Volume 9 Issue 18

1) the url says it all. this is worth a watch.  thanks Bob!

http://www.cryingwife.com/

2) candid opera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds8ryWd5aFw

3) I probably should have sent this one earlier.  thanks mr schiff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGn3-RW8Ajk

- reaction from varied alums as the new yorker can only put it
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2010/02/15/100215ta_talk_mcgrath


4) Fun with google maps: volume 5

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftenposten.no%2Fforbruker%2Fdigital%2Farticle3509350.ece

Volume 9 Issue 16

1) For the troops

http://www.letssaythanks.com


2) Although perhaps not in the hump day spirit, a good simple site verily.  Thanks Eric V!

http://isitfridayyet.org/


3) An artistic look back the popular bands of indie music of 2009. thanks Jerry!

http://hypem.com/zeitgeist/2009/artists


4)  This happened because the woman had difficulty walking given uneven legs (photos of woman from article)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100125/ennew_afp/usartaccidentpicasso


5) From the Michael Cera Department

a) thanks liza!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNvEcjt9ASw        

b)  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/how-to-make-a-michael-cer_n_420430.html

Volume 9 Issue 15

1) Not for those who are easily sea sick. First person tetris.  Thanks LeKeith!

http://www.firstpersontetris.com/


2) A liberal arts education in internet videos.  Thanks Ashish!

http://www.urlesque.com/2009/04/07/the-100-most-iconic-internet-videos


3) Proof that my time with my legos as a child could have resulted in something productive.  Thanks Ariana!

http://www.archdaily.com/33604/toy-fanatic-builds-a-house-from-lego/

4) A new show on NBC at 10

http://www.getwhirled.com/jaybombs.html


5) The graphical history of crayola colors

http://www.weathersealed.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/crayons_big1.png


6) Support my friend Javi and his quest to raise $15k for the leukemia and lymphoma society!

http://pages.teamintraining.org/los/lavatri10/jriveracp2

Volume 9 Issue 14

1)  Brevity is the soul of wit, man.  But you don't have to be into the whole brevity thing. Like this ...

http://www.runleiarun.com/lebowski/

2)  I would very much like the title of this piece to be "ground control to major tom".  thanks Ariana N.!

http://www.paulgravescreative.com/paulgraves/photos/8.jpg

3) Sleeping people say the darndest things.  thanks Fredo!

http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/

Volume 9 Issue 13

1) Still need to finish your holiday shopping?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/108489/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-kitten-mittens-commercial


2)  Can't make up your mind?  Try this site
http://hunch.com/


3) Josh Cain has just filled my weekend.  Thanks Josh!
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26639/Opinion_The_99_Best_Free_Games_Of_2009.php


4) There is officially I site for everything.

 http://upsidedowndogs.com/


5) James Song helps me decide my new years resolution ...

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/dark-liquor-makes-for-worse-hangovers/

Volume 9 Issue 12

1) From the awwww department.  thanks Avi M!

http://www.zooborns.com/

2)  What to get the camping, star wars geek who has everything

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/bb2e/?pfm=Carousel_Tauntaun_2

3) I cannot recall if I have ever sent this.  If not for shame on me.  Thanks Danni L!

http://www.drhorrible.com/

4)  From the editors of the fun with google section of hump day

http://autocompleteme.com/

5) what to do with left over wrapping paper

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/14/papercraft-theo-jans.html

Volume 9 Issue 17

1) How my homeland handles the recession (thanks Scott Zhu)

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-ohio-unemployment-vs-liquor-sales-2010-1


2) Flight I still would say is a cooler power but volunteerism is a strength of character  I suppose

http://www.supersquad.org/


3)  Somehow this would have been more impressive through the hills on San Francisco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi4ClspNrNs


4) Why we should still write fan mail

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/01/your-pal-john-k.html


5) Maybe to give one lucky fan some ideas for Sunday ...

