Check out this YouTube video of the Simpsons theme performed on two guitars at once. Very cool…
Nine Cool Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Wikipedia
Neomeme’s list of Nine Cool Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Wikipedia is very useful…
World Airports Google Earth Layer
The World Airports Google Earth layer takes a while to load, but that’s because it’s loading the locations of thousands of airports all over the world.
CIA World Factbook 2007 Google Earth Link
The Google Earth layer for the CIA World Factbook 2007 is a great reference…
Where On Earth Was Middle-Earth?
Strange Maps overlays Peter Bird’s map of Middle-Earth on a map of Europe, which apparently has some basis in fact.
World Clock
The World Clock (Flash applet) is cool way to display depressing statistics about the world.
Mmmm… Sacrilicious.
The Sun Online reports that “Pagans have pledged to perform ‘rain magic’ to wash away cartoon character Homer Simpson who was painted next to their famous fertility symbol – the Cerne Abbas giant.”
Platform 9 3/4
Speaking of Harry Potter, there is actually a Platform 9 ¾ at King’s Cross Station in London. How cool is that?
6 Questions The Last Harry Potter Book Had Better Answer
CRACKED.com came up with a list of 6 Questions The Last Harry Potter Book Had Better F#@king Answer. I’m pretty psyched about the book, so it better not get spoiled for me. I’m still pissed off at some little asshole spoiling Return of the Jedi for me back in 1983 before I got to see it… ;-(
the john cusack project
The YouTube video the john cusack project shows the results of a pretty fun idea:
My crew and I managed to convince 90 random people in San Antonio to pose like John Cusack in the movie Say Anything for twenty seconds each while we filmed them. Because of a mixture of elements including inappropriately filled out release forms, bad lighting, and limited song length, we could only put 65 people on the video. but still… freakin awesome.