Laughing Squid brings our attention this this video, created by Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza, showcasing almost every Apple design in 30 seconds. Enjoy. more ›

Some of you might remember Tammie Brown from RuPaul's Drag Race Season 1, or from this kooky Cinco de Mayo video. She's a little bit twisted! And here's her latest single, "Love Piñata." You'll see in the video how the piñata magically transforms into... Tammie Brown! "I'll be your love piñata/ hit me with your love stick if you can." There's some Valentine's sentiment for you. [via WOW] more ›

We think we smell a Siri meme brewing on YouTube, lo these many months after she was i-born. Yesterday we brought you this, and today we find a new short film called 'Psycho Siri,' which after a slow start (we're impatient these days, forgive), takes Siri's creepy little voice to all new horror-movie levels. more ›

Lolz. Tagline: "Apple Scotland: Havin' a wee bit of trouble." Siri has English and Australian accent options, but maybe it's time for a Scottish one as well? [via WOW] more ›

It's Friday. Also it's sunny out and you are chained to your desk, probably dreaming of lounging on a beach somewhere. (We know this guy is.) So why not take a journey down to the soothing, screensaver-esque vistas and squawking seagull sounds of San Francisco's very own Baker Beach? Presented in a ridiculously high definition video seemingly designed for a sleep clinic waiting room. We feel like it is best enjoyed when you should be finishing up some expense reports or something. more ›

We can hardly believe the awesomeness of today's palate cleanser, which comes to us straight from the airwaves via Buzzfeed. On the latest episode of the reality show Joan & Melissa, Joan Rivers and her buddy Lynne score some medical marijuana and then, like a couple of teenagers in Lynne's Scion, go find a quiet cul de sac in which to smoke out. more ›

Meet Adam (left) and his pal Allan (right). They're Marines. Allan seems to know that his friend is a screamer. They are aboard the Giant Slingshot in Orlando, and yes, when there is no countdown warning him of the takeoff, Adam screams and screams. Also, he says he'd rather be back in Afghanistan than on this ride. We believe him. [via WOW] more ›

We only just today discovered that the talent of being able to sneeze with one's eyes open is actually a minor YouTube phenom. Yes. Please appreciate this soft-spoken young lady who appears to morph into the devil's spawn as she performs her trick. Below, a couple more examples. more ›

The great Etta James has died, ladies and gentlemen, at the age of 73. She was a tough, loud, dirty old broad who brought some much needed sex into the sounds of the early 60s with songs like "Something's Got a Hold on Me," "I Just Want to Make Love to You," and "I'd Rather Go Blind." Her signature song, "At Last," has become a wedding standard. And now she has passed on. more ›

SFist contributor Jerry James Stone brings us this eeee!-inducing clip of a bulldog riding a zip line in Costa Rica. Youtube user Garzilly, who shot the video, explains: "I filmed this in June 2010 during our honeymoon stay at Finca Bellavista; a tree-house community located in the southern zone of Costa Rica. Kimbo Slice is the resident bulldog and loves to zipline around the skytrail, a network of zipline trails around the property. Craziest thing I've seen in quite some time." more ›

You know who's larger than life? Carol Channing. You know who attended Aptos Middle School and Lowell High School in San Francisco? Carol Channing. Do you know who, while distributing Christian Science Monitors backstage as a kid with her mother, got her first incurable whiff of theater at the Curran right on Geary Street? Miss Carol Channing. That's who. Show some respect. And with that, please look at the trailer for Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, the award-wining documentary about the all-around greatest entertainer, which will land in select theaters Friday, January 20. The film opens here on February 3 at the Opera Plaza. more ›

It's like The View, circa 1977! Listen to Annette Funicello, Margot Kidder, Loni Anderson, and Phyliss Diller talk frankly about their first sex experiences with Dinah Shore on Dinah!. more ›

Maybe you've seen this already, but we hadn't, and it's dern catchy! The song is by Livia Scott and you can find it on iTunes here. more ›

Please enjoy this little afternoon dance break courtesy of The Breakfast Club Dancers... more ›

This made us chuckle. By the way, something's happening in New Hampshire tonight. Also, there's an ongoing campaign to vote for Rupaul for President (by defacing Ron Paul posters... and RuPaul's capitalizing on the viral craze by actually showing up in New Hampshire last week to declare that she is not running for President). Also, RuPaul's Drag Race Season 4 premieres January 30 on Logo. She is campaigning for that. more ›

We live in an age when a news story can become the stuff of legend — and fodder for balladeers — within days. And yes, the story of the wily burglar of Telegraph Hill, who we thought had for sure screwed himself by getting stuck on a cliff and subsequently surrounded by cops, but who managed to slip away into the night just as soon as police packed up their stuff and gave up their stakeout, has already become a ballad by local musicians Taylor Brown and Brian Bergeron. And it's pretty catchy! more ›

