A new internet celebrity is born! A couple of weeks ago photographer Mark Pain snapped this amazing photo of a Tiger Woods golf ball in mid-air right before it smashed the lens of his camera. However, as the photo spread across the web, people suddenly became drawn to something else in the picture: a strange [...]
Although the jet packs are real, the LAPD did not actually order 10,000 of them a la Minority Report. That headline was dreamed up by the folks at Weekly World News, and unfortunately someone forgot to tell the boneheads at Fox News. Either way, this conversation is priceless.
Trekkies have been doing it for years in the privacy of their own homes (I assume), but this weekend Floris Schönfeld launched the world’s first opera sung entirely in Klingon. “U” (Klingon for “universal”), follows Kahless The Unforgettable who seeks to restore his family honour after his brother kills their father. Schönfeld has supposedly sent [...]
Well, it looks like Ricky Gervais wasn’t joking about Karl Pilkington’s new travel show being called An Idiot Abroad after all. They’ve just put out a twenty-minute preview episode, which is essentially like an episode of The Ricky Gervais Show in video form, combined with clips from the upcoming series. I do feel a bit [...]
Well that didn’t take long. The star of the Double Rainbow viral video has already sold out and been recruited by Microsoft to hawk Windows Live Photo Gallery. Strangely, his incredulousness just doesn’t feel as genuine here.
Weird. Valve recently announced that Stephen Merchant (yes, writing partner of Ricky Gervais and co-creator of The Office) will be voicing a character in Portal 2, and they’ve released a new gameplay video to prove it. He plays Wheatley, a floating eyeball droid type thing that acts as your companion through part of the game. [...]
This may be old news, but I just recently discovered the existence of the TV Hat and it looks pretty amazing. The informercial plays out like a Saturday Night Live skit, but believe it or not, this thing is real. It’s basically just a pouch with a magnifying glass to hold your iPod Touch or [...]
From the genius who brought you last year’s killer jam “Take U to Da Movies”, our boy Bangs has just dropped a fresh track on YouTube. You can still download his album Hard To Be Up for free right here.