CanCult World Tour—The Logorama edition

Wow — go watch Logorama right away. It’s Pulp Fiction meets Heat meets Short Cuts meets every disaster movie ever made. Sixteen minutes of animated genius. When you’re done that, watch the trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Fuck reading the book — I want to see the movie:

CanCult World Tour—The Danish tourism edition

The Onion imagines tourism ads for Denmark as directed by Lars Von Trier.

CanCult World Tour—The Faking Hoaxer edition

OK, the videos from the The Faking Hoaxer are pretty amazing. Check out the beautiful and eerie Space Shuttle Destroyed:

CanCult World Tour—Neutra Face!

Oh. Mah. Gawd.

Here’s the creators’ site. (Via index // mb)

CanCult World Tour—Beware the goldfish monster edition

• If you like The Passenger (above), you can order a DVD version with bonus features from its creator, Chris Jones. (Via io9.)
• The Lighthouse Keeper — also a thing of weird beauty.

CanCult World Tour—The “There’s No Vaccine for Me” edition

• The Fake AP Stylebook — Do not use “nonprofit” as an adjective. Use “broke.”
• The Spirit of Ecstasy — The secret story behind the Rolls Royce mascot. (Via Best of Wikipedia.)
• Peanuts meets X-men and great crossovers — The mashup art of Ryan Dunlavey. (Via io9.)
• The Big Blog Theory — A blog written by the science adviser of The Big Bang Theory. (Via Discover.)
• The Invisible Empire — Magritte meets the Nazis in these creepy photos. (Via io9.)
• How Wall Street is making its billions — Wow, just when you thought there couldn’t be any more reasons to hate investment bankers.
• This Way Up — A delightful little film about two funeral directors trying to deliver a body. (Via Tor.)

CanCult World Tour—The “I can’t believe I’m alive” edition

• Chernobyl today — A photo essay of the Chernobyl ruins. The amusement park no one ever got to use is particularly creepy.
• Classic movie poster mashups — Because everything is better with mashups.
• This much I know — Life lessons from celebrities and such. (Via Metafilter.)
• Video of a skier buried in an avalanche and then rescued — from the skier’s POV. A bit difficult to watch, actually, unless you turn the sound off.

CanCult World Tour—The Fiction Generator

The Fiction Generator is inspired by this Wondermark comic strip. I want to read everything it dreams up.

CanCult World Tour—The Eldritch Blast edition

• D&D Spellcasting Sodas — From Jones Soda. I so want my own bottle of Illithid Brain Juice. (Via Tor.)
• The Lovecraft perfume collection — It’ll drive your lover insane! I don’t know — I kind of like the Miskatonic University scent…. (Via io9.)
• Mutant bugs attack Moscow’s subway system — OK, this art project is actually kind of creepy.
• Maunsell Towers — This abandoned neighbourhood of live-in gun towers looks like it should be an art project, or a video game, but it’s real.
• Viruses evolve into art — Strangely, Tories are immune.

CanCult World Tour—The procrastination edition!

• Neil Gaiman’s library — In case you’re the one person online who still hasn’t seen it.
• Leviathan book trailer (YouTube video) — You’re either with the Clankers or you’re with the Darwinists. See, I could live happily in a world like this.
• Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing how parents stalk kids (Onion video) — Hmm, I’m inspecting my friends lists right now.
• The Museum of Jurassic Technology — OK, this would be a pretty cool place to work.
• Closing Time — The Believer essay on the history of the automobile/America. I have no idea if any of this is true, but it’s certainly interesting. (Via Metafilter.)
• People of Wal-Mart — I’m not laughing at them, I’m laughing with them. Because they might be armed.
• Aliens vs. Coffee Machine. (Via SF Signal.)

CanCult World Tour—The hot MRI sex edition

• My Little CthulhuPony — See, there’s healthy geekishness, and then there’s this.
• Pilots’ last words — Transcripts of the last things pilots say before crashes. Could be disturbing to some.
• Best of Wikipedia — I am enjoying everything I read on this site. Whale falls!
• MRI sex (YouTube video) — You wanted it, you got it. NSFW?
• Is Using a Minotaur to Gore Detainees a Form of Torture?

