Basic Instructions
Fantastic comic by Scott Meyer.

10 Most Awesome Movies Hollywood Ever Killed
I always wondered about Unbreakable sequel..

Big Spanish castle - optical illusion
Color vision is so cool.

Too Sexy For My Bus
"A German bus driver threatened to throw a 20-year-old sales clerk off his bus in the southern town of Lindau because he said she was too sexy, a newspaper reported Monday."

Will It Blend: iPhone
I've been looking forward to seeing this. :)

Out of Gamut: Thoughts on a Sharpening Workflow
"Using research he conducted for a commercial sharpening product, Bruce Fraser argues for a new approach to sharpening that's based on three imaging phases: capture, creative, and output." -- Excellent article by Bruce Frasier, who very sadly has passed away recently.
No BS iPhone Review
"Wait to buy the iPhone." -- That's my opinion as well, pretty much.

Max Tyrie's Hand Made Modest Mouse Video
"There is no compositing, no shortcuts, just lots of blood, sweat and tears, and a huge Kinkos bill!" -- This is quite awesome.

The most dramatic 5 seconds of video you'll see today
Don't miss the remix.

The Grind: Episode 2
Awesome World of Warcraft based machinima series.
Most difficult Super Mario level (with voiceover)
The commentary is what makes it priceless.

The Face Transformer
"You can use the Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer to change the age, race or sex of a facial image, to transform it to the style of a famous artist, to make an exagerated caricature or even make an ape of yourself!" -- Hours of fun.

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
"Take thatte, Gowere!" -- It must take some effort to write your blog in Middle English.

Winnie the Pooh in USSR
That's a blast from the past..

Geographic map of online communities
From the inimitable xkcd.com.

$1500 keyboard
I'll have to put this on my Christmas list.

Nazi Mech Warrior: When Robots Attack!
"Imagine a world where WWII was fought by giant robots. Animator Marco Spitoni has done it for us." -- Mechs are cool. Go watch it.

SF neighborhoods and stuff
Snippet-size guides to San Francisco neighborhoods along with some restaurants/bars in each one.
WordSpy
"This Web site is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases." -- Go and learn about dark tourism or neurodiversity.

Creatures from the deep
Amazing photos of deep sea dwellers.

The Landlord
Hilarious video starring Will Ferrell and his 2 year old landord Pearl who likes beer and is not shy to use foul language.
McSweeney's Guide to Democratic Candidates
"Pros and Cons of the top 20 Democratic Candidates" -- Including Optimus Prime. McSweeney's rules again.

Ten lessons
Gian-Carlo Rota on lessons learned (and taught) in his experience.

Jayisgames.com
Flash and casual games reviews, walkthroughs, etc. Great site for quality casual games.

Missile 3D game
Very fun and very addictive Flash game.

funny air traffic controllers quotes
"Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?" -- Quite a good collection. Real life humour is always better.
How to Blag an Interview
"You can tell which is the Main Guy because he sits in the middle. You can tell which is the PR Bodyguard because he has longer hair and wears a skirt and smells nicer. Whatever remains is the Other Guy." -- Priceless.

MappyHour
"You are thirsty. You want a beverage and you want it cheap!" -- Gmaps-based guide to local watering holes (with happy hour info).

Star Wars I battle set to Benny Hill music
If you enjoy that sort of stuff.

The Inbox Of Nardo Pace, The Empire's Worst Engineer
Hilarious.
Notes on the Resolution and Other Details of the Human Eye
"The eye resolution is 576 megapixels." -- Wow.

Million-dollar laptop
All of this to run Windows.

The Zen of Drinking Alone
The ode to solitary drinking and to discovering your inner self through it.

Top 100 Chuck Norris Facts
Hilarious. Includes such gems as "Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. Ever."

Mailinator - free disposable email addresses
It's really anonymous though. To the degree that no personal info is kept and anyone can check anyone else's account. So, only for non-important stuff.
Science hopes to change events that have already occurred
"Strange as it sounds, retrocausality is perfectly permissible within the known laws of nature." -- Interesting and accessible article on mind-boggling physics retrocausality.

Self-made Scholar
Directory of free online classes on a variety of topics.
Personality report based on images
Pick a few images and the site will generate a personality report for you.

Mathematical Fiction
A comprehensive list of creative works (mostly fiction) based on mathematics.
Airfare Class Availability Tool
"These resources are provided to assist you in finding availability of specific fare classes or specific seats - particularly useful for finding upgrade space or special fare availability."

Man vs. burger
Man attempts 5 lbs burger with 54 toppings at The Counter in Palo Alto... in under 30 minutes.

Old Russian PCs
I actually used to own/use a couple of these..

Dexter learns to walk
The first dynamically balancing biped robot learns to walk.

Curveball
A fun Flash game.

Pulp Fiction Typography
Excellent example of animated typography illustrating a famous scene from Pulp Fiction.
Photoshopping in days of Stalin
Interesting examples from early last century that show how undesirable people were removed from photos.
L.A.S.E.R. Tag
How to make drawings on buildings with a laser pointer.

Color Selection and Coordination Tool
A useful utility to see triad, analog, and complementary colors to your selected one.

Blink-free photos, guaranteed
"CSIRO physicist Dr Piers Barnes explains to writer and occasional photographer Nic Svenson how many shots she should take to get one where no one's blinking." -- Statistics for photography.

Painful Perl scripting with Vista Speech Recognition
I'll keep my keyboard, thank you.
Introducing: the book
Hilarious Scandinavian skit about the newest "text storage" technology from 500 years ago.

