It must be Sweeps Week at The Onion. I’ve never seen their commentators this animated…

Fun Rocketboom episode today on obnoxious loquacity…

An artist’s rendering of 320,000 lightbulbs, or about the number of kilowatt-hours wasted every minute from a lack of efficiency in the home.

Part of a gallery of photographer Chris Jordan’s attempt to show people the staggering amounts of stuff we use up as a collective.

Great idea for a piece, though I would have have gone with a person by person account to hammer home the potential change that one dedicated individual can make. Also, I’d really like to see my personal lifetime bananas-eaten fractal image.

For those of you who prefer visual cues, here’s the classic The Cure song set to signage.

Via Italian Website Giavasan

I don’t care if Monday’s blue
Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too
Thursday i don’t care about you
It’s friday i’m in love

Monday you can hold your head
Tuesday, Wednesday stay in bed
Or Thursday watch the walls instead
It’s Friday I’m in love

We have a not-so-minor obsession with pirates here in Mep Land. So it’s my pleasure to introduce you to the premier Pirate Rap Group on the internet.

These guys can lay down a serious shanty with the best of them. They even produce their own music videos.

Here’s a nicely addictive track of theirs to listen to while you enjoy the album cover ARRRRRRRRRT:

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This… this is sheer genius. I confess a tinge of jealousy at not coming up with this one. The concept isn’t new, as several friends have expressed a belief to me in a “female hive mind.” But the execution here is nearly perfect.

Courtesy of the Onion News Network

I first saw this piece as part of a Mike Judge sponsored traveling animation show in Los Angeles. It was created by The Mill, a production company that usually wastes its vast talent and resources on television commercial effects. Fortunately for the artistic world, even TV commercial producers have spare time on their hands…

I’m not a full-fledged Pastafarian, but I’m definitely a sympathizer. Below, you’ll find an old Pastafarian parable of the first true test of the One True Noodly Deity, the Flying Spaghetti Monster…

This song speaks to the relief felt by many (including Yours Truly) that our world is temporarily in the hands of the competent.

Strange yet addicting website Art of the Title features particularly eye-catching opening credit sequences. This one is from a 60s spy movie called Danger: Diabolik and it makes me want to relieve myself into my monitor.