Always be the life of the party with by bringing disco to every context. Life is better with disco. Maybe. Try this hat and let me know.
Our daily Fred: The breakfast edition
Two products for today’s email – they’re not sold as a set but will no doubt bring countless minutes of joy to your breakfast routine.
By the way, did you hear the one about the little burnt cornflake?*
Here’s the milk jug… in a convenient half pint size.
And now, the cereal bowl – remember, no crying over spilt milk, but how could you if the spillage was permanently capture in such a stylish fashion.
*I can’t tell you the rest this time… it’s a cereal.
Whoops
Sometimes letting a computer do all your work for you seems like a good idea. Other times it just gets you in trouble.
“The parents of a girl who died suddenly two months ago have been sent a letter from her school demanding she improves her attendance.”
“The letter – dated March 16 – said `students must have at least 92 per cent attendance and Megan’s is currently 60.4pc”
“At the time of her death, headteacher Mr Ward led tributes to Megan. He said: “Megan was a popular, bright girl, with a promising future ahead of her.”
Tetris in real life…
This microscopic Tetris was created using 42 glass microspheres (1 μm or 0.001 mm diameter) in a 25 μm x 20 μm sized area under a microscope. They’re then pulled around through the miracles of modern computer technology. I for one am glad research dollars are being spent on this sort of thing.
A bunch of links – March 25, 2009
- Last.fm To Start Charging International Users
- Making The Rubens’ Tube
- Photojojo » How to Develop Film Using Coffee and Vitamin C! Srsly!
- How is Yogurt Made?
- StillTasty Tells You How Long Your Food Will Last
- BestInClass Helps You To Find The Best Digital Camera
- puppyocracies OH MY GOODNESS WHO HAS THE BALANCE OF POWER AND SUCH A CUTE LITTLE NOSE
- The Skunk Doth Speakth
- Letter to a Young Diner: 10 Reasons *not* to go out to Dinner.
- 10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know – Nettuts+
Finally – a use for the stockpile of instant coffee in the back of your pantry.
I can’t for the life of me understand why the gourmet yoghurt I like to eat is so expensive. Maybe I should make my own.
Useful. But obscure.
Piece offering
How would you advertise Lego? It pretty much sells itself. Here are 39 clever Lego ads. A mix of inspirational and controversial. And a periodic table for good measure.
The results are in…
According to this long test I am only 24.76% geek. So there.
According to this nerd test I am 40% nerdy. I’m not sure you can compare the two…
Convenience store convergence
This week I’m all about convergence devices – toasters printing weather forecasts and the like. One day there’ll be a gadget that does just about everything. Oh wait. That’s an iPhone. Apparently I’m getting my work one soon – fingers crossed…
Anyway. I give you. The Trolley Bike. And instructions on how to make one yourself. Thanks to instructables…
Keep on truckin’
What does it say about me that this made me laugh? A lot. On the third, fourth, fifth and subsequent viewings…
Is google like God
I’m trying to decided whether using google as an analogy for God is appropriate or not. There are certain similarities that would help make God more accessible to geeks.
First I considered the possibility of using an open source analogy… it all started when I was trying to explain that it’s not inconsistent for an omnipotent God to change his system of doing things…
“The logic is perfectly consistent. The OT is a precursor to the NT – and certain things from the Old system are replaced in the new. It’s like a software upgrade that makes that piece of technology so much more awesome. In fact – the OT is like a proprietary software system that only works for the original company that won the contract,and in the NT it’s open source. Available for all. For free. Actually, it’s more like shareware because you don’t get to hack the code to bits and make it do whatever you want…”
Here are five ways God is like Google…
- He knows everything
- His slogan is “don’t be evil”
- His products are free and good and available to anyone who wants to use them
- It’s best if you just take them as they naturally appear and don’t go around trying to outdo the core program with your own stupidity
- While everything comes free and easy, he’s actually keeping a record of everything you’ve ever done in order to target you better.
Yeah, so it’s not perfect. But help me refine it in the comments.
UrbanTrend: cardboard cut out
Gambit was always my favourite X-man as a child. And I was never sure how to recreate his flying cards of death. Cardboard just didn’t cut it.
These would cut it. Just about anything in fact.
Our daily Fred: Nice udders… I mean jugs
It’s six of one, half a dozen of the other really. But either way – this is an udderly cool idea from Fred and Friends – and they’ll moove like crazy.
YouTube Twosday: Classics in one minute
So the dog video was not the best video ever posted on YouTube – these may be close. Classics movies presented in one minute… Kill Bill 1 and 2, and Forrest Gump…shot in one take. Brilliant.
‘Snow joke
Fancy billboards with real time content are all the rage – the Fitness First board with built in scales made waves on the web – there’s a great billboard near the airport in Brisbane with a population counter updated in real time.
As toasters that print the day’s weather forecast are the future of breakfast – so billboards that present the snow report on your favourite ski field are the future of billboard advertising.
See it in action:
Tryvann – The Snowing Billboard from Martin on Vimeo.
Pen(t) up aggression
Sick of people stealing your pen? Me too. I hate it. My pens go missing from my desk at an alarming rate. The worst bit is when you see the aforementioned writing device in someone else’s mouth. get the pen back complete with fresh teeth marks. Your troubles will be a distant memory if you invest the $US1.69 to purchase this pen.
Found here. I can’t believe someone made this – and worse, I can’t believe I posted it… or maybe I can.