(photo from Ambient Images)

Sailing in a watercraft made from junk, from Los Angeles to Hawaii, the JUNK team is raising awareness about plastic junk in our oceans.

JUNK blog

(via Notcot)

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The Deep Impact/EPOXI probe took rare video footage (May 28-29) of the Moon transiting (passing in front of) the Earth. From 31 million miles, we look pretty small.

(via Discover, via Notcot)

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(photos: stolen from Sabbah.biz)

The “vintage” look has been around long enough to make nearly every college student look like a garage sale.

But there’s “vintage” and then there’s “VINTAGE.”
On July 30th, a pair of Levi’s 201 jeans dating from ~1890 sold for $36,099 on eBay to a guy named “vintboy1″ (pet hypothesis: it was Vin Diesel or Vincent Price). The jeans were found in a mine in California’s Mojave Desert, near the town of Randsburg.

These jeans may bear the world’s oldest skidmarks, and in the back pocket: perhaps the world’s oldest pocket lint and the world’s oldest receipt from a 7-Eleven. Goldminers were fond of Slurpees and not wearing underwear.

WWDMarkets link

And other old jeans

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MarvelKids.com - Create Your Own Superhero

(via Pop Candy)

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(images from Trummerkind.com)

This is awesome:
Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto had a nicely decorated 750 square foot apartment in Providence, Rhode Island, for nearly four years. Until the Providence Place Mall security caught them - they made this secret apartment inside the shopping mall.

Their site is rendered in hilarious ‘real estate sales’ format.

“During the Christmas season of 2003 and 2004, radio ads for the Providence Place Mall featured an enthusiastic female voice talking about how great it would be if you (we) could live at the mall.”

(via Make: magazine)

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - near the top of the list of culturally significant films of the mid-80’s.

And it had a great soundtrack.
And the soundtrack was never released.
This was a serious loose end of my adolescence.

Apparently director John Hughes was concerned about the eclectic range of music in the soundtrack and so the soundtrack was never released. Over 20 years later and people still want it.

Here is the soundtrack, in Muxtape form:

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - The Lost Soundtrack

*Tracks I did not include because of space issues and because they’re kinda lame-ish:
• “Theme from ‘I Dream of Jeannie’” - Hugo Montenegro
• “Star Wars (Main Title)” - John Williams
• “I’m Afraid” - Blue Room

Voo-Doo Economics Bonus Round:
The Nike Dunk Pro SB “Ferris Bueller” - based on Ferris Bueller’s wardrobe.

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Pro Wrestling + Japanese Monsters = Kaiju Big Battel!.

They make me so wish I lived on the east coast.

video link

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The Dark Knight

Chrithtian Bale: okay.
Gyllenhaal: casting mistake.
Ledger: OUTSTANDING!

THE BEST Batman film.
It actually had a plot.
Two and a half hours.

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The name says it all: Weirdo Toys

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When I lived in Europe, television was filled with ads for ringtones and phone wallpapers. The majority of the ringtones were all lame/vulgar noises and the wallpapers were as campy as it gets.

Thus, I was inspired to create the World’s Most Awesome-est Ringtones and the World’s Most Awesome-est Phone Wallpapers.

Download and enjoy.

click on image for phone-sized downloadable version

 

 World's Awesome-est Ringtone: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 World's Awesome-est [Pulse] Ringtone: Play Now | Play in Popup

World’s Most Awesome-est Ringtone (mp3 download)
World’s Most Awesome-est [Pulse] Ringtone (mp3 download)

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Blogadilla is now officially at Threat Level Orange.

Last weekish, Nick Chordas of the Columbus Dispatch deemed us a “Website of Mass Distraction” (WMD). In particular, our stellar Swedish Furniture Name Generator.

Newsweek.com also briefly recognized our new WMD status: archive link.

Thanks Nick!
It’s good to hear that our primary objective is working.
We will continue to do our best to prevent you from getting your work done.

Werd!

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Wanted

Like “The Matrix” but
without the Matrix. And the
good guys are all d!cks.

Jolie was like “Aaaagh!“
and her car went “Errrrrrrrtt!” and her
gun went “Psshhhiiiiw!” . . . Kick Ass!

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Jim Henson + Tim Burton.

“Mysterious Mose” by Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh.
Their site: Screen Novelties

Mysterious Bonus Round: Play this video twice and you’ll want to buy the damn song.

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ORSM dot net - An awesome gallery of science fair exhibits.

NSFW: this site has boobie and dingdong ad revenue all over the place.

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Both the Photo of the Week and the Bacon Product of the Week:

I followed this guy for 15 minutes to get a good snapshot of his vanity plate.

Dude, we love that you love bacon.

Unless you’re actually just a fan of Francis Bacon, which is still cool.

Jason from GorillaSushi:
“He might have wanted to memorialize the time he saw Kevin Bacon in Las Vegas.”

Heywood:
“Or maybe the guy is from the small Eastern European town of Bacon, Latvia?”

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Heya folks - a new batch of Blogadilla ice cream wallpapers for you.

Click on the thumbnail for the full-sized downloadable wallpaper.

Lucerne “Birthday Cake” ice cream in a pink Rainbow Cone.

“Cotton Candy” flavored Swirl Stix popsicle (by Philly Swirl ).

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(cool image by Josh Bancroft)

Sweltering heat.
The smell of BBQ and citronella candles.
The sound of the ice cream truck coasting down your street.

WFMU’s collection of ice cream truck (downloadable) audio clips.
And part II of the collection.

They make the perfect Summer ringtones.

 

 Hello: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Mr. Softee: Play Now | Play in Popup

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We covered the unbelievably talented Adam Pesapane back in September with his stop-action films “Kaboom!”, “Game Over”, and “Human Skateboard”. Now, PES is back with an all new film, “Western Spaghetti.” Check it:

(via Notcot, via Shape&Colour)

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This is the 4th of July celebration in Santa Cruz, California.
Imagine Apocalypse Now with more explosions and more severed heads.

The song is “Star Spangled Mojo” by Mojo Nixon - perhaps the best rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” ever.

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