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Remember the Star Trek: The Sitcom clip produced by Play Cole Productions? Here’s another one: The Muppet Show with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, who drove Kermit crazy back stage.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] (a little strong language and cursing, but otherwise quite funny) – Thanks Bill Monroe!
Love beer? Here’s a list of the top 10 beer myths so you can win that bar bet:
Beer Myth 7: The best beers are in green bottles.
As it turns out, brown bottles protect the beer from the light much better than green bottles or clear bottles. This myth comes from when there was a shortage of brown glass in Europe after WWII. The European beers were bottled in green instead, so green bottles came to represent imports. This certainly isn’t the case anymore.
Link – via Miss Cellania (who has an excellent list of links about beer)
FYI, the image above is Gambrinus [wiki], "a legendary king of Flanders and unofficial patron saint of beer and beer brewing".
Nudist smoker? The problem of where to put your smokes is solved! From Modern Mechanix, 1938: Link – via Scribal Terror
In 2000, professor Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University was able to "read" the brain activity of monkeys as they reach for small pieces of food. Nicolelis then sent the brain signals to control a robotic arm.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | BBC story – via Aramax
Bao Xishun, who at 7 foot 9 in (2.36 m) is the world’s tallest man just got married!
The world’s tallest man has married a woman who is more than 2 feet shorter than him, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday.
Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9 herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married 5-foot-6 saleswoman Xia Shujian several days ago, the Beijing New reported.
What to do with your loved one’s ashes after being cremated? Well, besides being made into diamonds, product designer Nadine Jarvis pointed out that you can also make pencils (one body = 240 pencils) and bird feeder out of the cremains!
Link – via Random Good Stuff
What’s that chugging alongside cars in the streets of the Czech city of Brno? Apparently, the city had tried to move the train stations and tracks out of the downtown area but ran out of money, so until then, the trains will keep on coming around the bend … and intersections!
Link [in Russian, but plenty of good pics] – via Say No to Crack
Update 3/31/07: Here’s the website of the original photographer: Link [in Czech] – Thanks Max Folder!
To coincide with the release of the Simpsons movie, the convenience store chain 7-11 plans to convert some of its stores into Kwik-E-Marts:
If all goes as planned, the convenience store chain plans to refit 11 stores across the U.S. — Richmond is an unlikely choice — to resemble the front of the Kwik-E-Mart, the convenience store that Homer and other characters frequent in the classic cartoon TV series.
Customers also will be able to buy products inspired by the nearly two-decades-old show, including KrustyO’s cereal, Buzz Cola and iced Squishees (the cup says Squishee, but the contents will be Slurpee).
The chain also will use pictures of Simpsons characters to promote 7-Eleven’s line of fresh foods, such as placing the face of Homer and his classic "Mmmm . . . sandwich" quip on sandwich wrappers.
Link – via A Welsh View
This clever ad from the Ministry of Health of Portugal states: "Don’t Play With Your Health. Check Your Cholesterol." Link – via Eduyayo
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We were not ready to start our blog just yet but this needed to be mentioned. Skidboot, an amazing dog, has left us. This was an outstanding example of the relationship between owner and dog that faced many an issue and overcame them through effort.
We have put together a brief tribute to Skidboot and David named “Skidboot Has Left Us†on YouTube along with a link to the Texas Country Reporter segment.Skidboot was neither a Briard (a herding dog of French origin) nor a Gordon setter (a birddog) that we will be writing about in our blog. He and David are an excellent example of that wide and diverse world of partnerships between man and dog that we will also explore.
I first met Skidboot and David at the State Fair of Texas in the late 90’s. It was amazing even then to see the close partnership between them even then. I remember last fall when their story seemed to be everywhere on the internet as well as TV. One of the best segments was the Texas Country Reporter piece by Bob Phillips .They appeared with Leno, Letterman, Oprah and many others. Internet hits were over four million.
The segment points out how Skidboot was not an easy dog to handle in the beginning (a trait that can also be found in both Briards and Gordons). It took work on David’s part to bring out the best in Skidboot. The segment also pointed out that the dog was going blind and the future was uncertain. Monday (3/26/07) David was talking to one of the Dallas radio folks with his “bittersweet news†– Skidboot was dead but now he could see and frolic with the likes of Lassie and Rin Tin Tin.
David will not be alone in missing his partner, Skidboot – millions of others will also!
Tom
BriardsTexas
Push play or go to YouTube. Thanks, Tom.
This week’s collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this …. clamp! But it’s not just any clamp, this tool actually has a very specific use: can you guess what that is? Post your answer in the comment section – no URL, please! Let others play.
No prize this week, so you’re playing for bragging rights. Congrats to Mordred who won last week’s game.
Update 3/30/07: It’s a book clamp to hold large books open while you read it! Here’s the patent. No one got it right, although Jen #23 was the closest.
Paleo-Future, a fantastic blog about "the future that never was," dug up a nice image that ran in the Brown County Democrat (De Pere, Wisconsin) newspaper in 1900. Back then, they predicted that we’ll all have Segway-like "Footomobile" by now!
Photo: Donald Chan / Reuters
China’s construction of a 13-mile (21-km) long concrete dragon along the top of a ridge in Shizhu Mountain may be stopped due to environmental impact. Good thing Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi who started the Great Wall didn’t have to fuss with those darned environmentalists!
