Category: Curiosities

Coffee table cartography

If you’ve got a favourite piece of the world you want immortalised in coffee table form in your living room then this is for you. It will take the cartographic features of any place on the planet and turn it into a uniquely customised piece of furniture.

There are heaps of other customisable products from the same company.

How Tetris Works

Producing piece after piece of blocked awesomeness is no mean feat – ever wondered where those Tetris blocks come from… well now you know…

TETRIS CF #1 from WooDUS on Vimeo.

Found here.

Noted aggression

This is the most awesome Flickr collection ever. Well, at least for today. A collection of “passive aggressive notes” left on public noticeboards.

Some of my favourites…



Ninja turtle

One of our pet turtles has a severe case of ninjavitis. He thinks he’s a ninja. I won’t show him this photo…

Found here.

Cake cartography

It’s been a while since the last geeky cake post. So here you go. A Mario Cart cake. From Flickr.

Stumped

Sometimes people manage to find a superb silver lining to situations I can’t imagine dealing with. Like turning a lost arm into this…

From here – but there are some more disturbing images there… so be warned.

Shirt of the Day two – complete with bongos

Battery operated shirts are awesome – except when you put them in the wash.

Especially shirts with built in percussion. These bongos work.

Showered with emotions

I hate emoticons. You should know that by now. If you don’t there’s a little search box on the top right of the page – search for “emoticon” – actually, if I write this right the relevant posts will probably appear in the “related posts” thing… anyway, I hate them. So there’s no way I’d buy this shower curtain that catalogues every emoticon known to man…

Number two loo

This loo is made completely of poo. Talk about recycling.

Shirt of the Day: Robots in Disguise

In the spirit of Transformers comes this awesome shirt.

Eye spy

Ahh, macabre crochet, you brighten up my day like nothing else. Every self respecting doll hospital needs a supply of eyes for transplants. Here’s a handy guide to producing said supply of eyes. Here’s where I found them.

This glass is always half full

These are most fascinating. They would go nicely with the inverted beer glass I posted ages ago but can’t be bothered looking up to link. You can buy them here.

Bursted bubble

This is a most impressive piece of photography. Found here.

A bunch of links – June 28, 2009

Overt advert

Outdoor advertising is perhaps the best landscape for expressing creativity in marketing. The world is a canvas. This post is a collection of impressive campaigns. Here are some of my favourites. I don’t know what this one is for.