January 2008
138 posts
For The Ladies: Sweet Doggie Bags! →
Now these are some of the sweetest doggie bags I’ve ever seen. They’re little dachshunds! How cuuute. Precious actually. Except for the eyes. I’m thinking they should have gone with googly eyes instead of the X eyes. They come in black, brown, and red and will set you back a staggering $250. Of course you could probably sew your own together for far cheaper. This would make a...
Most Soppiest and Geekiest T-Shirts, Ever! →
These have got to be the craziest T-shirts I’ve ever seen (even more zany than the wi-fi detecting shirt), the Proximity Based Geek Lovin’ 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt, the hearts on your chest indicate how close you are to your loved one.
Buy one of these glowing shirts for yourself, and gift one to your significant other (boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, fembot 2000…). During your normal...
Performing a seated leg curl
Get a New Flight When Stranded at the Airport with... →
MSNBC highlights how to invoke Rule 240 to get a new flight fast any time your flight is canceled for anything other than weather. I invoked Rule 240—which states that in the event of any flight delay or cancellation caused by anything other than weather, the airline would fly me on the next available flight—not their next available flight, which might not leave for another 24 hours. And guess...
Julia Fullerton-Batten →
Welcome to the wonderland that is the work of photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten. Building on her growing rep as one of fine art photography’s rising stars, her photo series Teenage Stories landscapes are populated with seemingly indifferent giant girls. Even if you could forget the flawless technical execution in her photographs, the study of that sort of ho-hum teenage banality really pops to...
State of the Union Address, Idiocracy Translation →
Glow in the Dark Bike From Puma →
We showed the Puma by Biomega a few years ago; it is an interesting folding bike with a tension cable instead of a tube, that you can disconnect so that nobody can steal your bike and ride it away. Now they have introduced a glow-in-the-dark version- the frame’s glowing paint sucks up sunlight during the day and lets it loose after the sun sets. We hope that it is not made with encapsulated...
Fly swatting becomes fun again →
Nobody likes to squish a nasty fly during mealtimes, but this fly swatter definitely injects some much needed humor whenever you want to kill those pesky insects that are interrupting your meal.
This handy flyswatter works on windows or Macs…just think of it as a backspace for bugs! Delete is molded from high-tech plastic that’s flexible yet strong, and it hangs from the handy bead-chain loop....
Otto Suction Spy Speaker Lets You Hear Your... →
The Otto may look like one of those suction cup gadgets that turns any surface into a sound generating speaker, but it’s actually more like a stethoscope than a speaker. If you latch it onto a window, a wall, or a glass of ice water, you can hear “subtle tremors and vibrations”. Because if you have to listen to your upstairs neighbors going at it every night, you might as well...
Performing some tricep curls
Camera Has Whole Bunch Of Megapixels →
Is 10 or 12 megapixels just not enough for you? Looking for something with a little more resolution? How about 160MP? That’s what the new Seitz D3 6 x 17 is packing. The 4.5 lb camera takes 60 x 170 mm images with 7,500 x 21,250 pixel resolution. An uncompressed file is just under a gig in size and the thing is so nasty that it functions through a little tablet PC attached to...
BIC Pen Drawings by Juan Francisco Casas →
That’s Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas drawing a photorealistic B/W (that’s blue and white, I suppose) art using only a BIC ballpoint pen!
Some examples of his amazing work:
theperfectman (2007)
Windybrighton (2007)
Click#3 (2008)
Link: Casas’ website [in Spanish] | Gallery - via The Daily Dish and Spluch
Sitting in line to get my car warshed
it’s There Will Be Blood day!
Maurizio Savini’s Gum Sculptures →
Italian artist Maurizio Savini uses a very unusual material for sculpting: pink chewing gum!
Chewing-gum, as a matter of fact known in Italian also as “ American gum “, was introduced by American soldiers with the end of World war two together with jeans, nylon, stocking and boggie-woggie. Its association with a state of euphoria of change and carefree youthfulness some how carried on in the...
