Almost Exciting!

Sorry I didn’t get around to announcing this in advance, but yet another International Talk Like A Pirate Day has come upon us.

It’s also worth noting that Pirates do not say “ARRRGH!” they say “ARRR!”.

Not sure how safe this site is, but the two videos I watched (on Youtube) were pretty clean…

How it Should Have Ended - is a site that does cartoon parodies of… well, how most movies probably really should have ended. If I get time, I’ll write more about what I find… unless you know about the site - put something in the comments!

Recently on the Make: Video Podcast:

Instructions for Making a (water) Balloon Flinging Siege Weapon out of PVC.

This weekend, make a human powered siege weapon. Using a human as a counter-weight and PVC piping for the structure, this catapult can hurl water balloons 100 yards or more.

Awesome.

Found @ Kottke : sweet paper airplanes.

From Lifehacker: Family: Free movies this summer for kids of all ages.

From the write-up:

Did you know that most movie theaters/movie chains offer free family-oriented movies during the summer on weekday mornings? Parenting blog Raising4Boys.com has compiled a pretty comprehensive list of all the theaters in the U.S. that participate in this program.

As usual, other cool tips abound in the comments.

Here is a picture of an etch a sketch drawing of the famous PC vs Mac commercial, courtesy of Wired News.

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen: the deep, dark secrets that lie within the all-knowing oracle (sold at a toy store near you) have been revealed. Most of the secrets anyway.

If this sounds interesting, see the secrets at Hanttula.

I will do this. I will do this to someone. I will do this to someone, some day.

Cardboard office (prank).

It’s almost cool enough to do to myself, just to see what my coworkers would say when they showed up the next day and I pretended to work.

For example:

From the vast amount of things that I did not know were on the internet, especially since 1997, comes this seemingly innocent question:

Q: What do you think happens when you throw a slice of processed cheese (without removing the plastic wrapping) onto a lit barbeque?

The plastic melts giving off highly toxic fumes and you are left with a pretty grim cheese/plastic mess welded on to your BBQ, right?

WRONG!

Actually, it seems that the answer is very, very different. Enter Cheeseracing.

I can’t wait to try this.

For ages upon ages mankind have asked them selves one all important question: Ninjas or Pirates? Well I present to you a website that dares to ask a different question, Ninjas or Golfers? I think the answer is most definitely Ninja. There is a lot of funny stuff on this site as well as a lot of historic info on ninjas for any who are interested. It even shows you how to make your own ninja mask out of a T-Shirt! What more could you ask for? http://www.entertheninja.com/