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Tom Waits For No One, A 1979 Animated Tom Waits Performance
The little known animated short “Tom Waits For No One” has a fascinating history. It was filmed back in 1978 as a fun project to…
Apple Releases OS X Lion, Along With New MacBook Airs & Mac Minis
Apple has just released their latest operating system OS X Lion along with new, faster MacBook Airs and Mac Minis. They also released a new…
Comic-Con 2011 Survival Guide
If you are headed to San Diego this week for Comic-Con, check out this awesome Comic-Con 2011 Survival Guide (PDF download) created by Click Communications.…
Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues
“Old World Blues”, the third DLC for Fallout New Vegas has just been released. I’m really looking forward to playing this one, Veronica Belmont has…
Quit Work, Humorous Quitting Fantasy Videos by DeviantART
DeviantART, a social network for artists, has released a series of videos in which suffering office workers transform into robots, pandas, and…
Inside Look At The Royal Tenenbaums House
The pop-culture road-trip team at the A.V. Club’s web-video series, Pop Pilgrims, recently traveled to the house used in filming for the 2001 cult classic…
Time-Lapse of 12,000 New York Times Homepage Screenshots
Web developer Phillip Mendonça-Vieira accidentally captured 12,000 screenshots of the New York Times homepage between September 2010 and July 2011, which he compiled into this…
Proust, A Private Social Network for Sharing Life Stories
Proust is a private social network for sharing life stories amongst family and close friends. Users answer revealing questions focused on various aspects of their…
Chihuahua Chases Armed Robbers Out of Store
On July 7, two robbers (one carrying a rifle) entered a Los Angeles County smoke shop and demanded money from the shop’s owner. Within…
Big Bang Theory, A Tiny Art Car With 10 Retractable Bowling Pins
“Big Bang Theory” by Eric Staller is an adorable Fiat 500 art car with 10 retractable bowling pins poking out of the passenger side.