Zoomdoggle: More fun than work!

It’s an age-old tale or romance. Played out on a hood. I dare you to watch and not smile.

LINK” via Buzzfeed.

Picking one is fun. Picking a thousand is funner. The options pop-up at random, making the choices pretty much never ending. Click the buttons at the “Top 10″ and “Bottom 10″ buttons at the top to see how other people are are clicking. Brainless. Yup. Good.

LINK: Pickone via Trendhunter.

WHEN: Tuesday June 2, 10PM
WHERE: Discovery Channel
WHAT: In promotion of his later release “Land of the Lost” Will Farrell decided to get lost himself. Big time. Ferrell teams up with survival expert, and sometimes poo-eater (no really, Google it) Bear Grylls to hit the icy mountains of northern Sweden. Over the course of their 48 hours together, the pair rappel down a 100-foot frozen waterfall, make snowshoes from saplings and drink their own urine. How fun is that? The embedding is off, click the pic below for a preview. Amazing!

LINK: Youtube.

Remember not so long ago when I told you Ford had lent me a car for 6 months… gas, parking, insurance, all included?
Remember when I said it got stolen?

The plot thickens:

If memory serves, last time we spoke Ford was tracking the car using the Lojack-like homing device they’d installed for just such an emergency. Turns out they were tracking the wrong vehicle. The one that on the joy ride from NYC to Boston, Connecticut and beyond? That wasn’t my car at all, just another car in the program. Nope, my car wasn’t giving off a signal at all. To some, this would seem to confirm the “stolen” theory (maybe the criminals, being smart enough to steel a car has a key-less ignition, had also disabled the device). I wasn’t so sure. But where could it be? The police said they didn’t tow it; their automated number said they didn’t tow it; hell, even my frequent and frantic calls to all of the city’s tow-lots all turned up the same response… “the NYPD does not have this car.”

This weekend though was supposed to be my first “mission” day. Ford had arranged for me and a lady (probably Kristina, but I reserve the right to call an audible) to take a hot air balloon ride. Only with storms on the horizon all weekend, the company running the thing was too scared to take the skies. With nothing else to do, I decided to go Kojack on this car problem.

STEP ONE: I staked out the place where I’d last seen the car. Kristina and I found a meter-man who said that on occasion cars get towed. And sometimes, just sometimes, they wind up in the system with the wrong plate number. When that happens, you’re pretty much screwed because the city will say they don’t have the car… and because they won’t let you walk around the lots they tow them to, that’ll pretty much be the end of it. Forever.

STEP TWO: Me and lady went to the main lot our friendly ticket-writer thought it would go to. They were closed, but did my best to see what there was to see through a fense.

STEP THREE: Run. It turns out “closed” doesn’t mean “empty.” When one of the at least two guards inside made eye contact, the police were summoned.

STEP FOUR: We returned about an hour later, and this time approached the problem from a different angle. The goal was to lift the lovely Kristina high enough so that she could see over a brick wall into areas of the lot I’d missed on my first pass.
“Hand me the camera,” she said, “I think I see something.”
I gave her my camera. She took just one picture, then it was “run” all over again. They really don’t like you hanging around this place.

At first glance the picture is fairly uneventful.

But wait, what’s that? Behind the blue car, backed up against the green van…

Those pink spots, that fun profile, those sleek yet powerful lines… yup, that’s my car.

Here’s the really fun bit though, I just got off the phone with place – again – they still say they don’t have the car and that it would be impossible to see in. Weird. That’s no fun. What to do now? Any ideas?

LINK: Fiestamovement.

I could watch dog-squats for hours. Really. Something’s wrong with you if this doesn’t make you happy.

LINK: via Buzzfeed.

Yup, Ze Frank is a genius. Time to wash my hands.

LINK: via Zefrank.

Whoa. Wild Style City by Earthmine lets you wander San Francisco street view style, and tag various surfaces. So far so good, right? Here’s the fun bit though: What you put up stays up. Yup, the next guy to wander through sees your handiwork (or lack of can control, whichever the case might be). How fun is that? Check out what the pros can do…

…or take a virtual walk through to see it first-hand for yourself.

LINK: Wildstylecity via Laughingsquid.

Playing with people on Craigslist (who don’t realize they’re being played with) is fun… this time in the name of stop-n-go cinema!

LINK: Craigslisting.

This is either uber high-tech, or closer to Leisure-suit Larry than anything I’ve seen in years (minus the sex-talk). You’re a detective in the middle of a crime scene. Look for clues to determine the identity of the murderer. Make notes and ultimately stop a killer. Your mouse controls it all. Click the pic to get the game.
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Sure, they’ll tell you that Planet in Action’s ‘Ships’ uses the Google Earth plug-in and lets you take the helm of a ship. Nice. What they don’t tell you is how blindingly fun it is. Amazing. Really. It took me 20 minutes to figure out how to download the Google plug-in, make it run, etc., but only 30 seconds of trying to parallel park a steel mega-monster in the panama canal to get hooked. Any boat (barges, cargo ships, container ships, and even a cruise ship), any water-way, any time you’re ready. How fun is that?

LINK: Ships via Presurfer.