Pacmanwich

A man­wich is appar­ently a sloppy joe sand­wich. So a Pac­man­wich is one of those shaped like Pac­man. Read about it and other insane sand­wiches at insanewiches.com.

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Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 22:44 | Category : Curiosities
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Monster Mash

You’ve always won­dered where to stab Godzilla right? Well thanks to bookofjoe — and who­ever came up with these — you’ll now know what to do when faced with a build­ing sized Japan­ese monster.

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Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 21:52 | Category : Curiosities
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Orwell on Writing

A while back I quoted George Orwell on writ­ing clearly. The link to that arti­cle is now bro­ken — but the ABC’s Mark Colvin has taken a stab at some prob­lems with mod­ern Eng­lish — and included Orwell’s tips in a handy list form… it’s worth repeating.

1. Never use a metaphor, sim­ile, or other fig­ure of speech which you are used to see­ing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is pos­si­ble to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the pas­sive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a for­eign phrase, a sci­en­tific word, or a jar­gon word if you can think of an every­day Eng­lish equiv­a­lent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say any­thing out­right barbarous.

Time­less.

And thanks to Angela for the link.

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Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 21:40 | Category : Communication
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Teens like Wikipedia too

If the 100 most read wikipedia arti­cles of 2009 teach us any­thing it’s that teenage boys use the online ency­clo­pe­dia just like teenage boys have always used dic­tio­nar­ies… to look up rude words. You’ll notice that var­i­ous arti­cles about sex and gen­i­talia made it in.

Here’s the list.

Of course it also fea­tures dead celebri­ties, liv­ing politi­cians, and some movies.

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Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 21:28 | Category : Culture
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Too Pac? Not in this hood

That title right there folks is a hip hop ref­er­ence. It’s just for Ben.

The rest of this post is sim­ply to inform you that if you truly love me you should buy me this for Christ­mas — or my birth­day — it is the same day so I’ll even let you get away with com­bin­ing the presents…

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Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 21:17 | Category : Curiosities
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The lights are on

In Amer­ica the fur­thest point between two McDon­alds restau­rants is 145 miles by road. If you plot­ted every golden arch on a map it would look like this…

And we know this thanks to this guy, via Strange Maps.

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Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 20:52 | Category : Culture
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Design through the ages

Designs change slowly. Incre­men­tally. In every field — from break­fast cereal to book cov­ers. Even the Queen’s hat has slowly evolved… Check out this pro­gres­sion from the Guardian

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Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 20:38 | Category : Culture
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Killer coffee

Cof­fee with­drawal headaches hurt. Mikey reports that ibupro­fen will fix them

But you’ve got to won­der — if you’re get­ting cof­fee headaches are you at the stage where your addic­tion is harm­ful? Pos­si­bly. So just how much cof­fee can you drink before it kills you? This site can answer your query. And it’s not lim­ited to cof­fee, any caf­feinated bev­er­age will do.

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Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 20:21 | Category : Coffee
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Banana art - do do, do do do

If your an artist the world is your oys­ter and bananas are your pearls… or some­thing. Here’s a bunch of banana art.

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Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 20:14 | Category : Curiosities
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Duck Tails

Duck Hunt was way ahead of its time. The mys­tery was spoiled a lit­tle when the magic of the zap­per was revealed. But its pop­u­lar­ity lives on. Immor­talised in shirts like this

And pho­to­graphic mashups like this Space Invaders photo… well, this is tan­gen­tially related…

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Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 20:05 | Category : Curiosities
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