I love how the input page over at BIGASSMESSAGE.com looks. If you couldn’t figure it out by the URL, bigassmessage.com is a website that allows you to serve big messages using either a Jepardy! style look, a crazy flashing background, or just plain big black text. Perfect for yelling across the internet. [via]

Check out this example: ONE SHOT BRO, ONE SHOT!

Somebody took the audio in the trailer for Mean Girls and mashed it up with footage from various Disney films who also feature female leads. The result is what probably happens when Disney princesses go astray.

Thanks Clarence!

Geraldine Brezca, Quentin Tarantino’s clapperboard operator, has a great sense of humor on set. This video compiles many of her funny sayings while filming Inglourious Basterds into one video. [via]

In a Twitter exchange, Anil Dash just reminded me that the word "avatar" comes from from the Sanskrit word Avatãra. The word means, more or less, "descent." More, from a related blog post at Heritage Key:

But while the modern day meaning implies gaming and interaction, the original definition has a very different meaning. In Hinduism, avatars act as manifestations of deities. This occurs when a god has decided to come to our world by taking a human or animal form.

The most well-known avatars were associated with the god Vishnu, who often appeared in our world to restore good in the world when evil threatened to corrupt it. The deity would do so by fighting off demons as a fish or a boar. At other times, Vishnu would lead armies to victory as an eventual king (Sounds a little similar to the plot of the movie Avatar?).

(Heritage Key, thanks, @xlent1 / Image: "Vishnu Dreaming," a Creative Commons licensed image from the Flickr stream of Vaticanus)