The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: White Rabbit

And now you know where all those Matrix references come from. Lewis Carroll? Never heard of the guy.

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Who the Heck Makes the Fireplace Videos on Netflix?

If you’re hosting a holiday themed gathering of some kind this year, there’s a chance you’re going to play Netflix’s "Fireplace For Your Home" on your television in the background. Why will you do this? It’s hopelessly tacky. And yet, it will feel totally right; a bit like eating fruitcake and decorating with poinsettias. But who the hell makes these videos in the first place?

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Abstract Dimension

PSA: This is exactly what being on five tabs of acid is like. Except you can’t turn it off and the show lasts for the next 56 hours.

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: 88 Minutes of Soul Train

Put on your finest velour leisure suit and kinkiest disco boots, we’re going dancin’ down memory lane with this incredible supercut of Soul Train’s iconic dance line. Who knows, you might even recognize an earlier you in the crowd.

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Beautiful woman in bikini turns into Santa Claus in reverse Photoshop

Beautiful woman in bikini turns into Santa Claus in reverse Photoshop

Well played. Ad agency Victors & Spoils poked fun of mass media’s tendency to turn normal humans into plastic Barbie and Ken dolls through their abuse of Photoshop by, well, using Photoshop in reverse. That is, they took a viral photo of a girl in a bikini that had been heavily altered and added more alterations to the original alterations to transform the skinny Barbie into a fat Santa Claus. The power of Photoshop swings both ways.

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The Best Reason to Join Google+ (Or Else!)

Have you signed up for Google+ yet? Have you?! Or have you been cowering in the closet, whispering empty reassurances to yourself as it slowly but surely closes in. There’s only one place this can all be headed: Enter Google Blackmail.

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You Don’t Need Actual Google Glass to Say “OK, Glass”

You Don't Need Actual Google Glass to Say "OK, Glass"

In fact, it’s kind of quite funny to put on a regular pair of spectacles and pretend to talk to them while you just bumble on using your plain old cellphone.

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SNL Hilariously Riffs on Obama’s Recent Tech Troubles

Obama hasn’t had a great time with all things technological recently: Healthcare.gov is still struggling, and he was embarrassingly forced into posing for a selfie with Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt last week. This Saturday Night Live video takes an amusing look at it all.

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You’ll Get Him This Year: $6,500 Santa Stake-out Kit Has Everything You Need

Every year, you swear you’ll catch Santa in the act. The cookies are out. The traps are set. It’s just a matter of making sure he can’t escape. But every year, you fail anyways. Either Santa’s really that good… or you lack the gear to set up a proper capture.

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So if you really want to get him this year, then get this Santa Stake-out Kit from OpticsPlanet. It has everything you need and more to keep an eye out for Santa and maybe catch him, even, if you’re fast and crafty enough.

It contains a whole bunch of stuff that includes apparel (of course, you need to dress the part in a stakeout!), camping gear, hunting gear (yikes!), food storage, accessories (like a tactical field ops watch, bottle opener, and walkie talkies), night vision and thermal imaging gear, and a Canon EOS Rebel T4i Digital SLR Camera Kit. It even includes some deer scent to try and lure in Saint Nick’s tiny reindeer.

The entire package costs $6,500 and is available here.

Maybe you’d like to put this on your wishlist this year, so you can use it attempt to catch Santa next year.

[via Geekologie]

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Victoria’s Secret Semi-Annual Sale

Victoria’s Secret is having its big semi-annual sale. But wait, didn’t they just have one? Like, not that long ago? What the hell does semi-annual even mean? Better not waste any time though — it sounds like the sale is ending soon.

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