I just dug these oh-so-colorful, screw-on wine bottle stoppers designed by Ori Saidi & Daniel Gassner.
The stoppers are made from silicon, and are supposed to fit most wine bottles. The stoppers are available at Mocha, and cost £6.99 (around $10.50) for a set of two.
Bat & Rob. A threadless t-shirt by Dina Prasetyawan
Move over, Twitter. We have had enough of your “fail whales“.
The Paper Tweet Notepad. You get “50 sheets of social networking bandwidth” for $4.49. Plus, zero outages.
A cool collection of vintage bromide cards featuring pachimon (imitations of famous Japanese TV and film monsters), on the rampage through famous cities around the world.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you must have been rickrolled at least once on the internet.
Rickrolling is one of the most popular online memes ever, and in its most (in)famous moment, it made an appearance at the 2008 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The folks at Online Schools made this cool infographic that has some fun facts and figures about the meme.
Continue reading ‘The History Of Rickrolling – Infographic’
Just what were you expecting?
Kermit’s X-ray t-shirt by Joshua Kemble on sale at Tee Fury.
The BibliOdyssey blog has compiled a collection of retro schematics of nuclear reactor installations.
The images themselves were taken from charts hosted on New Mexico’s Digital Collections website at the University of New Mexico.
This futuristic-looking fruit bowl was designed by Ori Saidi & Dani Gassner, the founders of Studio OTOTO.
Made of laser cut iron, the fruit basket is powder coated in silver matt and hand stretched to create its futuristic spiral form.
The bowl is priced at £34.99 (or about $54), and is on sale at the Mocha store.
I was really not sure why someone would actually need this, but then I realised that this was made to be sold in Japan, the land of tech excess.
Link.
[via the always entertaining TOKYOMANGO]
Wikipedia. Where you learn something new, everyday.
The “small penis rule” is a term that describes the strategies used by some authors to evade lawsuits from libelous rivals or human subjects.
…For a fictional portrait to be actionable, it must be so accurate that a reader of the book would have no problem linking the two," said Mr. Friedman. Thus, he continued, libel lawyers have what is known as "the small penis rule." One way authors can protect themselves from libel suits is to say that a character has a small penis, Mr. Friedman said. "Now no male is going to come forward and say, ‘That character with a very small penis, ‘That’s me!’
Link to the Wikipedia article.
[Found via Reddit]
Couldn’t understand Brad Pitt’s thick Irish accent in Snatch? Or Ozzy’s unintelligible mutterings? Here is the solution to your problems. Behold the wonder that is the Pop Culture Translator (NSFW language). 
Made by the good folks at The Canadian College of English Language.
Title created using the Linkbait Generator.
Also, a great way to generate blog post ideas.
I want this so bad.
The Brain Freeze ice tray will make four frozen “brains,” that are sure to be a hit at your next party. The tray is molded from pure silicone, and is dishwasher safe.
Link.
