Jake of the Web Time Wasters And Then Some

"Western Spaghetti": A Very Cool Stop-Animation

A stop-Motion video of 'Making Pasta' using Pick-Up Sticks to represent spaghetti, dice as the sugar, post-it notes as butter, a ball of yarn as parmesan cheese and a kaliedescope as the peper grinder, a very cool and very surreal little experience.

Recommended by Jason Rushton

It Made My Day!

Much like the previously mention F My Life and Texts From Last Night, except 'It Made My Day' is happy things - or at least bad things happening to other people:

"Last night, the light bulb in the bedroom went out, but instead of changing it, my husband just lit candles. IMMD."

"Last week I went to see Transformers 2, and it was so bad I walked out after twenty minutes and demanded my money back. I took the money and went to Target and bought an Optimus Prime action figure like I had as a kid. IMMD."

"I called my grandma to find out how long until left-over chicken goes bad, she told me to Google it. IMMD."

"I was sitting in a boring, 90 degree meeting room, and my co-worker pulled out a pocket knife and spent the meeting turning his loafers into open-toed sandals. IMMD."

"Yesterday I had sex, ate breakfast, saw a movie, and had sex again (same girl) all while my roommate only played World of Warcraft. IMMD."

"Today someone stole my wallet. There was $50 inside. I’m just checking this website to see if it made anyone’s day."

"My wife bought me a horrible watch for our anniversary because she didn’t like the one I was wearing. She insisted I wear it and when I finally did today, I got mugged. They only took the watch. IMMD."

http://itmademyday.com/

Recommended by Pete

Fancy Fast Food

Involving WAY more effort than it's worth, this site provides recipes who basic ingredients are food items from fast food restaurants. When you're done, no one will know it came from McDonald's! A lot of it entails blending the original food in a food processor and re-shaping it into something else - like making pasta using the bread you get at Subway.

Turn This:

Into 7-11 Fondue (using hot dogs and 7-11 nacho cheese, amongst other items):

Turn this Baconator combo:

Into this fancy Baconator combo with a Coke/ketchup reduction as a complimentary sauce:

Turn these hot dogs:

Into "Faux Foie Gras":

http://www.fancyfastfood.com/

Your Handwriting As A Computer Font

Turn your own handwriting into a font you can use on your computer for free.

http://www.fontcapture.com/

Recommended by Marcus J

Instant Bueller

Be your own Ben Stein and push this button any time you want to find where Bueller is.

http://instantbueller.com/

Recommended by Pete

Obama is a ROBOT!

As the Obamas pose with members of the U.N., President Obama is startlingly, frighteningly in the same pose with the same expression in every frame. For added fun, watch the first lady try and creep more and more into the picture from the left, only to pop back out of frame when she sees you looking at her.

I like this better than the similar Paris Hilton video because the location, angle and clothing are identical. This simultaneously lets Obama somewhat off the hook as well as makes for a better video.

Recommended by Andy Wilson

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

Star Wars: The Environmentalist Version

This is pretty funny. The first draft of Star Wars, apparently, was written by environmentalist. I am particularly fond of the splintered environmentalist groups - none able to agree with the other, even though they're supposedly on the same side. And the vegan cream pie attack.

As funny as this is, this guy is a serious environmentalist: endciv.com - a little too serious for my taste.

Salt Lake T-Mobile Finally Has 3G!

For anyone on ony other carrier, 3G is old news. My only complaint about T-Mobile (or my Android-based G1, for that matter) has been the lack of 3G in my locale.
Only in the last hour have my coworker and I received the beautiful sight of '3G' instead of that cursed 'E' over our data status icon.

John Mayer’s Hands Not Worth That Much…

I actually think John Mayer is a very, very good guitarist - it's just that his guitar playing has little to do with his fame.

The Beatles: Come Together Computer Animation

Don't let the simplicity fool you! In a computer animation style reminiscent of Dire Straits' Money For Nothing, these folks have created a music video for The Beatles' song Come Together. Considering how much solid color and simple characters this video contains, I have to say I seriously enjoyed the video. From John Lennon's smile to the go cart segment of the video, I found myself smiling and laughing the whole time.