Category: Curiosities

Don’t forget your toothbrush

These are some nice ads from Colgate. Nice and sinister.

Colgate normally gives out small product samples at annual events like “Oral Health Month” to remind target consumers, especially kids, to take better care of their teeth after eating sweets. This method does not drive strong results as most consumers tend to forget the message, even if they have collected the samples. Instead of giving away product samples, ice cream and cotton candy were given out. The stick carrying the ice cream and cotton candy carries a hidden message. Once consumers are done the message printed on the tip of the stick shaped like a toothbrush reveals “Don’t Forget” with the Colgate logo. This simple message effectively reminded consumers to brush their teeth.

Minifig history

Here’s a great Flickr set of historical figures rendered in minifig glory…

More than one way to scan a cat…

This electron microscopic scanner is really impressive.

More impressive is the fact that the company selling them will scan and upload any sample you send them. Apparently.

Mmm. Cheese.


Mac Minifig

Cuddle up to some H1N1

Mmm, microbial toys… I’ve posted some of these before – but this one is swine flu. So it’s topical. And cool.

Shirt of the day: Surviving the world

Shirt of the Day: Anatomy of a space invader

We saw yesterday what space invader’s space ships actually look like – it seems they model the ships on the actual aliens. Here’s another shirt.

Shirt of the Day: New contender for worst hobby ever

Have you heard of geocaching – or perhaps even dabbled in the hobby?

It’s probably slightly lower on the hobby scale than metal detecting… there’s no promise of riches. Just the promise of other people’s trash.

Here’s a shirt that pretty much sums up the issue.

Tetris cake has a piece for everybody

Continuing in the string of geeky wedding stuff… here’s a Tetris wedding cake. Which clearly is a great way of letting your guests choose their portion sizes.

From Flickr.

Going to the arcade, and they’re going to get married

This is a pretty nice wedding invitation rendered in 8-bit glory. I like the “insert coin” bit. And the binary bit.

Via here.

Sadly the binary is incorrect. If they’d wanted to say “Will you marry me?” with the answer “yes.” they should have had:

“010101110110100101101100011011000010
000001111001011011110111010100100000
0110110101100001011100100111001001111
001001000000110110101100101001111110
000110100001010”

“01011001011001010111001100001101000
01010”

You can make your own binary using this binary to text converter.

Shirt of the day: Mathematically correct

One of my favourite geeky shirts is this one from snorgtees

I wear it with the sense of pride that comes from understanding slightly less than rudimentary mathematical concepts…

I don’t understand any of these ones – but they’re funny nonetheless…

Transform

Get it here.
Smarter than the average bear

Get it here.
Money is the root of all evil

Get it here.

Anatomically correct zombie suit

If I was ever of a mind to celebrate Halloween in the American sense I would probably buy one of these $200, one piece zombie suits.

Metal detecting shoes make bad hobby slightly less bad

Metal detecting is apparently the world’s worst hobby. I would have suggested bird watching fit that bill – but the results are in… Or so Slate says anyway

About two percent of the problem with metal detecting as a hobby comes from having to lug the metal detector around with you.

Now you don’t have to. You can wear them on your feet

And they look really stylish too – you can wear them to parties – who knows what you might pick up…

Have yourself a very wooden Christmas

Christmas is just around the corner. Shops are setting up their displays, playing Christmas Carols and being generally annoying.

If I was going to set up a nativity scene in my house – or anywhere actually – I would totally consider this minimalistic set designed by German Oliver Fabel (and available, apparently, in both English and German)…

That’s cool right? But where’s the dragon from Revelation 12. We need an extra block… here’s a photoshop nativity I did for a sermon on Revelation 12 last December.

Shirt of the Day: What Space Invaders really look like

Ever wondered exactly what you were seeing when you were playing Space Invaders as a child… well. Here you go. A behind the scenes look at the alien space craft…