New Google Maps Street View IS COMPLETELY INSANE.

Da Shatner Funk.

The most ridiculous cursor.

Animated Space Oddity. I always imagined Major Tom as being less, uh, egg-like?

How to survive in a black hole. Step 1: You can't!!!

DO NOT LET YOUR SMALL RABBITS NEAR A CAT.

I'm trading in my tablet for this thing.

Find your area's best radio stations for your iTrip with Belkin's tool.

Some sugar gliders eating.

The totally awesome, highly ridiculous world of scenario paintball.

Helix: a single-story skyscraper.

A paint instructor asked his students to reproduce a photographic image, then took a stab at it himself and came up with this. I am sure all the conceptual guys had a field day with this. Also, I'm really surprised by all the disdain in the comments. RELAX, DUDES.

Probably my favorite Kids in the Hall sketch: Dave Foley, as me.

History of a really bizarre and creepy natural disaster in Cameroon.

M-A makes #252 on Newsweek's list of the top 1,200 U.S. high schools. Woodside, Palo Alto, Sequoia and Gunn all tie for number DIDN'T-MAKE-THE-LIST OOOH.

5 differences between StarCraft 2 and WarCraft 3. Micro is out (HOORAY), rushing is back in (UN-HOORAY).

Toll booth crash. Much more exciting than I expected.

Why speculation hurts.

ok seriously WHAT is going on

Finally, you can make your own hovercraft with mostly household materials.

LittleBigPlanet trailer from Sony Gamers Day '07 showcasing the customization system and awesome soundtrack. Is this going to be the $600 game?

Nightmare Web design clients. Oh yeah.

Really creative food redesigns by Marti Guixe, including cakes imprinted with a pie chart of the ingredients, self-contained tapas, and flavored stamps.

If you thought soccer was already hard enough, just look at how the Germans play it.

Here it is, a real, live, televised StarCraft championship match in Korea. Worth watching just for the surreality of the opening montages. After watching this, I'm now leaning towards South Korea as the weirder Korea.

100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers.

WHEN CATS ATTACK

StarCraft 2 announced in Korea. New Protoss commander already revealed!

Awesome: Engadget posts a false iPhone rumor as news and the resulting stock drop causes $4 billion in losses. p.s. read Gizmodo instead

It's true: Salvador Dalí loved being a huge jerk on gameshows.

Industrial designers talk about their favorite pieces of technology.

Dateline NBC presents: To Catch the Predator

Crazy furniture looks like kids' drawings. The image after the link is a photo, not a drawing.

Tigers have evolved... TO DESTROY YOU.

Pretty extensive list of celebrity/novelty miis, including some great ones like Darth Vader and a Cylon.

Vacuum cleaner VS cat

Could your graduation speeches have used a little more Carmen Sandiego? Maybe you should have gone to Bloomsburg University.

This blinding, LED-embedded Wii cooler and this toaster-style Wiimote box are so crazy they just might work! (and be totally awesome)

Looks like their usability consultant was on vacation that week.

The most terrifying showerhead.

Create your very own Enigma machine coded messages.

StarCraft2.com

TURTLE IS UNSTOPPABLE

Speaking of deadly vacation getaways, why not try out the world's highest swing in Harbin City, China?

Lengthy photo tour of the ridiculous Underground menu at L'Enclume restaurant. Warning:food porn. (The work-safe kind.)

I just watched this about 10 times in a row. OK, only one time because I was laughing too hard.

can's professional

10 deadliest vacation destinations!

Richard Box's Field. Come on, David Bowie totally did this like a hundred years ago.

Han Solo, as played by Christopher Walken, as played by Kevin Spacey.

70 tips for better CSS coding. There's a surprising amount of good stuff in here.

Dude catches glasses with his face.

Business cards, yo.

Just imagine one of these things 10 feet tall and assaulting you in the face.

Coming soon: instant turbosleeping machineamabobber. Microsleeping, here we come!

Nothing like a relaxing day at the beach.

Wii adaptation of Full Metal Jacket. Look how much fun your family can have together with Wii!

YO DOOD U JUST GOT DIS PS3 ELEET

Time breakdown of modern Web design. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, and... pretty much, yep.

Millimeters matter. what why

Not to be outdone by certain other N64-revival Half-Life 2 mods, here's the amazing-looking Perfect Dark: Source.

Magnetosphere is an awesome-looking iTunes visualizer that I'm really scared to install.

Sneezing panda.

Insane NASA methane death engine. If you hear that sound, duck. (If possible, duck before you hear it.)

Taryn Simon's photos of restricted spaces, including nuclear waste storage and a cryo chamber.

Great visualization of someone's listening history based on last.fm data. I can't wait till he releases an app so everyone can do this.

Tag clouds for the recent Democratic and Republican debates.

It's official: Bob Dylan scares little kids.

Behold, the million dollar [Canadian] coin. This is like what would happen if someone put Dubai in charge of designing money. Also it would have an outer space golf course on one side.

First photo of Earth from space. I can't imagine what it must have felt like to be one of those scientists seeing this sort of thing for the first time.

Can you control two characters at once in Red Team? (Use password DIFFERENT to skip to where it gets interesting.)

Spaniards steal obelisk from the future, use it to power their cities, signal aliens.

20 amazing coincidences. I love the bullet that supposedly takes years to finally kill the guy. (whoops spoilioloi)

Timelapse journey through the Panama Canal.

Shocking color secrets revealed!! Featuring the dirt on your favorite celebrity hues, such as red! Green! Purple! Blue!

My new favorite animal.

The coincidence theorist's guide to 9/11. GUYS 9 PLUS 11 PLUS 2001 EQUALS 666 AND oh forget it.

Did you know? Google has some crazy stuff on their campus.

I really wish the R2-D2 mailboxes would stay around forever.

Kitsch out your apartment with this totally sweet shuriken clock.

Why action games suck (and what to do about it).

HOMPH

Surviving a month without Internet. I love how spiteful his friends and coworkers are about it.

Cam'on's rhyme book found. ALWAYS ON FIRE

The latest xkcd may be the most brilliant ever.

Crazy user revolt over at Digg (right now!) over censorship of the leaked HD-DVD encryption key. From the MetaFilter thread: "If you make a site where people control the content, don't be mad when people control the content." (Update: Digg's founder responds.)