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I'll be heading to Nashville in a few hours to take part in the 48 Hour Film Project with Fighting With Forks (for those uninitiated, its film contest where teams have 2 days to write, act, cast, scout, act, edit a film; within a genre they are randomly given). But I didn't want to leave anyone (anyone? anyone there?) empty handed, so here's a decent list of some interesting and random things:

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds -- use any website address to create some fairly spectacular randomly placed "keyword" or "tags" clouds (and change the fonts, etc). Here's the Circus' results.
Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America is a flash time-line that shows the growth of the worlds largest retailer (from its start till now). Daunting and one has to be impressed (regardless of what you think of Walmart)
Simply Noise -- I'm not sure the purpose of the site (other than to have basic white noise -- and pink noise, who's heard of pink noise? -- playing quietly; but it is lulling in a 2am fell asleep in front of the TV sorta way
Totally Looks Like (Famous People and Celebs that Totally Look Like Animals and Other Things) -- brought to you by the makers of LOLCats and completely awesome.
Pointless, yet awesome, Firefox add-on called Am I On MySpace
Things They Don't Tell You (But Should) : A Guide To Life. Some classic illustration gems of advice
I realize this is absolutely inappropriate, but I still find it interesting how far culture can change (and amazing what was truly acceptable) -- 10 of The Most Racist Toys Ever Made
How long would you survive in the vacuum of space? (me, 1:47; and you get to learn exactly what will happen to you as you boil and suffocate, lovely)
The best of news slip ups -- I've seen some of these, but this is a great repository
How To Eat A Watermelon With Petey Greene. Public access cable at its best.
Another video "best of" (if you will) showing you Amazing Things About Everything (turn off the volume because the music is more annoying hearing Jim J. Bullock sing Banana Phone)
How Many Sequels Were There? -- pretty self explanatory (and surprising)
The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. Mmm, some really nice stuff (quite of few of these I still have).
Interesting (though gets messed up around 6:50) stop animation video called "Neighbors" by Norman McLaren (1952)