Zoomdoggle: More fun than work!

WHEN: Starting November 8th
WHERE: Hollywood’s The Music Box.
WHAT: Come on, really? You have to ask? It’s The Pee-wee show done live, by the man himself. Be warned though, there’s only 17 performances in total and tickets go on sale today. More details after the jump and the fairly amazing Pee-wee site. Don’t miss out. The word of the day is hooray!

LINK: Peewee via Laughingsquid.

As awesome as this is to watch, I’ve had just as much fun playing it for my pup and watching his face… I wonder what he’ll say when he learns to talk.

It all starts with a single, amazing picture:

As the story goes:
“Melissa Brandts wasn’t trying to take a photo of this ground squirrel at Banff National Park. She’d set up the camera’s timer so that she’d have a nice picture of herself and her husband, with spectacular Lake Minnewanka in the background. She hadn’t counted on this ground squirrel hogging the foreground.”
Fun, right?
Two days ago Neatorama posted the pic.

Yesterday, URLesque upped the anti by encouraging readers to drop squirrels into pictures and send them in, dubbing the phenomenon “Squirrel Bombing.”

Minutes later, Buzzfeed applied technology to fun by letting people upload pics and auto-drop-in the sneaky bomber using their photo-editor. How fun is that? Anyway, go to either site, bomb a picture of your own…

…someone else’s,or perhaps even a historical shot (this can’t be the first “Squirrel Interruptus” ever, right?)…

… either way, if this doesn’t make you happy, I think you’re in the wrong place.

LINK: Neatorama, Urlesque, Buzzfeed.

Ok, this one’s hard to explain and might not be for everyone. Take me for example, the clock on my VCR still blinks 12:00 (and I’ve still got a VCR)… this is going right over my head. But if you’re the type who knows what PHP, Ruby On Rails, or a Load Balancer is, this is going to knock your socks off. This guy’s neighbors were stealing his wireless Internet, so he plugged in a bit of a code that turns everything they look at upside down. And another variant that makes everything blurry. And a third that redirects everything they put in the address bar to Kittenwar.com. Think that’s fun? There’s a full how-to after the jump.

LINK: Ex-parrot.

WHEN: August 11th – 30th
WHERE: New York City’s Bleecker St Theater, 45 Bleecker Street
WHAT: Two Australian guys who like playing with their penises – bending, folding, and twisting – to much fanfare and delight. You’ve heard of these guys. This show was big time, like Newsweek coverage big time, a few years back. They’re bringing it back stateside. A word of warning: It’s all fun and games, but “the wristwatch” (in which a dong gets bent around the wrist like a fancy flesh-colored timepiece) ends with a joke about sun dials that might not be for everyone.

LINK: Puppetryofthepenis via Gothamist.

Another fun eliminator game. Another twist on Roly-Poly. There are good Poly (the happy looking ones), and bad Poly (the ones with weapons). Click the gold boxes to remove them and get the bad Poly into the water without hurting the rest. Easy right. Give it a go. Click the pic to get the game.

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Amazing outtakes from Tracy Morgan’s direct to DVD 2006 opus Totally Awesome. If you’re not peeing your pants by minute 4, you’re either racist, or so not-racist that you actually are racist. This might be worth saving for later and sacrificing a bit of a lunch break for.

LINK: via Filmdrunk.

Each one cuter than the last. It’s almost too much fluff to enjoy in one sitting. Play them all at once if you dare.

LINK: Reponere.

WHEN: Wednesday, August 12, 8:00pm – 11:00pm
WHERE: New York City’s Crash Mansion, 199 Bowery
WHAT: Our first-ever themed night of world records. And the theme? Fooooooood! Though recent appearances on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and at the Pitchfork Fest in Chicago have been fun, we are bonkers with excitement about this upcoming event.

“Food records” doesn’t necessarily mean shoving hot dogs down your throat. Past records we’ve documented include Tallest Carrot Cake, Most Names Written On A Dry Piece Of Spaghetti and Fastest Time To Open A Can Of Alphabet Soup And Spell ‘PANTYHOSE’. Be creative. To join the bill and set a food-related record (or beat one from our site), email dan@URDB.org.

CURRENT LINEUP:

* Longest Cupcake Kebab – Nichelle Stephens and Rachel Kramer Bussel of Cupcakes Take The Cake (http://bit.ly/DXtMg) and Nora Vetter of Nibbles by Nora (http://bit.ly/e7BEx)

* Most Times Changing Order While Ordering Chinese Food Without Getting Hung Up On – Matt Vescovo

* Most Crustless PB&J Sandwiches Made By 10 People In 1 Minute – Hilary Hodge & Friends

* Tallest S’more – Clint Cantwell

* Most Tortillas Frisbeed In 30 Seconds – Alexandra Young

We’ll announce a ton more records shortly, and also fill you in on details of an extremely awesome food-related opening act. Special guests ‘From Bacteria To Boys’ feat. the legendary Mike Pride (http://www.mikepride.com/) will be our house band, rocking Crash Mansion the entire night.

Cost of event is $5, free if you’re unemployed.
* Named Best Oddball Night by New York Magazine http://l.urdb.org/nymag
* Recently featured on ABC News (http://l.urdb.org/abc) as well as CNN, BBC, MSNBC, CBS Sunday Morning, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Inside Edition, and our good friends at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you like things like ‘The World’s Longest Whisper Chain’ this is where it all goes down. More info after the jump…

LINK: Facebook.

Newsweek begs the question: How good a profiler are you? They’ve pulled headshots from crimes of yore, and are serving-up the crimes for which they’ve served multiple-choice style. How fun is that? There’s 15 in total. Me? I got 7. How’d you do?

LINK: Newsweek.