Posted by Alex in Fashion on May 23, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Demeter Fragrance came out with – I kid you not – a Play-Doh perfume!
Got a hot play date? Spritz on ‘eua de Play-Doh’, a new creation from Hasbro and Demeter Fragrance Library, the perfume purveyors behind such singular scents as Dirt, Tomato, and Thunderstorm.
The limited-edition ode to the distinctively odiferous modeling compound – its a smell for ‘highly creative people’, says Hasbro’s publicity pitch – costs $19 (for one ounce)
Start your daughter’s life right: Get her the Baby Dior Le Trousseau Bow Shoes, made of cotton and terrycloth lining, with the word "Dior" spelled out in rhinestones.
It’s $93 – but hey, can you put a price tag on her future?
If you’re the Sultan of Brunei, you can have anything you want, including a specially made Ferrari station wagon:
Call it a station wagon, an estate car or a shooting brake, this is a rare Ferrari 456 "Venice," a limited edition series designed and built by Pininfarina (who penned the 456 GT) in 1995 at the request of the royal family of the Sultanate of Brunei. The station wagon featured a 20 cm longer wheelbase and four doors.
In the year 2139 few vehicles are left on earth, one of them driven by Judge Dredd, a cartoon caracter from the 2000AD Comic. The only safe way to travel in that violent world is in armored taxis- built by Landrover.
So for the Hollywood movie "Judge Dredd", starring Sylvester Stallone, several 101′s were equipped with a futuristic fiberglass body. Design work was done by Gordon Sked and David Woodhouse, the vehicles were built by Land Rover. After the movie was finished almost all vehicles were bought by Philipp Bashall and are for sale. The vehicles are not road legal as they are but can be easily made to. All the 101′s mechanical parts are retained. This is a hot, noisy vehicle- but what a headturner!
Helen Golay, 75, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 72, were captured by police for a weird crime à laArsenic and Old Lace:
Two little old ladies have been accused of giving homeless men a place to stay, only to collect millions upon their deaths from insurance companies.
Helen Golay, 75, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 72, had a system. They would befriend homeless men and offer them apartments. Once they gained their trust, they would get them to open several insurance policies naming the women as beneficiaries.
After letting the men live off of their "kindness" for a couple of years, the killer grannies would cash in. They would gun down their victims with their cars and speed away.
Another Da Vinci Code parody: Alfred Thomas Catalfo’s The Norman Rockwell Code. From the website:
A famous museum… a shocking murder… a distinguished symbologist… an alluring cryptologist… secrets written in code.
No, it’s not that "other" story.
Movie Shot When the curator of The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is murdered, the police desperately need help with the investigation. Langford Fife, Professor of Symbology at Stockbridge Community College and the son of a certain Deputy Sheriff from Mayberry, North Carolina, is called to the scene. He may have received his degree in symbology through a correspondence course but he’s "just as competent as those high-falutin’ professors from Harvard with their fancy sheepskins from accredited schools."
With cryptologist Sopha Poisson of the Quebec Secret Service, Langford sets out to uncover the clues hidden in the paintings of Norman Rockwell… clues which will lead them to a secret society, a legendary bloodline and a battle with sinister forces.
Putty-nosed monkey has code words to warn others of predators:
If you’re a putty-nosed monkey and you hear a friend whoop out a loud "pyow" call, you know there’s a leopard sneaking around and it’s time to boogie.
Similarly, if you hear a "hack," it means you should watch out for a hungry eagle.
If the male let’s out a "pyow," the monkeys scramble away from the lower levels of the trees. If they hear a "hack," they climb away from the canopy to avoid getting picked off by an eagle.
But, if the monkey mixes the call into "pyow-hack", it means something entirely different:
"They might make a ‘pyow-hack’ in response to a predator, but the strange thing is they also do it early in the morning while foraging," said study co-author Klaus Zuberbuhler. "If the male wants to move on, he produces that sequence, which is followed by the group moving."
Hans Nyberg must have known how much I love panoramas! He just posted a very neat collection of Quicktime VR panoramas from the locations in the Da Vinci Code.
Vincent van Gogh used paint. Auguste Rodin worked in bronze. Larry Moss shapes air with the use of balloons. Moss’s unusual art has been displayed in 12 countries on four continents. His achievements have been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Larry’s world record is to create the largest non-round balloon sculpture in the world: a soccer player balloon sculpture made from 40,781 balloons!
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