All meals are better ninja flavoured. So these ninja salt and pepper shakers are just the ticket.
Category: Curiosities
NES-SB
These are awesome. There are a number of Mario Characters available… the base and the drive are sold separately. You can get them here.
A bunch of links – June 16, 2009
- Post one of Australia’s banned links, get fined AU$11,000/day
- Apologetics and the university
- x Ways To Manipulate Websites In Firefox
- When’s the Right Time to Buy New Products? [Ask The Readers]
- Lifehacker’s Firefox Add-On Packs
- Why You Should Not Wait to Engage in International Church Planting, Part 1
Shirt of the day: Sesame Street Fighter
Awesome. Take that Cookie Monster.
Snug as a bug in a hug
Everybody likes a hug. Except people who have phobias about physical contact or an overdeveloped sense of personal space.
Sometimes hugging for long periods of time can be taxing. Sometimes it’s not geographically possible. Which leaves the huggy (as opposed to hugger) feeling down.
Here’s some hug help.
For adults.
For babies
That’s called “the Zaky”. Here’s a blurb… if you’re curious…
“f you’ve ever wished for a hand to leave behind so that your baby would feel as if you’ve never left the room, your prayers have been answered with the Zaky.
The Zaky is an ergonomic infant pillow designed by a mom to mimic the size, weight, touch, and feel of her hand and forearm to help her baby with comfort, support, protection, and development. The Zaky can help calm your baby and help your baby sleep better through the night.”
And then there’s those of us looking for someone to be hugged by. Perhaps every town needs one of these…
It’s an anonymous “hugging” wall. Because lets face it, having a long haired hippy run up and hug you on the street isn’t for everybody.
Geek hazards
Every now and then I do something geeky and pull a component out of my computer to replace it with a newer, better component. This is standard geek practice. But I’m an unco. So it always ends in tears. Or at least cuts and scratches. Computer parts are unbelievably sharp.
Luckily I now have an appropriately geeky bandaid solution.
Bust a tap in your mass
Ok, so the last word in that title is pretty contrived. But it’s late, and I’m waiting for Robyn to put the finishing touches on the first draft of her reports.
But, contrived or not, this hose fitting makes it much easier to feel like the tough gangster type when you’re watering your herb garden. Though perhaps a concentrated stream of water isn’t the best thing for those delicate plants…
Snessy USB Hub
Poking fun at things is all well and good – but it’s much better to offer solutions. So here’s a solution to the paucity of classy USB hubs in the world – a DIY USB hub in a SNES cartridge from instructables. I’m sure it would work just as nicely in an N64 or NES cartridge. And I have plenty of those lying around in various stages of disrepair… sounds fun.
Anatomically correct
Late last year I posted the anatomy of a minifig – a nice little view of what’s inside your favourite lego men, making them tick. The guy who showed us how minifigs work is back – now showing us how people work – and there’s a little bit of lego in all of us…
And he’s also given us the run down on what’s inside the humble gummi bear…
Hanging around
One of the coolest wedding presents we were given was a Beginners Guide to Taxidermy… Seriously. If I had pet Guinea Pigs I’d seriously consider turning them into salt and pepper shakers… but I digress.
Hanging dead animals on walls has been trendy since the Middle Ages. But it’s usually the head and not the body – which means there must be a lot of spare animal bodies floating around right?
This is a bit of a back to front approach from a Museum in Venice.
And Ken Ham would love to bag one of these on one of those all American hunting trips he probably goes on with his ultra-right wing buddies. If only dinosaurs ran around with people. It sold on eBay for $US660.
If you’re more the squirrel type – the redneck M16 toting squirrel type – how about one of these… from Rick’s Custom Squirrels…
A bunch of links – June 13, 2009
- It took him a long time to find images he liked
- 50 ridiculous design rules
- How to Freeze Apples, Peaches, Plums, and 16 Other Fruits [Eat To Live]
- The Starlight Desktop [Featured Desktop]
- Learn to Season Your Cast-Iron Skillet [Eat To Live]
- This Week’s Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
- Google Wave Questions and Answers [Google Wave]
- The Lifehacker Cookbook [Eat To Live]
- Five things I never learnt in science class
- A Christian Response to Abortion: Reflections on ‘Evangelical Ethics’ by John Jefferson Davis
- God to be Engraved in Visitor Center
- I don’t usually get involved with this sort of thing, but …
- Blogging in the name of the Lord: Dan Phillips
- The Expository Preaching of John Calvin, Steven Lawson (PCRT 2009 Sacramento)
- Think Before You Comment
- 25-point Website Usability Checklist
- 7 Reasons Why You Should Try Out Windows Live Writer 2009
- Thoughts on Evangelical Superstardom
- Ronaldo tells why he left Man U
- Have grinder, will travel (with fresh coffee!)
Some American Atheists are angry that the Capitol Hill Visitor Centre is having “In God We Trust” engraved in the stone arch above the entry. They’re angry because they don’t believe it – Christians should probably be angry because they (the government) don’t mean it.
Cards for the not quite Hallmark moment
Someecards is a site full of ecards – about half of them are too inappropriate to put here and the other half are brilliant. You shouldn’t go there thinking I’ve endorsed it – more that I’ve laughed at some of them…
This one’s for U2…
Pool table with extra soft cushions
Sofa beds have great utility value – a sofa and a bed. In just the space of a sofa. It’s a great concept – so how cool is a sofa pool table… it’s for sale on eBay – so get in now to avoid disappointment.
