Random Absurdity

  • Dalek rides the bus

    A Dalek makes itself at home, somewhere on England’s south coast. –Thanks Andrew!...
  • Five days in a bathroom without Internet: Day One [video]

    Mark Malkoff, the guy who wanted to see if he could get a bunch of strangers to carry him around New York City is back in action. This time he is seeing if he can beat his Internet addiction by camping out in his apartment’s tiny pink bathroom for...
  • Scary speech from “master” communicator [video]

    It seems that the folks at the university where Ohio councilman Phil Davison earned his Masters degree in communication forgot to tell him that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. What I found most amusing by this Gibson-esque rant was that Davison wasn’t spitting venom at...
  • Who needs an burglar alarm when they can write notes like this?

    I’m guessing that burglars would think twice before targeting the house of a man going by the name of “Bub” who has a house full of pit bulls, a buddy called “Skeeter” and who is due to return from the store with more bullets and beer. [Robot Painter via...
  • An album with a most unfortunate name

    I don’t know if Let me Touch Him by The Ministers Quartet is the most unfortunate album title of all time, but it has to be up there. The Huffington Post has a few other shots in their slide show, but most of them are just embarrassing, bad or...
  • Operation Game Remade With Dominoes

    I somehow doubt that Operation would have been as popular if it involved this much effort. It must have been a tense moment when the cat walked around the edge of the dominoes. ...
  • “World’s farthest” basketball shot [Video]

    Whether or not this is actually the farthest basketball goal ever shot is difficult to determine, but it seems to be the farthest on record. Evan Sellers from The Legendary Shots throws the ball from the top of the Vulcan monument in Birmingham, Alabama. It travels some 205-228 feet...
  • Jet-powered school bus goes really, really fast [Video]

    Does the planet really need a school bus powered by a jet engine? Not so much. But you do sort of have to admire the kind of insane creativity that goes into the conception and creation of such a monstrosity. So how quickly can it go? It was clocked...
  • Never let a barracuda bite get in the way of an awesome photo opportunity

    A family fishing trip went unexpectedly badly for 14-year-old Kora Wira when a 42-inch barracuda jumped into their boat and bit her on the arm. Dad promptly dispatched the fish with a filleting knife, staunched the flow of blood on his daughter’s arm with a Red Sox shirt and...