Finding a new angle to promote a movie franchise that has been around for a long time and received a big budget campaign to begin with must be tough. So kudos to the company behind these ads for upcoming screenings of Aliens v Predator on Sky TV in New Zealand.
Category: Curiosities
Alien v Predator
A bunch of links – March 21, 2009
- Favorite Post #8. Subtly finding out if you drink beer too.
- Hi-rez Tetris after two weeks
- Twins commit perfect heist?
- Baby Name Fail
- Google and design
- Smush.it Bulk Optimises Images
- ABC Debate on Satan Tonight
More “Stuff Christians Like” – they really are funny because they’re true.
Unleavened bread
Have you ever thought about how many different types of “flatbread” there are? Bread varieties that are essentially the same thing just used different ways by different cultures? Profound hey. One man’s Yiros is another man’s burrito. Here’s the list from Wikipedia.
- Aish Mehahra (Egypt)
- Arepa (Colombia, Venezuela)
- Bammy (Jamaica)
- Barbari bread (Persian)
- Bazlama (Turkey)
- Bhakri (India)
- Bhatura (India)
- Bing (China)
- Bolanee (Stuffed flatbread) (Afghanistan)
- Casabe (South America, Caribbean)
- Chapati (India)
- Crêpe (France)
- Crisp bread (Nordic)
- Flammkuchen (Germany, France)
- Flatbrød (Norway)
- Flatkaka (Iceland)
- Focaccia (Italy)
- Green onion pancake (China)
- Injera (Ethiopia, Eritrea)
- Khanom buang (Thailand)
- Laobing (China)
- Lavash (Eastern Mediterranean)
- Laxoox (Somalia)
- Lefse (Nordic)
- Luchi (East India and Bangladesh)
- Malooga (Yemeni)
- Mandezi (Africa)
- Markook (Levant)
- Matzo (Jewish)
- Naan (Central and South Asia)
- Nan (Uzbekistan)
- Non (Tajikistan)
- Ngome (Mali)
- Opłatek (Poland)
- Pancake (Canada, United States, Britain and Ireland)
- Pane carasau (Sardinia)
- Papadum (India, Sri Lanka)
- Paratha (India, Sri Lanka)
- Piadina (Italy)
- Pide (Turkey)
- Pita (Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East)
- Pizza is based on flatbread but normally contains yeast
- Podpłomyk (Poland)
- Puri (India)
- Roti (Central and South Asia)
- Roti canai
- Rieska (Finland)
- Sacramental bread (Roman Catholic and some Protestants)
- Sanchuisanda (the Qiang people of China) — made of wheat flour and baked in ashes at the side of an open wood fire. The finished loaf is covered in ashes which are blown and patted off. The name literally means “three blows, three hits” and refers to this post-cooking cleaning.
- Sangak (Persian)
- Taftoon Bread (Persian)
- Tortilla (Mexico and Central America)
- Tunnbröd (Sweden)
- Yufka (Turkey)
Make your next beer a blast
Why is it that I make one of the coolest posts I’ve made in days weeks months ever and the next day I spot something that would have been an absolutely perfect fit. I give you the beer blaster.
Actually, it’s probably good enough to warrant its own post. Here’s where you can get yours – and here it is in action.
Shirt of the Day: Pacman redux
I posted a Pacman shirt from Glennz.com last week. This one is funnier. And it’s from BustedTees
Runners up in the almost shirt of the day category (which is generally weekly and completely arbitrary)… from the same site include the following.
And this one is too rude for me to display – even though I think my mum would approve. And my wife would relate…
Meth busters
The title of this post is only appropriate because it contains a passing reference to a popular television show and the name of the guy who designed the stuff I’m posting. Dan Meth. Creator of the fantastic trilogy graphic has produced a series of pop culture graphics. Included below for your enjoyment, education and edification are images mapping the location of popular sitcoms, the location of New York based sitcoms and the layout of sitcom sets from popular series throughout history.
A bunch of links – March 19, 2009
- A lesson to marketers about the importance of reading the blogs they pitch to but who probably won’t read this because they don’t read the blogs they pitch to
- Web blacklist outcry: dentist, tuckshop on official “hate list” – web
- Final Frame: Gamer Cupcakes Galore
- DON’T MENTION THE DIVORCES
- Americans can’t answer rudimentary science questions
- Jargon speak: what are they really saying?
- Soggy Fish Award – Mark Dever
- Wipeout Chalk Guns Could Lead to Chalkdust Torture
- Tilt shift video: “Bathtub IV”
- Driscoll’s New Calvinism
- Beer2-D2
- Use Clever Questions To Ease Into Small Talk
- Google Chrome Extensions Are Happening In The Latest Beta
- What Your Pastors Aren’t Telling You
Why a Government controlled blacklist is a bad idea…
“alongside the questionable porn sites and other nasties are examples like this: Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist.
Other Australian sites on the list are (“Tuckshop and Canteen Management Consultants”) and , animal carers MaroochyBoardingKennels.com.au.
Nice work ACMA. The list has been released by wikileaks.