Link – via Unique Daily
The United States Postal Service has unveiled a collection of 15 new Star Wars stamps and has invited the public to vote on a favorite:
Link – via Geeks of Doom
Here’s some YouTubbery of sad Kermit singing Nine Inch Nail’s "Hurt": Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | SadKermit website – via Gorilla Mask
American Inventor Spot has a list of 10 purses they claim to be manly enough that a guy wouldn’t feel embarrassed holding them. The purse above, created by Yael Mer to look like it contains a severed human head (eek!), is #9 on their list.
Link – Thanks Michelle!
For other odd handbags, check out the NES controller purse, a purse made out of real toads, or a purse made from juice boxes.
An enormous Toronto Marlies’ inflatable player appearing ready for a game of Gardiner hockey.
As seen on blogTO.
Here’s a list of 5 spectacularly strange buildings in Asia. For example, the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea:
The Ryugyong Hotel is much like the North Korean regime itself: it’s monolithic, unstable, and menacing. Construction began on the building in 1987; it was abandoned in 1992, presumably because funding ran out. Perhaps due to bad concrete used in its initial construction, some think it’ll never be open as it’s currently designed. To this day, a crane sits at the top, 330 meters above Pyongyang, a dormant antenna perched on the half-built, ghostly hull. The edifice lacks windows, fixtures, and fittings; that it was never finished didn’t stop the government from adding it to maps and official currency, or from manipulating it in official images so that it appears to be lit up at night. Why would an isolationist state like North Korea—a country with perhaps the world’s tightest controls on tourism—undertake the construction of a hotel with 3,000 rooms? One can only guess.
Link – via Newley Purnell
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Quite a few iconic one-liners are missing from this list, but it’s still very entertaining: Top 10 Action Hero One-Liners from the CinemATTIC.
Link Updated Link – via Photo Matt
Loredana and Ornella were walking downtown one day, when a gum thrown on the sidewalk ruined their shoes but sparked this idea for Envyrobubble, a gum recycling bin:
We did our homework and realized a public gum container would have to be designed specifically for gum, so we gave it a unique shape. It had to get attention and raise awareness of responsible gum disposal, so we covered it with a fun, eye-catching spiral design and made it scream bubble gum pink. Then we joined forces with a leading recycler to ensure that the gum collected became something useful: fertilizer.
Link – via daily dose of imagery
This deep fryer doubles as a live goldfish tank. Since oil and water don’t mix, the hot oil stays on top and bits of food that fall down get eaten by the fishies!
Hit play or go to link [YouTube] – via Consumerist
In these videos, you can see how sharp the sword is in slow-motion:
An egg cleanly sliced in two:
A plastic bottle sliced:
This one is awesome: a tomato cut in two.
And this here is how to make the swords [in Japanese, not slo-mo]:
via Kirai’s blog
This doodle by Lee of Lee’s Things blog summarizes secret to finding happiness:
In his lecture, Fournier suggested that these are three universal psychological needs (to be choiceful, connected to others, to feel capable) shared by all people and that all three are of equal importance. If these needs are not met, it will impact:
* our ability to meet our full potential
* our capacity to grow
* our ability to flourish and thrive
* our ability to experience happiness
A mother in Polk County, Florida, may lose custody of her 7-year-old son Justin, who weighs a staggering 254 lb. ( 115 kg)!
Joyce Painter’s seven year old son, Justin, weighs 254 pounds. She says the Department of Social Services is threatening to remove him from her home if he doesn’t lose weight.
Painter says she first noticed her son’s weight gain when he was three, "He played T-ball and soccer, did things just like every other kid, but he was gaining weight." Painter says she’s taken Justin to doctor after doctor over the past four years, but nobody has been able to pinpoint the cause of his rapid growth. She’s been told it could be genetic, it could be hormonal or it could be his diet. Painter says she’s regulated Justin’s meals for a while now, "I’ve got him on three meals a day. A meat and two vegetables, that’s it. There’s no snacking, I removed all the chips and cookies. I quit buying it." Despite those efforts, Painter says her son continues to gain weight.
This awesome rolling bridge is made by Heatherwick Studio and is located in Paddington Basin, London, UK:
Rather than a conventional opening bridge mechanism, consisting of a single rigid element that lifts to let boats pass, the Rolling Bridge gets out of the way by curling up until its two ends touch. While in its horizontal position, the bridge is a normal, inconspicuous steel and timber footbridge; fully open, it forms a circle on one bank of the water that bears little resemblance to its former self.
Twelve metres long, the bridge is made in eight steel and timber sections, and is made to curl by hydraulic rams set into the handrail between each section.
Remember the classic game Operation?
Well, Fred the bunny needs an operation, STAT! You be the surgeon in this funny online surgery. Can you save the bunny before time runs out?
Link [Flash]
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Tattoos 4 Toddlers is a new tattoo studio specializing in tattooing children!
Unlike our competitors who only offer temporary rub on tattoos. Our patented needle-free system only causes slight discomfort and ensures a vibrant tattoo, guaranteed not to fade for at least 10 years!
Now that’s a birthday gift your kid can’t ditch in a couple of days: Link – Thanks Becky!
Update 4/5/07: Um, yeah, it’s a hoax, people!
Mimi Traillette is an octopus obsessed artist.
You can check out her handmade plushies here.
Comments Off ROBO_COOP is an orchestra of robotic puppets controlled by a litany of laptops generating both movement and music. The exhibit was mildly disturbing in that post-apocalyptic sense that one might expect, but there was also something fragile, touching, and almost organic about it.
As seen on Midnight Poutine. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube].
You can also check out a bunch of images on Flickr.
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