One cool thing is added every day at midnight. If you have a cool thing that should be on this site email: onecoolthingaday@gmail.com try { } catch(err) {} Tumblr (3.0; @onecoolthing)http://onecoolthingaday.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky6nlwkw5d1qb3wpfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Meet Mr. Heudonylin Lawdgepparell. He’s not a real person, but he is a combination of 4 celebrities.</b></p> <p><i>Click on the picture to see the sources for this photo and more celeb mashups.</i></p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/402295385http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/402295385Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:29:00 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky4rkls8IZ1qb3wpfo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><b>Is there anything cooler than tales of Rogues and Con Men? YES. Rhyming. </b></p> <p><i>Click on the picture to read the rest of the story…</i></p> <p>Writer/Director of Brothers Bloom and Brick, Rian Johnson, author’s this latest entry on <a target="_blank" href="http://popcornfiction.com">popcornfiction.com</a></p> <p><i>(you can tell the author what you think of his story on twitter, he’s @rcjohnso)</i></p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/400182407http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/400182407Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800<object style="width: 400px; height: 400px;" width="400" height="400" data="http://www.cesmes.fi/pallo.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://www.cesmes.fi/pallo.swf" /></object><br/><br/><p><b>Touch the pretty colors and see all the cool things that happen…</b></p> <p><b><i><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cesmes.fi/pallo.swf"><a href="http://www.cesmes.fi/pallo.swf">http://www.cesmes.fi/pallo.swf</a></a></span></i></b></p> <p><i>Submitted by Tyler Wheelock</i></p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/398264641http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/398264641Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:41:04 -0800<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://onecoolthingaday.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/396330685/tumblr_ky15gpBpAI1qb3wpf&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><b>The most beautiful music ever written.</b></p> <p><b><i>Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis</i></b></p> <p>This composition is so cool they used it in <i>Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World</i> starring Russell Crowe. (actual track is over 15 minutes long)</p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/396330685http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/396330685Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:10:00 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/knW1hGwmEXQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/knW1hGwmEXQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><b>The coolest thing about this dated Gap commercial? It was made in 1998…a year before The Matrix came out.</b></p> <p>If you wanna see an even earlier precursor to “Bullet Time” check out this music video from 1985: <a title='"Accept" music video' target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAKXiD84Nzg"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAKXiD84Nzg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAKXiD84Nzg</a></a></p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/394411978http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/394411978Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:49:04 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxxfbkEfoc1qb3wpfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>The coolest thing about dying?…the view.</b></p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/392469735http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/392469735Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:52:32 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AYC8fTv2jp4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AYC8fTv2jp4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><b>The story of a robot tells us what it means to be human.</b></p> <p><i>Director Dante Ariola takes 1 cool minute to better convey what took Spielberg and Kubrick 146 minutes.</i></p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/390393564http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/390393564Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:50:07 -0800<p><b>“For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.”</b></p> <p><i>by Ernest Hemingway</i></p> <p>For more great six word short stories (from the likes of Neil Gaiman, Kevin Smith, Joss Whedon, Alan Moore, etc.) visit: <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html"><a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html</a></a></p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/388625074http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/388625074Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:46:00 -0800<object style="width: 400px; height: 228px;" width="400" height="228" data="http://games.mochiads.com/c/g/icycle/icycle.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="src" value="http://games.mochiads.com/c/g/icycle/icycle.swf" /></object><br/><br/><p><b>What’s cooler than cold? ICE cold.</b></p> <p>(Just use the arrow keys to control, it’s simple and more fun than most $50 games)</p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/386928487http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/386928487Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:10:08 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gNYZH9kuaYM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gNYZH9kuaYM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><b>A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything by Jamie Bell</b></p> <p>The kid who made this musta been pretty bored in class…</p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/385209285http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/385209285Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:06:00 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TEtI1B2Ip7Y&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TEtI1B2Ip7Y&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><b>I Am Stamos</b></p> <p>One of the funniest, most clever movies you never saw. The return of John Stamos is a very cool thing indeed…</p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/383409585http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/383409585Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:05:00 -0800“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.”<br/><br/> - <em>Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” 1936</em>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/381479284http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/381479284Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:01:52 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxkh5w8wq21qb3wpfo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><b>What goes up must come down</b></p> <p>(photo by Erik Johansson http://www.alltelleringet.com)</p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/379692103http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/379692103Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:03:00 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ij5zMypnsE8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ij5zMypnsE8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><b>This was made to sell Jeans. Can business be art?</b></p> <p><b><i>Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth)</i></b></p>http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/377864182http://onecoolthingaday.com/post/377864182Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:10:00 -0800