Want to sleep in an anatomically correct manner? Make sure your bits line up with this Japanese sleeping bag…
Category: Curiosities
Whiten your teeth with the magic of bacon
Is there anything you can’t get a bacon version of these days? No. I didn’t think so. This bacon toothpaste could well complete your bacon arsenal.
Coffee Chair: Why did this idea take so long?
Clever. Very clever. I can see these coffee chairs springing up in cafes around the world.
“It seems a coffee mug on a saucer silhouette when you look in front of the chair, Handle on the backrest is useful when moving the chair to a different location, and also when hanging a handbag or bag. Coffee Chair satisfies you both aspects, functional and decorative design, and certainly differentiates with other chairs, therefore can be used in cafes, restaurants, design companies and etc.”
Haven’t bought a Valentine’s Day present? Try Smittens
Hey you. Yes, you with the face.
This one time, I didn’t do anything for Valentine’s Day because Robyn and I had said “it’s so commercial and stupid, lets not do anything” – what she meant when she said that was “I hope you do something for me as a surprise”… so at 11:30pm, when I had sensed that she was upset at me for some odd reason, we went out to steal a frangipani clipping from a roundabout. How romantic.
Never again will I be so blasé about the commercially driven romantic non-holiday. So. I give you. Smittens. Gloves for handholders.
Problem solved.
Tumblrweed: Minimalist Movie Posters #54
I’ve posted heaps of Minimalist Movie posters in these parts in the past. Here’s a Tumblr devoted to providing more every day.
Some samples.
There are heaps. Check ’em out.
He-Man: What’s going on?
This gets good about a minute in. Persevere.
A cappella Mario
This is kind of clever. There are a couple of plot holes – like Mario dies while powered up by the star. But still. Beggars can’t be choosers.
Parenting Win: Boys toys wreck bath, get sold on eBay
This is a brilliant stroke of parenting. It reminds me of the time my mum put the dirty dishes I was meant to wash under the blankets of my bed.
“These two have lost their entire collection of Beyblades, the spinning-top toy based on the Japanese manga series of the same name. The boys were using the family bathtub as a Beyblade arena. The combat destroyed the tub’s enamel, took “a chunk of tub out,” and demolished the soap dish. So the Beyblades will be sold to compensate for the loss.
The boys’ piggy-bank account of $125.67 will also be liquidated to help pay for the $500 repair, with the Beyblades auction covering whatever’s left. As of now, the lot of eight is up to $69.”
Image Credit: BuzzFeed.
Via Kotaku.
Bacon will end your vegetarianism: Says science
Yeah. That’s right. Bacon is almost irresistible and it takes extreme will power to fight against your natural cravings.
NPR even spoke to some scientists to prove it.
Our story was familiar to Johan Lundstrom. He’s a scientist who runs a lab at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. He studies how the brain processes sensory information, like smell, for a living. He also told us he had an ex-girlfriend who became an ex-vegetarian once she tasted bacon.
Because bacon is one- to two-thirds fat and also has lots of protein, it speaks to our evolutionary quest for calories, Lundstrom says. And since 90 percent of what we taste is really odor, bacon’s aggressive smell delivers a powerful hit to our sense of how good it will taste.
“There’s an intimate connection between odor and emotion, and odor and memory,” Lundstrom says. “When you pair that with the social atmosphere of weekend breakfast and hunger, bacon is in the perfect position to take advantage of how the brain is wired.”
Looking for some bacon recipes? Try this cook book…
The Living Hills
What do you get if you recut the Sound of Music as a thriller?
If you want more Julie Andrews mashups – check out Scary Mary.
Via 22 Words.
Lyrical Flowcharts
I’ve posted a couple of lyrical flow charts before. There’s a Hey Jude one I’m quite fond of, and 22 words posted one for Total Eclipse of the Heart today. And XKCD put this one together recently…
But these video versions take them to a whole new level.
Coffee Out the Nose Funny: David Thorne’s American snow trip adventure
There are very few things in this world that are genuinely laugh out loud funny when you’re reading them in your head. David Thorne’s delightfully nasty bits of revenge, posted online for the world to see, are up there with the best of them.
David went to a ski shop in the US. The service was less than adequate. The gloves he purchased, that he was assured were waterproof, were not. They got wet, and the black ink that provided their ebony colour ran. And it ran all over his jumper. And when he went back to exchange them the staff abused him. So this is what he did:
The store received 5,000 calls enquiring about the free snowboard. And this email exchange ensued.
It was at this point in the exchange that coffee shot through my nostrils:
“I should probably be thankful that your staff were too occupied with having their earlobes stretched by Tonka-truck tyres and wearing pants around their knees to sell me a snowsurfingboard made of sugar or goggles made of bees.”
Or perhaps this point:
“Also, I apologise. While the average male height of 5″9 statistically means anything under is considered short, my question was without diminutive intention. I’m sure there are many advantages to being so small. Target carries an excellent range of boys clothing at competitive prices and a lower centre of gravity should, once helped up onto the ski-lift, allow you to snowboardsurf with greater stability. If I were small, I would buy a cat and ride it.”
There is, as is often the case with Thorne’s work, a language warning attached. It didn’t end all that well. Thorne punctuated the exchange with this:
Shirt of the Day: No fear of Dirt
Don’t fear dirt. Embrace it. Every white shirt I ever owned ended up looking like this anyway, so you may as well make it deliberate. Right?
From Threadless.
What do you get if you combine the Matrix, Transformers, Terminator and Voltron?
Answer: Something like this: