You know how you were told over and over again not to play with your food as a kid – well – it turns out playing with your food is a great way to get your online Warhol (one unit of fifteen minutes of fame). This Pancake art is fun.
Category: Curiosities
Noise reducing toilet stool
Tired of hearing your significant other “falling” from such great heights. Would you like to reduce the noise associated with your visits to the water closet? It would no doubt make phone conversations while on the toilet less awkward. You definitely need, note – not want, one of these kneeling stools (if you don’t want to spend your hard earned you could just pinch one from an Anglican Church somewhere).
You could sit, but not only is that unbecoming a man, you also risk splashing the rim. Enter the Pee Without Noise stool. Kneeling on its soft cushions positions you at the exact right height to land your stream in the bowl at a much-reduced velocity and volume level. This simple, elegant tool could save your dignity, your relationship, or even your life (if there’s a robber in the house but you just have to go)!
What I love is the subtle use of the colour yellow in the marketing… and the angel’s oddly phallic wand.
Put your hero in a half shell
The site selling these Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle backpacks went all out and got a teenage mutant to model this ninja turtle bag.
How to promote your band on Google Street View
It’s simple really. If you’re an aspiring musician just wait until you hear Google is updating images of the streets in your suburb and then follow these steps and you’ll sell millions, if not billions of copies to workers in Indian call centres.
- Get a guitar.
- Get a sign.
- Drive around until you see the Street View Car.
- Go one block past the Street View Car.
- Set up a placard and pose.
Calculating circular mathematics in the shower: as simple as pi
Did you know that water droplets are perfectly spherical? You could measure it for yourself if you could remember the formula for the volume of a sphere and if you had one of these pi shower curtains featuring pi to 4,600 decimal places.
From Russia, with “blood”
Russians like weird vodka – like this “Kabbalah” Vodka containing the blood of “Christian infants”…
From beverage maker EZ Protocols is the newest, and weirdest, entry into the premium Russian vodka market. Given the explosion of capitalism and the influx of money into the former Soviet empire, there has been a huge rise in this market as neuveaux riche wish to show off how riche they are. Hence, Kabbalah Vodka with Christian Infants, the premium wheat vodka enfused with silver, gold, platinum ions that features a glass model of a baby inside. This plays off the old wives tale circulated in Europe that Jewish religious rites required the blood of Christian babies.
Shirt of the Day: The Beetles
I like this shirt. I would like to own it. I wonder if little sister number 2’s birthday shirt voucher extends to Threadless…
Dial a colour spray can will recolutionise street art
Brilliant concept. Lugging a bag full of spray cans around is what has always turned me off being a graffiti artist.
“Generally, spray cans contain only one colour. If only a small amount of paint is required, there will be considerable wastage. Color Dial Spray is a new type of spray can that contains CMYK colour cartridges in the one can. The user can immediately change the colour by turning the colour dials near the top of the can.
There are two dials: one for hue and one for brightness. These allow for precise mixing of the particular colour desired. The colour cartridges can be refilled many times over. This helps with the reduction of waste. The compact form of Color Dial Spray is convenient and portable.”
Cool Star Wars Hoodie not a contradiction in terms
I’m not really a Star Wars fan – I haven’t seen episodes three or five of the six movies – nor have I read any books or watched any of the other productions (like the animated ones). But I would totally wear one of these Marc Ecko hoodies if they weren’t so prohibitively expensive (there are five varieties).
Pacman joke book is no joke
I saw this Pacman book on Awful Library Books and thought “ahh, prime blog fodder… a book filled with funny Pacman stuff”… so I did some research. And I was disappointed. These aren’t jokes. They’re Pacman themed cartoons that aren’t at all funny.
Here are some examples that I dug up (here).
Just shoot them
Sometimes, when I am watching stupid people on television (normally reporters on current affairs programs) I wish I had a gun that could transfer energy through the television and cause the person at the other end some pain. This would be a great way of showing frustration and a terrific piece of user interaction. Eddie Maguire would be in big trouble.
This one function remote will, when pointed at the television, either turn the box on or off, turn up the volume, or change the channel. One day Eddie. One day.
Dust to dust
Dust makes me sneeze – and getting rid of it makes me happy. This artist, Paul Hazleton, collects dust and turns it into art.
What not to wear in a mug shot
Want to know what not to wear when you’re about to get arrested for a crime? Don’t wear what these people wore. It’s that simple.
Shirt of the Day: πzza in a shirt
I wore my maths shirt to college this week because it has a Greek letter on it. I might have to splash out on this one so that I can fill all my days with π humour.
Don’t cry over spoilt milk
This revolutionary milk carton would prevent incidents like the one Ben reported last week. Off milk is the bane of any milk drinker’s existence – and the smell of sour milk is enough to produce a gag reflex. It’d be nice to not have to sniff the bottle wouldn’t it? Some sort of visual aid short of chunks floating on the surface would be nice. Perhaps even a carton that changes colour as the milk inside turns from the nectar of the cows into something more sinister.
This carton designed by Ko Yang should do just that.
