Category: Curiosities
Planely speaking
This is one of those inventions that has been waiting in the wings for years. The inventor must be a rocket scientist… ok, enough, you’ve got to know when to hold them, and when to fold them.
And thanks goes to the consistently cool bookofjoe.com for tracking it down.
Buy it here.
Textbook geek
Nice to know I’m not actually a geek according to this scientifically proven anatomical diagram.
Melting moment
If you’re going to holiday in the tropics in the summer you can look the part with these melting sunglasses. Found here.
A bunch of links – April 26, 2009
- 4 Things to Consider Before You Try to Join the Amish
- A cure for colony collapse disorder?
- 6 Reasons Why Plurk Beats Twitter
- 5 Dead-Easy Ways to Create Your Own Panoramic Photos
- Shutdown Windows Remotely with Twitter- TweetMyPC
- Baisc Chemical Reactions in Roasting
- The God of Hell
- Debates on Biblical Theology
- Sympathising
- The Green Bible… yes, it#39;s true
Networking: It’s all about meating people
Another day, another business card post. For some people networking is all about exchanging details and adding people to your spam list Rolodex.
We start with 100% beef jerky, and SEAR your contact information into it with a 150 WATT CO2 LASER.
Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. THESE business cards have two ingredients:
MEAT AND LASERS.
Sound awesome and too good to be true? It probably is. But here’s the site. Here’s where I found it.
ABC of geography
Melbourne designer Rhett Dashwood has been combing the earth – literally – for landmarks that look like letters.
He’s found the whole alphabet in Victoria (on google earth) – and released them to the world. On his website. And here they are…
A rather smart casual dinner dress
If you’re a fan of Black Books – like me – you’ll no doubt be thrilled to know that Dylan Moran has a movie out fittingly called “A film with me in it“, because that is perhaps the only reason anybody is going to watch it. And I will. But I digress. Black Books has pretty much disabled any YouTube embedding of clips from the show – which is a shame. But one of my favourite moments from series one episode one is when Bernard turns his accounts into a “rather smart casual dinner jacket” – if you were a woman looking to date someone in a jacket like that you’d need a matching outfit. Like this one.
Pop art
The latest in a string of retro remakes of popular culture “texts”… this time it’s CD covers getting the treatment – essentially being elevated to serious, high art… here’s a link to some others from Kottke.
A bunch of links – April 22, 2009
- How to make delicious coffee liqueur
- Apple prematurely announces billionth AppStore download…
- Apple Will Hit A Billion Apps At 1:24:06 AM PST On April 23 (As Of Right Now)
- The green Bible
- The Green Bible reviewed
- Amateur Snapper | 10 Top Photography Composition Rules
- What Was the Hipster?
- 50 Side Businesses You Can Start On Your Own
- Court turns down challenge to jury’s use of Bible
- Jay-Z vs. Radiohead
- 100+ FREE iPhone Applications you gotta have on your iPhone/iPod Touch
- Six Ways You Should Be Using Twitter (that Don’t Involve Breakfast) [Twitter]
- Spiegel: Ten Lessons from Great Christian Minds
- Menzies talks of Manly return
- The Gated Community Church
- [+2275] Movie Stars Who Die the Most
Interesting article about Hipsters. Do you know what a hipster is? No? Well, read this article.
Taking over the world geek style
Perhaps my series on taking over the World wasn’t comprehensive enough. Perhaps you’re looking to solve a more pressing and specific problem. Perhaps this book will help.
It deals with a number of tricky issues like:
- Brew your own beer
- Build a laser beam
- Clone your pet
- Exorcise demons
- Grasp the theory of relativity
- Kick ass with sweet martial-arts moves
- Master the Ocarina of Time
- Pimp your cubicle
- Quote He-Man and Che Guevara
- Unmask Linus Torvalds
- Write your name in Elvish
Gorilla marketing
Guerrilla marketing is all the rage. Sneaky. Subvertive. In your face and yet subtle at the same time. Gorilla marketing is another area all together – Cadbury tried it with their virally popular drumming gorilla – and who can forget Yogo (the chocolate yoghurt and its mascot Yogorilla).
Now, a health insurance company is in on the act. Gorillas don’t like eye contact. Apparently an escaped gorilla attacked a zoogoer for making too much eye contact recently. FBTO, this Dutch health insurance company responded by handing out these innovative zoogoing goggles. Found here.
Definitely, maybe
So, you can’t spell “definitely” – here’s a bookmark for you.
You can even buy a mug. Or a wide range of defiantly “definitely” merchandise.