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2010/02/01


6) Finally, Selleck. Waterfalls. Sandwich.

http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com/

Volume 9 Issue 11

1)  How to answer a fast food conundrum

http://eatingtheroad.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/whereshouldieat.jpg

2)  How we could have been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA

3) Need b-roll?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8

4) Cool photos of vanishing lifestyle in Ethiopia

http://www.life.com/image/ugc1012492/in-gallery/35332/ethiopias-vanishing-tribes

Volume 9 Issue 10 - I have the internets

Volume 9
Special "I have Internets" Edition

The internet has arrived at my new apartment and to celebrate here is a belated hump day installment

1) Fall comes to a close with pumpkins and .... ewoks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0S0BUE0zg

2)  When to not take the phrase go jump in a lake literally:

http://jalopnik.com/5403061/16-million-bugatti-veyron-crashes-into-texas-lake

3) Incredible story. Thanks Fidel!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/luckycoyote.asp

4) Muppets take Queen (thanks Nick C.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY

5)  A creative use of google maps

http://www.class3outbreak.com/zombie-outbreak-simulator/

6) Because I know you were more worried about this than Dubai. She deleted her twitter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSOTQPUQoU

7)  A fall spin on a game from earlier this season ... thanks brother mac.

http://www.addictinggames.com/pumpkinremover.html

Volume 9 Issue 9 - Rivalry Week

Its rivalry week in college football and with that comes this traditional edition.

 

 

1) Happy fifth year anniversary to my college class's finest achievement

 

http://www.harvardsucks.org

 

2) Thematically appropriate - you can play the NES game Arch Rivals

 

http://www.playnes.net/play/60/Arch_Rivals.html

 

3) A recent letter exchange regarading the Irish - French World Cup Qualifying playoff match:

 

http://irishsoccerinsider.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/french-and-irish-fall-out-over-box-incident/

 

 

4)  Even the daily show understands the osu meatchicken rivalry

 

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-2-2006/midwest-midterm-midtacular---goodbye--columbus

 

but do they understand its deep history goes beyond the grid iron

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War

 

 

and for something completely different because it is so seasonal

 

 

5) some fall decorating tips (please be advised of foul language ... a lot of foul language ...  a lot a lot a lot of foul language ... but the contrast with Martha is how the humor is constructed ... you will see what I mean)

 

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/10/20nissan.html

 

 

Go Bucks and Go Dogs!

Ned

Volume 9 Issue 8

1)  Christopher Walken makes everything in pop culture better.  Thanks Fidel M!

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2009/11/christopher-walken-does-poker-face


2) An item that could end up on a do-it-yourselfers xmas list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE5PGeh2K9k


3)  I guess this is what happens in a recession.  Thanks Nick C!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/iowa.marker.disguise/index.html


4)  This will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t28COxEp2k


5) and finally nothing I can do this week will out do what the colonel did last week.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6444738/KFCs-Colonel-Sanders-tricks-his-way-into-UN-to-pose-for-official-photo.html

Volume 9 Issue 7

1) Almost as good as the samsung sheep ad (fyi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw) ...

http://mashable.com/2009/10/23/1000-phones-ad-video/

2) Maps some might use to suggest where they would like me to live
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/small-world/1

3) Still in need of costume ideas?

a) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xawkpo_chauve-souris-remi-gaillard_fun

b) http://store.americanapparel.net/halloween-costume-contest.html

c) something more refined perhaps ... http://www.newyorker.com/online/photocontests/critterati_2009/gallery

- Ned

Volume 9 Issue 6

1) There are some things that get you in the spirit for the Holidays, as much as I love him, Bob Dylan straining over Silent Night is not one of them.

As one critic said, "when the star stumbles through I'll be home for Christmas, he delivers it as a threat."

http://gawker.com/5381621/most-comically-dylanesque-tracks-on-bob-dylans-christmas-album


2) Its the economy stupid

a) http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0906/trans0609largestbankruptcies.html

b) http://thisamericanlife.com/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1320


3) Another great link from Ariana N. Thanks AN!

http://www.goollery.org/#recent


4) Need a hobby?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQ4dE_RGnQ


5) A new auto tune the news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnoD3NUux3M

--> My favorite from the summer for good measure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Psfn6iOfS8

--
Ned Young
w: http://www.aroundthecouch.com/

Volume 9 Issue 5

This week we will take a tour across America.


