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YouTube sunshine captures the best of YouTube comments

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Anyone who has ever used YouTube knows that the people who comment on videos are not the brightest of the bunch. Comments on YouTube are characteristically known for their use of profanity, bad grammar and spelling, and all-around lack of courtesy towards other users of the site.
At YouTube sunshine, you can revel in the fact [...]

Michael Phelps facts

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Photo: John Biever/SI
I was tipped off to this by Yun, who told me to go read the comments under this post at Gawker about Michael Phelps’ incredible physique. It turns out that people love Phelps so much that they are beginning to compile ridiculous “Michael Phelps facts” in much the same way that those Chuck [...]

Watch as Michael Phelps’ Wikipedia entry gets edited

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

The gold medal chart above for Michael Phelps’ wins in the Beijing 2008 Olympics is taken from his Wikipedia entry, which you can bet is being hammered right now with edits from people all over the world wanting to put their own spin on his 8 lucky gold medals.

Mygazines: Share and read magazine articles online for free!

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

This is my new favorite website. Mygazines is the place to go to if you want to read popular (and some not-so-popular) magazines without buying them or borrowing them from a friend. The community at Mygazines shares, uploads, and archives relatively hi-res scans of nearly every page in a magazine (including advertisements).
Sign up for an [...]

Diaroogle helps you find a toilet from your mobile phone

Friday, August 15th, 2008

If you live in Manhattan and simply cannot hold your crap together (and you also happen to have a mobile device capable of going online), then head on over to Diaroogle where you can search for the nearest and cleanest toilet to use.
Diaroogle is a database of user-submitted toilets and reviews all over Manhattan. Just [...]

Crumpler finally updates their website and online store

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Oh my goodness, this took way too long.
Crumpler has finally done away with their crappy website and caught up to modern times with a newly relaunched website and online store designed by Reactive. The new website looks very much like an actual store shelf with each product from Crumpler getting good exposure right next to [...]

I live in Georgia, but where are the tanks from Russia?

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

You may think the above screenshot is fake, but believe it or not, it’s a real question asked on Yahoo! Answers. The responses are just as equally funny as the question.
For those who don’t know, this question is concerning the recent conflict between Georgia (the country) and Russia.
Thanks for this Danny!