A neat trick you can do with your desktop background image. People match the wallpaper with what is behind their monitor to make the screen look invisible.

Pictures and video of the remains of a 13-foot Burmese python that burst after trying to eat a live, 6-foot alligator. Oh, and this happened in the Florida Everglades. Yes, turns out there are pythons in Florida.

I don’t really know whats going on here, but I do know that North American cats would have no part of this tom-foolery. None whatsoever.

This Boeing ad for the Osprey aircraft has caused a bit of a stir because nobody noticed that the soldiers are rappelling down onto a mosque. The ad also says “Consider it a gift from above.” I’ll admit the mosque thing is in particularly bad taste, but even if it weren’t a mosque, don’t you find this a little crazy? Who are they advertising to anyway???

I’ll bet you thought that Superman was a really great guy, what with his saving the Earth from all manner of calamity, but not so I’m afraid. He also has a strong inclination towards homicide, blackmail and just general mean-spiritedness, as evidenced by these comic covers. continue reading… »

I can’t really describe this, except to say that it involves dog shit and the President.

Photographers catch George Bush writing Condi Rice a secret note during the Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit. Behind every great man…

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

Have you ever wondered what a stack of one million pennies looks like? How about a trillion? Or maybe one quadrillion? Perhaps a quintillion? Did you even know there was such a number as one quintillion? I didn’t. This site is all sorts of useful.

Another optical illusion. Stare at the cross in the center of the circle and try not to move your eyes off of it. Eventually the outer circles should appear to fade or disappear entirely.

Is it me, or are humanoid robots just plain creepy? Here we see Honda’s ASIMO menacing a small child. She did nothing to deserve this treatment, and the thing can climb stairs! Why do engineers insist on designing them this way?

What is pop culture but consumer culture? We all know that coolness is just conservatism dressed in black, but at least its dressed in black! I am continually amazed at what “the future” looks like. continue reading… »

A funny little animated gif of a guy smashing himself to bits and pieces at his computer.

Now officially available: the illusion that made baby jesus cry. Those bean-like things are moving so much I want to slap them, but they’re actually not moving at all. Seriously.

Uhhhh…… wow.

Botox is the real life equivalent of the Photoshop smudge tool.