"Refreshing" head wipes for bald guys? This strange product is real, although it's not something guys would admit using ...so of course it would make a horrible gift.
Don't worry ladies, there are plenty of ways for you to passive aggressively tell your man he isn't attractive enough. This great product can remind him that he's not only bald, but that he's disgustingly sweaty too. Hooray for destroying your lover's self confidence!
This is just one of a dozen gifts that say, "I have no idea how to shop for Valentines Day." Link
Dave Fields explains how the rash of internet infographics from the past couple of years differs from ...well, from what they should be.
A well done infographic has the power to capture one’s acute attention span and convey information that would have taken longer to simply read (oh no, not reading!). However, for every brilliantly thought out and well executed mashup of art and data, there now seems to be an influx of mundane and formulaic counterparts infesting the very internet that we hold so near and dear.
Here we have an infographic that explores commonalities between the seemingly vast expanse of contrived infographics that appear to have spawned in mass over the past year. If you’re an infographic purest, view at your own risk.
Yep, the rest is in the form of an infographic that manages to be more entertaining than most. Link -via Rue the Day
Eunice Sanborn, who outlived three husbands, was 114 years old when she passed away Monday at her home in Texas, according to caretaker David French. Or was she 115?
Census records show Sanborn was born on July 20, 1896, in Lake Charles, La., according to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, which listed Sanborn as the world's oldest person.
But French said Sanborn always maintained the Census Bureau had made a mistake and she was really born in 1895. She celebrated what she believed was her 115th birthday on July 20, Agence France-Presse reported.
Either way, with Sanborn's death, the oldest person in the world is now 114-year-old Besse Cooper of Georgia. Link
The BBC has a TV program called Fast and Loose. It's a game show with a segment called Interpretive Dance, featuring David Armand, whom you might remember as the guy behind the hilarious interpretation of "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia. Now he has a regular job doing what he does so well. -via Arbroath
How true are these stereotypes? I have accounts at a half-dozen of these networks, but since I don't spend much time at any of them, it's hard to keep up with trends. Found, of course, at a Tumblr blog. http://-inthemourning.tumblr.com/post/2746308602 -via Buzzfeed
Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half made this video in support of her friends at the Huemul Conservation Project who are raising funds to study and protect the Humemul with the Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race. http://www.patagonianexpeditionrace.com/en/donate.php
The folks at Urlesque have been busy making ads for Facebook. No, not to sell anything; these are just for laughs!
Anyone with a Facebook Account can create advertisements on Facebook. You could legitimately advertise your business or perhaps a waterproof blow dryer. I decided to use the feature to create ads for things that could really use more exposure like potatoes, VHS tapes, and Reddit. If your budget is under $30,000 you can post an ad for anything you want, as long as you meet the strict guidelines. Sorry everyone, "Images of unrealistic body changes, such as extreme weight loss or muscle gain, are not allowed."
Then again, you have to admite they get your attention. I mean, I really want a cheesburger now! See all 30 fake ads at Urlesque. Link
Yan Fortin, the webmaster at Geeks Are Sexy, has been working on a secret project for the past nine months and today unveiled ...his new clone! No, we can't leave it at that, because his mama deserves credit as well. Here's the little storm trooper coming home in that big helmet he's going to grow into. Congratulations from your friends at Neatorama! Link
Skaters at New York's Bryant Park were asked to clear the rink for ice resurfacing, but Kenny Moir had a little trouble just getting around, much less getting out of the way. The crowd gathered to watch his embarrasment. It turns out that it takes a lot of talent to skate this badly! Link -via Cynical-C
This is kinda cute! Click the zombies in the Zombie Tabernacle Choir to make them sing their little heads off, sweetly, yet a little bit creepily. Link-Thanks, John Schnall!
When you come across text you can't read, can you at least identify the language? Maybe sometimes? In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you'll be given characters from languages not easily typed on your keyboard, and you match it to the language. It's not easy -I only got three right. Surely you can beat that! Link
We once featured an Euler diagram that explained the British Isles, the United Kingdom, and Great Britain. This video explains all that clearly but quickly, then goes on to explain the British Empire, the Crown Colonies, Crown Dependencies, and other terms that confuse Americans and others who don't deal with such geographical concepts every day. If this goes too fast for you, the script is available from C. G. P. Grey. http://blog.cgpgrey.com/the-difference-between-the-united-kingdom-great-britain-england-and-a-whole-lot-more/ -via reddit
Can you believe it? The game Oregon Trail will turn forty years old in 2011! The first version was a little different from what you may remember:
With no monitor, the original version of Oregon Trail was played by answering prompts that printed out on a roll of paper. At 10 characters per second, the teletype spat out, "How much do you want to spend on your oxen team?" or, "Do you want to eat (1) poorly (2) moderately or (3) well?" Students typed in the numerical responses, then the program chugged through a few basic formulas and spat out the next prompt along with a status update.
"Bad illness—medicine used," it might say. "Do you want to (1) hunt or (2) continue?"
Hunting required the greatest stretch of the user's imagination. Instead of a point-and-shoot game, the teletype wrote back, "Type BANG."
If the user typed it in accurately and quickly enough, the hunter bagged his quarry.
The game was first played in a history class on December 3rd, 1971. Students had to wait up to a half hour just to take a turn! But they wanted to play again and again. Strangely, the code was deleted from the school computer at the end of the year, but the teacher, co-creator Don Rawitsch, printed out the code -hundreds of lines- on a roll of computer paper. It may have never been used again if Rawitsch hadn't looked for a community service job in order to avoid the Vietnam draft. What happened was that Oregon Trail became "the most widely distributed educational game of all time." The story of how three Minnesota student teachers invented the game but never saw any profits is a fascinating tale. Link -via Rue the Day
A new glowing neon sign appeared in Nampa, Idaho around Christmas. It wasn't a holiday decoration. Large red letters spell out the word CRAP.
Ryan Gravette remembers the day the sign came to town.
"We actually had some friends over," Gravette said. "They went out and said: ‘Do you realize that there's a sign that says crap out there?'"
Gravette said: No. No, I didn't. But, yes, there is a "CRAP" sign lighting up our sky.
That sign belongs to Andy Joseph.
"My crap sign on the roof," Joseph said. "It stands for: 'Can't Resist Andy's Place.'"
No, he's not using the neon to attract the ladies. Andy's Place is a second-hand appliance store. For Joseph, "CRAP" is a business decision.
The slogan came about when Joseph got a deal on an old sign from a defunct floor covering store. The sign spelled CARPET, which gave Joseph some letters he could use for a different business. http://www.kivitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13900042 (with video) -Thanks, Funny Laughs!
Have you ever seen a saguaro cactus like this? This is a cristate ("crested") cactus, a result of fasciation, which is explained at TYWKIWDBI. The cactus somehow leads to an explanation of the Stevie Nicks song "Edge of Seventeen". Link
