Category: Curiosities

Shirt of the Day: Hulk it up

Want to look tough and scare off some weak kneed lilly livered opponent?

You should get one of these pre-perforated Hulkamaniac singlets so you can psychologically cut loose on just about anybody.

Sadly they don’t seem to actually exist…

Via here, from here (in Russian).

Pencil moustache

Can you balance a pen between your lip and your nose?

If you answered “yes” to that question then these might come in handy.

The Motherboard Lisa Smile

Here’s a digital rendition of Da Vinci’s classic.

Her smile doesn’t have that lopsided effect. There are just too many chips in her teeth.

From here.

Hunting in Pacs

You’re thinking “you’ve posted so many of these games in real life things that they no longer impress me”… and you’d be right. But the team at cracked.com have taken their rendering of five classic game characters to new levels. Justifying the elements of the drawing with well thought out zoological assessments of the lifestyle of the character involved…

Here’s why Pacman should have teeth.

“Though he was a fearsome hunter, Pac-Man was also an omnivore–he fed off live prey as well as vegetation (see cherries). Therefore he probably had a set of teeth quite similar to a human’s: Longer, sharper incisors to the front, with molars to the rear. Because Pac-Man didn’t have the razor-sharp claws or other grabbing capabilities we see in most land-based predators, he probably ate most like a snake. This connection strengthens when you notice his trademark gaping maw, which allowed him to swallow prey more quickly and use his stomach to do most of the digesting. This also accounts for the unusual shape of Pac-Man: We’re only familiar with the fuller, rounder body because his handlers obviously wanted to use a sedated, well-fed creature during gameplay to help limit aggression and the potential for violence.”

Putting the pieces together

A couple of chess sets for your viewing pleasure…

This Typographic one comes from Andrew (ages ago)…

This one has Muppets

While this set just seems needlessly complicated.

Super Mario Mac

Mac decals are fun. I’m not sure if I’d ever deface my beautiful computer. But this one’s a cracker.

From Etsy.

Mario in the raw

Inside every Italian plumber there’s a rounded bald man trying to escape.

From here.

If Picasso drew comics…

I’m not surprised that Picasso style comics haven’t taken off. You can’t cheer for a guy who looks like this…

…or this.

From this gallery here.

If you did want to try your hand at creating Picasso-esque comic characters you could do worse than use the “Mr Picasso Head” webapp… I’ll post my Picasso picture when it gets added to the gallery.

Bacteria future

This little picture of Mario might look like any old picture of an old time game character…

But looks, as we know, can be deceiving.

This little Mario is made from bacteria.

My top five posts about ninjas

You probably didn’t see these first time around. But ninjas are sneaky – so that’s understandable.

The black parade

Shirt of the Day: Ninja Code

For people who know CSS and like ninjas… Buy it here.

Ninjitsuit

My first thought when reading about this new, controversial “Burquini” the Islamic bikini invented by an Australian and banned in France (two things that make something more likely to be awesome) was that it looks pretty much like a ninja suit.

Am I right? Yeah. Which got me thinking further – firstly, I didn’t know what a ninja suit was actually called – which was a bit of a gap in my ninja arsenal. For the record it’s a shinobi shozoko. But it’s always dangerous to put a ninja in a box.

Ninjafy your car

After you’ve got things in the kitchen to a dangerously ninjafied status it’s time to turn your car into a lean, mean, killing machine (figuratively not literally).

Pirates v Ninjas: Black and white issue

First there was ninja v ninja checkers – and now a chance to settle the age old question – pirates v ninjas.

My top five posts about bacon

Declaring a love for bacon is tantamount to declaring a love for oxygen.

But here are some posts about Bacon that I just want to relive.

Bacon jam helps you eat, like, a pig

Pig + Blender = Bacon Jam. That’s the equation celebrated by this shirt.

How to top Bacon Jam

Breadwinners

The perfect BLT.

The winner was an American chef living in Sydney… here’s the concluding post from the competition.

Here’s his winning sandwich – but the best bit is the photographic flow chart he made (and the fact that he harvested his own salt from the ocean)…

BBB sandwich

This is what you should get if you order a BLT with no L, no T and extra B.

It hasn’t made it to “This is why you’re fat” yet – but it will.

I found it here.

And finally – a very useful flow chart…

There’s nothing wrong with this picture

Plenty of bacon to be found here in this “what to eat” decision making flow chart from geekologie.

My five favourite posts about Lego

Get in touch with your inner sewer

You could, given the right balance of acuity and resources, sew one of these hoodies yourself. Or you could just buy one. All four turtles are represented.

Tattooth

Tattoos used to be a sign of purposeful rebellion. A way to stand out from the crowd. Now everybody has them. So they’re not cool. To be really cool you need to think outside the square – or perhaps – inside the mouth.

Put your tattoo where nobody will see it – because everybody knows that coolness is a state of being, not a state of seeing.

These may or may not be the teeth collected after Tiger Woods’ infamous “accident”…

Normally this artwork is created on the back teeth, the molars or bicuspids. Most people prefer having it on the cheek side of the tooth, some on the tongue side. Most considered these as some what a white collar tattoo. They are seen only when the person that has one wants to share what they have, by pulling their cheek out so it could be seen. The other advantage to these tattoos is that they can easily be removed in five minutes in the dentist’s office with just a little grinding with a rubber wheel. We show the artwork on the front teeth so people can see our artistic abilities.

You can have custom Artwork Hand Painted tooth tattoos on your teeth (crowns). There are many options for Gold Crowns as well.

As snug as a hero in a half shell

I’ve never really been enthused by the snuggy concept. What can a snuggy offer that a sleeping bag can’t? Well, now, it can offer you the opportunity to dress up like a Ninja Turtle and be warm at the same time

Via Geekologie.