Submit a Video: Win a Man Cave

[via DIY network] My wife watches a lot of HGTV, I mean A LOT of HGTV, which means that I also have the pleasure of watching wayyyyyyy too many renovation shows. Anyhow, they had some commercials on there about the DIY network and MLB network teaming up to give out a free MLB Baseball Man Cave based upon video submissions. You've got until July 24th to submit a video of you basically begging for a man cave on camera and then releasing it to the public, good luck and don't make a fool out of yourself (unless it gets you the win of course). Hit the jump to see the official contest site in a new window.

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Time Waster: Star Wars in Asciimation

[via Asciimation] For your viewing pleasure, some loser genius produced Star Wars into a text-only silent movie. I didn't have time to watch the whole thing but what I saw was sweet. I don't even want to think how much time went into it. Hit the jump to see the asciimation movie.

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Awkward Family Photos.com

I guess with so many people in the world, you should never be surprised about stupid acts. But occasionally, just occasionally something so special comes around that is so amazing, so dumb, and so awkward! Welcome to the world of awkward family photos!


AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com brings you some gut busting pictures.

BAM! How does this one grab you!?!?! Seriously, what is this photographer thinking? My bet is it's the mother's sister who is pissed because the mother didn't help out at the last family thanksgiving dinner.


Our next beauty..................


If my parents did this, I can't tell you mad I would be. This is so disgusting. Parents should only be seen kissing for brief moments in the kitchen on accident, NOT and I repeat NOT passionately kissing in print for all to see forever! This is a king awkward......




Sorry Alex, had to intrude and include this beauty:
-spoon

F My Life

So there is this amazing website that one of my colleagues at school introduced me to - you have to read everything with a grain of salt, however. 90% of the material is good, wholesome coincidental fun - the other 10% might be a bit off-color and occassionally dark grey to black :(. If it is sour on your palate, I apologize.


The website is FMyLife.com - stands for f*** my life - each post begins with a person telling a story about how their life is doomed to failure or how they have the worst luck in the world - they start the post with the word "today" and no matter what, every post ends with FML (f my life) - Anyone can submit a story, and then it can be reviewed and possibly posted on the webiste. Here is my favorite one from today:

Today, my girlfriend of 3 years broke up with me because the love advice that she gets on her cellphone every week says that I'm cheating on her. I've never cheated on her and I was planning to propose next week. FML

Enjoy

The Elusive Bag O'Crap

There's a website out there - called woot.com - it's kind of a one-day one-deal type website - everyday at 10 o'clock Pacific Time, a new item is posted - the item is typically highly discounted from it's typical price (one example was a 20 GB XBOX 360 Refurbished on sale for $129.99) - everything ships for $5 flat and you can purchase 1, 2 or 3 of the current item (3 is max)... This is all good and well, except woot throws in a twist every month or so.

Occassionally, at 10 central time, when the new item appears, instead of being a typical gadget or gizmo, a picture of a brown paper bag with a question mark on it will show up. This is the elusive Bag Of Crap - This random bag of crap (if you can buy one fast enough) costs you $3 + $5 shipping, and comes with a minimum of 3 things - most of the time, it's leftover stuff from previous woot auctions. But other times, you could get lucky - blogs online claim that people have received 50" plasma tv's or Playstation 3's or even better. However, you could also get a used toilet bowl cleaner, a broken slinky and a rubber piece of dog crap. It all just depends.

I've tried multiple times to buy the bag o'crap when it shows up, but typically woot's servers crash because so many people try to buy them at the same time - so far, I have not been successful. Good luck if you choose to try.

Download TV Shows, Pt. 2

I covered earlier how to download TV shows using torrents. If file sharing isn't your cup of tea, I found a blog that posts direct download links to TV shows. If you download shows the night of airing, this method may be faster as you don't have to wait for more people the share the file.

SeriesGringas.us is a blog that posts direct download links to most TV shows. The posts are available immediately after showing.

The files are typically hosted on 3 websites: MegaUpload, HotFile, or NetLoad. MegaUpload seems to be the fastest. For free users, these websites usually require some amount of wait time (45-200 seconds) and only allow 1 download at a time. I usually use MegaUpload and HotFile simulaneously if I'm downloading 2 shows at once (although, lately MegaUpload has not required a wait time and let me download multiple files at once.)

Epic Fail

Construction can be complicated, but who installs random doors? I wonder if anyone got paid extra for this idea...




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