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The Story Behind the Leno, Letterman, Oprah Ad

February 8th, 2010 at 8:00 am » Comments (0)

Super Bowl viewers were rubbing their eyes at the sight of a TV spot pairing CBS late-night host David Letterman with longtime NBC archrival Jay Leno, plus media magnate Oprah Winfrey.
Appearing early in the CBS-aired game Sunday, the ad depicted Letterman and Leno glumly sharing a couch watching the Super Bowl, with Winfrey seated between [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

February 6th, 2010 at 9:00 am » Comments (0)

For those of you into exotic breads, the new “puppy loaf” is both creepy and quite tasty
You often hear people talk about the eye of a storm, but never about the ear, nose, and mouth of the storm. Today’s Top 10 Photos are all about the forgotten orifices of today’s society. (Pics)



If The Internet Always Told the Truth

February 3rd, 2010 at 8:35 am » Comments (0)

The 2009 Ricky Gervais movie The Invention of Lying imagined a world in which everyone always told the truth and lying (for good or ill) had never existed. Jon Wolf of College Humor has created a series of graphics illustrating an Internet in which everyone always told the truth, including the hot girl on Facebook [...]



Ten Word Wiki

January 30th, 2010 at 5:33 pm » Comments (0)

Ten Word Wiki describes itself as “an encyclopedia for the ADD generation.” The site is like Wikipedia, but all entries are limited to ten words. Since there aren’t that many entries yet, you may want to browse the “recent changes” tab and then take a stab at some entries of your own!
Here is the entry [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

January 30th, 2010 at 12:42 pm » Comments (0)

Stealing Goosey was just way harder than he thought
The week began with a lonely button lying on the side of the road. Then the stock market went crazy, the economy jumped up and down, many people lost their jobs, and the President made a series of speeches about things that no one cared about. Throughout [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

January 24th, 2010 at 7:03 am » Comments (0)

Even though he had a heart of gold, literally, the rest of his wiring was totally shot
Our lives happen one incident at a time. If some incidents were somehow able to overlap other incidents, then we could finally learn to be in many places at one time. And we would catch ourselves coming and going. [...]



The Secret Fort Convertible Table

January 18th, 2010 at 8:57 am » Comments (0)

I want a secret fort too!

The “Daily Shelter” by artist Ingrid Brandth is a dining-room table that converts to a secret fort: “At first glance it looks like an ordinary table. But for the one who knows its secret, it can be transformed into a shelter where one can hide from scary sounds, ghosts or [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

January 16th, 2010 at 11:55 am » Comments (0)

As people in New York know, the Big Apple
often attracts some pretty prickly characters

Its been a busy week for odd thinkers. Usually, the calamity in people comes out during the slowest of times, but in this case, there must have been a pent-up reservoir of weirdness looking for an escape hatch.  Well, they found it. (Pics)



Star Wars Burlesque Show

January 12th, 2010 at 9:46 am » Comments (0)

Stormtroopers never looked so good

Above, Stormtrooper striptease Courtney Cruz shows off her super Trooper-wear in a Star Wars-themed burlesque show at the Los Angeles club Bordello (a sexy bar which opened at the site of a notorious, historic LA whorehouse). We don’t really have to say much else to have all the Star Wars geeks [...]



Amazing 3D Pothole Art

January 10th, 2010 at 12:15 pm » Comments (0)

Feeding in the Hole

Montreal artists Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano present ‘Potholes,’ a photography series showcasing seventeen rural craters in a comedic and creative fashion.
They started imagining different scenes that take place in a pothole. In one shot, the pothole is a baker’s cauldron in which doughnuts are frying. In another, it’s a vessel for [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

January 10th, 2010 at 10:00 am » Comments (0)

After Hurricane Katrina, some New Orleans property became very affordable
In photography, wrinkles are a fun thing. Its not so much about the speed bump type of wrinkles that show up on your face, but the idea of throwing a new one into the mix. (Pics)
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Toenail To Be Sold For Charity At New Zealand Auction

January 7th, 2010 at 9:24 am » Comments (0)

Nailing Down Some Charity

There is no tip-toeing around by a group of Taranaki Salvation Army parishioners who are raising funds for their local foodbank – they’re auctioning a toenail that has been grown and cultivated for a year.



Woman Brings a Bit of Color to Snowfall

January 4th, 2010 at 9:08 pm » Comments (0)

Pinking up the snow. That old white is just too common.

