Radiohead’s Thom Yorke is an interesting looking guy who makes interesting sounding music. Those who are unaware of Radiohead should do themselves a favour and become aware – those who are aware – how cool is this “Paranoid Android” inspired Thom Yorke head…
New Yorke
Godwin’s Law of Signage
If your business name evokes thoughts of the holocaust – change it.
From this Flickr set of unfortunate names (some of them are rude).
Move over MasterChef
This my friends is a McDonalds meal. But not an ordinary McDonalds meal. If you’ve ever marvelled at the difference between the picturesque presentation of a burger on the menu and the burger in hand then this site takes things to a new level.
If I hadn’t sworn off fast food for a year I would try this. It’s a post from this is why you’re fat.
Here are the instructions for converting a Big Mac into what is known as a McSteak.
Ingredients:
- 1 McDonald’s Big Mac Extra Value Meal (#1) with a large fries and large Coca-Cola
First deconstruct the Big mac into its parts: (sing along now) two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese,pickles, onions, and a sesame seed bun… plus the french fries, ice, and Coca-Cola. Dice the cheese, cube the middle and bottom buns, and extract the sesame seeds from the top bun. Take the french fries and some pieces of bun and purée them in a food processor with water (melted ice), then top it off with the diced cheese. Rinse the onions and lettuce in a colander and garnish it with “croutons” made from cubed bun pieces. Slice the beef patties, and then garnished it with sesame seeds and top it off with slices of pickles. Serve on a white rounded square plate with a dollop of Thousand Island dressing (the special sauce); serve the Coca-Cola in a wine glass.
TV is crap, aliens told me so
According to this diagram aliens are listening to Music is Crap by Custard at about 40 Eridani – they’re also watching a whole bunch of rubbish television throughout the galaxy.
You knead Jesus
Ok, that’s a terrible pun – but with a cookie cutter like this you can make your next Catholic Communion experience authentic – with “body of Christ” biscuits.
You know those people who flog off pieces of toast on eBay because they can see a grainy picture of Jesus in their breakfast – they’ll have no troubles spotting Jesus when given one of these biscuits.
They’d also be great for your next church baking stall fundraiser. Or something. Actually, I’m not sure what you’d want to use them for. They’re kind of odd. But they’re out there – and available for purchase. And you should know that.
Ninjamobile
If there’s one thing guaranteed to make your infant grow up safe, secure, nightmare free, and well balanced it’s a ninja mobile – where the ninjas are staving off the attacks of nasty pirates. They’re available from Etsy.
Art with crayons
Crayons. We all grow up drawing with them – and then most of us graduate to pencils and other less waxy implements. Who knew that you could create such high brow pieces of art with Crayolas. Here they are masquerading as pixels…
A bunch of links – July 3, 2009
- Recipe: Dark Chocolate Gelato
- The God of Science
- Application: Specific Not Facile
- Articles | Quiet Please: Politicians are Present
- A2 Milk
- Blue and Green? No, They are the Same Color.
- Shoot Better Nighttime Pictures [Photos]
- The Twilight of Free Content?
- Are You Going to Become a YouTube Star?
- Mike Foster: Why I Don’t Believe In Accountability Part 2
- Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism?
Check out this optical illusion, it’s amazing.
Pandaing to the masses
Elephants used to be big in Thailand. Figuratively not literally. They’re still physically imposing – but Thailand has apparently gone crazy over pandas. And the elephants are jealous. So they played dress ups.
A is for Awesome Alphabet Aid
How do you make sure your son learns the alphabet good and proper? With this fantastic series of letter helpers.
The series is up to T.
Here are my favourites:
Found here.
Pain to gain ratio
The old no pain no gain adage gets tested (along with physics and chemistry) in this video where the proponents have gone to far too much effort. At least the guy involved probably won’t be breeding any time soon.
Horsing around
I hate Nickelback. More than I hate U2. They are the world’s most painful band.
I was at the pub the other night with Tim and Aaran for trivia. There was a Nickelback had a video clip playing. Luckily there was no sound on. But the band have this odd habit of looking like they’re riding horses when they’re singing.
Microsoft, on the other hand, apparently love Nickelback – and they think you do too.
They want you to clog up your computer with their stupid product – and a stupid song by a stupid band. What an incentive.
A novel solution
I started writing a novel once – well, a few times – and one of the problems I came across was settling on names for characters. This is why I think many authors stick to historic fiction. Sadly, others have issues coming up with the right plot devices – this will be a problem no more thanks to this great character reference card…
2B or not to Bee
Sculptures made from lego. Awesome. I remember when I was young going to big lego expos in shopping centres. These are cool.
There are more impressive sculptures that didn’t fit with my clever title.
Found here.
Rubikcubism
Here’s a follow up to that Rubik’s Cube art post from the other day. It’s pretty incredible. According to the video this kind of artistic endeavour is called rubikcubism.
The video was in the original post – but something didn’t quite work and it’s worthy of its own post. Apologies if you’ve seen it already.