Here’s a brilliant mashup of the super annoying Toyota commercial “Saved by Zero” re-mixed with the American version of “The Ring”.

via Videogum

Here’s wonderful collection of classic “The End” title cards from movies.

via Daring Fireball

The latest TV ad for World of Warcraft features the original Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne.

Blizzard also released another WoW ad featuring Steven Van Zandt who played Silvio Dante on The Sopranos.

See Previously:

- Mr. T & William Shatner Featured in World of Warcraft Commercials

- World of Warcraft Toyota Tacoma Commercial

via WoW Insider

Google has just launched SearchWiki which allows you customize your search results.

Today we’re launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don’t feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users. We store your changes in your Google Account.

We’ve recently started using the WordPress plugin Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) by mitcho to show possibly related posts on Laughing Squid blog. It works much better than most of the other related posts plugins we’ve used in the past. You can disallow by category and tag, limit by match threshold using matching scores and it can also add related posts to your RSS feed.

guest post by Dave Schumaker

This Saturday, November 22nd, fellow guest blogger Todd Lappin of Telstar Logistics, will be leading a free, public walking photo tour on Treasure Island that is being organized by the website Photojojo.

A man-made island originally built to host a 1939 World’s Fair, Treasure Island was once home to fantastic (but ephemeral) architecture, gala displays, and the (in)famous Gayway — a bawdy playland for World’s Fair visitors. Treasure Island was also intended to serve as an airport. With the outbreak of World War II, the US Navy took over the island, and it remained in Navy hands until the base was closed in 1994. Elements of all this history survive to this day, but Treasure Island’s abandoned state also makes the island feel spooky — like a post-Apocalyptic ghost town floating in the middle of San Francisco Bay.

After this photo safari, we’ll meet up at a bar back in the city to share photos, have a few drinks and give away prizes.

If you’re interested in this weekend’s photo safari, more information is available on the Facebook or Upcoming event pages.

For those who missed us last time, we’ve also put together a short video of the event.

I agree with John Gruber on this one, so far Tweetie is the best iPhone app for Twitter out there (I’m sure more are on the way). It’s meets most of my mobile Twitter requirements. You can download it for $2.99 from the iTunes Store.

Here’s a breakdown of it’s features:

- Handle multiple twitter accounts.
- View your timeline, replies, direct messages and favorites.
- Browse your friends and followers.
- Post new tweets, retweet
- Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages.
- Follow and unfollow people.
- Mark tweets as favorites.
- Navigate reply chains.
- Inline web browser.
- Post links with automatic link shrinking via bit.ly.
- Upload pictures to twitpic.com.
- Update your twitter location.
- View twitter trends and perform custom searches.
- Save your favorite searches.
- Implements the full twitter API.
- Uses secure connection (https).

“Fanboys” is a film that takes place 1998 where three friends, anxious for the release of “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, attempt to break into George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch to steal an advance print of the film. Their motivation, one of them is dying from cancer and wants to see it before he dies. The film is directed by Kyle Newman with a release date set for February 6th, 2009 (more on Wikipedia).

via Steve Hemmerstoffer & Neatorama

Tonight at the Digg Meetup at Mighty in San Francisco Jelly Donut and Two Touch rocked the mic, then introduced MC Hammer who took the stage and lead a big dance off.

Here’s Jelly Donut and Two Touch doing a freestyle rap to random words that Aubrey Sabala of Digg collected from the crowd.

Here are a few photos from the event.

video & photos by Scott Beale

Huffington Post is reporting on a San Francisco scare tactics video aired by Bill O’Reilly, yes the same asshat who wouldn’t mind if Al Qaeda attacked San Francisco.

