Custom My Little Ponies

Here are some custom my little ponies made to look like figures from popular culture. Included are My Little Joker, My Little Alucard Hellsing, and My Little Alien, which is my favorite. Thanks to Angie for the link.

The Holy Church of Bacon

If you more than just like bacon, but instead really love the stuff, you may have found your new church. The Holy Church of Bacon website offers info about bacon ("endowed to mankind from pigs"), info about the church (you can graduate from "Baconic Novice" to "Baconic Fryer.") and all kinds of info about applying Baconism to your life. Thank you to Reverend Jeremy for this one. (He's a real reverend, but not of the bacon church.)

Tex Murphy Radio Theater

So, if you are like me, a huge fan of the Tex Murphy series of games, then this may interest you. In these brief episodic mp3s, Chris Jones reprises his role as Tex Murphy, hardboiled PI in the near, post-apocalyptic future, and the star of Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive and Overseer. They are incredibly well produced and remind me of some of the radio plays that were so popular in times gone by. Funny and interesting, but I will warn that there are only six episodes, with the story left hanging, so if you need closure, it might be best not to even start.

Spot the Fake Smile

Here you can see 20 video clips of people smiling. Some of them are real and some of them are fake. You only get to see each one once before making your guess as to which. Afterward you can see which ones were fake, which ones were real, and which ones you identified correctly. I was able to do 17/20. You? Thanks to Anirudh for the link.

Play With Spider

Here's another fairly amazing thing done with flash. The spider, seemingly in 3d, will follow your cursor, even as you adjust everything from its leg length to its walk bounce to its leg reach to even the angle you're viewing it from. Plus, hit space bar to drop some insects for it to run around and eat. Truly cool. Check it out.

Crappy Cat

Here is a really weird flash game. I'm not sure if it's even a game you can win. You just move a little eyepatch-and-dinner-jacket-wearing cat around a bizarre desert environment and odd things happen. Suicide Darth Vadars run at you with bombs strapped to you, weird creatures challenge you to ping pong with one of their eyes, and crappy cat drinks his weight in alcohol. It's well animated and cool.

Dickipedia

A Wiki of Dicks. Some of the latest dicks include Sean Hannity ("a Fred Flintstone lookalike"), Ted Stevens ("a notoriously pissy, out-of-touch drama queen and U.S. senator from Alaska"), and the Olympics ("a contest to see which country’s chemists can concoct the least-detectable performance-enhancing drugs"). Thanks to Morgen for the link, although he says Rachel deserves full credit.

Secondhand Storytime

Here's another personal one. Today I'm launching my new project, Secondhand Storytime. This is what I said on the site:

Sometimes a story is so interesting, so outlandish, or just so plain entertaining that people need to retell it. In these cases, the story will start to take on a life of its own as it’s passed along by people who had little to no involvement in the actual events being recounted. Here I aim to collect some of these in the form of a weekly podcast.

I hope you check it out and enjoy it.

screenclean.swf

All I know about this one is that its title is "screenclean.swf." That means it's flash, and I'm guessing it was intended to clean your screen. I find it oddly captivating.

Anti-Theft Lunch Bag

Communal refrigerators are always less than secure. I'm sure we've all left something in a fridge for later, either at work or in a shared apartment, only to have it eaten by the inconsiderate. Here's an ingenious design that will keep people from stealing your lunch.

Kermit - Bale

It seems that Kermit the Frog and Christian Bale have quite a few things in common. Someone took a lot of time to track down a lot of pictures of both to point out the similarities. I'm pretty impressed, actually. A lot of them match up very well. Check it out. Thanks to Angie for the link.

The Phobia List

Here's a huge list of different phobia names and their common language descriptions. Just the A's find such interesting fears as the fear of walking (Ambulophobia), fear of being single (Anuptaphobia), and the fear of flutes (Aulophobia). There are so many on the list, and so many things to be afraid of that I have just never thought of.

Ascii Matrix

Here is an interesting animation done completely in with ascii characters. Very simple and very cool. If you're a fan of the matrix, you'll recognize it instantly. If you've even seen the trailers it should at least look familiar.

Bonus: look in the comments for yesterday's post to see another site thoughtfully posted by a reader.

Has The Large Hadron Collider Destroyed The World Yet

A while back I posted some nice high resolution pictures of the Large Hadron Collider, the worlds largest particle accelerator. The machine itself was activated today, and some people were nervous that the science happening at the site could be so wild and new it might threaten the existence of the entire world. Today's link will tell you whether or not that has happened yet.

Suspicious Vans

I missed Monday and I'm not going to make it up, but as a Tuesday offering I bring you something special. SuspiciousVans.com is just like it sounds, a repository for suspicious vans. In the words of the site itself:

Leash your pets and small children; suspicious van can be found in even the safest cities. From the rape-wagons to the intravenous-drug-use vans to the parked-out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-for-no-reason VW buses, this site is an ode of respect, fear, and appreciation for them all.

Great galleries. Thanks to Morgen for the link.

Child Trader

I found this one by following a link from the Revenge Crabs site featured earlier this week. This one offers a service that lets you swap your child for another child. Each family ends up with the same number of children they started with, just different children. Of course, digging around the site reveals no way to actually sign up, but it's still pretty funny. So take a moment and visit the "nations 4th largest child exchange network."

How Not To Get Laid

This is a site that chronicles near near misses in the sexual realm. Sometimes the hookups don't happen for reasons are beyond the parties' control (curfews, hot water accidentally spilled in a lap, etc.) or by something that could have easily been avoided (poor hygiene!). There are lots of things that don't work cataloged, so you can either read for enjoyment, or pick up some pointers on what not to do. Enjoy.

Revenge Crabs

Impropriety week continues with a site that offers to sell you eggs for pubic lice. The idea, and they really push this home in a ton of examples, is that you should use those eggs to get revenge on someone who has wronged you. There is a lot of talk, but no actual way to order, much like yesterday's site. And speaking of, yesterday's site is linked to from this one. Same jokesters? My favorite part is the testimonial page, with some of the testimonials being from victims. Thanks to Morgen for the link.
NOTE:: there's a pic on the front page that's BARELY sfw. If you have conservative bosses who can see over your shoulder, wait until you get home to check this one out.

Doggy Condoms

Here is a site that offers to sell you Doggy Condoms. Billed as more humane than spaying or neutering the pets, this invites you to "keep your puppy peppering the powerful dog spunk that makes him who he is without the typical regret so often associated with humping mutt-style neighborhood bitches." The site walks a tonal line that makes it hard to tell if it's a joke or not, but the more I look at it, the more I'm sure it is. The more you look at it, the more I'm sure you will be, too. Thanks to Nick for the link.

VPILF

So I haven't had a theme week in a while, so I figured it's time. That means this week is impropriety week, kicking off with this gem. It features the Republican vice presidential nominee as well as news about her. A lot has been made of her looks and this site gathers that info, but as news of pregnant daughters and rumors of previous pregnancies flies around the internet, those things are collected here, too. Check it out.