Category: Curiosities

Shirt of the Day Redux: The pick of the bunch

I’ve used my morning sorting through the Threadless sale so that you don’t have to. Here are my favourites. Click the image for the link.

Little sister number 3 has this one

Little sister number 3 has this one

Shirt of the Day: Interpretive Dance

Threadless is having a $5 sale – that’s $US5. Chief amongst the awesome cheapies is this one – but my size is gone, and there aren’t many left. And the sale finishes today.

It’s a shame I didn’t get onto this earlier – they would have made a great uniform for a dance ministry.

A bunch of links – March 23, 2009

UrbanTrend: a knife’s throw away

I suspect UrbanTrends is going to give worldwidefred a run for its money in little sister number 2’s books. She declared worldwidefred her favourite site yesterday. And yet here we are, looking at a different site – probably worthy of a rival series of morning posts. So for the next nine days they’ll go head to head. Starting with the coolest knife block ever. Cooler than the voodoo knife block.

I always said that if I could be anyone in the circus I’d be the knife thrower. And now I can practice at home.

If your bench doesn’t have room for a fully fledged knife throwing block – how bout the set of matching steak knives as an alternative

Toastered TV

Here’s a device that could one day make the weather man obsolete.

This contraption looks interesting you say. But what is it? Possibly the most awesome device ever to be posted on my blog.

No more reading tea leaves or chicken entrails for your morning auguries  (unless you have liverwurst on your toast) – It is a weather forecasting toaster. It prints the day’s forecast on your morning bread. It will one day be available in stores. It was launched at a Java conference eight years ago. I can’t believe it’s not out there in stores yet. It’s the ultimate convergence device.

No pun intended

I am totally taking up this hobby. Especially now I know puns are a mark of geekiness – not nerdiness. I am embracing my inner geek. With a little sci-fi I’ll be 10/10 in no time.

Miscellanea

The cartoonist behind this website is a raving atheist – but mostly a humourous one. Here’s a secular satire that could be extended to Christians who aren’t really prepared to back their beliefs by living recklessly and putting their lives on the line for the cause.

Here are some more good ones.

The obesity one is using data from 2007.

Godfather flow chart

I had a chance to watch The Godfather II with some guys from church a couple of weeks ago. I’d never really noticed this flow chart’s appearance in the movie (it’s not quite a family tree) – but I think it’s in the court hearing scene. Click it for a larger version.

There’s also this useful family timeline at the same site.

New math

I really really like morenewmath.com – here are some of my favourite mathematical equations of food and drink.

Our daily Fred: Leave it to cleaver

More awesomeness from Fred and Friends – a knife/chopping block combo in the shape of a cleaver. It’s such a cleaver idea.
http://www.worldwidefred.com/chopchop.htm

Pacman sited

Pacman has found a new home. In Russia.

He has been spotted wandering the streets of Russia in cohorts with a blue ghost. Thanks to these Russian bloggers.

The video is pretty long. But amusing.

Our daily Fred: On a knife’s edge

Fred and friends have produced some pretty amazingly cool products – I’ve featured a number of them before – and now, in a special series of posts I’ll be sharing my favourites from World Wide Fred

The Evidence Knife

A bunch of links – March 22, 2009

Burger masterpiece

Not since Jason Statham in the Transporter 2 has grease been used so artistically.

This is quite phenomenal. It’s an advertisement for a pure and natural burger chain – Arbys.

Wow.

Ahh… It’s a trap

No it’s not. It’s a cheese knife and cutting board set. Shame it’s not actually for sale. I’d totally buy one. They’re available here. I’d love to buy one. And then my wife would totally make me give it to someone as a present.

Found here.

The guy behind the product design has some other cool ideas.

Like this.

And this.

Update – it turns out a lot of the really cool ideas I’ve linked to before were designed by this guy and the company he works for – worldwidefred.com – you can buy their stuff from Amazon and a host of other novelty kitchen suppliers. Like here.