I like this billboard. A lot. Found on SpellingMistakesCostLives.com.

Now, for my 300th post on this blog - a quote:

"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."
- Dame Edna Everage

One of the most fascinating sites I've encountered in a very long time: Worldmapper. They currently have 366 maps of the world, where the countries are sized according to a certain factor. For example, here's the map with each country sized by their Infant Mortality Rate:


Here's a map sized by Military Spending:


Man, got to tear myself away from this site so I don't spend the entire afternoon there. Incredible stuff.

For some reason, this video really tickles my funny bone.

I'm sure most of you have seen the Mentos & Diet Coke videos by now. If not, you should. But did you ever wonder what would happen when you mix Mentos and.... beer?

A lot of what I post on here is pretty much just things I read on my different RSS feeds. I've decided to start using Google Reader's sharing feature. So I now have a mini-blog which can be found here. All it is is basically a filtered list of links and articles that I think are cool.

So if we have similar tastes, you may want to subscribe to the feed there to get a John-filtered list of links I read and think are funny / cool / thought-provoking / weird.

Iraq won the Asian Cup against Saudi Arabia - and right away, people took to the streets to celebrate....by shooting their guns into the air. That's awesome, I wish more of that would have happened in Germany during the World Cup. :)

Another excellent example of the many little and ...uh... not-so-little differences between cultures.

Also, it's amazing to see (once again) the incredibly uniting power soccer can have.

OK, this is awesome: Chore Wars. It's basically a fantasy role playing game web site with experience points and gold and armor and leveling up, etc. But the hilariously cool part is that you earn your experience points by doing real-world chores at home. So the idea is - your household or office signs up together, and the more chores someone does, the higher he or she levels up.

Man I wish this would have existed when I was a kid and we had chore lists and stuff. This would have made things a bit more fun. :)

Found via WebWare.

Wow, quite a weird but cool "inverted world map", where the oceans are land masses and vice versa. Stare at it long enough, it plays tricks with your mind. The big (better) version is here.

Here's my favorite scene in the trailer for the new Simpsons movie.