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Doing our best to help you waste time!
INTERNET FINDS OF THE YEAR
The pepper-spraying cop seen at the UC Davis protest and other "Occupy" demonstrations has inspired a hilarious blog showing him using his pepper spray throughout history. Check it out at PepperSprayingCop.tumblr.com.
We all waste so much time on the Internet looking for all sorts of stupid or funny stuff. But now there's one website you can check out for all your time-wasting needs. Just head to IWasteSoMuchTime.com.
Here's a neat one -- head to DrawAStickMan.com, draw a stick figure and watch as it's animated and inserted into a bizarre adventure.
Fans of both fine art and fun games will enjoy Bla Bla. It's an interactive film that you'll undoubtedly find entertaining -- even though you have no idea what it is. Check it out at BlaBla.nfb.ca.
The Worldwide Ugly Couch Contest is on. There are a lot of hideous couches out there, and they're all featured at contest's official website NorwoodMall.com/ugly.
Those of you who watch a lot of porn -- and you know who you are -- know there are a lot classroom scenes playing on the whole schoolgirl fantasy. Oddly, there's always some sort of lesson written on the blackboard. BlackboardsInPorn.blogspot.com takes screen grabs of the classroom blackboards and analyzes the schoolwork. And believe it or not, everything on the site is safe for work.
Vinnie's Pizza in Brooklyn, New York is proud of its daily specials and wants customers to know about them. So, the restaurant has created a very funny and clever specials board each day that can be seen at SpecialBored.tumblr.com.
The Internet is more than just a tool for wasting time. It happens to be pretty educational. In fact, you could probably educate your kids just by parking them in front of YouTube all day. OK, that may be a stretch, but one blogger is compiling a daily collection of educational YouTube videos that she believes children should watch. It's called TheKidShouldSeeThis.com.
It seems everyone these days has a tattoo somewhere. And with so much body ink out there, it just makes sense that there would be a ton of really bad tattoos. WTFTattoos.com keeps track of them all.
The Week magazine has created a hilarious Bad Opinion Generator, which is a collection of the worst opinions and off-the-mark predictions throughout history. Check it out at TheWeek.com.
PostSecret.com is a community art project where people write their secrets on postcards and mail them. It's based on a popular series of books.
For many students, the worst part about taking a literature course is that the teacher actually expects you to read a book. Thankfully, there are Cliffs Notes to offer lazy students an abridged version of the assigned reading. But for some, even the Cliffs Notes may be too long. For those students, Book-a-Minute Classics offers ultra-condensed versions of classic books. Do you need Beowulf written for you in three sentences? How about The Great Gatsby as a handy two-second read? Get these and other condensed classics at RinkWorks.com.
Have you learned anything today? They say knowledge is power, and the more you know, the more powerful you are. So it pays to learn something new every day. LearnSomethingEveryDay.co.uk shares a random fact each day.
An interesting fact about the death penalty in this country is that inmates awaiting execution are allowed to have anything they want for their last meal. You don't want to be sent down to a hot and dark place on an empty stomach, after all. Photographer Jonathon Kambouris is fascinated by inmates' last meal requests, so he's compiled photos of death row inmates and paired them with the items on their final menus. Check it out at LastMealsProject.com.
Have you ever played "would you rather"? You know, the game where you make your friends choose between two hypothetical options? Rrrather.com is a continuous, online version of the game played by thousands.
Now this is a really great blog. It's a terrific collection of photos showing celebrities from various decades and professions hanging out together. Check it out at AwesomePeopleHangingOutTogether.tumblr.com.
A guy in Oakland, California was bummed that his MacBook had been stolen, but he knew he'd get it back someday. That's because he'd installed an anti-theft app called Hidden. The app took pictures of the crook every time he turned it on and sent them directly to the MacBook's rightful owner, who then posted each photo on his blog, ThisGuyHasMyMacBook.tumblr.com. Good news -- cops checked out the blog and caught the thief.
Google Earth is constantly travelling the globe snapping pictures with its nine-lens camera, and sometimes it catches something odd or poignant. 9-Eyes.com is a collection of these randomly snapped pictures.
The BBC has created a clever website that helps put world events, places and many other things into perspective. HowBigReally.com uses a map of where you live to explain the dimension of things such as environmental disasters, famous World War Two battles and the moon.

