You didn't just learn letters, numbers, and the occasional bit of Spanish from Sesame Street. You also learned about rock 'n' roll. Presenting part one of a two-part compilation of our favorite Sesame Street song parodies, from rockabilly to disco. Pop music has never been so educational, nor so furry...
Honk Around The Clock
As we all know, rock 'n' roll was born when R&B was appropriated by the honkies.

In the upcoming year, our resolution is to get to know our community a little better. What you like, what you dislike, who you are. We've learned from talking to you, there's a lot to enjoy by meeting our community!
Today, though, we've got an interview with forums users LuminousSpecter and socialhazardforhim about how they became engaged on the set of Voyage Of The Dawn Treader wearing shirt.woot shirts.
 

How About A Little Bass Response, Scarecrow?Come closer, my pretty! Let me get a better look at those delightful little ears!

MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE EMPLOYEE LOUNGE, Mortimer’s got something important to say to his plush primate pal Monte. But every time he’s tried to tell him, the words just came out wrong. This time, he’s come prepared with musical accompaniment. It’s open mic night in the break room.

Sure, you've got a Facebook with a status bar you can use to update the world on your feelings about current events and your virtual farm. You've even got a Twitter account so you can let everyone know you just ran out of Funyuns and your roommate Wayne peed on the seat again. And that comes in handy when you're not checking in on Foursquare as the rightful-if-begrudging mayor of your local unemployment office. But where do you go to let everyone around you know that you just got lucky?

Why, I Just Made Love, of course!

We’d love to have a drink with all of our Twitter followers after work, but we still haven’t found a bar big enough for 1.6 million people. So we’re showing the love the only way we know how: by selling even more cheap stuff. Introducing Woot Happy Hour. Every so often, after a particularly rough day on the job, we’ll whisk you away at 4 p.m. Central to a mini-Woot-Off that will last exactly one hour before it turns into a virtual pumpkin. But when, exactly?

Geekologie has turned us on to something cool. Something that we feel should have existed a long, long time ago.
 

 

Like any Federal building stuffed full of elected officials, the Utah State Capitol is a place where many, many, many stupid decisions are made. The latest and most spectacular bad decision involved our monkeys, and a balcony, and an echo, and lots and lots of marble. Oh, and there was a video camera too. Take a look...
 

Daddy, how was I born?
Well, “born” isn’t quite the right word, Clonathon. You were grown from various strands of DNA in a nutrient tank in a secret laboratory far below the Nevada desert.

If you're the kind of person who goes out for lunch more often than not, keeping the spark going can be a real chore. Sure, that burger place across the street from the office is something you know. It's comfortable, but maybe it's too comfortable. You could strike out on your own for something exotic, but you just had Indian on Tuesday. Tacos would be good, but then you'll be burping all afternoon.

Every week in this space, we’ll take a look at the news and offer our own incisive blend of commentary, analysis, and poop jokes. The news you need, from a voice you can trust, in the 90 seconds you have to spare: that’s Woot Weads the Wire.

Google’s old motto: Don’t be evil. The new one: Don’t speak English.
If you thought the main problem with our “Real Actual Field Test” videos was that they made too much sense, you’re in luck. Now you can watch them with the sound off, reading along with subtitles provided by “Transcribe Audio,” a feature in beta testing that uses Google’s speech recognition technologies to automatically caption YouTube videos. The results? Pure Dada.

I’m Never Going Back To Our Regularly Scheduled ProgrammingAt last, I can watch my favorite commercials without sitting through all those annoying shows.

• Cinnamon and marinara sauce
• French fries and chocolate milkshakes
• Hamburgers and velvet
• Sun-dried tomatoes and the tears of orphans
• Bread pudding and the music of Joanna Newsom
• Zima and that clown from your birthday party
• Lamb shanks and my father's disappointment
• Melted gouda and Han Solo action figures (original or Hoth)
• The oral history of the Underground Railroad and the color teal
• Those old aluminum swimming pools and socialism

The below video is a tad NSFW due to language and slightly adult content, but if you haven't seen this year's Oscar-winning animated short Logorama yet, give this a click. Watch as a Los Angeles made up entirely of corporate logos and mascots EXPLODES before your very eyes. You know, when you get home and maybe after you've put the kids to bed.

Oooh, Father-in-Law’s birthday?I’ve got the perfect gift.

 

 
That's right, it's just that simple. Ripped from the pages of the always-cutting-edge deviantART.com, Virtual Hamster is a 21st Century hamster raising scenario.
 

ViceSonny Justice was calm in his Ferrari, parked across the street from the hottest video store in town. It was almost time to move in.

I Can’t Believe They’re Making Me Work On My BirthdayNo presents. No cake. There isn’t even anyone here. Sigh. Another year alone, I guess.

Live BaitSorry, HP. I’m observing a one-man Blu-Ray boycott until Hollywood wakes up and gives us an HD reissue of the greatest flying-carnivorous-fish movie ever made.

The spirit of Jackson Pollock in flash game form, or paintball without guns? The object of Splatz is to burst your red paint blobs where they'll take out the maximum number of blue paint blobs. I finished it in 78 retries, almost all of them on the Satanically diabolically final level. It was more fun than watching paint dry. (Sorry.)
 

Join the TomTom ClubJust where do you think you’re going?OK, you’ve probably seen TomTom’s model XL 340S out there in your travels across this great land of ours. By which we mean “on your way to the liquor store.” It’s a perfectly handy little satellite navigat-a-mo-bob, and you could do a lot worse.

The year is 1835. One Sir Albert Pendelton discovers low temperature fusion. Now all machines can be powered by… okay, we'll level with you. There are a lot of people who will get scared away if we say the word "steampunk" right now. So, instead, we're going to go right to the part where Steambirds is a turn-based airplane duel game, and boy, is it fun.
 

We'll leave it to the critics to argue the finer points of the mashup on Wikipedia (even though we must say that we don't always agree with that particular article right there). But even the broadest definition accepts that the mashup is just about ten years old. So what a great time to be at the head of "Mashup Retro", a label we've just created right now! Here's just a taste to start you off.
 

Ask Me About Our Cameras“Excuse me. I was just looking at this camera and I was hoping you might be able to tell me a little more about it.”“Sure, sir. How can I help you?”
“See, I’ve had my previous camera for a really long time now and I was hoping to upgrade to something a little more portable and modern…”

As somebody who's been going to the big Consumer Electronics Show for four years now - and honestly it feels like far longer than that - I found BoingBoing's report from Nepal's biggest tech show pretty fascinating. For one thing, in a country without reliable electrical service, generators are big business. Indeed, the Sony booth was lit with the help of giant aluminum-foil reflectors.

I was checking my profile on Stache Passions recently when I realized my wife would be pretty upset if she knew I was looking for women who appreciate mustaches.

Every week in this space, we’ll take a look at the news and offer our own incisive blend of commentary, analysis, and poop jokes. The news you need, from a voice you can trust, in the 90 seconds you have to spare: that’s Woot Weads the Wire.

Deductions And SandThrough there, accountant. Step onto the holy ground. Your Dominus commands it of you."Um… hello? I'm Melvin? The accountant you asked for? I didn't think we'd be meeting in some… is this a sand pit? I'm used to an office, but I guess we could work anywhere, as long as… hello?"

While you may feel one way or the other about the band OK Go, one thing that can not be denied is their knack for making some pretty amazing videos. The newest video for the song "This Too Shall Pass" is no exception. Check out the mad Rube Goldberg action in the below video.