Blogadilla.com: The Tijuana of the Internet » housewares http://www.blogadilla.com The Tijuana of the Internet Sun, 15 May 2011 02:02:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 2006-2007 blogadilla@gmail.com (Blogadilla.com: The Tijuana of the Internet) blogadilla@gmail.com (Blogadilla.com: The Tijuana of the Internet) posts http://www.blogadilla.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Blogadilla.com: The Tijuana of the Internet » housewares http://www.blogadilla.com 144 144 The Tijuana of the Internet Blogadilla.com: The Tijuana of the Internet Blogadilla.com: The Tijuana of the Internet blogadilla@gmail.com no no Lawnchairs of the Rich and Famous http://www.blogadilla.com/2008/09/27/lawnchairs-of-the-rich-and-famous/ http://www.blogadilla.com/2008/09/27/lawnchairs-of-the-rich-and-famous/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:22:17 +0000 timbotron http://www.blogadilla.com/?p=2037

Eleanor Freya Gregory’s Chesterfold line – lawnchairs with panache.

(via Notcot)

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I love bacon.
And I love sticking things in the microwave.
My new friend: the WowBacon Microwave Bacon Cooker.

And the instructions are an amazing read on their own.

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Ever since I saw this on Instructables, I’ve been fantasizing about making my very own Swiss Army keys.

(via Notcot)

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(images from Trummerkind.com)

This is awesome:
Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto had a nicely decorated 750 square foot apartment in Providence, Rhode Island, for nearly four years. Until the Providence Place Mall security caught them – they made this secret apartment inside the shopping mall.

Their site is rendered in hilarious ‘real estate sales’ format.

“During the Christmas season of 2003 and 2004, radio ads for the Providence Place Mall featured an enthusiastic female voice talking about how great it would be if you (we) could live at the mall.”

(via Make: magazine)

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Bonus Round – Huh? Corp. “We Do Stuff.”

(via Kate)

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$98.95.
SkyMall.

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Enter your first name and it will create your Swedish furniture name.

Click on the link for a printable version.

(note: This is not intended to portray actual Swedish language in any way, so please don’t freak out if you’re Swedish. Yeah, we get it, it’s not actually Swedish. We know.)

(Also: This name generator has no relationship to the IKEA housewares company. Any similarities are purely coincidental or are for satirical purposes. We love IKEA.)

Bonus Round: The Blogadilla Action Hero Name Generator

(©2008 Blogadilla.com; assembled/generated by Steve B., designed by Tim)

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Last Fall, someone tried repeatedly to break into a neighbor’s apartment – windowscreens torn or pulled off, and attempts to pry open the window locks. I helped her to better fortify her windows and I decided it would be wise to protect my own.

I went with minor antipersonnel gardening: planter boxes beneath all of the windows, each filled with cacti. The project itself cost around $25 for each antipersonnel planter box, and it took an afternoon to do. IKEA (at the time) had sets of 3 small cacti for ~$5.00 and single large cacti for ~$5.00 each.

Some points to consider:
• This won’t prevent anyone from breaking in if they are hellbent on doing so. It provides ‘disincentive’ – making it uncomfortable or more difficult to casually approach and open windows from the outside. They provide a visual threat (I’ve considered adding poison oak to some of the planter boxes, also).

• The cost is relatively low.

• It is easy to do – Screw the planter box into the bottom of the window sill. I suggest you use BBQ tongs or pliers to handle the cacti when you’re planting them.

• It is easy to maintain – Cacti are low-maintenance and often only need watering on a monthly basis.

• It looks cool – every time I look out the window, it looks like I’m in Arizona.

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You can check out the original drawings on Jason’s blog, Action Figure Insider, and you also can hear an interview about his trials and tribulations on NPR. Make sure to check out NPR’s Bryant Park Project page on the Star Wars merchandise, here. (Click ‘Listen Now’ for the interview).

Death Star BBQ Grill Anyone?

Death Star Grill

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For you collectors of either Dutch delft blue ceramics or dildos, here’s the holy grail of both worlds. I think the plug is so you can fill it with, er, well, I have no f’ing idea, but I’m sure you can come up with something… Either way I think it would make a nice addition to a figurine or fine china display case.

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