UNDISCOVERED LAND: April 2011

April 30, 2011

One man, 100,000 toothpicks, and 35 years: An incredible kinetic sculpture of San Francisco | Colossal

All The Rage: Ridiculous 'Monkeytail' Beards - Geekologie

April 27, 2011

Ebert & The New Yorker

Ebert won The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest

April 25, 2011

A baby laughing at half speed. [VIDEO]

April 24, 2011

Warcraft Avatars Find Real-Life Love - NYTimes.com

Take A Bite Out Of History With Menu Project At NYPL: Gothamist

KITTY!!! Adorable Cat Washes Up On Governors Island: Gothamist

Mob Boss Ordered Son Whacked On Mother's Day: Gothamist

Comedian Bert Kreischer shocks hotel staff | News.com.au

Comedian Bert Kreischer pranks hotel staff | News.com.au

The Ark In Space: Easter Bunnies - Jumpin', Leapin', Bouncin'

Jumping rabbits

April 22, 2011

Murderer Caught Because He Had the Murder Scene Tattooed on His Chest

Pregnot: Toppenish High student fakes pregnancy as social test about stereotypes, rumors | Yakima Herald-Republic

Drawn - This painting — by “Calvin and Hobbes” creator...

New painting by Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes

April 21, 2011

Watch the Beastie Boys' short film, Fight For Your Right Revisited | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club

Review: HBOs Talking Funny an insightful, entertaining hour about stand-up comedy - HitFix.com

April 20, 2011

If you share it, you sell it – In the Arena - CNN.com Blogs

How to opt-out of Google and Apple's advertising tracking

Beastie Boys - "Make Some Noise"

petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub

iPhoneTracker -- track where your iPhone has been

Gut Bacteria Divide People Into 3 Types, Scientists Report - NYTimes.com

Font Size May Not Aid Learning, but Its Style Can, Researchers Find - NYTimes.com

Apocalypse Now: Skynet Becomes Self-Aware Tonight: Gothamist

"Big" News: Zoltar Has Arrived At Coney Island!: Gothamist

Jersey Shore not allowed to do Jersey Shore things in Italy | The A.V. Club

Watch an Entertaining Video Review of Beyonce’s New Single -- Vulture

10 Charts About Sex -- OkTrends

Heike Weber | TRIANGULATION BLOG

Heike Weber's floor doodles

Letters of Note: 11 ALIVE...NEED SMALL BOAT...KENNEDY

Putting 10,000 hours to the test

Hear Me Now? - Magazine - The Atlantic

Brooklyn Flea Starting All-Food Market, Smorgasburg - Brooklyn Things - Eater NY

Reports: 'Restrepo' Director Tim Hetherington Killed In Libya - indieWIRE

100 Dolla Bills Y'All - "This Is How We Do It"

April 18, 2011

Network | Film | Scenic Routes | The A.V. Club

Civil War - 3D Viewing - a set on Flickr

Movie mistakes - goofs, bloopers, pictures, quotes and trivia from thousands of movies

The iPhone Game You Can Only Play Once

April 17, 2011

JANGO COMIX - STAR WARS | Flickr

Weathering a Midlife Crisis In the Haunts of Table Tennis - NYTimes.com

Mob Link Pursued in Fight Involving Pizzeria Owner - NYTimes.com

April 15, 2011

[Updated] Lucali's Owner Brutally Stabbed On Smith Street: Gothamist

Cute Examples That Show How Piaget Preoperational Lack Of Conservation Experiments Can Trip Up Little Kids [VIDEO]

April 14, 2011

I Sat on a $6,400 Toilet and It Changed My Life

Complex Exclusive: We Found Earl Sweatshirt | Complex

Shake Shack Calorie Counts Now Online For You To Ignore: Gothamist

19 Things You Probably Didn't Know About The Movie 'Scream': Pics, Videos, Links, News

19 Things You Probably Didn't Know About The Movie 'Scream': "Roger Jackson was the voice of the killer in all 3 Scream movies. Roger Jackson's other most famous role is Mojo Jojo in The Powerpuff Girls."

April 13, 2011

Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Duchamp Was Here

Joaquin Phoenix in Talks for Paul Thomas Anderson's Scientology Drama -- Vulture

Spoiler Posters Are Creepy, Says David Arquette | Scream-Trilogy

Tom Hanks Signs On for Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas -- Vulture

Banana Sculptures

Banana sculptures

State of Play by Mike Deri Smith - The Morning News

State of Play by Mike Deri Smith - The Morning News -- "The candy cigarette has found a rightful heir..."

