- Pick a number from 1 to 10 … for science!
- Barack Obama’s top-secret tent.
- Have you ever thought about how you’d stay in touch with your loved ones if your city experienced a natural disaster or other emergency? Make a Safety Map.
Inspirational Video
Even if you don’t enjoy soccer/football, this is a story that could easily inspire you in many other areas of life:
Apparently this video was filmed here.