“The dentist, Dr John Golbrani, was furious when contacted to inform him that his site, dentaldistinction.com.au, appeared on the blacklist.
“A Russian company broke into our website a couple of years back and they were putting pornographic listings on there … [but] we changed across to a different web provider and we haven’t had that problem since,” Golbrani said in a phone interview.
Some stats from American church surveys – 29% describe themselves as strongly associated with the Democrats while only 12% call themselves strong Republicans.
Pizza by numbers
Want to make your own logically tasty Sudoku pizza? Here’s how.
Son of a gun
Barack Obama is under fire from the Christian Right gun lobby for making air travel in the US more dangerous by repealing an act that allowed pilots to carry sidearms.
Guns are fun. Everyone knows that. Which is why I’ve collected this post full of novely gun items that you should all consider adding to your personal armoury.
Like this BBQ lighter…
“A fun way to start the grill, the Shoot and Cook Rifle BBQ lighter will help you light your grilling flames safely. This 14.5’’ lever action rifle replica features impressive miniature details that are sure to make it one of your favorite backyard grilling tools. Refillable, this butane lighter is child resistant for safety and features flame adjustment.”
Sounds fun. Buy it from the Bass Pro Shops…
Now, we all know I’m a bit OCD about flies. Nothing spoils Christmas lunch at the Campbells like a hoard of buzzing blowflies… well, now I can dispose of them safely and hygenically. Thanks to this:
Once the trigger has been activated, the capture tube will shoot out about 1 cm. At the same time there will be a strong vacuum created in the suction cylinder and capture tube. The fly doesn’t stand a chance against the suction, which is reinforced by the rapid projection of the capture tube. The fly is sucked into the capture tube up to the protective grating. The protective grating prevents the fly from getting into the internal mechanism.
If you’ve caught your flies and don’t have turtles to feed them to – perhaps you’ll need this butane lighter machine gun with a laser scope. It’s not a long bow to draw. It’s a machine gun lighter to burn…
“This great refillable butane lighter looks just like a Machine Gun. Pull back the hammer and watch the blue jet torch come out the front. This gun lighter is also a laser pointer with 5 different picture lenses including traditional point pinky hand indian skull hand and more!. Everyone will notice your amazing lighter/lazer pointer gun.”
Yeah, and chicks totally dig guys with machine gun flamethrowers. Buy yours here today. Or don’t, they’ll no doubt be here tomorrow.
And finally the coup de grace – if you can’t handle all these guns of awesomeness and rather conveniently want to shoot yourself – I give you… the backwards pistol. I’m sure it’s ergonomically sound.
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*Possibly not a real product.
A bunch of links – March 18, 2009
- Colouring Book Fail
- Kid walks to soccer, neighbors call the cops
- John Calvin On Theology
- Students
- Too Busy To Pray? Don’t Worry – Indulgences Are Back!
- Too Busy To Pray? Don’t Worry – Indulgences Are Back!
- Transparency: How Much Water Do You Use?
- Top G Reasons I Hate Numbers
- Teens Launch Balloon into Space, Take Pictures for Less than $100
- Google Chrome Beta Updates, Boasts Improved Speed and New Features [Beta Beat]
- Scanwiches.com — #39;High quality sandwich imagery for your education and delight#39;
- 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications
- Kevin Rudd is an apostrophe Twit
- Arrogance and Humility: Whose Definition?
Colour in a Zebra…
Stupid.
It’s funny because it’s true. I have had this dream.
So fundamentally stupid it must have been designed by an atheist looking to ride the religious cash cow.
Quote – The word ‘arrogance’ is used to hijack the term ‘conviction,’ and on the other side, ‘humility’ is used to hijack ‘uncertainty.’
YouTube Twosday: Segway segue
Lets face it. Despite my constant references to the gyroscopic personal transport device Segways have not taken the world by storm.
Perhaps the underlying technology was just not used to its full potential. Maybe. Just maybe. Someone should have considered how much more awesome a segway would have been were it based on an octopus. With tentacles instead of wheels. What do you mean someone has already done that? Why are all the good ideas taken? It’s called the Cajun Crawler – and here it is in action…
A bunch of links – March 17, 2009
- Wedding cake made from 80 Pac-Man cupcakes
- Self Destructing Pixel Coffee Table
- 100 matches, carved out of a solid block of wood
- Waveforms as bracelets
- Get More (or Less) Caffeine from Your Coffee [Coffee]
- BestInClass Tells You Which Camera The Experts Would Buy
- Top Ten Bizarre Food Festivals
- Mathematician#39;s foolproof Sudoku solution — Solve any puzzle, no matter how hard
- Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace
- Non-believing on the Rise in America
- Espresso Coffee: a Complex and Fragile Beauty
- 20 Free Web Apps for the 2.0 Student
I would have blogged this yesterday – but my host was down so you’ll see it today (unless you’re seeing it in Google Reader now).
Rub a dub dub
Here’s something for all the Psycho fans out there – turn your shower cubicle into a crime scene with this bath mat.
Complete with bloodied footprints. Just 15 pounds. Bargain. Found here.