The Funspider

Take five Maltese puppies.
Add a video camera.
Film them while they learn to walk, kiss each other, yip and yap - and do dozens of other incredibly cute puppy things.
Post to YouTube.

Cue viral response. Quite possibly the cutest puppy video EVER. See for yourself!

I hadn’t seen this until Alyssa Milano (yes, the actress) posted the link. It’s brilliant: 42 countries, a whole bunch of great scenery, a lot of folks joining in and one completely mad dancing guy. I don’t know why, but it just makes me smile. I especially liked the very staunch and stoic Korean Demilitarized Zone…

A couple of pictures for you today. The first came via Twitter and is a collection of pie charts, graphs and flow diagrams that are all really funny. I especially like the Pac Man ones!

Picture is here.

The second is someone messing with their local paper, by placing a whole sequence of advertisements for parts of a bear. Yes, a bear. Bear claws, feet, eyes, tail, nose… and so on. Apparently, the newspaper’s classified section is automated.

Picture and comments are here. (Some adult content on the comments.)

Quite possibly the cutest thing you’ll see this month (or year), this video has a really dodgy title about a Wolfman and cub. It sounds like some kind of B-movie trailer or something, but in fact it’s a guy who’s hand-rearing a wolf cub. And this is him teaching the little fella to howl. One, two, three… AWWWWW!!

This is brilliant. It’s a song by a group called Sour, called “Hibi no Neiro”. They translate that as “tone of everyday” (I guess “everyday feeling” or something). It was filmed entirely with webcams and the people in it are Sour fans. It must have taken an awful lot of effort and coordination to do some of the stuff they do (especially the mash-up faces).

Genius use of webcams, though. Enjoy it - it’s great!

Oh my. I just saw this up on Gimundo and thought “that sounds geeky and cool”. Little did I suspect that it would be such a well-made, beautiful short… that actually moved me to a tear or three at the end. It’s really touching.

Enjoy.

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

Hope you all had a wonderful Fourth Of July weekend, out celebrating the USA’s birthday with friends and family. If you were watching fireworks, then I hope you weren’t doing something as stupid as this guy. Given that doing this is so incredibly dumb, my guess is that the firework not only exploded, er… “down there”, but also blew his brains out. They certainly aren’t in his head.

(Be warned: there’s some strong language in there. NSFW on that count.)

This is really good fun: Big Buck Bunny. He’s a gigantic, friendly rabbit who flips out when he sees a butterfly mistreated by some other animals… so he turns into Rambo and gets his revenge in true cartoon fashion!

Brilliant stuff. Enjoy!

Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.

I think this was probably a pretty weird video even before the Looptard adjustments were made, but now it’s just bizarre! The funny thing is that it’s strangely compelling, especially the oddly intense schoolgirl with her snake-hands thing. Strange, but hilarious!

It is a sad day indeed when a robot can dance better than most people I know. Including me! Maybe this little guy should audition for ‘So You Think You Can Dance’?