Sneak Peek: Barcade’s Jersey City Location Set to Open Next Week | The Jersey City Independent

Pardon... I Shit My Pants Last Night

"Pardon... I shit my pants last night." (see also: Boogie till You Poop)

Dog Balances Ball

Dog balances ball

April 12, 2011

Real NY Writes

Please help support the NY TV and Film Writer Jobs Bill to bring more writing jobs to New York by going here

China Bans Time-Travel Movies -- Vulture

Watch Olivia Wilde Kick Damon Lindelof in the Crotch -- Vulture

Poetry for Everyday Life - NYTimes.com

At Ghanaian Funerals, a Time to Dance and Celebrate - NYTimes.com

Norm MacDonald Interview | The A.V. Club

Norm MacDonald interview | The A.V. Club

Antiques Roadshow | The A.V. Club

The Onion AV Club looks at Antiques Roadshow

Young Girl Joins the Dark Side

Young girl joins the dark side

Parallel Worlds

History of the Hot Dog

The Mayo-Pudding Switch

For Ian: the mayo-pudding switch

April 11, 2011

Steven Soderbergh's Daily Diet - Studio 360

Want To Live To 100? Try To Bounce Back From Stress : NPR

See One Man’s Painstaking LEGO Re-creation of Brooklyn -- Vulture

Auto Buds

Camera from Athens

The Pierley-Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic

The Pierley-Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic -- feels like an attempt to do a personality test as art, like Rorschach ink blots meets the voice in Portal

Infinite Jest, blindly judged

Infinite Jest, judged by Yahoo Answers commenters

New York City Firehouse Actually Has A Pet Dalmatian -- Scouting NY

April 9, 2011

Keys to the VIP

Every episode of Keys to the VIP is available on Hulu

April 8, 2011

Pink Shorts Juggling

Pink Shorts juggling

Chicks With Steve Buscemeyes

Drawn - laughingsquid: Who Framed Roger Rabbit by Tom...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit poster

"Is Now the Time to Take Off My Pants?" | The Hairpin

The Confession-of-Infidelity Voicemail | The Hairpin

The Rivalry Begins on Devour.com

The Baseball Rivalry Begins -- New York/Boston/Philly

Watch Five Hours of Interviews With Matthew Weiner -- Vulture

The Raven

Horse and Rider Jumping Rope

Letters of Note: Tell me, what is a "she-male?"

Condition ONE app combines iPad and photo journalism

Kota Ibushi v. YOSHIHIKO: Highlights

Wherein a man is suplexed by a doll

April 7, 2011

Christopher Walken's Mustachioed Lookalike Is Mentally Ill: Gothamist

How Much is a Dragon Worth? - Michael Noer - Backslash - Forbes

How much money did Bilbo steal from Smaug?

Get Ready to Like Tom Arnold -- Vulture

How Do You Like Your Picnics? Loud! | The Hairpin

A scary picnic

Beastie Boys

Trailer for Fight For Your Right - Revisited

20 Classic Pin-Up Girls Before And After

Classic pin-up girl paintings and their reference photos

"A" is for Aquaman, "B" is for Batman

I Heart Chaos — Head Gear Blow Job Strap, great for lovers who keep insisting on 'breathing'.

Williamsburg's Fatty 'Cue Shut Down By DOH, 115 Violation Points! : Gothamist

Dust Is Gone Above the Bar, but a Legend Still Dangles - NYTimes.com

Dust Is Gone Above the Bar, but a Legend Still Dangles - NYTimes.com -- on McSorley's

April 6, 2011

Video: Apparently, Blood Is NOT Thicker Than Baseball Allegiances: Gothamist

Video: Apparently, Blood Is NOT Thicker Than Baseball Allegiances: Gothamist -- Red Sox fans are assholes, Yankees fans are crybabies

Make Mine a 007

Make mine a 007 -- a catalog of James Bond's drinks

Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library | The Awl

Watch James Franco Attempt to Match Wits With Stephen Colbert -- Vulture

Stephen Colbert faces off with James Franco on Tolkein trivia at 5:10

How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon

How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me)

Cultural Differences

Cultural differences between America and the Sudan

Bad Translator

Bad Translator -- like a game of telephone with translation services

April 4, 2011

Film Society of Lincoln Center Readies Art House Complex - NYTimes.com

Flashback: McCarren Park Pool, 1937: Gothamist

Watch Two Trailers for Talking Funny With Jerry Seinfeld, Ricky Gervais, Chris Rock, and Louis CK -- Vulture

NYC's Worst Landlords Now Identified On Craigslist: Gothamist

Getting to Know Americans

NYU's Guide to Getting to Know Americans

Braid playthrough with director’s commentary

Dog-Powered Car

Dog-powered car

Gmail Motion April Fools' gag inevitably turned into reality using Kinect (video) -- Engadget

Gemini Rue | Game Review | The A.V. Club

Gemini Rue | Game Review | The A.V. Club -- "The long-passed souls of the great Sierra On-line and LucasArts graphic adventure games reside deep within Gemini Rue, though the game takes the bad along with the good."