Next-gen multitouch screen
"In this video, Jeff Han and Phil Davidson demonstrate how a multi-touch driven computer screen will change the way we work and play." -- Mind-blowing video. Much closer to one in Minority Report than anything else I've seen.

Shoot the Sheep - Reflexes test
A game that tests your reflexes.
Photography and Studio Lighting - Do It Yourself
Good blog about various photography and lighting projects you can do on your own.

Fun in Ukranian dorms
A predictable reaction, but still funny.

Check writing for math geeks
That's where I can use the math skillz..
365 Portraits from NY Photographer
Beautiful daily portraits from a talented artist.

Useful phrases when traveling (humor)
Russian, Italian, Danish, Dutch versions are here.

Omniglot
A fairly comprehensive site on writing systems and languages of the world.
Most Popular Fonts
A listing of freely available popular fonts. Some look pretty nice.

Email address encoder
If you need to post a link to your address on a website, this tool will encode it to Javascript so that it can't be spam-harvested by bots.
Abandoned island city
"It is an island built upon a reef in the early 19th century because of a coal mine in the reefs and quickly became a densely populated island 1 km in diameter and 5300 people living packed together, working the mines."

A one page satire of Second Life
Priceless. I've never understood the appeal of Second Life..

Funny Place Names
Quite .. amusing. :)
DOF Calculator
Very handy depth-of-field calculator.

Body Painting
Awesome examples of animal paintings done on hands.

Portland's hills + snow - snowplows = bumpercars
Why don't these people just not attempt driving in the first place?

Windows 386 Promo Video (Bizarre)
"A Microsoft-produced video explaining the benefits of Windows/386. Pretty dry until the 7 minute mark when the production is taken over by crack-smoking monkeys."
Huge Kinetic Sculptures Walk in the Wind - Artist Theo Jansen
"Artist Theo Jansen has spent ten years of his life making huge skeleton structures which are able to walk in the wind." -- Watch the video, it's fascinating work.
Throw Paper game
Fantastic!
Earth from 4 billion miles away
It's awesome and humbling at the same time.

Photoshop for Photographers
An excellent collection of articles and tutorials on photography and applications of Photoshop to it.
Le Grand Content
A cool short film with a delicate story based on the ideas from the Indexed blog.
Free international phone calls (to some countries)
You basically dial a number in Iowa and then your destination number. Awesome.

The Gimli Glider Incident
"If a Boeing 767 runs out of fuel at 41,000 feet what do you have? Answer: A 132 ton glider." -- An amazing true story.

Time Catcher
Some very beautiful photos of what this planet has to offer.
Regular Expressions
Hah. I'll have to add this to my regular expressions talk as an intro.

Music Video: How To Get a Guy in Silicon Valley
This is so funny. Although it has a slighly bitter sense of truth. Not in my case, of course. ;)

CiteBite
"Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it." -- This could be very useful for pages with lots of text.

Got a notice? Give a notice!
"Sick of a car taking up two spaces on the street? How about a car too close to yours? What about the car at the mall parked diagonally? Now you can do something about it." -- I really have to start giving out notices.

Rip Van Winkle Awakens to a Flat-Screen Life
"Last month, after most of my adult life without one, I bought a television. Not just a television, but a 40-inch Sony Bravia XBR L.C.D. flat-panel high-definition, or HD, television." -- Interesting to see his impressions of TV shows.
Ping Pong Ball Prowess
Someone spent entirely too much time learning how to bounce ping pong balls into cups off in some crazy ricochets. They look cool though.
Dark Restaurant
"Customers are greeted by a brightly lit entrance hall and will be escorted by waiters wearing night vision goggles into the pitch dark dining room to help them find their seats."

100 things we didn't know last year
"Each week, the Magazine chronicles interesting and sometimes downright unexpected facts from the news, through its strand 10 things we didn't know last week. Here, to round off the year, are some of the best from the past 12 months." -- Interesting stuff.
Zyzzyx Road - A movie that made just $30
"That’s not a typo. I didn’t mean 30 million dollars. Or 300,000 dollars. Zyzzyx Road, released on February 25th of 2006, was released in one theater, where it played for six days and earned 30 dollars total."
Russian Triple Core Processor
Who knew that Russia would be the hotbed of processor development.. with triple the performance. (read the package closely)
Silent Star Wars
Someone recut all three of the original Star Wars films to make a minute long black-and-white silent movie version. With piano player soundtrack.

March of the Emperor
A really funny ad from France.

David Sedaris' "6 to 8 Black Men"
A tear-inducingly funny story about other Santas in the world from the great David Sedaris.
The Age Project
A very addictive site where you have to guess a person's age.
Greasemonkey - 6V8
A bunch of useful Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr.
PikiPimp
Mr. Potato Head for photos. Upload a photo and accessorize it with everything from beards to jewelry to leather and lips. Perfect for holiday cards.

Rent-o-meter
"Charging too little for rent? Paying too much for rent? Enter your rental info below to find out!"

10 Things I Hate About Commandments
The "Ten Commandments" recut as a trailer for a high-school teen movie.

Stationery Movies
Famous movie scenes recreated with office supplies. Your challenge is to guess the movie.
How Products Are Made
"How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery." -- It is incredibly detailed and interesting.
Craigsnumber
"Auto expiring. FREE anonymous phone numbers for online safety." -- Pretty cool.

True Films
Kevin Kelly of CoolTools presents here "the best general interest true films I've found. I define true films as documentaries, educational films, instructional how-to's, and what the British call factuals - a non-fiction visual account."
APRunner fails gender test, loses medal
"The official also said the test revealed more Y chromosomes than allowed." -- What the heck!?

Child's Play: Part II
A year later, they take a new batch of kids and classic games and continue the tradition.