Catch of the Day
The Official Wife Crying at Movies Site
Crying after Star Wars
With subtitles so you can understand what she’s saying. Six movies are featured along with a Suggest A Movie comment page.
Tube Noir
Ancilla Tilla Strips
Tired of broadcast and cable? Try The 25 Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies or The 30 Freakiest Commercials of 2009. Partially noir is The Top Seven Classic Movie Moments You Didn’t Know Were Improv. And from the fringe is Found Footage Festival: Top Ten VHS Finds of 2009.
The 25 Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies
The 30 Freakiest Commercials of 2009
The Top Seven Classic Movie Moments You Didn’t Know Were Improv
2009 Darwin Award Winners
Darwin Awards Tree of Life Logo
The Darwin Awards team is proud to announce the late, the great, the 2009 Darwin Award Winners! Well there is no team per se. The Awards began circulating in the mid-1980s as e-mails and Usenet group discussions. There were several websites that recorded “Darwin Awards” starting in the mid-1990s, the survivor and authoritative one is darwinawards.com. There are five requirements for there Darwin Awards: Inability to reproduce (nominee must be dead or rendered sterile), Excellence (in astoundingly stupid judgment), Self-selection (the candidate must have injured or killed themselves, rather than a third party), Maturity (capable of sound judgment), and Veracity (the event must be verified). As to the latter category, rejected or suspected stories appear in the urban legend or personal accounts sections of the Darwin Awards site.
Hypnosis, 140 characters at a time
You will read Catch of the Day
Forget 2012. Forget Y2K and the Harmonic Convergence. The epiphanous post-aught Aquarian event of the 21st Century will be Socialtrance. On January 4, 2010 at 8:30pm GMT, via Twitter and Facebook, British hypnotist Chris Hughes will a world record for the largest online hypnosis session. If you are under 18, pregnant, mentally unstable, or a drug or alcohol user; sorry, you’re being left behind. Visit Socialtrance and sign up to participate.
Caganers and the Official NORAD Santa Tracker
Santa visiting Tokyo
Christmas “caganers” are the ubiquitous icons that have populated most Nativity scenes in Spain’s Catalonia region for the last three centuries or so. “Caganers” are portrayed with pants down answering a call of nature. The origin of the caganer (literally, “pooper”) is unclear, but Catalonia is now home to artists who craft statuettes of religious figures poised to relieve themselves, and the franchise extends to renditions of sports figures and celebrities.
Caganers: figurines of defecating world leaders in Catalan nativity scenes
Twoddler
How did Fisher Price miss this bet?
Twoddler is a prototype. A modified Fisher Price activity center, it has its activities monitored wirelessly by a computer and translated into Tweets. Presumably next year’s must have toy for the babbling set.
Paleo-Future
Where's my commuter helicopter? (c. 1947)
A look into the future that never was. And I’m still waiting for my jetpack.
SM: You should get a toupee so I can call you Doug The Rug.
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