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March 14th - Its Steak and BJ Day! 2008-03-14 12:20:10 A whole month after Valentines Day is the little know holiday of Steak
and BJ Day…!
No cards, no flowers, no special nights on the town; the name of the
holiday explains it all, just a steak and a BJ. Thats it. Finally, this
twin pair of Valentine’s Day and Steak and Blowjob Day will usher in a
new [...] Read more:March
The Google Zurich HQ photoset. 2008-03-14 12:16:20 Google sure know how to inspire and motivate their employees. Who wouldnt want to work their ass off in these offices…?
more after the jump… Read more:Google
, Zurich
The Minature Emergency Services. Plaster Ad. 2008-03-14 08:43:59 This eye catching ad is for plaster maker Hansaplast. ..
It would have been sooo much better if they had comp’ed real fire engines and helicopters etc in there. (click on the images to zoom in) It just doesnt work close up. A great idea, just badly executed in my opinion. via Read more:Emergency
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Smile you miserable git! 2008-03-14 06:50:25 Whilst looking more like a dental torture device, this plastic contraption from Japan called the “Yumi” is a mechanical gadget that you place in your mouth to train your facial muscles to smile properly.
The makers of this product claim that, by exercising your mouth muscles
with this thing 4 times a day for 3 minutes [...] Read more:Smile
Zit popping becomes an artform. Macro Zit Popping Footage! 2008-03-14 06:30:57 An art film by Wim Delvoye features macro closeups of zits popping. Lovely stuff!
If your an avid fan of zit popping footage, take a look here, here and here! (About Blank seems to be becoming zit popping central!)
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Cable Tidy Carpet. 2008-03-14 05:10:06 I try my best, i really do, but you just cant help the mass of cables thats an unavoidable result of having so many boxes under the TV. With this CableCarpet
, by designer Britta Boehne, the cables become part of the carpet itself.
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Deep Thinking XML Tattoo. 2008-03-14 04:32:35 Those deep thinking XML
programmers among us will appreciate this tattoo posted over at modblog by “Julie” in California. It was an 18th Birthday present.
Rick Roll a friend! 2008-03-17 12:13:13 I have to admit, about:blank has been responsible for rickrolling many thousands of the innocent browsing public with a couple of rick posts that have been heavily stumbled upon in the past. For that i am truly sorry. Its not nice.
Well, now you can play a crafty trick on your office colleague or flat mate [...] Read more:friend
Hanging Athletes 2008-03-17 12:13:02 An advertising campaign for the Italian based Sparring Partner Gym… Read more:Hanging
The Edible Kindle. Oh no, its another geek cake! 2008-03-17 11:58:22 Teamsugar user lilpeapod has put on her baking gloves and baked up an amazon kindle complete with logo and tiny buttons.
For a full photoset rundown on its creation, click here.via Read more:Edible
How does a T-Rex brain measure up? Get your jugs out… 2008-03-17 11:48:40 Not too much as it turns out. This great concept by MAID student Harry White tries to use unfamiliar units such as “half a human brain” etc as a way to “better conceptualize certain scientific constructs”.
He has also created a recipe book that uses these units. How funny does that sound!
“Put flour in to [...]
Volkswagen build websites differently… 2008-03-17 11:38:00 To celebrate the launch of their new website, volkswagen have produced a sweet little advert that shows whats involved in building such a huge site…
Its a pity that the actual site is just a large, bloated slow flash site. Slick? Definetly…Easy to use? No idea, didnt stay around long enough for the damn thing to [...] Read more:Volkswagen
Barry, your vibrating friend… 2008-03-17 11:08:33 Yes, it’s exactly what he looks like: a collectible vinyl vibrator.
Posted by Montejorge - Bem Legaus! Read more:friend
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Anglesey Jedi Church announces plans for moon colony 2008-03-17 04:23:07 AN ORDER of Holyhead Jedis has begun steps to colonise the moon.The UK Church
of the Jedi, run by brothers Daniel and Barney Jones, of Holyhead, are setting up a micro nation on the moon.
They have bought a plot of land on the moon and the order plan to have a capital city and appoint [...] Read more:plans
Wipe your bum on Vista toilet paper! 2008-03-17 04:20:24 The Japanese are so excited about the upcoming release of Vista
SP1 that they have released this special edition toilet paper
.
Go on, go BSOD on your ass!
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Mario is an fugly little bugger. 2008-03-17 04:12:28 The talented people at pixeloo decided that mario needed a makeover. Using a 3D model from Nintendo, they added an immense amount of detail using photoshop to create rather scary portrait of the plumber. via Read more:Mario
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Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians Photoset 2008-03-19 12:37:43 It doesnt need further explanation. It does exactly what it says on the tin…Men Who Look Like Old Lesbiansvia
Sponsor a baby today! 2008-03-19 12:33:55 …is a sample of some great postcards available from adbusters.
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Star Trek mosaics made from coloured beads and thread. 2008-03-19 12:30:39 You sci fi geeks cant get enough of mosaics lately.
These Star Trek
themed mosaics were created by Star Trek fan Devorah Sperber.
To recreate the look of being beamed up, Sperber used semi
translucent beads to thread the standing characters into shape. The
image of Captain Kirk (shown, right) uses 25,000 plastic beads strung
onto monofilament. “The beaded [...]
The Bible (NT) rewritten by hand on greaseproof paper. 2008-03-19 10:41:39 Ron Jeremy lookey likey Sunil Joseph (46) from Bhopal, India, has rewritten the entire New Testament, one verse a page, on greaseproof (butter) paper
…
His entry into the Guinness World Records asks to be considered for 10 world records…
1. 7957 handwritten verses
2. Hand written New Testament
3. Written in just 123 days
4. The book has 16,000 pages. [...]
Order yourself a Rick-Roll-Ogram! 2008-03-19 06:27:02 How do you rick roll in real life? Why, you order them a Rick-Roll-Ogram of course…
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Meat + Landscapes = Meatscapes! 2008-03-19 06:23:06 Artist Nicolas Lampert has combined his love for meat based products and landscape art and created Meatscapes!
Personally, i am disappointed by the lack of an appearance of our favourite pig based product…Bacon! Its nowhere to be found!
more examples at Inventor Spot Read more:Landscapes
Gen-pets. Genetically Engineered Pets for Sale. 2008-03-19 06:08:11 “Imagine walking into a department store or any big box store, and while browsing an aisle you find a display where packages hang; which, at first glance, seem to contain large action figures. Upon closer inspection, you realize they are actually bizarre, altered, bipedal mammals sealed in a plastic bubble [...] Read more:Genetically
, Engineered
A slow one today. 2008-03-18 12:12:09 Apologies for the lack of posts today. Last night was one of those nights. I did my back in picking my daughter up from her cot on sunday and last night I got recieved the repercusions of taking Ibuprofen on a weak stomach.
I think this cute little mobile phone strap depicts last night very well…
Normal [...]
Ricky Gervais is a c*nt 2008-03-21 04:09:46 Watch as Ricky
comes to a sudden realisation that he is, in fact, an annoying c*nt…
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