Break.com Oddness: United 300

What with all the deep, serious conversation around here this week, I reckon it's about time for a few minutes' light relief. Big thumbs-up to Ed Ashby for the heads-up on this one:

300 Spartans on a Plane - via www.break.com

Laugh? I nearly bought the loincloth... :)

May 24, 2007 | Filed Under Humour, Odd | Leave a Comment

What really happened when the Death Star blew up…

Via When Gravity Fails, the Solaris Books editors' blog...

Love it :)

April 5, 2007 | Filed Under Animation, Humour | Leave a Comment

A brief intermission: Assorted Amusement

I think I'm a bit blogged out at the moment following my marathon post on Friday, and I have a couple of really important project deadlines to meet this week. So here, by way of a short interlude, are some links to some amusing and / or just plain weird stuff that I've stumbled upon recently, one way or another:

Websurdity.com isn't afraid to ask uncomfortable questions about the things the Imperial Government doesn't want You to Know.
Meanwhile, the little green fella says: Watch pirate DVDs you should not!
RPG motivational posters. Takes me back...
Too much roleplaying: bad for your elf-esteem?
Worst Album Covers Ever. They're not kidding.
Odd sculpture from around the world. Some funny, some just... odd.
G3 Beer Machine. Is there nothing that a Mac can't do?
A damn good question for loonie fundies everywhere: Why Can't I own a Canadian?.
Heh. Don't look round...

Somebody had too much time on their hands... And finally, some Cat Stuff. As a good friend of mind once told us when Jo and I asked him whether we should think about getting a cat: "Cats make life better." If that sort of pro-feline thinking is likely to offend you for some bizarre reason, you might want to look away now:

Thank you for bearing with me during this short service interruption. More bookishness just as soon as my deadlines have been met and I have managed to gather the numerous thoughts that are currently rattling around in my head into some sort of bloggable order...

March 13, 2007 | Filed Under Humour | 2 Comments

YouTube oddness IV - Web 2.0

It's Friday afternoon and I'm on a tea-break, so here's another short stop-motion live action filmlet for your general amusement and edification:

And here's a funny sent through by the missus, specially for all my UK / US readers and pals (Scots gourmand Joe Gordon and Northern Irish beer monster Ed Ashby both spring to mind for some reason...)

The Final Word on Nutrition

After an exhaustive review of the research literature, here's the final word on nutrition and health.:

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
5. The Germans drink beer and eat lots of sausages and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

February 9, 2007 | Filed Under Humour | 2 Comments

Steve Wilson's Elves: definitely Different…

Check out My Elves Are Different, a "highly irregular web comic" by Steve Wilson, starring regular protagonists 'Sideburns' (a would-be fantasy author) and 'The Bowler-Hatted Gentleman' (his chum, one assumes).

Very droll indeed.

My personal favourite to-date is this one:

I got the heads-up from Simon Spanton of Gollancz books, and his personal favourite, for some reason, is this one:

Both cartoons are copyright Steve Wilson, and have been pinched without his express permission (sorry Steve! I did try get in touch to ask first, but I checked all four of your websites and couldn't find an email address...)

Edit 09.02: Immortalised in a webcomic! I've arrived..! :D

February 8, 2007 | Filed Under Humour | 6 Comments

Youtube oddness III - Star Wars, silent-movie style

Thanks to Ed Ashby for the heads-up on this rather entertaining piece. Turn the sound on for this one (yes, I know it's silent-movie style, but you still need to hear the sound-track...)

January 23, 2007 | Filed Under Humour, Odd | Leave a Comment

More Youtube oddness - Tony vs. Paul

Gods above and below! The hours and hours this must have taken...

By the way, the heads-up for this one one came via the Innocent Smoothies weekly e-bulletin...

December 6, 2006 | Filed Under Humour | 2 Comments

Youtube! Uh! What is it good for..?

I was chatting to a mate of mine the other day, and one of the subjects that came up was Youtube. My mate wondered what in the unholy names of the nine hells the point of it was; it's nothing more than a dump for all the tedious crap that people churn out when they've got nothing better to do, surely? So why would anyone bother?

A lot of truth in that... but then every so often you come across something that someone has put a decent amount of time, thought and creativity into. Like this piece by a guy called Lasse Gjertsen, which made me smile:

There you go, mate. That's the point of Youtube. It's just a shame that so many people on there (over 6,000 of them who think that mixing coke and mentos is funny when you've seen it more than once, for instance...) seem to have missed the point completely...

November 24, 2006 | Filed Under Humour, Music | 2 Comments