Archive for June, 2007

Show Me The Munny

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Over six months ago, Blogadilla’s very own Chris and I decided to send each other “Munnys” - they are vinyl “paint it yourself” figures that hipsters casually display around their stylish apartments (available through KidRobot). Chris (being a professional graphic artist) and I (having experience drawing on my binder in school) decided we’d each design and paint one and send it to the other - as an “art exchange project.” As most projects go, it took me six months to get around to doing something. I just finished it and it’s in the mail en route to Chris right now. I decided to go with a “Cursed Golden Idol” design - an evil golden monkey demon with an extra eye for peering in to the darkest reaches of one’s soul. When Chris sends me the one he’s working on, he’ll post it on Blogadilla also.

(The coolest Munny/Dunny ever made has to be the one by Venture Bros co-creator Jackson Publick)

Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Does anyone else remember this kid show featured on Captain Kangaroo? I think it was the only reason I watched CK (I hope anyways). The little theme song has been stuck in my head since 1976 and I still love it. It was a 5 minute long show about Simon and how his chalk drawings came to life. He’d draw about something that had been on his mind, like having the measles or rocket ships, and then would interact with them and his chalk friends in a magical, alternate universe. It’s similar to it’s predecessor Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955) and definitely not a bad theme idea given the therapeutic effects of drawing. I really hope they put them on dvd.

On another note, I came across a video of Tony Hawk on Captain Kangaroo from 1981. He must have been 13!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

I don’t have a girlfriend - I just know a girl who’d be really mad if she heard me say that.

Damn, lost in the woods again without my matches, but I do have a condom!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

So most of you might shy away from bringing such items on a camping trip, but this little johnny could save your life in a pinch. I know I will be packing a few on my next camping trip! What am I going on about? Well if you knew how to start a fire with water and a condom you were already one step ahead of me!

firestarter.jpg

Click the link for the VIDEO!!!

(Via http://www.gadling.com/ )

“What Is It?” of the Week: What is Pluto Now?

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

To make sense of who is out there, I generated a nice chart of “the neighbors” in our outer Solar System (Photoshop generated images based upon color and composition data and/or estimations for each body; the data are very limited for some of these); nicknames are in quotes, and the satellites of each are depicted beneath their respective planet-thingy (click on chart to enlarge):

In recent years, our Solar System has become both smaller and bigger. I thought I would chose this subject as the “What Is It? of the Week” because it is a little confusing and I thought I’d sort it out.

Last year, the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to the status of Dwarf Planet - the Solar System now only has 8 planets. A Dwarf Planet is defined as: 1). having an orbit around the Sun, 2). having sufficient mass to become a near-spherical shape, 3). not a satellite of another body in the Solar System (other than the Sun), 4). has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. Basically, a Dwarf Planet is a small planet with crap around it.

Much of the demotion of Pluto’s status can be attributed to the discoveries of Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz. In recent years, this team has discovered several bodies in the Solar System large enough to be considered “the next planet” or to cause Pluto to be redefined as a member of an extensive community of smaller planet-like thingies orbiting around the Sun. Among the larger Pluto-like planet-thingies, the Brown team has discovered Eris, Quaoar, Orcus, and Sedna. To add insult to injury to Pluto, it now appears that Eris is around 27% larger than Pluto; Pluto is not even the largest of the Dwarf Planets. Poor Pluto has gone through a lot in the last year. Eris, a rocky iceball (or icy rockball), was discovered in 2005 (by Brown, Trujillo, and Rabinowitz) and until its official naming in Sept 2006, it was nicknamed <nerd>”Xena”</nerd> and its moon (now called “Dysnomia”) went by <nerd>”Gabrielle”</nerd>.

Tom Tancredo - Not Democrat

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Did you know that “Not Democrat” is an anagram of Republican candidate Tom Tancredo’s name? Creepy. What are the odds? And Mitt Romney’s name just sounds like an anagram. Below is a list of the best anagrams of presidential candidate names, done with Brendan’s Online Anagram Generator (Kucinich produced the most interesting results):

Republicans

Tommy Thompson
“Thy mom, stomp on!” (this should be his campaign slogan)
“Stomp on my moth!”
“Nymph mom, so tot!”

Mike Huckabee
“Haiku Bee McKee” (his poetry name)

Sam Brownback
“Smack Barb, now!”
“Warm nob scab” (his highschool nickname)

Duncan Hunter
“Dance! Hunt! Run!”
“Duncan . . . he runt.”
“Cunard the Nun” (his LARPing name)
“Nude Nut Ranch” (his summer home)

Mitt Romney
“My item torn”
“Try mine, Tom.”
“Ten to my rim”
“Trim men toy”

Fred Thompson
“Don’t fresh-mop.”
“Send forth mop!”

Tom Tancredo
“Not Democrat.” (WHAT ARE THE ODDS!?)
“To demon cart!”
“Me Doctor Tan” (his tropical vacation pickup line)

Ron Paul
“Our plan”

Jim Gilmore
“Mole Rig Jim” (his fishing name)
“Ole Grim Jim” (his hunting name)

Democrats

Christopher Dodd
“Hot Doc Drip-Shred” (his surfing name)
“He’d drop odd Christ.” (his trademark surfing move)
“Odd chord hipster”
“She’d drip hot cord.”

Hillary Clinton
“Torn China Lilly” (her burlesque name)
“An ill horny c***.” (yikes)
“It no ranch lilly.”

