In the UK, teenagers are using Google Earth to scour their neighbourhood for pools and then using Facebook to organise a pool-crashing party.

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A stop motion battle between two friends turned enemies.

Here’s a second one by the same guys

An article from 1995 saying the Internet is much ado about nothing.

We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet–which there isn’t–the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.

Single serving sites are sites that are “comprised of a single page with a dedicated domain name and do only one thing”.

Kottke has compiled a list of them. Here are my favourites.

Barack Obama is your new bicycle tells you all the awesome things Obama has done for you.

Are we at war with Iran? Currently, no.

Hypnotoad! (Futurama reference)

It’s not Lupus, it’s never Lupus (House reference)

What Color Is the Empire State Building? What the title suggests.

Simple concept and really easy to read. I guess humans are naturally tuned to follow other peoples’ directed attention.

http://www.humancalendar.com/

Isn’t the internet brilliant but scary at the same time?
http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/

I feel so inadequate!

http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/index.html