Another list of stuff I've seen in the past week or so.
First, some interesting blogs to read:
The Tax Professor points out that the tax system has never been better for the lowest income taxpayers Americans.
Something Awful offers jokes with realistic punchlines (claiming no authorship).
Alex Blagg offers the five films he wishes you would stop quoting. (Sorry, Alex, but Office Space is too irresistible.)
And the Legal Underground shares a Court of Appeal decision that cites Schoolhouse Rock's "I'm Just a Bill" as a point of reference.
You can take quizzes or tests:
Parents Magazine offers a survey that ends quickly if you say no.
How well do you know your NBA History? (Average score: 6/15. My score: 13/15 -- missing 7 and 12)
The Father's Day twins quiz.
The Commonly Confused Words quiz. I scored an English Genius You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 86% Expert! You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly!
You can watch amazing or amusing videos:
This crazy lady and her vagina-biting dog is hilarious.
Short clip of runner jumping a creek (with NSFW banner ads). Check out the reaction of the runner behind him.
There's no crying in baseball, but there is cowardice.
Tonya Harding thanks her fans for coming to tonyaharding.com. I hope I'm one of just a few people who've ever seen it.
You can play games:
Challenge Vader in a game of 20 questions.
The Batman Cobblebot Caper.
A little time-waster: Volcano Jump.
Kids, don't shoot yourself with a Glock like this. And now we're going to show you an AK-47.
You can see or do strange or interesting stuff:
The Schoolhouse Rock court decision referenced above.
A collection of final words from the cockpit of doomed planes.
Ask Tom Cruise a question. Any question, you jerk.
Some artist has mixed photos of adults with their photos as kids for an interesting effect.
You can learn something new:
Candidates for a new list of ancient and modern wonders, with links.
If you want "spiritual assistance" from the "Church" of Scientology, you have to sign a release of liability.
So, who are the Trojans recruiting from the Class of 2006?
An American-English/English-English translation quide, e.g., a cigarette and a pork and liver meatball would be a fag and a faggot in England.
You can bid on strange things (until eBay shuts the listing down):
The "Jesus on this piece of food" craze might be slowing down, thank, um, this piece of food.
Folks, don't miss out. These are ACTUAL GRASS CLIPPINGS FROM THE GRASSY KNOLL, says the seller.
The french fry that cost this dude $2,000 sold for $51.
So the seller suffers a broken ankle while having sex and now expects GoldenPalace.com to pay a fortune for the hardware that the doctors put inside the ankle while it healed.
You can sit and wonder what these people were thinking:
Some people really want to be amputees.
Some dude implanted an RFID in his hand.
Brutally honest personal ads.
(NSFW) "I will write anything on my boobs for free."
You can puzzle over why these twins were not raised together:
Pope Benedict XVI and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Mel Brooks.
Former Bee Gee Robin Gibbs and Mr. Burns.
You can check out a place far, far away via web cam:
Lakeside at Lake of the Ozarks.
Niagara Falls (click the webcam link, of course).
The hills of Snowden, Wales.
I can't read the website, but it's some mountain in Switzerland called Mittelallalin in Saas Fee.
You can listen to the radio in some other city:
Radio Live, with news, weather and sports from New Zealand (free registration).
N-Joy, German Top 40.
NileRadio 104.2 FM, pop music from Egypt, in English.
Taal FM, Indian music from Mauritius.
You can check out some weird news photos:
The Goodyear Blimp crash.
Dancing water monkeys.
A brick wall urinates on a child.
Sheffield grabs Jeter's ass.
Finally, you can read a good bullshit story:
Noah rounded up exotic animals by riding flying dinosaurs.
Serena's penis tape comes off. Oops!
Fat dude has small moons orbiting him.
And in light of this week's Supreme Court decision, Chinese developers to use eminent domain to acquire White House and build a hotel-casino.
I wish the Supreme Court decision part was bullshit, but it really happened.
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