The brilliant Jennifer Saunders (Ab Fab) and Dawn French (French and Saunders) have done us a little "reading from literature," in this case the translated transcript of an interview done by a Hungarian newspaper in 1995 with Madonna, while she was there filming Evita. The interview was conducted in Hungarian, with the questions translated for Madonna, and then Madonna's responses were translated into Hungarian. Sometime thereafter, USA Today requested a copy of the interview, with Madonna's responses translated back into English. French and Saunders read this amazingness, for your amusement. [Dangerous Minds via WOW] more ›

Via the fine folks at Laughing Squid, Weird Al Yankovic, Alice Cooper and Steven Tyler joined forces at Mala Restaurant in Maui, Hawaii on New Year's Eve to sing "Come Together" by The Beatles. Why? Who knows. Who cares. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy one of the world's greatest living entertainers as he performs with an American Idol judge and that old dude who wears black eye makeup. more ›

Time, man. You think you get it. And then you realize that the Ancient Greeks and Romans were so calendar-challenged that they had to insert random months every few years to make sure the seasons lined up properly. Then you have the Gregorian calendar, and the day in 1752 when England the U.S. decided to adopt it, effectively losing 11 days all at once. It's kind of insane. (You may have also heard that Samoa just decided to switch time zones, and Samoans didn't get a Friday. Like today didn't exist for them, at all.) more ›

In case you needed any further evidence that cats are adorable yet cold-hearted bitches, watch this. more ›

How did the woman who brought us Handi-Off turn into this paranoid, confused pile of a human being? Who can say. Only the voices that swim inside her head know for sure. But she sure is zany these days. Take, for example, the most recent bout of logic diarrhea she shat on Politichicks, her painful YouTube show: "I just went to a briefing in Washington DC, across the street from the Capitol, at the Longworth building at 8:30 am two days ago and it changed my life. For six hours, I saw pictures and names and dates and facts and Islamic law books and Korans, Surahs for six hours and they proved to me...that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated our highest positions in government and this is serious." more ›

We mentioned last week that this meme didn't seem quite yet ready to die, and alas, here it is again, this time poking fun at vegans! But of course, the lad responsible for this (HuffPo contributor Ari Solomon) is himself vegan, so we're laughing with him. (And yeah, we still don't know who Kathy Freston is.) more ›

Sexy sexy Jewess Chevonne brings us this instant holiday classic, "My Menorah," in honor of the first night of Chanukah. It's full of totally ridiculous double entrendres, and we adore it. As Chevonne puts it, "Mazeltov, world." more ›

It's been a while since we had a simple, pet-related palate cleanser. And this dog expresses an emotion we experience every hour on the hour. Cheers, pooch. After-work drinks on us. more ›

What? You haven't seen Episode 1 of the Internet-acclaimed short film masterpiece Shit Girls Say? (Or it's gay spinoff, for that matter.) You should have your Internet privileges revoked, clearly. As an early Christmas present, the creators behind the twitter account-turned-viral sensation have unleashed Episode 2 upon the internet they clearly love so much. Don't try to overanalyze it, just let it seep in to your brain so you and your drinking-age cousins will have something to talk about over dessert at Grandma's. more ›

Serious Business is a Portland-based duo (Jason Mampel and Danny Diana-Peebles), one gay, one straight, with a fun, electro-rap thing going on. Their debut single "Hot Damn" features Jason and Danny each talking about what they find hot (the gay one likes his dudes with a little beer belly, the straight one likes his girls a little nasty). Reserve your "hipster alert" comments please, and try for something a little less obvious. And you can download their brand new, and free, debut album here. [via WOW] more ›

Like a clash between Tron and Endless Summer, these surfers zipped up electroluminescent wetsuits and hit some tasty waves in Bondi Beach in Australia this past November. According to Laughing Squid, the night surfing event was a promotional event by Strongbow Cider Australia. Nevertheless, it's still totally bitchin'. more ›

Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles, who worked together on such gems as Borat and Bruno, just released a preview to The Dictator. According to the film's team, "The film tells the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed. It is inspired by the best selling novel Zabibah and The King by Saddam Hussein." (We are so ordering that on Amazon.) more ›

We've got an audio cleanser for you today: "Whiskey Christmas," a song off the 2007 album Christmas Songs for Drunken Atheists by Irish folk-punk band Darby O'Gill and the Little People. San Francisco ought to like this one, right? more ›

Yay! SNL's Digital Shorts are often the only reason to watch the show, and this weekend's episode included one that's not exception. It's a holiday-themed ditty called "Best Friends" featuring Katy Perry and Andy Samberg along with special surprise guests Matt Damon and Val Kilmer, and a few baggies of meth! Because nothing says Christmas like some meth, a bag of Depends, and a game of Russian roulette. [NBC] more ›