Love meat tender
This meat tenderiser has a nice ring to it.
One up radish
I remember growing radishes in school. They tasted ok fresh from the ground, but I’ve never really had cause to purchase them…
Until now.
Wiinatomy
How does the Wii work? I’m sure there’s all sorts of Nintendo technical jargon to explain it – but I suspect it’s all lies and this is closer to the truth…
Wheely good idea
This is, without question, the best in car invention ever, or at least since the in car cooking stuff I featured ages ago.
Coming a cropper
I’ve spent a fair bit of time playing Farmville on Facebook. I recently overcame my addiction.
This picture, from some other Farmviller named Jeff, is almost enough to lure me back…
Punch drunk
A photographer in the US has produced a series of photos of boxers before and after their fights.
It’s pretty cool, check these out…
Via Kottke.
The perils of oversharing
Facebook is dangerous for parents. I’ve covered that before. It’s bad enough when you’re not spared the gory details of nappy changing… but it’s worse when the parents in question are middle aged, trying to check up on their children, and not quite au fait with the technology… like this mother.
Watch out for Germans with baseball bats
I love how websites can collect data and make recommendations that are useful these days. iTune’s Genius thing is awesome, and Amazon’s book recommendations based on what others bought with books I’ve picked have led me to a couple of purchases… but this is just beautiful…
Found here…
Extreme Chess
I’ve always laughed at the idea of Chess as a sport. But this concept called “Blitz Chess” is how the game should be played.
Five smooth criminals
Some criminals are clearly better motivated than others, and some clearly come with more ingenuity… but here are five funny crime stories from this week…
From here.
This guy robbed a woman and then went back to ask her out on a date…
This one’s actually pretty clever… a pair of street criminals in India have a nice little racket where one surreptitiously squirts poo on foreigners shoes in crowds – and the other runs a shoe shining business and points out his partner’s crime.
This guy is claiming innocence on some 37 speeding tickets because his monkey mask means police can’t definitively say that he’s behind the wheel.
One little piggy went to market, while this guy buried a gun in his fat rolls (Eglon style) and tried to smuggle it into prison.
And finally, this guy slipped a loaded gun into his pants and left the safety off. You’ll never guess what happened.
Kung Pong
Take two of my childhood favourites. Combine them. And you have perfect blog fodder. Like this Ping Pong/Street Fighter mashup…
Songbirds
This is pretty awesome.
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
Why is it awesome?
“Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating. I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.”
Found here, from here (in Spanish).
I lost a friend today
I occasionally notice the number of friends I have on Facebook reducing. It hurts. Well, not really.
Today was one such occasion. I looked at the number and thought “I’m sure I had one more than that yesterday, which one of my casual acquaintances or school friends could possibly have unfriended me this time?”
I got offended for a millisecond, and then I remembered I unfriended someone yesterday who posted the same status over and over and over again for the last three weeks. It was someone I didn’t really know all that well. I met them once. I think. I feel no regret. Or grief.
That is all.