When I saw this I imagined Wes Anderson directing a horror film in which three brothers go on a journey to India… but somehow end up in the jungle (not in the desert like in that other movie) being chased by killer elephants. Perhaps it’s the Futura. I’ll print a t-shirt. (via Pedro Quintas)

Boing Boing posted this little gem from There, I Fixed It. Are those letters red electrical tape?

Unfortune Cookie

Webapp of the day: Unfortunate Cookie presents you with… misfortune cookies. The interesting thing about it is that it mines data off the Footnote.com historical document database, therefore backing its predictions with weird newspaper articles from the past.

There’s an explanation for this image, but please indulge me. I want to post it right as it is.

892: Sigurd the Mighty of Orkney strapped the head of a defeated foe to his leg, the tooth of which grazed against him as he rode his horse, causing the infection which killed him.

— The Wikipedia’s List of unusual deaths, ranging from the funny and stupid to the appaling and gruesome. Some are all that. (via The Null Device)

The 2009 IgNobel Winners

This year’s winners include an Economics Prize awarded to the executives of Icelandic banks “for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa — and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy” and a Peace Prize awarded to the scientists of Bern, Switzerland (the city where Albert Einstein devised his Theory of Relativity, no less) who discovered full bottles of beer do less damage in a bar fight than empty ones.

42 Essential 3rd Act Twists by Dresden Codak. Cross this with the 36 Dramatic Situations and you’ve got your instant screen/stageplay. (via Pullquote)

How the moon landings were faked… at the surface of the Moon! (via Boing Boing)

… which really reminded me of The Parking Lot is Full.

Another very spot-on xkcd…