Zoomdoggle: More fun than work!

It is with great pride, and after long deliberation, that we present the winner of our first annual Gurn-a-Thon :

Elizabeth H takes the cake for not only twisting out a masterpiece, but also becuase she took time off her vacation to do so. Elizabeth, drop us a line at gurnwinner at zoomdoggle dot com and we’ll get your prize (did someone say free BuckyBalls? Yay), into the mail as soon as is possible.

Honorable mention goes to all of the 60+ others who entered. If you haven been back in a while, CLICK HERE to have a look. There’s some pretty incredible facial gymnatics there. You’re a skilled lot.

I wrote a joke (I think) and now I don’t want to stop. But I need your help for inspiration:

Leave a person, place, and thing, all in a single comment below. Make it as hard as you like, the weirder the better. Sometime in the next week or so I’m choosing one and writing a custom joke based on it. How fun is that? But there’s more…

Want to get in on the action too? Choose one comment (complete with person, place, and thing) and write a joke of your own based on it. If you upload it to YouTube and send me the link, I’ll post it here as well (so long as it’s not tooo offensive). Best one submitted by the time I post my user-generated joke wins a… um… SOMETHING. Yup. Something. Something you want though. It’s go time.

See the web the way Kanye does. Jump over to the Free Art & Technology blog and drag the Kanye bookmarklet to your tool bar. Now, any time you want to see the world the way West does (you know, with a slight bit of iritation knowing you’re so much better than all of it), you’re only a button click away. How fun is that?

LINK: FAT via Joshspear.

Do not try this at home. Unless of course you have a tennis court, love of fire, and great ball control. How come anything plus fire equals fun?

LINK: via Trendhunter.

WHEN: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 8:00pm – 11:00pm
WHERE: NYC’s Crash Mansion, 199 Bowery
WHAT: Named ‘Best Oddball Night’ by New York Magazine, the World Record Appreciation Society is back. Confirmed Record Attempters So Far:

* Alexandra Young – Longest Scarf Knit In Two Hours
* Debbie Hampton – Most Knock Knock Jokes Told In One Minute
* Cynthia Kueppers and Dave Bredesen – Tallest Carrot Cake
* Molly Rosen – Fastest Recitation Of The First Paragraph Of ‘Lolita’ While Doing A Backbend
* Matt Kenefick – Most Pickup Lines Delivered In One Minute
* Opus Moreschi (Colbert Report writer) – Sham-Wow Record TBD
* Jake Bronstein and Kristina Hoge – Longest Whisper Chain
* Larry Smith – Most Six-Word Quotes Read In One Minute

To get on the bill and set a record, email dan@urdb.org.

The extremely funny Craig Baldo (Conan O’Brien, Last Comic Standing) will open the night, and humorist Colin Nissan (McSweeney’s, Huffington Post, ‘Don’t Be That Guy’) will be reading some of his gut-busting shorts.

LINK: Facebook.

A frustratingly simple game in which you help the penguin learn to fly. Left and right arrow keys maneuver the bird in flight. Spacebar does the rest (when available). Click the pic to get the game.

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Naked girls = fun. The location is pretty much incidental.

Remember some time back when I asked you to stand on my amazing new Ford Fiesta? Well, now it’s gone. At least for the moment. Of course someone would try to steal it – the thing is mega-fun to drive – it was bound to happen sooner or later.

Here are the facts as I know them:

-Wednesday night, I parked the thing on the street. I was of course smiling (really, did I mention how fun it is to drive yet? It is) and frowning (finding legal street parking isn’t always so easy).

-Thursday night I went back to the spot where I’d put it. Again, I was frowning (parking it where I did meant I would have to move it again before sun-up or risk getting towed) but smiling on the inside (the thing has a push-button starter, a bigger engine than you’d believe, and comfortable seating for four, how fun is that?). Only, er, it wasn’t there. I called the city who didn’t have a record of having towed it. Then I called the police. Then I called the car’s handlers. Then I called it a night. Oh, I also twittered it.

NOTE: My favorite part of all of this? At 1AM the cops kept saying “Listen guy, you’ve got to give us something to go on. Help us out.” To which I kept responding, “I’ve given you the plate number, the VIN, told you that it’s hot magenta with pink spots, is one of only 140 ’09 Ford Fiesta’s in this country, and has a giant URL written across the rear bumper. What more do you want?”

-Friday morning I got word that in fact, there was more info to give. Lots. The car was on the move. It seems that, because Ford had brought these cars in from Europe on a special visa, each one had been fitted with a tracking device. Mine was being tracked from Boston to Connecticut, and was now heading down I-95 back to NYC. As word of this hit Twitter, so began what some have affectionately referred to as “Twitter’s first live car chase.” CLICK HERE to read all about it.

-Saturday morning came a report that it had last pinged from DC (even without me behind the wheel the car seems to be having a good time).

At the moment, I am still without car, which is a shame because, well, it really is an awesome car (did I tell you about the voice controls? The tilting headlights? The iPod hook-up? The list is endless). If you see it, here’s what I want you to do:

1. Take a picture on the hood. It’s fun to do, trust me, plus it will let everyone know you’ve actually found the wayward ride.
2. Twitter it’s location. Use #fiestamovement or @jakehimself so everyone sees it.
3. Call the authorities.

I’ll keep you posted, but in the meantime, consider this Zoomdoggle’s first scavenger hunt. Game on!

LINK: Fiestamovement.

All it takes is:
* Post-it Picture Paper (or photo paper and Glue Dots or double-stick tape).
* Large piece of poster board.
* Ladder or stepstool.
* Any picture fun enough to leave hanging around for some time.
* And of course photoshop to beak it up over several sheets like so:

Ready to make one of your own? Check the full how-to in 4 simple steps after the jump…

LINK: Photojojo.

When Danger Mouse, he of Gnarls Barclay and The Grey Album, was told by EMI that his latest CD won’t see the light of day due to “legal issues,” he decided to fight fire, well, the fun way. Simply put, he’s releasing the disc as a blank CD-R in a jewel case with art, liner notes, and a “100+ page book” of David Lynch photographs “All copies will be clearly labeled: ‘For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.’” How fun is that?

CLICK HERE to listen to sample whole album now, or do whatever it is you do to get it on desktop.

LINK: BBC.