Category: Curiosities

Card bored?

Business cards are over-rated, well the standard ones are anyway. I get a lot of business cards in the average work month – and most of them are average. And they end up in a bowl on my desk – much like my own in house business card draw, only without prizes. Boring and conservative cards don’t get noticed. They get filed. So a nice card is a nice point of difference.

A while ago I posted 10 novel business cards. Here’s a collection of 100. Most of the ten I posted are there, but there are others that are nice. 90 of them in fact…

May 15, 2009

Killer craft


If you want your kid to look this awesome you can get the low down here. And why wouldn’t you? It’s quite a finning design. Found here.

May 15, 2009

A bunch of links – May 15, 2009

May 15, 2009

Twix or treat

Instructables is a veritable goldmine of ideas – a repository of human ingenuity – a hotbed of innovation… I could go on. It’s brilliant. Particularly when somebody gives you the run down on how to produce your very own giant Twix.

The instructions are in some sort of Spanglish – but the pictures tell the story.

Ingredients
2 packages of cookie Maizena
1 package of caramel candy
2 pounds of chocolate to milk


From what I can gather you need chocolate, caramel and some biscuits – based on my experience with Twix, I’d say Milk Arrowroots would suffice…

May 15, 2009

Shirt of the day: Swinedled

It’s been a while since I posted a shirt link. Mostly because I haven’t found any great ones for a while. But this is vaguely amusing.

May 15, 2009

Quick reference calendar

I’m genuinely bad at keeping a track of commitments in diaries, although thanks to the iPhone and it’s brilliance I’m getting better.

I’m not sure that having the months of the year etched into your fingernails like these guys did is helpful – but at the very least it’ll teach you not to bite off more than you can chew… perhaps. Found here.

May 15, 2009

A mug’s game

I like dunking biscuits in a nice frothy mug of hot chocolate – but never in a cup of coffee. Unless it’s a plunged or brewed cup without the smooth microfoamed texture of a well made espresso based drink… The problem (other than the somewhat dubious rules of etiquette surrounding the dunk*) is that I never have enough hands to carry a stash of biscuits and the mug. It’s seriously inefficient. The “Dunk Mug” is here to help.

What a concept.

* The Tim Tam Slam is an exception.

May 15, 2009

Bright idea

May 15, 2009

A bunch of links – May 14, 2009

May 14, 2009

A bunch of links – May 13, 2009

May 13, 2009

Message to flies: DELETED!

I hate flies. It gets me in lots of trouble. Particularly when I kill them using my bare hands. It’s easy when you know how – and here’s a high tech study into the matter… and a tip from an expert:

“You shouldn’t swat where you see them. You should anticipate that they’re going to jump away from you. So you should extend your swat in the direction of the fly’s anticipated motion.”

Anyway, here’s a new little product from Fred and Friends… it’s sure to save me some troubles next Christmas lunch.

May 13, 2009

Pacced to the rafters

In that last post I pondered how much Pacman is to much… I put it to you that painting a Pacman mural on your feature wall is possibly “too much”…

May 13, 2009

Materialistic Pacman

Just how much Pacman decor is too much? I’m not sure that’s a question that can be answered, but if you’re trying to find the point of over saturation by acquiring all the material you can lay your hands on – here’s a quilt cover, complete with movable pieces.

Found here.

May 13, 2009

A bunch of links – May 12, 2009

May 12, 2009

A bunch of links – May 11, 2009

May 11, 2009