Fun Stuff

I never knew YouTube was so creepy

/ Shane / 2 Comments

The other day, I went down a dark and scary road on YouTube.

It started innocuously enough. Someone found my blog by searching for “the dancing gnome scary”, which struck me as odd and/or hilarious. So I did my own search and found this video.

Now, this video is probably very offensive to little people. There is absolutely no reason why this person is scary. He’s just little, with some difficulty walking and dressing himself. However, the way the video is set up and the way the video is filmed, is a little creepy. I think we have been trained to believe that anything filmed with that grainy night vision is automatically creepy.

In any event, the related videos on the side of that led me down a whole cadre of frightening videos. I just couldn’t stop clicking on them. Ghost sightings, unnamed mutant creatures, demons, aliens. There’s a lot of creepy stuff out there! It can be hard to find it, because there’s also a lot of people goofing around and making silly things, but there’s plenty to see if you look.

So turn off the lights, sit back, and enjoy:

Dinoprints!

/ Shane / Leave a comment

Get your very own picture of you RIDING ON A DINOSAUR from dinoprints.com!

Find. Of. The Century.

Basically you just take a picture of yourself (or your child I guess) sitting on something, such as a stool or the arm of the couch, in the proper pose. Submit that, (pay of course,) and there you have it. All of your wildest dreams come true, suitable for framing.

Because, as we all know, I would totally ride a dinosaur, if I saw one.

And really, why stop at people? Because, you know, your dog would totally appreciate this picture.

I think it would look great on the wall of his doghouse. Ah, who are we kidding, if you’re the kind of person who commissions a $50 fake picture of your dog barking at a dinosaur, your dog probably doesn’t live in a doghouse.

Google Search Term Rollup

/ Shane / Leave a comment

“random things nobody would ever think of” – Good luck with that search.

“swashbuckling chicken” – I just…I…wow.

“so i stopped the apocalypse” – …and now I’m looking for something else to do.

“things that are going well in schools” – Aw, this made me so sad! I just imagine some depressed parent looking for just one example they could point to that something was going well in our schools these days…and only able to find my blog.

“rocket propelled banana” – Not sure what it has to do with me, but I’m in!

“advantage of pseudopods” – Plastic surgery has gotten so crazy these days. People are actually weighing the merits of attaching pseudopods?

“von trapp dog training” – So long, farewell, arf wienerdog, goodnight.

“just simple drawings of different types of puppets” – That’s all I’m looking for. Is that so much to ask, Internet?

“zombie narwhals” – This one captured my imagination. I googled it myself and found a surprising number of hits! There’s a wealth of information about this topic. I never knew narwhals were such staunch zombie fighters! And the possibility that all their zombie fighting might inevitably lead to a few zombie narwhals has come up a time or two before. Absolutely fascinating.

“zombies vs jedi” – I’m sorry, but this wouldn’t be much of a fight. I don’t know how I’ve never considered a lightsaber as a zombie fighting weapon before, but I’d be hard pressed to imagine anything better for slaying zombies!

“The first snowfall of the winter of a boys 18th year means he must take his first step towards manhood.” – This was actually a spam comment, but it is definitely the strangest one I have ever received!

Ugly Renaissance Babies

/ Shane / Leave a comment

The name sort of says it all: Ugly Renaissance Babies. You really have to wonder what some of the people were thinking when they painted them. How could they look at the painting and say, “Yeah, that looks pretty good! Done!” In particular, these people showed a disturbing lack of understanding of anatomy (particularly where breasts are concerned).

Anyway, I highly advise a look through the gallery. I guarantee you’ll laugh out loud. But in the meantime, here’s a little taste to whet your appetite (captions via the site):

Braaaaaaaaainssssssss
This is not how faces work.
Butterfly Net, Stat!
Oops! Dropped him!

Link via Greg, by way of Sara who was dying laughing over these

The Mobile Zombie Safehouse

/ Shane / Leave a comment

You know, the first step in a lot of zombie apocalypse plans is to find some kind of safe place to hole up. Usually you take something that is moderately safe to begin with, like your house or the corner store, and then fortify it in some way. However, most people will tell you that mobility is your best ally, which tends to conflict with the first part. But some outside-the-box thinkers are selling the best of both worlds: I give you the mobile zombie safehouse:

Click for Larger

Big enough for two (probably not very comfortably, but this is the zombie apocalypse we’re talking about here), and yet you can carry it on your back. I love the picture at the end, which implies 1) that the “reflective camouflage” is so good that a person can’t easily spot those things without an app, 2) that cell phone towers are still functioning, and 3) there are so many people with mobile zombie safehouses, that they’re literally sprinkled all over this field (which seems to be pretty zombie-free to begin with). Oh well, if their marketing saves even one person from being eaten by a zombie, that’s a job well done!

Link via Nathan.