*Regular Shopping USA - Thank you Uncle Scott and a few others who exposed me to this one

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/


*Ohio- Ahhh, my home state

a) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY

b) Thanks Colman! http://deadspin.com/5370952/ohio-is-for-clunkers


* Upper Midwest

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6242687/WTF-Wisconsin-Tourism-Federation-changes-name-after-internet-jokes.html


*American History - How the civil war will be re-fought through preppy consumerism

New England North - http://www.vineyardvines.com
v.
South - http://www.southernproper.com/


* West Coast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwvc6fmXmuY

Volume 9 Issue 4

1) Live in a city? Take public transit? You have probably wondered the same thing ...

http://visualmotive.com/walk-or-bus/

2) Little charts that explain many of lifes finer points (Thanks Danni L.!)

http://thisisindexed.com/2009/09/his-leg-is-brown/

3) Perhaps I am missing nyc but often the simplest premises are the most delightful

http://current.com/items/91045745_drive-by-high-five.htm

4) Delicious. Thank you once again Nick C.!

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Gummy-Bears

The credits (Thank you Brian M's away message)
http://www.nbc.com/community/video/clips/la-biblioteca/1160538/

--
Ned Young
w: http://www.aroundthecouch.com/

Volume 9 Issue 3

A sign that the unemployment rate may be moving in a different direction
http://lancaster.craigslist.org/ofc/1371649695.html

The decoration every home needs
http://www.stickyups.com/onlineshop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=57&idcategory=0

Homes that are decorations themselves
http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/22/10-peculiarly-precarious-buildings/

Your daily dose of kiwi humor. Thanks Danni!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA

Note to self. Not stealing from this person anytime soon. Thank you Mr. Campbell.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.samurai16sep16,0,114199.story

Volume 9 Issue 2

1) The new party game that is sweeping the nation.

http://cheeseorfont.mogrify.org/

2) A product that may relieve our economic woes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3yGCE8Tfp4

3) A new spin on an old source of humor ... thanks Ariana N.!

http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

4) Addicting game of the week

http://www.candystand.com/play/bridgecraft

7) How did we get to number 7?

http://www.wired.com/culture/education/magazine/17-09/st_sinmaps

- Ned

--
http://www.aroundthecouch.com/

Hump Day Webpage - Volume 9 Issue 1

1) Why has it taken so long for hump day to come back from vacation? ... Couldn't find my computer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiNaadVOQEM&feature=player_embedded


2) Since we are in an age of going green, here is a page that recycles biproducts of twitter

http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/


3) This game is simple and highly addictive ... you have been forewarned ... thanks Greg T!

http://www.silvergames.com/game/red-remover/


4) Knowledge is half the humor in this cameo packed tribute to GI Joe.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/076041c13b/the-ballad-of-g-i-joe?utm_campaign=email_share&utm_content=076041c13b&utm_medium=email&utm_source=anon_user


5) Hopefully hump day can return from hiatus to a warmer welcome

http://www.youtube.com/user/thejdspot

- Ned
http://humpdaywebpage.blogspot.com
http://www.aroundthecouch.com/

Hump Day Webpage - Volume 8 - Special Summer Edition

Hump Day Webpage of the Week
Volume 8
Issue - Special Summer Edition

Hump Day has traditionally gone on a summer break only to tease its fans with a single special summer issue.

Here is this summers installment. See you again in September for the start of a new volume!

1) In a bad mood. Try this website from our "awww" department (note explicit language):
http://fuckyeahanimalswithcasts.tumblr.com/

2) In a bad mood. At least you're not these people
http://www.thehighdefinite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wontendwell2.JPG

3) In a bad mood. At least you can join this club
http://www.joinroach.com

4) In a bad mood. At least this state's primary doesn't have a big impact on the presidential primaries ... oh wait
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/whats-up-iowa

5) Interesting t-shirts and music ... and charities
http://www.yellowbirdproject.com/our_story

6) Finally something for your trips to the beach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjdyjL0dbG8

- Ned

--
Ned Young
http://humpdaywebpage.blogspot.com
http://www.aroundthecouch.com/

Hump Day Webpage - Volume 8 Issue 28

1) Yes please. Thank you LeKeith!

http://www.marvel.com/create_your_own_superhero

2) Happy Memorial Day Weekend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPtMHSYtPc4&feature=related

3) Just in time to give you ideas for your holiday card photos.

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

4) Are you having a bad week? ... Not anymore.

http://letsbefriends.blogspot.com/

- Ned

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http://humpdaywebpage.blogspot.com/