Below is funny 15 minute segment by Demetri Martin (no relation). He reminds me of a cross between Steven Wright, the late Mitch Hedberg, and Jack Handy. The video portion was created by some other guy, who put some pictures to Demetri's audio. It's mostly the audio that's funny, but some of the pictures help, too.
(Props to Bryan for forwarding this to me)
We've been seeing this commercial a bunch lately. Just try to watch it without sniggering on the last line of the voice over.
[Update] The linked video is much bettery quality than my original post.
While driving through Port Angeles on our Olympic loop day-trip, we did a double-take as we passed this restaurant:
The restaurant's name is actually Dynasty Chinese Restaurant. And it's not just this one angle. There were so many signs along this street, that many of views were equally nasty.
We are not the first to notice the unfortunate street signs in front of this restaurant. Robert Lee, hantonmckenzie, Richard Friedman, and Greefus Groink all have similar pictures.
I just uploaded pics to the gallery from a day-trip drive around the Olympic Peninsula the weekend of July 4th. We drove through Port Angles, then to the Hoh Rain Forest, and down the Pacific coastline. Along the way, the logged clearcuts were full of foxglove in bloom.
Crazy, but true:
In 1994, 16-year-old Jeremy Brenno of Gloversville, New York, was killed when he struck a bench with a golf club, and the shaft broke, bounced back at him, and pierced his heart. Brenno had missed a shot on the sixth hole at the Kingsboro Golf Club and looked to vent his frustration by giving the nearby bench a good whack in retaliation. The fatal club was a No. 3 wood.
Snopes.com specializes in debunking urban legends, so if they say it's true, then it probably is. The article also talks about 3 other known killed-by-own-club fatalities (in 1951, 2005, and 2005), but they are not quite as dramatic as poor Jeremy.
Walking from my bus stop to work, I saw a Volkswagen Beetle (aka Bug) pull up to the drycleaners, with a personalized plate Y2KBUG. Of course it was one of the new Bugs.
Recipe for fun: Find a pair of escalators where you can go either up or down from the same place. Lay your body stiffly across the moving handrails. Spin.
Squint your eyes, then read the word spelled by these movie posters:
This doesn't look Photoshopped. These could be unintentionally placed, or else the work of a clever but subtle theater employee.
[from http://www.eyje.com/pictures/funny/Perfect_Poster_Placement_PIC_]
Just saw a TV commercial for Crayola 3D sidewalk chalk. Kids were drawing on the sidewalk with this chalk, and when they put on special glasses they saw it in 3D. Needless to say the televised 3D effects were simulated, so I dug around to see if there really is a 3D effect.
It's the real deal. The glasses are the important piece, not the chalk. The glasses in the Crayola kit utilize ChromaDepth, a patented diffraction effect that makes red look closer, blue furthest, and colors in between (on the spectrum) fall in the middle. Reading reviews, the chalk in the Crayola kit is probably more colorful than typical sidewalk chalk, but it's the glasses that are the important bit.
Chromatek's most recent patent (from 1991) has some good drawings that show how ChromaDepth works.
Chromatek sells glasses directly, a set of three for $7 + s/h. I'm almost tempted to buy a set just to see it in action.