Bill O’Reilly is scared. As a daring crusader on the side of “traditional America” in the war against “secular progressives,” O’Reilly fears that the “far left” will push President-elect Obama to embrace their values. As an example of the horrors that would befall us if this were to happen, O’Reilly offers up a surreal pseudo-documentary of San Francisco. O’Reilly sends producer Jesse Waters, whose sole journalistic value seems to be his utter lack of shame at chasing after and ambushing anyone O’Reilly points his finger at, to San Francisco because it represents ‘far left government’ at work.

via Lori Dorn on Twitter

Santacon 2008 events are currently being planned around the world in December as Christmas approaches. Over on santarchy.com I’ve been actively tracking the cities currently being targeted for Santarchy invasions.

To get a better idea of what Santarchy is all about, here’s my 40 minute documentary on the 1996 Santacon in Portland “You’d Better Watch Out: Portland Santacon ‘96″.

After a 6 year hiatus, Derek Powazek has re-launched his website Kvetch!, which now allows people to post their grips and complaints anonymously via Twitter.

You know all those things you wish you could post to Twitter but don’t want to say with your name on them? Those brilliant angry complaints that would feel so good to get off your chest? Now you can.

Kvetch is an anonymous oracle of complaint. Kvetches are displayed randomly and anonymously. There are no permalinks and no search mechanism. Just enjoy the moment.

The next time someone asks you a question that could easily by found on Google, send give them this link: letmegooglethatforyou.com

Here it is in action with the question “What is Google?”

See Also: justfuckinggoogleit.com [via Charles Hope]

Thanks to Spacemonkey for the tip!

Eric Joyner knows that robots and donuts are a delightful combination, as evidenced by “Robot R&R” (2005) and many other paintings in his “Tin Robots” series.

Eric’s work is also featured in the new limited edition book “Robots & Donuts”.

paintings by Eric Joyner

Kevin of Ft. Wayne recreated a level of Guitar Hero riding his bicycle through the neighborhood. The song is “Prisoner of Society” by The Living End with the difficulty level set to “hard”. Of course it’s possible that this is a viral video produced to promote Guitar Hero, but nonetheless it’s very creative.

UPDATE: GameCyte has confirmed that this is in fact a viral video created by the ad agency Droga5 to promote Guitar Hero World Tour.

via Waxy

Google is hosting the LIFE Photo Archive, featuring an amazing collection of photos and etchings dating back to the 1750’s. Each photo has it’s own page with additional information, including the name of the photographer, date and location. Once the archive is fully digitized, it will total around 20 million images.

via Google Blog

photo by Larry Burrows

“Life” on Techno Tuesday

image via Techno Tuesday

guest post by Dave Schumaker

The Tenderloin District in San Francisco is one of the city’s most diverse, yet grimiest neighborhoods. However, there are still some special jewels to be found deep within the Tenderloin. One of them is located at Cohen Alley - The Tenderloin National Forest.

The Tenderloin National Forest began as an idea by Darryl Smith, the founder of The Luggage Store Gallery, in 1989 and work transforming the alley started in 2005.

Now, the alley way is home to a small garden, beautiful murals and is protected by a gate.

The Tenderloin National Forest is open to visitors if the gate is open (nearly every time I’ve walked by, it’s been closed). However, it is open to the public from Noon to 5pm on the 15th of every month.

The San Francisco Chronicle recently had an article about the alley as well.

More photos from the Tenderloin National Forest can be found in this set of photos I posted on flickr.

photos by Dave Schumaker

I’m always on the hunt for the perfect iPhone app for Twitter and lately I’ve been using Tweetsville. I love how it shows up to 200 updates in the timeline. It also includes separate sections for Twitter search and Twitter trends, plus an option to show full names, which is great since I don’t always remember people’s screen names.

Tweetsville creator Ed Voas talks about how it was developed.

Also check out the VentureBeat write-up on Tweetsville by MG Siegler.

Robot Chicken has just released “Star Wars Episode II”, the long awaited squeal to their hilarious animated Star Wars parody “Robot Chicken Star Wars Special”.

via The Official Star Wars Blog