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Life on Evergreen Terrace
Just how committed do you have to be to design and build your house based on a cartoon?
I don’t know. Perhaps this answers your question…
Sadly, it’s a house built by Fox and Pepsi as a prize in a competition. Not by some fanatic nutjob. But if you want to try this at home – or with your home – there are some factors to take into consideration.
“The rooms are somewhat small and uncommonly vertical. Doorways are extra-wide and arched, to accommodate Marge’s hair and Homer’s girth. Walls will be painted in bright colors and shaded to duplicate the cartoon’s style. When possible, furnishings and accents, including Marge’s corn-print curtains in the kitchen, are being faithfully reproduced. (Robinson notes that the color of the Simpson’s refrigerator alone changed seven times over the years. The residents will have to paint the fridge themselves.)
“Our people watched 56 episodes of ‘The Simpsons,’ over the course of a weekend,” Robinson said. “One thing they found out, early on, was that (the house) was structurally unsound.”
“No load-bearing walls anywhere,” agreed Joseph Leas, the local director of construction. “They never show closets (on the show); they were a complete mystery.”
Here’s a gallery of shots from the house. Here are some samples.
Comical beards
You’ve probably been subconsciously wondering what the following characters would look like with beards for years.
Well, now you know. Thanks to one man, and his blog.
How to “humanely” kill an animal
Right. It seems people didn’t like the idea that you can’t “humanely” kill anything you’re going to eat.
Perhaps this is what the soldiers from Townsville should have used. A photocopier shaped “taser” that stuns lobsters so that you can then kill them without them feeling the pain… except the pain of 110 volts passing through their exoskeletons.
The application of a stun (110 Volts – 2-5 amps) causes an immediate interruption in the functioning of the nervous system of the shellfish. By interrupting the nerve function, the shellfish (be it Crab. Lobster or other) is unable to receive stimuli and thus by definition, cannot feel pain or suffer distress (Dr. Dave Robb 2000 – Bristol University – paper on sentience in Crustacea, Baker 1975, Jane Smith 1991, Bateson 2000, Sherwin 2000 & Gregory & Lumsden 2000). The prolonged application of the stun causes a permanent disruption which kills the shellfish.
Shirt of the Day: Fashion labels
People are made of some interesting stuff. We’ve seen that in shirt form before.
But if you want a shirt that takes the “label” concept to a whole new level then you should get a load of this…
A weak title
Knowing the right button to push is half the battle. This handy chart helps you tackle everybody from Achilles to Satan.
It will be on sale as a poster somewhere, sometime. It’s from here.
Paper Pacman pecked a pack of pickled pinky
This paper Pac Man artwork will set you back a cool $300. Or you can just appreciate it online.
Did you know: the ghosts in Pacman were officially named Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde
Shirt of the Day: Anatomically Correct
If you’re studying anatomy and want to give your classmates an edge you could always wear this shirt along to the exam.
Otherwise you could just wear it to be awesome.
A fish, bowl, existence
If, like me, you risk hemorrhoids through excessive time spent reading on the throne, you may be interested in another way to pass the time while doing your business.
If toilet golf isn’t your thing you might like to try toilet fishing…
Muppethian Rhapsody
Speaking of Queen tributes – here’s one from the Muppets. Andrew beat me to it.
Atheists try to hack God
When the community of global atheists decided to meet in Melbourne next year they unleashed a horde of Christian hackers who attacked the convention’s website.
To retaliate a Facebook campaign was hatched to try to take God offline. DDoS attacks – Distributed Denial of Service – are a hacking favourite. They’re basically an internet flashmob. A bunch of people, and their computers, hit a server with an overwhelming load of requests and bang. It metaphorically explodes…
The atheists planned a day of prayer in a bid to shut down God.
“This is a call to all non-believers and advocates for freedom of speech to join us in a global co-ordinated minute of prayer with the aim of inundating God (in this context, the Christian god, God, as distinct from the Greek god, Zeus, the Egyptian god, Ra etc etc) with so many useless prayers that it causes his divineness to go offline as as result of our own DDOS (‘Divine’ Denial of Service).”
It would be incredibly funny if all their prayers (bar their intention) were answered in the affirmative.
Winefographic
Ever wondered how Australia stacks up as a consumer of wine – we all know Australia produces good stuff… Here’s an infographic.
There’s a “key” of sorts with the comparison between Luxembourg and Brazil. It’s calculated per capita.