Month: October 2005

Geek on Stun presents Marios. 64., a collection of old-school Marios in different guises, like the Devo one at right.

The North American Hallowe’en Prevention Initiative presents Do They Know It’s Hallowe’en?, available today:

BOO! This fall’s sweetest – and scariest – benefit song is Do They Know It’s Hallowe’en?. This single features a star-studded ensemble known as the North American Hallowe’en Prevention Initiative. Both a trick and a treat, this song is a satire – as well as a charity-benefit song with all proceeds being donated to UNICEF.

An epic journey into the pulsating heart of fear, this song is a call-to-arms featuring:
Beck
Sum 41
The Arcade Fire
Sonic Youth
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sloan
Peaches
Feist
Devendra Banhart
Wolf Parade
Postal Service
Buck 65
Comedian David Cross
Sex Pistols’ founder Malcolm McLaren
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
60s soul legend Gino Washington
Psychedelic singer Roky Erickson
Los Angeles 70s group Sparks
Inuit throat singer, Tagaq (a frequent collaborator with Björk)
AND MANY MORE!

Survivor: Toyland is too funny. Just go look… 🙂

Aziz Ansari challenged his roommate Zach to see who could come up with the shittiest mixtape. Each contestant was to choose five songs. Their other roommate, Merlin, would act as judge. The loser would have to walk around the city, blasting all ten songs from a boombox. Aziz lost the contest.

College Humor links to the hilarious QuickTime video World’s Shittiest Mixtape. 🙂

I Was So Eighties lets you rate people’s photos of themselves from the ‘80s. Although I’m obviously a big fan of the ’80s, I don’t think I have any photos as incriminating as the ones on that site… 😉

Angry Alien returns with another fun video spoof, Highlander In 30 Seconds (with bunnies).

The always excellent Wikipedia has an entry on Made-up words from The Simpsons. Such thorough research embiggens us all… 😉

GorillaMask.net has collected a whole bunch of video clips of The Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoons from Saturday Night Live. Hilarious…

flickr memry is a very cool Flash game that uses a selected (or random) flickr tag to construct a game of “Memory.”