An environmental artist in Fargo, N.D., says she paints the snow on her home’s yard a different coluor each time flakes fall.
While Fargo resident Stevie Famulari’s front yard currently is pink, the landscape architecture professor at North Dakota State University is eyeing purplish blue snow [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

January 2nd, 2010 at 12:55 pm » Comments (0)

The popularity of the Simpsons can only be explained by its weird fan base
Every person’s life consists of a series of dots, and these dots can only be connected by smart people carrying number 2 pencils. Most often people live their entire life without ever getting their dots connected. They simply die having lived their entire life [...]



Authentic Star Trek Wetsuits

December 31st, 2009 at 7:52 am » Comments (0)

Scotty, we seem to be examining an underwater planet at the moment!

Whether scuba diving where no man has scuba dived before, or surfing the chilly waves, you’ll really stand out in one of these wetsuits offered at Roddenberry for an out-of-this-world price.  I think we all know which color is shark bait.
Developed exclusively for the [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

December 26th, 2009 at 11:35 am » Comments (0)

Inside every fat man is a beautiful young woman waiting to get out
One-liners are like weird-looking strangers with clown noses passing you in the middle of the night. They make you laugh, but you never know where the stitches they leave you in came from. (Pics)



The Yummy Side of Flying Spaghetti Monster

December 25th, 2009 at 8:44 pm » Comments (0)

If you don’t celebrate Christmas because you belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, there’s no reason you can’t still enjoy delicious goodies this holiday season. Here’s instructions on how to make your own edible spaghetti monster, complete with edible googly eyes…



The Japanese Super-Snuggie You Won’t See On TV

December 23rd, 2009 at 8:56 am » Comments (0)

Say hello to the Japanese Snuggie. The Two-Legged Sleeping bag. The Human Tadpole. Say hello to…this. There is no pitchman charismatic enough, no paid spokesperson straghtfaced enough, no model poised enough to give this the informercial it deserves. So in the mean time, we will just be awed and sit in wonder…



The Cop’s Twelve Days of Christmas

December 21st, 2009 at 1:55 pm » Comments (0)

The Kenosha, Wisconsin Police Department recorded their own version of The Twelve Days of Christmas using gifts they are accustomed to.
About 20 members of the Police Department were involved in the making of the video, which was directed by Crime Prevention Officer Jeff Wamboldt and edited by Safety Officer Dennis Walsh. Work on the video [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

December 19th, 2009 at 2:45 pm » Comments (0)

Its really the knitted booties that complete the whole fashion statement
What exactly is the definition of goofy? Did the definition came from the Disney character or was the character named after the word? Was the concept of being profound invented before the word, or was there simply a spare word laying around in search of the moment [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

December 12th, 2009 at 9:55 pm » Comments (0)

In the bird world, royalty is often determined by the caliber of your wingman
As you may have guessed, this guy is just a poser

Some days I find myself laughing for no reason at all. Other days I have a reason, but the reason is totally unrelated to the situation I’m in. And then on [...]



Flowchart Depicting Appropriate iPhone Usage

December 11th, 2009 at 9:34 am » Comments (0)

Gizmodo has a fun flow chart that you can use to determine whether your iPhone usage when you’re together with your significant other is passable or totally inappropriate. I don’t have an iPhone, but I just did a quick assessment of my boyfriend, and concluded that most of the time I should be telling him [...]



‘Church Of Tiger’ Website Disbands Over Golfer’s ‘Sins’

December 6th, 2009 at 10:41 am » Comments (0)

Trouble From Tiger’s Woody

The transgressions of Tiger Woods have proved too much to take for one of the golf superstar’s most fanatical fans who is now disbanding a church set up in praise of the sports icon.
John Ziegler, the pastor of the “First Church of Tiger Woods”  has announced in a statement on the blog that [...]



Origami Toilet Paper For Your Inner Artist

December 5th, 2009 at 6:54 pm » Comments (0)

 
Origami is the traditional Japanese Art of folding paper. And now you can turn your visits to the toilet into a multi-national cultural experience, thanks to this Origami Toilet Paper! Cultivate your inner artistic visions while you are busy taking care of business.



Top 10 Photos of the Week

December 5th, 2009 at 2:06 pm » Comments (0)

Charles Darwin called and he wants his theory of evolution back
If tomorrow was yesterday, and the day after tomorrow was the day after yesterday, it would still be today only two days later. However, if the time differential between the same day occurring twice in the same week is less than zero, we have a serious problem. [...]