Vinyl art by Daniel Edlen →
Artist Daniel Edlen paints portraits on old albums of recording artists - Link & photos.
Watched my first episode of Californication. Duchovny is pretty good in the lead role.
Just finished off some pancakes, gonna go engage myself in miles of exercise
16 Year Old Builds Working Wooden Bicycle →
Lee Valley Tools publishes the story of Marco Facciola, who built a bicycle out of wood and glue and absolutely no metal parts. “I wasn’t sure my wooden bicycle would actually work. I quickly realized the first pieces of the puzzle I needed to figure out were the chain and the sprockets (gears), since the design of all the other components depended on these.”
burnt my first lightscribe cd, the results are pretty impressive
Punch-Out Artwork →
I love the Super Punch-Out game on the SNES! It was my favorite game, hands down! Maybe that’s why I got such a big kick ot of rackeboy blog’s compilation of artwork inspired by the game: Link
Retro 8-Bit Watch Really Takes Me Back →
The Icon Watch costs about $82 and looks all blocky with its 8-bit styling. I like it. Nice and simple. Really takes me back. Back to the day when I invented a 4-bit watch and was doing great until some company trumped me with an 8-bitter and stole all my damn profits. Thanks a lot, dicks. You heartless moneygrubbing jerks. You will discontinue this line immediately or find out what a 4-bit foot...
Jet Wing: Not A Jetpack But I'll Still Take It →
We’ve posted different jetpacks here before, and let’s face it, jetpacks are awesome as hell. We also posted the Vampire 2 Wingsuit, which was pretty sweet in its own way. And now comes a sort of hybrid of the two, the Personal Jet Wing. Basically you jump out of a plane with this thing strapped on and glide to an altitude around 8,000 feet. Then you kick on the engines and about 30...
just saw that my whiskerino theme idea was executed by someone else minutes before I was going to upload. dang it
Chances I'd eat my friends...take the quiz
63%
Brilliantly stylish wooden toys from Take-G →
How gorgeous are these elegant wooden toys from Japanese toymaker Takeji Nakagawa, aka Take-G? The level of craftsmanship and design blow me away. There’s a awkwardly-translated interview with Nakagawa at Hitspaper that’s worth visiting if only for the high-res images of his work.
(via Bibi’s Box)
This new cat power is making work pretty enjoyable today
Pen-Top Utensils: Shut Down Humanity, It's Reached... →
Pen-top utensils! Seriously, are these not the greatest inventions ever? I never want to use regular flatware again, as I can’t jot down notes on my dinner with a normal fork. I mean, these things are a gimme for restaurant reviewers, but from now on whenever I’m eating I’ll always know in the back of my mind that it could be better; I could be able to write with my knife. [Book...
Richard Sweeney’s Paper Sculptures →
That’s a paper sculpture, titled Icosahedron, by English artist Richard Sweeney. See more of his artwork here: Link - via yatzer, thanks Rian Fike!
Lucas Whores Out Indy into Tater of the Lost Ark... →
Move over Optimash Prime and Darth Tater, because here comes Indiana Jones in Mr. Potato Head form factor: the Tater of the Lost Ark, complete with whip, fedora, leather jacket, gold idol and Harrison Fords’ Very Own Cheeky Smirk™. It will be announced next month, at the Toy Fair 2008 in New York. [Star Wars Blog]
Snapshot Mirror Captures the Moment Momentarily... →
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Listening to the new Hot Chip at work, it’s pretty good so far
Retro-gamer cupcakes OM NOM NOM NOM →
Flickr user Hello Naomi has been baking and icing a series of delicious, video-game-themed cupcakes, each more delicious-looking (and forbidden to me) than the last. How I yearn to consume the carbolicious goodness of these 8-bit treats, but my resolve is strong (and they aren’t actually here, which helps quite a lot). Link to Super Mario cupcakes, Link to Pac Mac cupcakes (via Geekologie)...
Lasagna Cat →
This is pretty incredible.
Realizing I sent Paprika back in my Fido Netflix sleeve. Now I can’t find Fido.
