Man! All I have to say to my brother is, you’re lucky I never figured this out when we were kids…

All you need for this project is:

• A ping pong ball
• An empty paper towel roll
• Duck tape
• Hair spray
• A lighter

Once you’ve gathered the requisite components you are ready to wreak havoc on your unsuspecting “friends”! Enjoy…
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This chair / art is totally awesome! The only problem is that I’ve scoured the Web and I can’t find anything about it anywhere. And as most of you know by now I’m normally pretty good at uncovering strange things on the Net.

If anyone knows or finds anything else about this chair please share it with the rest of us. Thanks!
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Texans may tend to talk a little slow, but don’t let that fool you. The Texan culture relishes wit, wisdom and storytelling. And since I routinely communicate with folks all over the world I figured it would be appropriate to publish a little “Texan to English” translation guide to ensure people always know what I’m gettin on about.

So, in case you’d like to learn how to talk like a Texan, or if you just need to occasionally translate something you heard me say in passing, here is a lexicon of phrases and colloquialisms from Texas.
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Good lord, this is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen!

In this video two brothers are trying to take one simple little photograph for Mother’s Day, and they just can’t seem to make it happen. I now know with absolute certainty that the CIA was bugging my house as a child, because these guys must have somehow gained access to the secret surveillance tapes to re-enact a scene between my very own brother and myself.
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This is the highest rated video I’ve ever seen. It has been viewed 3 million times and has maintained a perfect 5 star rating from over 20,000 people! Just watch it and you’ll see why.

Be warned, the video is 13 minutes long, and once you start watching its impossible to stop! I’m not kidding, there is some amazing engineering at work here, and every time you think they can’t possibly come up with something new, they outdo themselves!
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There is a very, very cool interactive demo that Nikon is presenting over on their site called the Universcale.

Let’s see, how can I describe it… well, it’s kind of like this video which I previously posted that shows how the size of our planets relate to other objects in the universe, except that the Universcale is interactive and also goes the other way all the way down to subatomic particles.

It really has to be seen to be understood, and it is well worth seeing.
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This is just unbelievable, and I don’t know how long it will last, but there is a new Web site called Justin.TV which is about a guy, Justin, who is on TV all the time. :-) This is a serious flashback to The Truman Show, a film starring Jim Carey in which his entire life is broadcast on TV.

The only difference is that Justin is actually aware that he’s on film 24 hours a day because he’s the one filming himself.
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Will Ferrell spoofs George W. Bush on a TBS special in support of StopGlobalWarming.org. As usual Will Ferrell had me laughing out loud a couple of times.

My favorite quote: “Global warming is an issue my administration is very concerned about. Deeply. Deeply, in a deep kind of concerned way. I start my day and I think about the warming of the globe, and how we can get it warmer.”
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My buddy Hrafn over at Inkblot Earth found this incredibly cool screen saver called Twingly. In a nutshell it does the following things:

• A visual representation shows blog postings from around the world in real time.
• You can zoom in and out with your mouse’s scroll wheel, and you can rotate and spin the globe by clicking and dragging.
• It’s possible to tell where the most articles are coming from because bars get taller as more posts come in from certain places.

Read on to see a video of it in action!
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I’ve seen a lot of things in my life, but I’ve never seen a wedding reception like this!

Neat-o-rama shared two different videos taken at Wedding receptions which I can guarantee took a lot more rehearsal than just the simple rehearsal dinner.
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Yesterday’s post about the Annoy-a-tron brought back fond memories from long ago when I worked in an office where people actually liked one another and we all used to pull practical jokes.

In fact, we were very competitive about our pranks, with each of us attempting to out do the other. Here now is a list of the top pranks from the ‘good old days’.
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Ok. It’s the middle of winter, and we’re all sitting around complaining about how cold it is outside. But before you continue your whining, watch this video! This video taken in Fairbanks, Alaska (on the UAF campus) shows a pan of boiling water being thrown into the air in -45 degree weather.

The water evaporates almost instantly, and this has to be one of the coolest things you could possibly do in this kind of weather.
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