Sep 10 2010

The Internet Is A Crazy Place

Just a few fun things (read: memes) I found on the Web:

Girl Talk provides the soundtrack to this video featuring ten minutes of animated gifs. A complete time-waster.

Cache Rules Everything Around Me from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

In Mad Men news: Pete Campbell’s Bitch Face

And also: Sad Don Draper.

This might be the funniest Between Two Ferns ever. Sorry Zach, Seth is way better.

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Aug 15 2010

Random Web Findings: Double Rainbow, Andre 3000, Oxford English Dictionary

25 Songs About Outdated Technology

Nine Things Arcade Fire Has Done Lately

Thirteen Paste Best of What’s Next Artists on Tour This Fall

Doom and Gloom: Pop Culture’s 13 Unluckiest Characters

The 50 Best Fictional Bands

We’ll Do It Live: The 10 Most Ridiculous News Clips

Four Songs Inspired by Double Rainbow

A Dozen of Literature’s Greatest Jerks

Top 10 Anti-Drug Rap Songs

1000 Awesome Things Blog

Andre 3000’s Comeback

Top 10 Courtroom Drama Movies

7 Most Outrageous Hotel Amenities

8 Food Words Rejected (For Now) By The Oxford English Dictionary

Think Before You Ink: A Gallery of Truly Awful Band Tattoos

The Most Unintentionally Homoerotic Vintage Ads

The 8 Most Insanely Obvious Signs In The World

Top Eight Bands That Sound Best When You’re Drunk


Aug 8 2010

Random Web Findings – Green Day @ Lollapalooza

As expected, last night Green Day stole the show in Chicago, performing well over the park’s curfew and giving every Lollpalooza ticket holder their money’s worth and then some.  It’s doubtful Soundgarden will be able to top it tonight.  Consequence of Sound has the rave review and more coverage of the day.

Top Tweets of the Week

Americans’ 15 Favorite Restaurant Chains

No Van Gogh: Fifteen Fantastically Awful Selections From the Museum of Bad Art

Ten August Albums Worth Checking Out

Twenty-Five Songs For Dr. Dre’s Planet Playlist

Our 11 Favorite Oversized Bands

Mobbed Up: Hip-Hop’s Eight Best Posse Cuts

Six Dinosaurs That Might As Well Be Fake

Eighteen Band Names Inspired by Other Bands

23 Disney Characters and the Entertainers Born to Play Them

New York Rappers Talk Their Worst Summer Jobs

Ten Best Party Vacation Destinations

Cities With the Most Millionaires

Restaurant Tipping Around The World: 25 Countries’ Gratuity Protocol

Autobiographies By The Under-25 Set

11 Sci-Fi Movies to Look Forward To

14 Cases of Actors Getting Cut Entirely From Notable Films

8 Videos With Hilarious Offscreen Surprises

Top Ten Ad Icons of All Time

Most Controversial Album Covers Ever

Top 50 Maddest Moments In Music


Aug 1 2010

Random Web Findings: Happy Birthday to Me

Last Words Of The Executed

The Unemployment Chronicles — Ten College Grads, Ten Stories

Script Surfaces for Lost SNL Movie Co-Written by Conan O’Brien

The Web Means the End of Forgetting

The 8 Sexiest Subway Systems in the World

The Top 20 Gayest Cities

Top 10 Celebrity Music-Video Cameos

How To Find A Job NOW: 7 Crucial Tips From A Career Expert

The 10 Most Sacrilegious Music Videos of All Time

The 15 Most Annoying Ringtones You Can Get

9 Amazing Attempts To Live Off the Electricity Grid

Nine Movie Pitches Based On Facebook Apps

Nine Nostalgic Nintendo Games to Secretly Play at Work

Moogy Blues: Ten Quintessential Moog Songs

10 Ways Darth Vader Might Be Spending the Money He Stole

10 Great Movie Plot Twists (And Five We Totally Saw Coming)

10 Books That Will Help You Improve Your Writing (Or Your Sanity)

Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Indie Film

Minimalist Album Covers

Crap At My Parents’ House: An Homage To Mom & Dad’s Terrifying Belongings

The Celestial Jukebox: Unlimited Music Services Face Off

The 25 Greatest Boot Camp Clik Songs Of All Time

13 Of The Most Ridiculous Things Overheard In Bookstores

The Most Obvious Headlines Of All Time

The Coolest Minimalist Websites Ever

10 Moments of Cynical Sincerity in Adam Sandler Comedies

Racist, Racy, ‘Derogatory’: 13 Facebook Posts That Got People CANNED

The Funniest Notes Left For Thieves Ever Written

Colleges NOT Worth Their Cost

Is M.I.A.’s 2010 Cursed?

The Most Expensive P.R. Bait Restaurant Dish Gimmicks

9 of the Most Amazing Bookstores in the World

15 Films the Geek Crowd Really Wants to See

The BEST Colleges to Work For

Bizarre Magazine’s 31 Geekiest Places

The 19 Most Regrettable Pop Culture Tattoos

The 15 BEST iPad Apps Every User Should Try

10 Reasons To Label Genetically Engineered Foods

Austin: Top Ten Things Newbies Should Know

11 Of The Best MFA Writing Programs

Top 30 Cable News Programs

The Top Ten Rap Supergroups That Never Happened

Top 10 States With The SLOWEST Internet Speeds

10 Weirdest Sites To See In America

Top 10 TV Theme Songs

40 Comics That Should Be TV Shows

The Best Tweets of Kanye West’s First 24 Hours on Twitter

The World’s 15 Best Countries For End-Of-Life Care

The Definitive Beastie Boys Sample Source Collection

The 15 Biggest Bestsellers EVER After The Bible

Overly Distracting Actors

20 Overrated Classic Films

The Funniest Facebook Page Suggestions Ever

2010 Is the Worst Year for Movies Ever, Just Like Every Year Before It


Jul 25 2010

Random Web Findings: Mad Men Premieres Tonight!

Paste Presents: The Mad Men Takeover (Everything Here is Golden)

Music Philosophy Prints

The Worst College Fashion Trends

Caught In The Act! Hilarious Photos Of Politicians Getting Frisky

Palin, Lindsay, NASA, and More: The Top Tweets of The Week

10 Party Schools That Actually PAY OFF

NYT: New Orleans’s Gender-Bending Rap

Losing My Religion: Revealing the Hollow Reality of Lo-Fi

Hollywood and Smoking: A Brief History

Five Predictions For Mad Men’s Fourth Season

The Cities Where Americans Spend The MOST On Travel & Entertainment

The 10 Best Boozy Desserts — Ice Creams, Gelatos, & Sorbets

The BEST Late Night Jokes Of The Week: Palin’s New Word, Lindsay’s Back Door, And Hippie Orgasms

Mad Men Twitter Round-Up

16 Most Outrageously Misleading Hotel Ads

The Mad Men Guide to New York

What’s The Worst Movie You’ve Ever Seen?

39 Countries That Take More Vacations Than the US

The Twelve Most Beautiful Islands In the World

The Most Politically INCORRECT Stocks – Including BP, Blackwater & Exxon

The Five Greatest Rap-A-Lot Album Covers Ever

Seven Strange Street Snacks

7 Ways Student Loan Reform May (Or May Not) Change Your Life

The Funniest Marketing Fails Of All Time

11 Musical Action Figures

11 Most Overrated Things In History

Colleges Actually Worth Their Cost

The Top 5 Mel Gibson Internet Creations

The Internet In Film


Jul 18 2010

Random Web Findings: The Social Network, Etc.

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Jul 11 2010

Random Web Findings – A Buncha Stuff

Seriously….there’s a lot:

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Jun 27 2010

Random Web Findings: Metacritic, Hipster Evolution, Music Blogs


Ranked: The Best and Worst Iraq/Afghanistan War Films

Adam Sandler: All Films Considered

Tom Cruise: All Films Considered

Pixar vs. DreamWorks Animation: Comparing the CGI Giants

15 Movies the Critics Got Wrong

19 Great TV Episodes Largely Confined to One Location

List of Comic Book Drugs

The Evolution of the Hipster

Pop Culture’s Ten Best Assisstants

The Top 40 Chicago Words

The Ten Best Musical Rejections

Music Blogs Are Dead – Long Live Music Blogs!

Ten Best Beers For Breakfast

NYT’s 10 Under 10 List – Authors

The Best Movies Never Made

Top 100 Guy Movies

30 Post-Apocalyptic Film Visions of the 21st Century


Jun 20 2010

Random Web Findings: Comic Books, Pixar, Twitter

Fact: This is my 100th post! Enjoy!

Ten Comic Books That Aren’t For Nerds

The Canadian Music Wiki

Ten Kids Movies to Watch Again As An Adult

Ten Saturday Morning Cartoons That Strayed Far From Their Source Material

Five Fake TV Shows From Movies That Should Be Real

How Different States Execute You

Empire’s 100 Best Films of World Cinema

6 World Cup Coaches Who Look Like James Bond Villains

Paste Magazine

-Best Music of 2010 (So Far): Rachael Maddux, Associate Editor

-Five Reasons Why You Should Go to w00tstock

-Pixar’s Greatest Hits: Ranking its 10 Movies, Worst to First

-9 Cool Things To Do with Your Twitter Account

-Nine Book-to-Film Adaptations that Shouldn’t Have Happened

-A Dozen Crowd-Pleasing Jams for Your Next Karaoke Night

-Five Awesome Musical TV Episodes


Jun 13 2010

Random Web Findings – Michael Cera, The Ramones, World Cup

The Ten Best Genre Musicals

22 Fictional Characters Whose Names You Don’t Know

Top Ten Must See Foreign Films of the Last Decade

Cakes Inspired By Books

15 Great Movies That Were Never Finished

Paste Magazine

Five Sci-Fi Megacorporations I Don’t Want to Work For

Ten Ridiculous(ly Awesome) Wii Accessories

Variations on a Theme: The Seven Faces of Michael Cera

10 Ways The Internet Wants To Get You Excited About The World Cup AWESOME

Ten More of the Creepiest Kids’ Movies of all Time

The 10 Best Ramones Songs of All Time

Seven Film Projects and One Naked Guy Worth Backing on Kickstarter