Category: Curiosities
Flying saucer…
A hard squeeze on that trigger and you’ll have sauce flying all over the room, it’ll make home movies featuring tomato sauce fueled bloodbaths easier to produce – taking out one of the editing steps between gun shot and gaping wound.
Speaks for itself really. Particularly if you harness its awesome powers to write words with your sauce.
Penned up agression
One of the lesser known perks of my job is the number of promotional pens I receive – I’m not at med student levels – but I certainly receive enough to keep me jotting down notes all year round.
Or at least I would, if people weren’t always stealing them from my desk. It’s enough to give one a dash of pen rage. This set will stop them… They’re designed by World Wide Fred – and available from Perpetual Kid.
Mmm, bacn
Some clever little cookie decided that “spam” was a label too ubiquitous to be applied to all junk email, and so bacn was born. It’s like bacon and is a lunchmeat enthused pun. Of sorts. It’s a catchall label used to describe solicited advertisements, newsletters and well targetted email campaigns.
Microsoft this week announced that something like 97% of all email traffic is spam. They don’t make the bacn distinction as far as I’m aware. But I do. So I’m choosing to allow spam comments that fit into the bacn category – like two shirt sites that commented on my last post about SnorgTees – that’s nice. It shows initiative. And NerdyShirts even offered a 10% discount.
You could buy this topical masterpiece…
Or an Eastery theme – this one’s called “The Last Supper“…
Rizzo Tees offered no discount – but proferred a link to their site claiming Snorg was an “inspiration”… here are some of their shirts. Starting with one particularly on topic…
I can relate. I lost 20 subscribers yesterday. Gone. Who knows where… not that I’m checking.
And a ninja shirt….
And one about coffee for good measure (provided you get the size right…boom boom…)
See… not only will a well placed and relevant spam comment get noticed – it’ll earn you a post in these parts.
A bunch of links – April 9, 2009
- Why the Easter Bunny?
- Doorknocking Aussies
- Facebank 2: The creepiest piggy bank ever?
- Canadian DIY Maple Syrup Production
- BumpTop acts like desktop of the future, now free to download
- Google Image Search Completely Integrates Colour Into Searches
- Get Started Growing Indoor Herbs
- CHURCH DE-JESUSED
- A Ruse on Easter from Darwin#39;s lapdog – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Interesting interview with an atheist by the Centre for Public Christianity published on the ABC website.
10 stupid USB Devices
You can put a USB connection on just about anything – even an amputated finger – and there are so many USB devices around that the “universal” is becoming a literal description rather than an indication of ubiquity. Here’s ten USB devices that should never have been made. Let alone sold.And where to buy them.
- Dance Dance Devolution
- Air conditioned neck tie
- The ChatterBot – this one needs describing.
WowWee™ Chatterbots are fantastically fun animated computer accessories to have on your desktop. These collectable, highly stylized character figurines always have something to say about what you are up to — and it’s not always appropriate! Each Chatterbot™ features a unique personality and a signature animation. Connect directly to your Mac or PC using the included USB cable, then listen and watch as your Chatterbot entertains you with its unpredictable stream of jokes, dialog, and comments about your virtual life.
And an image…
- An Airconditioned Shirt
- A USB roll up piano keyboard
- A USB stress ball that will cause your screen to respond
- USB powered ugg boots
- USB Rubber Chicken (you have to make it yourself following these Spanish instructions)…
- Stupid USB digital photo frame
- Stupid USB hubs – of all kinds – particularly the Teddy Bear variety…
Something fishy…
I like good bus stop ads. I admit it. I think they’re great. Especially when they take the form of novel installation art. Like this bus stop ad with a fish tank featuring live fish, advertising an aquarium product manufacturer…
Shirt of the Day: Camera phone
It’s nice when online T-Shirt vendors like SnorgTees keep up with modern pop culture references – like Flight of the Conchords songs.
Also cool, and also from SnorgTees is this ninja shirt.
Don’t you hate it…
When you make a long awaited purchasing decision only to have the thing you bought immediately superseded. It used to happen to me all the time when musicians put out bonus CDs after the original release of their new work, and it could well happen in coming months with the iPhone.
It has happened with Facebank. And I am heartbroken.
Postmodern Mouse
Post modernity spawned a bunch of meta art – art about art, books about books, pizzas featuring mini pizzas…
It’s the room full of mirrors effect where your image stretches out to eternity being repeated an infinite number of times… A celebration of infinite recursion. And it’s epitomised by this mouse. A mouse mouse. Found here. From instructables.
Segway 2.1
If yesterday’s crazy PUMA was a Segway on steroids then today’s variation on the theme is a Segway on Tetrahydrogestrinone. It’s a wearable Segway. Essentially. And it’s designed for amputees or the very lazy. It’s called “the Chariot”… original nomenclature.
A bunch of links – April 8, 2009
- WordPress Blogs: Create Custom Tag Pages
- Parent /Teacher interviews…
- DoubleTwist lets you manage all your media from one place — UPDATED
- Peeps Blow Up on YouTube [VIDEO]
- Rise of the Christian pagans | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
- Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal
- Subservient Chicken Anniversary
- “Jesus was a Good Teacher” dodge (NEXT! #9)
Peeps are marshmallow creatures popular at Easter. This is a series of videos of Peeps getting nuked.
I’m linking to this purely because of the debate in the comments. It’s the old chestnut about Christian holidays and pagan festivals. Atheists dogmatically hold onto their stupid arguments despite consistent historical arguments to the contrary. But it raises a question on whether Christians should be engaging in these debates in the first place because they just seem pointless at times and Christians often end up fighting each other rather than arguing the point.
Segway 2.0
What do you get when you cross a Segway with a smart car? A Puma apparently. The world has gone bonkers over this new announcement – and given my previous fixation with the gyroscopic transporter I couldn’t let this slide…
Here it is in action. It’s like a golf buggy. Only crapper. If you’re reading this in the sidebar you may have to click the link through to the post for the video.
Lock stock
Here’s something for the security conscious puzzle nerd – try getting out of a room locked with one of these puzzle locks (let alone getting into one).
When it comes to locking doors it pays to remember the three S’s – security, security, security… you should probably also make sure you fit it to the right side of the door.
On the road(kill) again…
Driving is a hungry business. Sometimes when I’m on the road and I run over some Australian fauna or driving past a hoard of dead animals I think to myself “boy, I wish I had a crock pot here with me so I could cook this up…”
It’s that sort of thinking that no doubt led to the release of this in car slow cooker… the Road Pro – $US29 of awesomeness.
There’s actually a whole series of in car cooking appliances – from pizza ovens to portable stoves (and everything in between).