[via Know Your Meme]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrg_6dny6Po

Our exciting new series How Posts Are Hacked Together Things Are Made continues today with a probing look at toilet paper. Surprisingly, it doesn’t cover the engineering challenge of keeping bits from flecking on Teddy Bear butts.

[via Kottke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwYTibTbYHQ

We don’t do formal meditation well — too much, um, formality — but should you need an escape from today’s incessant coverage of the Iowa Straw Poll, Talibunny, and Deranger Rick (we’re working on it), you could do worse than stare at a five-minute video on manufacturing pencils, each and every one of which is more intelligent than any candidate you’ll hear from.

[via Wired]

The Stock Market’s crashing again, Standard & Poor’s hates America, Rick Perry is holding his God-In today… We’re just gonna hide in our Lego Batcave until all this blows over.

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In a week where we’ve seen Idiocracy referenced even more than usual, it’s fitting that MTV has released a preview for the return this fall of Mike Judge’s original idiots, Beavis and Butt-Head. Cowacornhole, dude!

[via Comics Alliance]

With the country on the brink of default and the world on the brink of collapse, The Preznit of These United States stepped to the podium yesterday afternoon to answer queries from the elite of Our Exceptional Nation’s Press Corps. AP White House correspondent Ben Feller showed why our reporters are the envy of the world by immediately drilling to the heart of the issue:

You said you want the leaders back here at 11 a.m. to give you an answer about the path forward. What is your answer about the path forward? What path do you prefer, given what’s just happened?

Aptly put, Brother Feller. Set the spin aside and get The Preznit on the record about his own priori—

Wait — you’re not done?

And also, sir, quickly, what does this say about your relationship with Speaker Boehner?

Ah. Well. Our mistake. We mistook you for a journalist. Never mind.

July 22 Press Conference [White House]

In honor of Carmageddon, we thought we’d revive our favorite movie about the 405. Which is also, as far as we know, the only movie about the 405.

Carmageddon could result in 20-mile back-up on 405 [LAT]