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Now that's a lot of Lights!
They set a record for most Christmas Lights on a residence.  338, 038 to be exact.  Good story!  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/21/guinness-record-for-xmas-lights_n_1160940.html

Thoughts-I certainly wouldn't like to find which light is burned out!
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Let us get Golden Globey!

GOLDEN GLOBES: The Nominees Are In

Sofia Vergara, Woody Harrelson, Rashida Jones and Gerard Butler have just finished announcing the nominations for the 2012 Golden Globe Awards, which will air live on NBC on January 15th.

Best Motion Picture (Drama)
The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
War Horse

Best Actress - Movie (Drama)
Glenn Close
- Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis - The Help
Rooney Mara - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Actor - Movie (Drama)
George Clooney
- The Descendants
Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar
Michael Fassbender - Shame
Ryan Gosling - The Ides of March
Brad Pitt - Moneyball

Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy)
50/50
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Midnight
in Paris
My Week With Marilyn


Best Actress - Movie (Musical or Comedy)
Jodie Foster
- Carnage
Charlize Theron - Young Adult
Kristen Wiig - Bridesmaids
Michelle Wiliams - My Week With Marilyn
Kate Winslet - Carnage

Best Actor - Movie (Musical or Comedy)
Jean Dujardin
- The Artist
Brendan Gleason - The Guard
Joseph Gordon Levitt- 50/50
Ryan Gosling - Crazy Stupid Love
Owen Wilson - Midnight in Paris

Best Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo
- The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Janet McTeer - Albert Knobs
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants

Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh
- My Week With Marilyn
Albert Brooks - Drive
Jonah Hill - Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen - A Dangerous Method
Christopher Plummer - Beginners

Best Director
Woody Allen
- Midnight in Paris
George Clooney - The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius -The Artist
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Martin Scorsese - Hugo

Best Animated Feature Film
Rango
The Adventures of Tintin
Puss in Boots
Cars 2
Arthur Christmas

Best Foreign Language Film
The Flowers of War
In the Land of Blood and Honey
The Kid With a Bike
A Separation
The Skin I Live In

Best Original Score (Motion Picture)
The Artist
W.E.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
(Trent Reznor)
Hugo
War Horse

Best Original Song (Motion Picture)
"Hello Hello" - Elton John (Gnomeo & Juliet)
"The Keeper" - Chris Cornell (Machine Gun Preacher)
"Lay Your Head Down" - Bryan Byrne (Albert Nobbs)
"The Living Proof" - Mary J. Blige et al. (The Help)
"Masterpiece" - Madonna (W.E.)

Best Television Series (Drama)
American Horror Story
Boardwalk Empire
Boss
Game of Thrones
Homeland

Best Actress - Television (Drama)
Claire Danes
, Homeland
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Madeleine Stowe, Revenge
Callie Thorne, Necessary Roughness

Best Actor - Television (Drama)
Steve Buscemi
-
Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
Kelsey Grammer - Boss
Jeremy Irons - The Borgias
Damian Lewis - Homeland

Best Television Series (Comedy or Musical)
Enlightened
Episodes
Glee
Modern Family
New Girl

Best Actress - Television (Comedy or Musical)
Laura Dern
- Enlightened
Zooey Deschanel - New Girl
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Laura Linney - The Big C
Amy Poehler - Parks and Recreation

Best Actor - Television (Comedy or Musical)
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
David Duchovny - Californication
Johnny Galecki - Big Bang Theory
Thomas Jane - Hung
Matt LeBlanc - Episodes

Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Cinema Verite
Downtown Abbey
The Hour
Midlred Pierce
Too Big to Fail

Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Romola Garai
- The Hour
Diane Lane - Cinema Verite
Elizabeth McGovern -
Downton Abbey
Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult
Kate Winslet - Mildred Pierce

Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hugh Bonneville
- Downton Abbey
Idris Elba - Luther
William Hurt-
To Big to Fail
Bill Nighy - Eight Page
Dominic West - The Hour

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jessica Lange
- American Horror Story
Kelly MacDonald - Boardwalk Empire
Maggie Smith - Downtown Abbey
Sofia Vergara - Modern Family
Evan Rachel Wood - Mildred Pierce

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Peter Dinklage -
Game of Thrones
Paul Giamatti - Too Big to Fail
Guy Pearce - Mildred Pierce
Tim Robbins - Cinema Verite
Eric Stonestreet - Modern Family


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