John Edwards
“Has Jed drown?”

Dennis Kucinich
“Nude chick in sin”
“In chic nude skin”
“Chicken I’d sun in”
“Scenic Hindu ink”
“Nine inch U.S. d**k”

Barack Obama
“Arab cab amok.”
“Am OK Arab cab.”
“Aak! A car bomb!”

Bill Richardson
“Blanc Lord Irish” (his Dungeons and Dragons name)
“Bad Chill Norris” (his mafia name)
“Acrid shrill nob”
“Danish Crib Roll” (favorite sushi roll)
“Bad Rich Sin Roll” (second favorite sushi roll)
“Crab Roll in dish” (third favorite sushi roll)

*Rudy Giuliani, Mike Gravel, and John McCain are not included because their names don’t offer much to work with; the anagram generator didn’t produce anything interesting with them.

Stop bugging me, go play with your hazmat toys!

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Playmobil Rock! Not just because they have a HAZMAT playset either ;-)

Postcard from Iraq.

Monday, June 18th, 2007

I don’t know about you, but I certainly feel a lot better about the situation in Iraq after seeing this sign posted at Saddam Hussein’s former palace.

No drinking while armed

By the way, the people in the photo aren’t the subjects of some strange military experiment (although that would be pretty cool). Using the wonders of Adobe Photoshop, I simply blurred them out to keep their identities secret–I mean, anonymous.

Everything is Better in Slow Motion #2

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Slo-Mo-Mentos+DietSoda



(via TVweek.com; Via Metacafe)

Doritos X-13d

Sunday, June 17th, 2007


Behold “The Doritos X-13d Flavor Experiment.”
Firstly, congratulations to Doritos for an exceptional marketing strategy: let the consumers think they’re actually participating in product development research. Their packaging and (overdesigned) X-13d website offer a plethora of hints to the flavor that you as the consumer are invited to guess. I don’t want to give away the surprise, but here are some hints:

•It’s an “All-American Classic” (bulemia?).

•The ingredients include: artificial beef flavor, tomato powder, three kinds of cheeses, beef tallow, and “spices” (prison lunches?).

•The “d” in X-13d just might stand for:

dear God, it’s like licking a picnic table!”
did I just throw up in my mouth?”
dammit, enough with the dill already!”

•These chips taste like David Hasselhoff’s mouth:

•If these clues aren’t enough, here’s a big hint.

The Doritos X-13d website also offers the chance to make your own commercial for this wonderful new flavor - the commercials are already filmed, you create the dialogue. I was only able to produce loud gagging noises. This “make your own commercial” concept is brilliant - as you may remember, it worked so well for Chevy Tahoe last year*.

Looking forward to Flavor Experiment X13e - fried chicken and gravy flavor.

*It looks like Doritos has managed to keep these commercials off of YouTube.

The Face Transformer

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

This utterly rocks: The St. Andrew’s Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer. I did experiments on my wife:

The “CHILD” transformation looks like Thora Birch.
And “BABY” is just creepy.

(via me, via project.ioni.st)

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

I’ve been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

Violence of the Lambs?

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Killer sheep? A were-lamb? WTF? Are you shittin’ me?
This can’t be real. Oh wait, it is. And it was released in New Zealand back in March and screening in US theaters starting June 22. I’m so there. If you haven’t already seen this, you have to watch this trailer.

Also, Check out the site.

Cattle Terrorism

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Cow Counter

The newest form of terrorism comes to us from the farmlands of America. Forget bridges and planes… I think we need to redirect all anti-terrorism funding to protect our nation’s cows.

Check out the site yourself.

Friday, June 15th, 2007

There’s a picture opposite me of my primitive ancestry, which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free. Though I respect that a lot, I’d be fired if that were my job - after killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts.

She’s Crafty

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Remember as a kid trying to find the ultimate latch-hook rug kit with rainbows and unicorns OR if you were lucky, some disgusting blend of both?

Well now you can graduate to the soft porn version. At MadeWithSweetLove.com you can buy latch-hook rug kits and make your own porn rug! This one is fabulously gigantic (and not for sale), but you can buy smaller ones and make some nice throw pillows for your couch.

I have to thank my sick friend Hollie for introducing me to this smut!

Worst 007 gadgets.

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Visit the site, and then vote for your favorite. Or draw upon your vast knowledge of James Bond trivia, and suggest others.

(photo courtesy of productdose.com)

I think it’s noteworthy that mega-biscuit Daniel Craig needed none of these. When you look like that, you don’t need gadgets.

Too bad TSA agents aren’t held to these standards.

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Two drug-sniffer dogs at northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai airport have been fired for peeing on luggage and sexually harassing female passengers.

Now the dogs live on a farm, herding chickens and pigs.  Now there’s an idea.  Let’s put some of these socially-challenged Transportation Security Administration workers out to pasture, where they can’t bother / harass / molest anybody.

You can thank me later.

Great White Snark

“Sippy Cup Terrorist” Foiled at Airport - World Now Safe Again

Thursday, June 14th, 2007


On June 11th, a sinister plot by “Sippy Cup Terrorist” Monica Emmerson was foiled by the brilliant and brave security officers at Ronald Reagan National Airport. Hundreds Dozens of passengers were saved from a possible biological attack of dampness.

(via Susan)

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Character is what you are in the dark.