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Stop, Look, and Listen is a wonderfully imaginative stop-action live movie from 1967 about aggressive driving that is so valid in today's modern age of road rage!



h/t to BoingBoing (where they have a list of other stop motion movies.)

I found a new Web Comic today that's pretty interesting.

I followed a link from Girls With Slingshots over to Nothing Better.

So far I have only read the first book/installment/chapter of Nothing Better, but it's off to a good start. The main characters are a pair of young women just starting school at a Lutheran college (40 minutes from Minneapolis - St. Olaf?)

They don't know each other and end up as roommates.

What makes it very interesting is that one is pretty religious and the other is an atheist.

So far Jane, the religious one, doesn't smoke, doesn't drink and I'd be willing to bet she's a virgin. She's pretty naive.

Katt, the atheist, drinks, smokes, likes to party and seems pretty worldly.

I'm not sure where the comic is going to go, and that's half the fun, but I hope it doesn't get bogged down in stereotyping the atheist.

I sure hope the comic doesn't become preachy about religion.

Update: Okay, now this is too funny. They are driving to the bike shop - and they drive past the Walker Library in Uptown (the Uptown movie theatre is even in the background) and end up at the Flynn Brothers bicycle shop. It's so obviously Flanders Brothers (except there is no parking lot in front of Flanders Brothers) - just up the street from my house!

Over on Dooce:

Yesterday Jon woke up in a cloud of grumpiness, and as we all ran madly through the house trying to get ready for a dentist appointment, that cloud quickly became more of a thunderstorm raining down grapefruit-sized grumples on the windshields of our morning.

This is the kind of thing that I think the WWW was made for.

Shorpy is a photo blog where they are posting old photographs from the early 1900s to show how people lived back then.

I love old photos and find them fascinating.

Least I Could Do (one of my daily-read webcomics) has a nice Shout-Out to Bill Watterson (the creator of Calvin and Hobbes if you live under a rock.)

Go check it out.

Then read the rest of the strips. They are pretty funny.

*sniff* I still miss Calvin and Hobbes...

This is hilarious.

Apparently Jonathan Coulton did a folksy version of Sir Mixalot's Baby Got Back. That in itself is a funny thing, but someone else took Jonathan's version and married it to the original video. You can watch it here:

As if that's not funny enough, Mike Hightower made a Gilbert and Sullivan version of the song and then created a video using scenes from the movie The Pirates of Penzance! Watch that version here:

How evil are you?

Mwaa ha ha ha ha

Monty Python's How Not To Be Seen sketch done in Halo.

I think Nerd Rap is usually pretty funny, and who does it better than Weird Al?

Here is a video someone made to his new song White and Nerdy


And then there is the MC Hawking video. Funny stuff.

Found a new one - MC Frontalot. More silliness.

And then there is the classic MC Plus+.

Here is a web site that has collected the advertising work that Dr. Seuss did before he found fame creating children's books.