Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Red? Black? The safe bet is on brown


In a fundraising effort for Canadian cattle farmers, organizers have invented "Moolette", where a people place bets on numbers on an 18-meter long roulette board. If the cow leaves a "chip" on your number, you win.


Don't tell anyone, but I plan on slipping Elsie some Ex-Lax and betting the whole board.


(via Fark)

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Mirror, Mirror, I look good


What the #@$%? You're made of wood!


Don't miss the Quicktime video link to see the mirror "in action".


(via #!/usr/bin/girl -v3)

Sunday, July 27, 2003

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Just "kid"ding


UPDATE to the Baby Ink story posted here on July 8th. Turns out that the whole thing was a hoax. You just know, though, that some moron is thinking, "Hmmm... tattooing my infant! That there's a great idea!"


(via Nuggets)

Friday, July 18, 2003

Typewriter Art


Incredible Fact #1: Paul Smith creates amazingly detailed art using only a typewriter.

Incredible Fact #2: He also creates these pictures using only the top row of the keyboard, namely the keys
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Incredible Fact #3: He manages to do this despite the fact he suffers from severe cerebral palsy.

Read a short bio of this interesting artist.


(via Fiendish Is The Word)

Thursday, July 17, 2003

As if Abe didn't look bad enough


A burrito shop in Charlotte, NC saves and scans their customers' Ugly Money.

(via Sarcasmo's Corner)

If you're the type that would rather just find out where your money goes, check out Where's George?

Awww... Pookie just said the cutest thing!


TOKYO, July 16 — After selling 300,000 pet-lovers on the Bowlingual gadget that supposedly translates a dog’s bark into human language, a Japanese toymaker Takara Co. is planning a similar one for cats, the Meowlingual.


Making the cat one must have been much easier, since everything would just translate to "Screw you. I'm a cat."


(submitted by Dave "Hello Kitty" Postma)

Santa Monica Farmer's Market Tragedy


Sad news from Santa Monica, CA. A car plowed through the Farmer's Market at high speed on Wednesday, killing nine and injuring many others. Andy Baio, publisher of the blog Waxy.org, was right there after it happened. Traditional news coverage from CNN, MSNBC (video), ABC News and the local NBC affiliate.


(via Boing Boing)

Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Nowhere to go but up...


The 2003 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest (a/k/a the "Dark and Stormy Night" contest) have been announced. The goal is to write the very worst opening sentence for a (non-existent) novel. Some of this year's entries:

Dishonorable Mention: Vile Pun Category

Sarah felt bored and unsatisfied, even though her job as a nurse's aide included helping patients and keeping track of the billiards equipment in the recreation room at the Venereal Disease Treatment Center, and she wondered what her mother had been thinking all those years when she repeatedly told her that a young lady should mind herpes and cues.


Dishonorable Mention: Detective Category

He knew that, at most, he had five seconds left to live, one one-thousand, two one-thousand, the gun barrel pointing at his face like a scolding finger, three Mississippi, four Mississippi, the hired assassin Ricardo¹s grip tightening on the trigger, five white elephantsS SIX white elephants, and then a bright blast of light as he wondered which was really the most accurate way to count five seconds.


Winner: Detective Category

Detective Inspector Mike Norman slipped six fingers into his overcoat pocket, five of them clad in a latex glove and attached to his palm, while the sixth was wrapped in a plastic evidence bag and apparently belonged to the kidnapped pianist Ricardo Moore, or, as it now seemed likely, the kidnapped ex-pianist Ricardo Moore.


Winning entries from previous year available here.


(via GirlHacker)

It Ain't Easy Being Queasy


Fascinating blog of a Medical Examiner intern (you know, like a coroner) and the things he sees in his daily rounds. NOT for the squeamish.


(via #!/usr/bin/girl -v3)

Inside Looking Out


"A day in the life of my mouth" and other pinhole camerawork at Justin Quinn's website.


(via Dru Blood)

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Lunch Cubed


I remember a couple of lunchboxes from my childhood. For a while I had a Six Million Dollar Man one for a while, and a Peanuts one before that. Pretty tame and kinda lame. Lunchboxes are a lot cooler now. Don't believe it? Go to lunchboxes.com. Yeah, they have the standard Power Rangers/ Dora The Explorer thing, but there's also the suitcase lunchbox, Evil Dead lunchbox, Iron Maiden lunchbox, Too Much Coffee Man lunchbox, and my personal fave, the Chinese takeout lunchbox.


More lunchbox fun at Archie McPhee, where you can lunch with cockroaches, Fabulous Fifties Food, and the Jolly Roger.


You know your little girl is growing up when she trades her Care Bears box in for The Sex Pistols...


(lunchboxes.com link via Pop Culture Junk Mail)

Saturday, July 12, 2003

ATTENTION: You must be this pregnant to ride The Deliverator


Patent on a centrifugal device to hasten childbirth. Is this how Dizzy Gillespie got his name?