Remember K-Strass? The Yo-Yo Man who tricked his way onto national television in the US. Well. It turns out his ruse should have been much easier to see through. Because real Yo-Yo champions are impressive.
This. Is K-Strass.
Category: Curiosities
Lego Godfather: An offer you can’t refuse
Luca sleeps with the fishes.
Those are from AT94’s Cinematic Set on Flickr.
There’s a whole pool of mafia themed legos. Awesome sauce.
Stop Bible Bashing, use a Witness Stick
This Trademarked Stick will help you convince your friends that Jesus is Lord. Just like Moses used a staff to convince Pharaoh that God is God.
It’s a real thing, but it doesn’t have an official website. Just the trademark registration page which includes this description:
“The WITNESS STICK trademark is filed in the category of Furniture Products . The description provided to the USPTO for WITNESS STICK is Non-metal poles that have been carved and painted and used for educational purposes.”
Via Scotteriology.
Pizza Cutting: Shear awesomeness
You’ve got no excuse for unevenly sliced pizza with these bad boys.
That is cool. But cutting pizza with lasers is, well, cooler.
More on Real Life Superheroes
I continue my fascination with the sort of psychological make up that leads people to don spandex, leather, and bulletproof vests to patrol the streets as super heroes. This article has done nothing to convince me to put an end to such fascination, but nor does it make me think the heroes in question are even remotely sane.
Here is Phoenix Jones. I’ve posted about him before. He’s still alive, which is possibly miraculous.
This story covers a meeting of Real Life Superheroes in Washington around Comic Con. It is pretty amazing stuff.
Arrested Development: Now in Lego…
This is a Lego set I’d buy. If it were real. It’s not.
More in artist Pepa Quin’s Flickr. These are going to be displayed at Brickworld 2011. The coolest Lego show this year.
10 stupid things (for others) to do with your ashes
I’ve posted some of these before. But the discovery of a service that turns your ashes into bullets was enough for me to put together a little bit of a digest post. I’m not suggesting you digest your ashes. That would be a little bit too Keith Richards (he snorted his dad).
No. Friends. These are quality tacky. Not your regulation celebrity style tacky.
Holy Smoke will convert you to ordinance for the low, low price of $1,250. A small price to pay – especially if somehow the bullets can be used to avenge you.
What you get for the standard price of $1250.00 –
For the shotgunner:
250 shotshells (with your loved ones ashes loaded per shell) shipped in fifty-round, labeled, plastic shotshell carriers with handles.
For the rifle shooter:
100 cartridges in standard calibers (with your loved ones ashes loaded in each cartridge) shipped in labeled, plastic cartridge carriers.
For the pistol shooter:
250 cartridges in standard calibers (with your loved ones ashes loaded per cartridge) shipped in labeled, plastic cartridge carriers.
2. Become a tattoo.
Apparently it’s feasible, though finding a tattoo artist who is keen on the idea might prove difficult.
3. Become an Hourglass.
Like ashes through the hourglass, these are the days of your life. At least for your relatives.
4. Become a diamond.
If you want people to remember that you rocked… LifeGem. They’ve got you covered.
6. Become fireworks.
Heavens Above Fireworks exist to make your space dream a reality. So long as your dream involved being blown up before leaving the earth’s atmosphere.
“We arrange special fireworks displays which include a number of unique fireworks designed or modified to incorporate cremation ashes, allowing for a spectacular memorial event and happier farewell.”
7. Become a glass sculpture.
Orbs are in this year.
8. Get stuffed. In a teddy bear…
This. Friends. Is a “Huggable Urn”…
9. Become the paint in some modern art
Famous, well, almost famous, artists are standing by to turn your ashes into a masterpiece to adorn the wall of your nearest and dearest.
10. Become a record.
Most countries will put your name somewhere in a registry. If you want a real record though, the previously featuredAnd Vynyly will turn you into a meaningful mixtape for your friends. If you pick the right songs they can enjoy some special backmasking messages too.
So there you have it. There was somebody who at one stage looked at turning ashes into pencils – but their site is now down. And there are plenty of people who’ll send you into space.
Fashion advice from Mr T
Yes. 80s Fashion. Mr T. Kitsch music. YouTube perfection.
“Mustard socks and a ketchup sash: she’s a real hotdog”
Wow.
Zombie Bowling Balls (Can not be unseen)
Wow. These are part disturbing part, well, disturbing. Zombie themed ten pin bowling balls. Smash some heads with pins. Perfect practice for the Zompocalypse.
More pictures here. Some of them are a little disturbing.
Possible explanation for the slaying of Goliath
Archeologists may or may not have discovered something important about events in pre-Davidic Israel.
Via Ragamuffin Soul
Trojan T-Shirts: Marketing by subterfuge
What do you get the German skinhead who has everything? Especially if you want them to reform form their Skinhead ways? You get them a nice skull and cross bone t-shirt. And you give it to them. For free. But you make it so that after one wash the shirt changes completely.
Brilliant.
“With a skull-and-crossbones logo and the message “Hardcore Rebels – National and Free,” some 250 black T-shirts given away at a recent right-wing extremist rock festival were quickly snapped up. But there was more to the tough-looking image than met the eye.
Once the rightist rockers washed their new shirts, they were dismayed to find an entirely different message: “If your T-shirt can do it, so can you. We’ll help to free you from right-wing extremism.” The offer, complete with contact information, came from a group called Exit Deutschland, which helps people get out of the neo-Nazi scene.”
More here.
Tumblrweed: Stockbrokers looking dejected…
Here’s a sign of the times. Stockbrokers with their hands on their faces. It’s funny when you contrast it to the brash way stock brokers present when they’re giving stock tips or talking about the market when they’re on television.
Here’s The Thing: A creepy iPhone cover
We went to a shopping centre on Sunday. A big one. I was shocked by the awesomeness of the Apple Store, the way shopping centres have almost entirely replaced the function of church on a Sunday in Australian culture, and the incredible number of outlets selling sparkly covers for mobile phones. None of them were quite as disturbing as this…
Really stuffed animals: Terrible Taxidermy Collection made me LLOL
LLOL is internet speak for literally laugh out loud. You probably won’t, because I am twisted. I give you Terrible Taxidermy… this isn’t even my first taxidermy related post.
Some favourites…
