Stupid Internet Tricks

Pop Music

A StupidInternetTricks.com Saturday bonus! Fairly clever lip sync of M's Pop Musik. -Head Trickster

The day the music died

Some might think this is satire, but it's really a peek into the future.

We'll take the opportunity of that ending to announce a Thriller cover series coming for Halloween this year. We've got a slew of them, the good, the bad, and the ridiculous. As a teaser, here's one from the latter category. The Motorola R&D Center in Rennes, France, is being shut down. But the employees are not sitting around, waiting for a severance package. No, they're actively seeking buyers to takeover the plant. In addition to a website with an impressive video resume (featuring La Grange and Staying Alive as background tracks), there is this Thriller cover begging for a takeover. Prepare to cringe. -Head Trickster

Shorpy.com

A vintage photo per day, with captions. Intriguing. -Head Trickster

 

StupidInternetTricks.com Bonus link: Penny Postcards

The sound of one drive crashing

Sounds of failing hard drives. Pretty darn exciting! -Head Trickster

Leetle Bugs

National Geographic has a photo gallery of microscopic life forms. Like this [0.2 millimeter long fairy-fly wasp. The Head Trickster did some photomicrography for a science project back in the day. To bad we don't have those pictures now. -Head Trickster

ThunderBoxRoad.com

Sure, we've all had a chance to use an outhouse (aka thunderbox) back in the day. What? You haven't? Just a Port-a-Potty? Well, that's not the same, at all.

Here's a little friendly advice for your first vist. Check for paper first. Check the immediate proximity of the hole (both above and below) for spiders second. After that, just set and hold your breath and do your bidness.

In the meantime, check out this travelling exhibition featuring outhouse artwork from a dozen artists, mainly from the hill country (Boerne, Comfort, Kerrvile, Fredericksburg, Wimberly, Fischer) and one outlier north of Dallas (Hunt). Be a part of the action and vote your favorite for the People's Choice Award. -Head Trickster

Reading material for the outhouse:

• Outhouse museum. Check out the gift shop and postcards
• Outhouse Gallery.
• Another outhouse gallery.
• Here's a guy who takes his toilets seriously.

Star Wars Cliff Notes

You've heard the minute-and-a-half review of Star Wars by a 3-year-old. And that's fine as far as it goes, but here you can get the whole trilogy retold in under four minutes. By someone who hasn't actually seen it. But don't worry, that doesn't affect the quality of the summary. Nope. -Head Trickster

TalkToFrank.com

Nothing like a snarky-dog-with-a-British-accent ad to kick off an anti-drug campaign. Favorite line: "Then I picked up the phone . . . somehow." -Head Trickster

BotaniCalls

During his high school years, The Head Trickster had a cactus in a human skull planter. (Not a real skull, nimrod! That's illegal!) It looked really cool (or so he thought) but it died because he forgot to water it. (Yes, it takes a long time to starve a cactus. Not everyone has the determination and perseverance it takes to do it.)

If only BontaniCalls existed back then. And Ethernet. And the Internet.

Get some Tic Tacs, start a band

Micha Albacow from Uzbekistan rocks the breath mint circuit.