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i.Saw »

The world’s first USB-powered chainsaw. “The power of the chainsaw re-engineered for the desktop.”

United Breaks Guitars »

“I wouldn’t bring my luggage, because you’d just go and break it, into a thousand pieces, just like you broke my heart.”

10 Best Uses Of Classical Music In Classic Cartoons »

Includes “Pigs in a Polka,” “Rabbit of Seville” and, of course, “What’s Opera, Doc?”

Web Site Story »

Take the famous ballads and duets of West Side Story, insert a dozen mentions of famous social media sites like twitter and facebook, and this is what you get.

Wooden iPod »

An iPod mini rebuilt with a wooden case

Han Solo, P.I. »

Star Wars meets Magnum, P.I.

The “literal video” collection »

Music videos recreated with new lyrics based on what’s actually happening in them. Daydream Believer and Total Eclipse of the Heart are particularly good.

The "literal video" collection »

Music videos recreated with new lyrics based on what’s actually happening in them. Daydream Believer and Total Eclipse of the Heart are particularly good.

E-Mail From Your Facilities Department »

In response to numerous e-mails, I have no idea what planet the giant alien creature is from. Judging from its enormous gills, I’d have to guess it’s from a watery planet. Reminder: please let me know if you plan to be in the office on Memorial Day so I can request HVAC for your floor.

Amazon Customer Reviews: Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt »

For those of you who mock the wolf shirt beware. There is an old Navajo story about a young man who made fun of another man for wearing a wolf trio shirt. Legend has it that in his sleep, the wolves on the other man’s shirt came to life and tore his body to shreds. They never found any part of that man’s body. The Wolf is something to be respected and feared, not treated like a novelty.

Nice Muscle! »

Hands down the most inexplicably bizarre game for Wii I’ve ever seen

Respectful Yo Mama Jokes »

Yo mama is so attractive she could be on the cover of Prevention.

Introduction to Microcontroller Programming: The Flatulometer »

The inspiration for this project was to determine who could generate the worst flatulence measurable in a personally unbiased manner.

The Meat Ship »

Floating high on the 17,000 calorie seas, made with Bacon, sausages, pastry, mince, it’s all meat, and it’s coming to pillage your arteries!

Poets Ranked by Beard Weight »

Underwood arrives at the gist of his thesis: that there is a direct correlation between personal appearance and artistic proficiency and integrity, or what, in the case of the bewhiskered brethren of the literary fraternity, he elsewhere calls “poetic gravity” or beard weight. It might be said, in short, that Underwood’s motto is the beard makes the bard.

Talking Gadget Theater: Wrath of Kindle »

The Kindle 2 and iPod Shuffle perform Wrath of Khan

Real Life Twitter »

“Standing next to the hottest girl ever, but I’m too embarrassed to say anything.”

T.S. Eliot’s Letter to George Orwell Rejecting ‘Animal Farm’ »

“… Your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm– in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.”

T.S. Eliot's Letter to George Orwell Rejecting 'Animal Farm' »

“… Your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm– in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.”

Web Trend Map 4 – Final Beta »

The 333 most influential Web domains and the 111 most influential Internet people charted on a Tokyo subway map.

Executives-Only Version of Recent AIG Security Memorandum »

Be mindful at all times of your surroundings, especially if you are surrounded by a large group of very angry people you do not recognize. These are taxpayers.

Franz Kafka International »

The world’s most alienating airport …

iPhone Band »

The Mentalists play Kids by MGMT on their iPhones and iPod Touches, using only apps downloaded from the App Store.

Mega Man 9 Rock Medley »

Every song from the video game Mega Man 9 rearranged into 7-minute rock epic

Schultz City: That Yellow Shirted Such And Such »

What Charles Schultz’s Peanuts would look like if they were Frank Miller’s Peanuts

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Moore’s Law means that more and more things can be done practically for free, if only it weren’t for those people who want to be paid. People are the flies in Moore’s Law’s ointment. When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive.

— From Jaron Lanier’s new book, “Who Owns the Future?” excerpted on Wired.com