miscellany

Watch this video; it's short but very important. Then go here and do what you can to help ensure net neutrality is enforced.

Here is a series of Flash puzzles that will have you crying from brain flagellation. This artist has numerous puzzles and games here. The first I encountered is Hapland and, as greatly evidenced by the countless cries of agony in the forum posts, it's tough! (Even with hints... There are several in the forum posts.) Hapland 2 and Hapland 3 look to be quite time-wasteworthy, too. Venture here if you dare! You will spend more time than you think! (You've been duly warned, Tiffany...)

[insert evil laugh here]

A Powerpoint presentation of this was caught in the spam filter at work. WOW!!! Take a look and drool. This is one sweet yacht and there are several other sweet marine craft on their site. Hey, if you're interested in buying one, you can save about $8 million dollars by opting to leave off the KaMeWa waterjets and their power turbines and get only the twin diesel engines.

Trying something new here... I've created an account (free!) on box.net and uploaded the Powerpoint file to it. It's available here (wallypower.pps).

This is so disgustingly sweet and happy and cutesy and joyful and and and... Ya know that person that everyone knows that's always so happy first thing in the morning? You know, the one 'most everyone would like to just step on and crush? Well, this commercial is FULL of them! I want to foist this on all of my friends! Happy Morning!

Here's another location of the film, just in case the YouTube version mysteriously disappears.

Here's the website shown at the end of the commercial.

(h/t: Boing Boing)

quiet american

I stumbled across this site while looking for a bookmark manager that runs from a USB flash drive. What a find! Take a one-minute vacation by listening to soothing, calm, gentle one-minute recordings of life in nice places. They have three years of these recordings on the site and compilations available on CD.

After battling with my insurance agent about a broken windshield, I needed a nice little break and listened to rain in Ha Noi, Vietnam. It was the perfect little escape; I even visualized the rain dripping from the roof of an open structure, falling upon flat rough stone.

(h/t: lifehacker)

I saw a different video of this several weeks ago, one where some teens dropped a lot of Mentos into a 2-liter Coke that was in a bathtub - explosive results! However, these guys have taken the concept and rocketed (not run) with it. Check out this video! I was truly laughing out loud.

(h/t: Ronn)

Oh, my! I stumbled upon these whilst reading comments on Patently Silly. Schwetty Balls, the hottest balls in golf. A perfect gift for the cool golfer in you life...
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