Month: March 2009

A bunch of links – March 31, 2009

Blood Bath

This is the perfect foil for your evidence knife and blood stained bathmat – particularly if you want to be arrested for a crime you didn’t commit. It’s Only 8.99GBP. All the more reason to embrace your inner psycho.

No no offence

“They make for a strange trio of bedfellows, Peter Jensen, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, David Marr, the journalist, and Janet Albrechtsen, the columnist – public figures whose views on politics, society and religion could not be more different.”

There’s an interesting debate taking place tonight. It’ll be online. It’s about freedom to offend (protecting freedom of speech). The above is the team for the affirmative… details are here.

It’ll screen here.

Miracle cure

Give your atheist friends a spray with this miracle cure (peppermint breath freshener) and watch their smug superiority melt away…

YouTube Twosday – wherefore art though Mario

Here are two Super Mario inspired videos along a similar theme – what would happen if Mario appeared in real life (and not in a terrible, terrible, movie version…)

The first takes a real life Mario (played by a human) into an 8 bit society (made from cardboard).

While the second takes the real Mario onto the streets. It’s worth a watch – especially from about a minute in.


Warp Whistle
by MatthewDominick

YouTube Tuesday: Wiimote controlled coffee

I was sure I’d posted this before. But it appears not. I searched for all the logical combinations of words.

If I were a bit nerdier – or geekier – I would try to figure out how to do this to my machine – which is essentially a supersized Silvia (but slightly different in structure). Total temperature control is pretty much the holy grail of coffee preparation.

Pac to the rafters

Ahh Pacman, where would I be without you… about four posts down per day I reckon.

Pacman’s gravitational structure has always puzzled me. It has some bearing on his actual shape – are we getting a topographical view – or a view from the side? Who knows? Well, someone. And now you can explore Pacman with gravity as a factor thanks to the marvels of modern programming technology…

Download it here.

Here’s one for the folders

Scrunchers are no doubt less sophisticated and should be ostracised with much pointing and name calling. Folders are the superior breed. As demonstrated by this new line of toilet paper

Glass bottomed kayak

Nothing gives you an appreciation of your impending consumption by a shark like a see through kayak. see through kayak.

Mirror, mirror on the wall…

…who is the tallest of them all?

I am posting a lot of rubbish today – and am thoroughly enjoying the “press this” WordPress link. It makes posting even quicker…

Of plastic cups, and stools and things

These things are a multipurpose stool/storage thing. Shaped like a cup. But that’s obvious. Just by looking at them. They’re also ridiculously overpriced – at 66.50 GBP.

These are a variation on the theme – and much cheaper – plastic cup inspired coffee and espresso cups.

Cherry Chomper: Chomps cherries

And who knew that Cherry pitting was such a modern culinary dilemma? Not me. But thankfully Cherry Chomper is here.

Turns out it’s a real problem. Or so the retailer would have you believe

“Cherry chomper provides a safe, quick and clean way to pit cherries.”

“A fun tool for kids in the kitchen and a big help for those who suffer from arthritis.”

Yours for just $US14.98. If you dare..

Knives out…

Fancy yourself as the King Arthur of the kitchen – then these wall hooks from A+R will help solidify that claim – they should be a breeze to pull out too.

I want to clean these cups…

Not since the scene with the cleaner with a crockery fetish in Black Books have I been so freaked out by a cup. And yet, I would buy one. Or a set. From herehere’s where I found them

Confickeration

If you haven’t heard of the Conficker Worm you must have been living under a bush or something. Even the ABC Morning Show in Townsville is talking about it.

To be honest I haven’t done anything about Conficker. I haven’t even checked my various computers for the nasty little monster. And now its fury is meant to be being unleashed upon us tomorrow I am feeling like I should.

The US Government has come to the rescue with a nice, easy test from a reputable(?) source…

I’ll be running it at home tonight. I think we’ll be right – but it’s probably worth checking.