Leonard Nimoy’s Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

Remember all those years when Xmas day meant going to see Lord of the Rings after dinner? Here’s a little throwback to that time. It involves Leonard Nimoy with the Spock haircut and a gaggle of girls in neon sweatshirts wearing the Spock ears and I don’t understand what it is at all, but damn if I’m not gonna be singing it for days now.

Merry Xmas if you lean that way; enjoy your Chinese food if you don’t. I’ll be doing both.

Coyote catches Roadrunner

Thanks to Sean Dixon for the tip.

Gwen Stefani’s Test Pattern Jacket

Heart this. Would not wear this, probably, but heart this. Well maybe
I would wear it, but I’d have to carry some kind of alarm in my pocket that would go EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
for one minute at a time. (If my TV speak is too esoteric because you live under a rock in Pingzakhistahn, first of all congrats on your amazing skillz with the interweb, and second of all you can look at Wikipedia’s article on Bars and Tone for clarification).
Via Go Fug Yourself.

UPDATE: Facebook lens flares

The Facebook lens flare trick got updated. You remember, the one where you punch in an old key code from Nintendo Contra or whatever, and you get little sparkly circles on your screen? Pic of the old and new lens flares, and instructions on how to try it are here.

HP Computers don’t recognize black people

Thanks to Marjorie for the tip.

Beluga birth

This beluga whale calf was born Monday, December 14, 2009 at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Ever cute!

Cat plays Eye Spy

Klaatu42 is the Canadian YouTube user who did that great little voiceover of two cats arguing about television. Here’s his latest:

Sleeveface

Grab a record sleeve, hold it up in front of something else to create a mashup image, and take a photo.
Amazing. There’s a whole book of these.

The whole awesome site is here.

How to be interesting

Solid advice from Megan of Rhubarb Pie, whose friend asked her how he could become more interesting. She suggests that he attend more events, and proposes three questions to consider after each event:

First: what was your favorite part?
I think consciously deciding on a favorite part of the evening is helpful for a few reasons.

First, I think it will make him like the evening better in retrospect. Maybe the café was dingy and the open mic was largely embarrassing and the whole thing reminds him of the emptiness of our disconnected urban lives. Fine. But searching through the evening for a favorite part will emphasize that piece in his memory, and he’ll look back on the evening just a little more fondly. Since going to a bunch of those things can be work, he might as well remember the best aspects of it.

Second, people enjoy enthusiastic people. It is a good practice to notice the best parts of things and be able to recount them. Calling out the bad parts is not-interesting. It is easy and predictable and brings negativity to the party and sounds like a jaded teenager. To be interesting, note your favorite parts.

The other two questions are here.

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

David Cross + Will Arnett = new sitcom that looks amaaazing.
Don’t play this in front of kids or grandmas, it’s pretty sweary.

Thanks to Hillery for the tip.

Hey, this show is online somewhere but I can’t get to it with my limited computer knowledge (sometimes I try to fix it with a knife). If anyone reading this knows how to get this show in Canada or the US, post it in the comments or eeemail meeee, kaaaaay?