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This little girl’s Colonel Sanders Halloween costume is too precious. Her mom not only made the entire outfit, but she also made the wig out of wool yarn and the effect is pretty priceless.
If you’ve ever thought that New York’s Fashion Week is taken way too seriously, then you might be like the Snuggie marketing team. Yes, they actually introduced new fabrics and colors, but the reasons behind the show has a lot more to do with silliness than displaying the new products. The host of the show was Ross The Intern from The Jay Leno Show.
There was only a dozen or so attendees at the event, but the tongue-in-cheek message will outlast a lot of the here today, gone tomorrow couture fashions on display elsewhere in the city.
Link Via Consumerist
Shredsors – $19.95
Need to destroy that top secret memo but got no office paper shredder? Here’s the product for you: a strange yet effective combination of scissors and shredders. Behold, the Shredsors – a pair of scissors with 9 blades that will quickly destroy junk mail, bank statements, old credit cards …
From the Neatorama Shop: Link
Image copyright Warner Bros., used under fair use.
3. Gremlins: Feeding after midnight – Don’t get them wet; OK, fine. Don’t expose them to sunlight; sure, why not? Don’t feed them after midnight; um, how’s that again? If you can’t feed them “after midnight,” at what point during the day does it cease to be “after midnight” so you can feed them again? For that matter, how does the mogwai know what time zone it’s in? Suppose I get my mogwai in New York and then take a vacation to San Francisco — should I not feed my mogwai after midnight Eastern Time or Pacific Time? And what about Daylight Saving Time? Considering the consequences, these details seem pretty important.
What are some of your favorite “unanswered questions” from otherwise entertaining movies?
While it seems most establishments with drive-thru windows are in agreement that bicycles are forbidden, and refused service, Washington-based restaurant Burgerville is leading the way to change that. All 39 of their stores now allow cyclists in their drive up lanes, giving free smoothies to the first batch earlier this month.
The intention of our Bike Friendly Service program is to create a consistent policy and experience for our guests in the drive thru. To support this program, a cross-functional team, including members from Hawthorne Burgerville and community members from the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, have designed and are beginning the implementation of the first phase of the program.
Link via BikePortland
Speechwriter,
author and famous New York Times columnist William Safire has just died
of pancreatic cancer.
I don't always agree with Safire's politics, but I've always found his writings to be intriguing and worth the read (not to mention rib-ticklin' when he got going with alliterations)
In memory of Safire, here's my favorite "Rules for Writers," from the man who came up with such gems as "nattering nabobs of negativism" and "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history":
- Remember to never split an infinitive.
- The passive voice should never be used.
- Do not put statements in the negative form.
- Verbs have to agree with their subjects.
- Proofread carefully to see if you words out.
- If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.
- A writer must not shift your point of view.
- And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. (Remember, too, a preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with.)
- Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
- Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
- Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
- If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
- Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
- Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
- Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
- Always pick on the correct idiom.
- The adverb always follows the verb.
- Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague; seek viable alternatives.
William Safire, R.I.P.
Link: NY Times Obit
Poor Lulu. When the bovine miscowculated the steepness of the pathway near the German castle of Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, she was stuck down in the valley with moo way back up to the farm. What to do?
Help came in the form of the local mountain rescue who hitched the hapless heifers one by one to the local cable-car used by hikers for a free ride home.
For the mountain rescuers, it was all in day’s work.
‘It happens quite a lot,’ said one, ‘but usually we end up airlifting the cows back home via helicopter.
‘It just so happened this trio ended up stuck near the cable car station so we were able to use the cable car. They were quite cool about it.’
After some fresh grass and a good milking, the cows were settled in their stall for the evening with the high-life behind them for good.
Allan Hall of the Daily Mail got the story and the super-sized pic: Link
It’s a house carved out of a solid tree trunk! This astonishing mobile tree house started off life as a mobile information centre for Forestry Tasmania. It has recently sold on e-bay for AU$12,000 where it grabbed the attention of the online world. Given the inside is a bit grotty, but with TLC imagine what a perfect spare room, library or playroom this structure would make. The possibilities are endless.
From the Upcoming 
ueue, submitted by cakehead loves evil.
The Saguaro – now there is one big cactus. A native of Mexico and Arizona (with some in California too) it attracts a number of visitors – especially when it flowers. Not all of them are desirable however, with a number of birds – notably the Flicker, making their homes inside the motionless giants.
The amount of life that the saguaro attracts is quite amazing. As well as the discovery of the unexpected – such as a woodpecker variety, you will even get to see hummingbirds in action as they hover over the enormous, candelabra-shaped cacti. It was many generations ago of hummingbird that this example first started its slow reach for the sky. Although they will sometimes reach fifteen meters in height, the saguaro does not bloom until it is around fifty years old. The hummingbird can be weighed in grams while the saguaro itself might weigh up to nine thousand kilograms. That’s some difference.
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by taliesyn30.
This floppy disk drive has been altered to play the Darth Vader theme from Star Wars. I have no idea how, but here’s an explanation floating around the blogosphere:
I can’t find any documentation for this, nor can I help posting it. I assume it’s a hardware hack that manually controls the floppy drive’s stepper motor, but it’d make my day if this was done in software using standard I/O requests. Either way, the 3.5 inch FDD finally serves an important function again.
The Blood Lamp only works once, and you need to add of a drop of your blood to activate it! The idea is to stop and think about how badly you need light before you use it. Designer Mike Thompson created the lamp in order to draw attention to how much energy we waste. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend
Nothing draws attention like oversized objects, and when you’re traveling along the highway, hungry people notice big food. During the 1930s, buildings that look like something else popped up all over to draw in travelers, and many still exist. See 24 examples of appetizing architecture in this collection. Shown is the Big Duck in Flanders, New York. Link -via the Presurfer