CanCult World Tour—The I’m still pissed about the speed trap edition

• Kill Your Darlings — Rejected book designs. I like most of the rejects better.
• My Little CthulhuPony — If I were a little shoggoth, I’d want to play with these.
• Heathrow’s writer in residence — But does he give massages?
• Silent Conversation — A Flash poetry game. I found it maddening, but I’m not a poet. (Via Metafilter.)
• Do you wanna date my avatar?

CanCult World Tour—Yet Another Tentacle Edition

The art of Myke Amend. Pictured above: The Rescue. (Via Eric Adams.)

CanCult World Tour—The Choose Your Own Apocalypse edition

I vote for decadence.

• This is the way America ends — Not with a bang, but with a scenario matrix. (Via Metafilter.)
• This is the way Disney ends — Steampunk apocalypse! (Via Metafilter.)
• Come Closer Together — Beatles Nine Inch Nails mashup. (YouTube link.)
• Bad grammar makes me sic — Fighting the good fight online. See also grammar products via Cafepress.
• The Longest Way — Time lapse video of a man’s journey across China. Very cool. Click through for the HD version.

CanCult World Tour—The mashup edition

Because once you start watching, you can’t stop.

• Forgotten bookmarks — Odd things left in books. Try that with a Kindle. (Via Metafilter.)
• Literary inspired beer — As opposed to beer-inspired literature. From the Brews and Books blog. (Via the Post.)
• Web Site Story — Ah, College Humour.
• Man Not Superman — A Post-It Note story. (Via io9.)
• 100 Years of Design Manifestos — Alas, not 100 design manifestos.
• Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up — Watch at your own risk:

CanCult World Tour—The tentacle edition

Because everything’s better with tentacles. Except maybe porn.

• Disturbing but awesome facts about the Giant Pacific Octopus — Every link in this Metafilter thread is worth reading/watching. Especially this one (it has interesting audio). You probably don’t want to click on the live tentacle restaurant dish though. Ick.
• The Open Library — A web page for every book!
• Cthulhu Ninja Zombie T-shirt — Must. Not. Buy. Another. T-shirt. Because I just bought this one….
• Pingwire — Live feed of pics being posted to Twitter. Generally banal but sometimes surprisingly obscene. See also Twitcaps.
• NYNEX, the embedded angel of New York City — Awesome, once you remove the Ghostbusters angle.
• Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters — From the publisher that brought you Pride and Prejudice and Zombies:

CanCult World Tour—The Ugly Truth edition

• DM of the Rings — Lord of the Rings as a D&D campaign. Painfully truthful. (Via BoingBoing.)
• The Neconomicon online card game — This is eerily compelling. Message me for a tip if you can’t beat Challenge 20. It’s tricky. (Via Metafilter.)
• Second Skin — A documentary about gamers. You probably don’t want to watch it if you’re a gamer. Because who has that much time to spend away from the PVP grind?
• The Ugly Truth — Lewis Black on writing a book (Via Michel Basilieres):

CanCult World Tour—The Crash Landing Back to Reality edition

• Where’s the strangest place you’ve ever done it? — Poetry, that is.
• Turning Middle Earth into a video game — You’d better get the colour of squirrels right….
• Moon videos — Cooollll….
• Gulls are assholes — They’re attacking whales now. (Via Metafilter.)
• Zombieland — Oh, I want to watch this back to back with Daybreakers:

CanCult World Tour—Now on video!

Here’s a couple quick video hits from around the world:

• Surprise wedding reception — Improv Everywhere. Nuff said.
• Pigeon Gal defeats Spider-Man! — Heh.
• Little Red Riding Hood — The infographic. (Via Dawn Macdonald)

CanCult World Tour—The insomnia edition

• Zombie animals and insects — Dear God, nature is horrible.
• The Secret of the Unicorn — Tintin movie due out in 2011.
• War of the Worlds gallery — I think my favourite is this one.
• Pandorum — I want this movie to be better than it probably is.
• Soldiers of Christ — The crusade for a Christian military.
• Girlfriends’ economic plan — Let’s move in together: