Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry

• Movie Review and Interview: Ben Steinbauer?s Winnebago Man
  I'm sure most of you are aware of the "Winnebago Man" (if not, the video is at this link anyway). Well, someone's gone and made a documentary about the original viral video (from back when videos were huge black tapes), about how it came to be, and the appeal of viral videos in general. Looks interesting.
  (tags: interesting viral video documentary funny)
• The Jumping Kitteh!
  A video demonstration on why owning a cat is such ridiculous fun.
  (tags: cats video funny)
• The Happy Gilmore tee shot tested
  Padraig Harrington tests the Happy Gilmore "run up and whack it" method for hitting a golf ball off the tee. Results? Watch the video, but it's basically "more power, less accuracy".
  (tags: interesting physics sport ireland movies video)

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• Honda Insight - The Making of "Let it Shine?
  A short, inspiring documentary on how Honda made what's probably the best advert this year.
  (tags: video cars cool)

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• The Skeptical Hypochondriac
  New blog. Brilliant name, great content, bookmark it now.
  (tags: blog 2009)
• Star Wars Organics: Gallery
  Cool new Star Wars t-shirts (and mugs and crap... it's Zazzle after all...). I especially love the Hoth, Endor and Tatooine "tourist" t-shirts.
  (tags: cool starwars tshirt)
• Christian Waggoner?s Star Wars Paintings
  OOH! WANTY-WANTY-WANT-WANT!
  (tags: cool starwars art)

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• Daichi
  Completely unbelievable Japanese "human beatbox" dude. Really sounds like he's got some loops running in the background, but it's all him...
  (tags: youTube video cool human music)

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• Bach in Color
  The Music Animation Machine Presents "Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor". Mesmerising.
  (tags: cool classical music visualisation video)
• 21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They?re Photoshopped But Are Not
  Some of these are quite simply breathtakingly good. Inspiring stuff, made me want to go and grab my camera and capture something amazing.
  (tags: photography)

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• Mythbusters Pancake a Car With 650mph Impact [video]
  Really, really worth watching just to see the moment when the second-stage rocket fires, and when the rocket-sled hits the car, in super-slow-motion.
  (tags: cool mythbusters video)
• Mars Science Laboratory [image]
  Testing the largest parachute ever built to fly on an extraterrestrial flight, in the biggest wind-tunnel in the world. Freakin' sweet.
  (tags: cool nasa images)

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• Excerpt from "Mystery Team"
  This could very well prove to be the nerdiest film that has ever existed. It may also be one of the funniest.
  (tags: film trailer funny geek)
• Star Wars Macgyver Mash-Up
  Brilliant!
  (tags: StarWars McGyver mashup video)
• Snow Rollers on the Camas Prairie
  "Snow rollers ... are extremely rare because of the unique combination of snow, wind, temperature and moisture needed to create them. They form with light but sticky snow and strong (but not too strong) winds". Pretty cool, another natural phenomena that no-one knew about.
  (tags: nature science weather interesting)
• Why We Need Audiophiles
  Sure, you might think that $350,000 is too much to spend on "a stereo", or you might even think you want one, but would you appreciate it? This man certainly would.
  (tags: music audio technology reference)

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• Kanye West responds to South Park "murdering" him
  "I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I'M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE". You got it in one, Kanye. Admitting you're a giant douche is half the problem. Now you just have to try harder to not actually be a big, giant douche. Not typing in ALL CAPS would be a good start.
  (tags: southPark funny hiphop tv culture)
• How To Deal With Shitting Your Pants: A Powerpoint Presentation
  I'm sorry, ordinarily I would try to explain the contents of this link in some way, but I just shit my pants laughing at it.
  (tags: funny shit howto)

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Dead Chestnut, originally uploaded by Matthew Verso.

This is the chestnut tree in my parent's garden that I had a treehouse
in when I was a kid, about 20 years ago or more. It has since died
but, being a tree, it will be there for a few more years yet, and will
then be a splendid source of fuel for my "old pair". It's covered in
fungus, canker and incredibly gnarled, pale bark.

I think it's beautiful.

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Having realised that I haven't done a proper "blog post" on this here blog for quite a while, I give you this:

...And a promise that my next post will be soon, and will almost definitely be an extended review of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS, which I'm almost finished, and which contains semi-lethal levels of awesomeness.

Ciao for now.

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• Scarlett and Hunter Johansson, 2005
  "The Other Half of Famous Twins" - Great gallery. Can you imagine being Scarlett Johansson's twin brother? Or Keifer Sutherland's twin sister?
  (tags: interesting people photos)
• 1001 rules for my unborn son
  Ridiculously awesome.
  (tags: cool lists interesting culture)
• Muppetstar Galactica
  The Muppets were created by Man... They rebelled. They evolved. You know the rest.
  (tags: funny bsg parody muppet video)

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