A Nice Place to Visit, But I Wouldn’t Want to Live There

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

It’s Lovely, I’ll Take It!

“A collection of poorly chosen photos from real estate listings. With love.”

Science Fair!

Friday, July 11th, 2008

ORSM dot net - An awesome gallery of science fair exhibits.

NSFW: this site has boobie and dingdong ad revenue all over the place.

BPOW/Photo of the Week: BACON LV

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Both the Photo of the Week and the Bacon Product of the Week:

I followed this guy for 15 minutes to get a good snapshot of his vanity plate.

Dude, we love that you love bacon.

Unless you’re actually just a fan of Francis Bacon, which is still cool.

Jason from GorillaSushi:
“He might have wanted to memorialize the time he saw Kevin Bacon in Las Vegas.”

Heywood:
“Or maybe the guy is from the small Eastern European town of Bacon, Latvia?”

Exclusive Paul Revere Sighting

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Every year around the 4th of July, hundreds of eyewitness sightings of the elusive “Paul Revere” are reported. Also known as the “New England Sasquatch” and the “Colonial Skunk-Ape” - recent photographic evidence may offer the first substantial proof that this elusive creature is not the figment of the wild imaginations of shut-ins and hillbillies.

Our Blogadilla research team has acquired recent exclusive footage of this creature in its native habitat. The Paul Revere walks upright like a human being and has coloration which allows it to easily blend-in with its environment [Can you see it? Photos on the right enhanced for better viewing]. Our Blogadilla Heavy Industries research team suspects that this example is a female.

Bonus Round: The Benjamin Franklin Instant Disguise Kit (just like Scooby-Doo!)

Dawn of the (Reader-Submitted) Dead

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Having recently finished Max Brooks’ World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, I’m thrilled about this:

Lost Zombies: A Community Generated Zombie Documentary

Become a member and submit evidence/proof of the zombie outbreak in your area (this project has evidence from around the globe).

Undead Bonus Round: The Lost Zombie sticker campaign.

Look-Alike of the Week

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

If you blew on Phil Spector’s head, would his hair would fly off like a dandelion?

(Spector photo by Elke Sisco, via CoolMensHair)

Photo of the Week

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

“Eddie Murphy’s Giant Head on the Interstate.”
From AhhhItsHayley’s Flickr Photostream.

Blogadilla Ice Cream Wallpapers 2.0

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Summer and the sweltering heat are here. Below are some updated fancy new ice cream wallpapers I’ve made, to get all of you in the Summer mood.

Click on the images for downloadable wallpapers of each.


Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz, CA.
Vanilla soft-serve with blue cotton candy swirl.


Dreyer*s “Take the Cake” ice cream (yellow cake flavored ice cream with blue frosting swirl and colored sprinkles). Safeway “Rainbow Cone” green ice cream cone.


Foster’s Freeze, Menlo Park, CA.
Grape (wax?) dipped soft-serve vanilla.


Baskin & Robbins, Menlo Park, CA.
“Rock’n Pop Swirl” (grape and green apple sherbet with Pop Rocks mixed in) on top of Cotton Candy ice cream.

Photos of the Week: Toothpaste

Saturday, June 21st, 2008


(©2007 Toothpastery)

This is amazing.
Toothpastery’s Flickr Photostream.
Name a toothpaste, and Toothpastery probably has a photo of it.

Jobs in the 80’s

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

1982.
Steve Jobs at home.
“This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.”
- Steve Jobs

Diana Walker: The Bigger Picture (comes in handy book form)

(via Digital Journalist, via SachsReport)

Big Green

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Worth1000’s Six Degrees of the Hulk Photoshop contest.

The Great Mall of China

Monday, June 16th, 2008


(photographed by Philip Gostelow for The National)

The South China Mall:

1,500 spaces, only ~10 functioning stores.

“. . . the mall entered the world pre-ruined . . . “

BLDG Blog article

(via The National, via BLDG Blog)

Moment of Humanity

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Pongzho, Sichuan Provence, China.
May 12, 2008.
Wedding photos.
Then the earthquake hit.

Humans are resilient.

(via Gorilla Sushi, per Fuzztime, de la China Review News)

Moustache Time

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Give anyone a moustache.
Grow it, groom it, wax it, cut it, shave it.
PetMoustache
(would you believe this is a Burger King ad campaign?)

(via PopCandy)

Lost Tribe

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008


(photo: AP)

Though technically they aren’t “lost” - they know exactly where they are - this population near the Peruvian/Brazilian border has had no known contact with the “outside world” until last month. Recent aerial photos taken in May 2008 offer the first proof of their existence and provide some clues to their way of life.

Some new facts about this recently discovered tribe:
• They don’t like airplanes.
• They aren’t very good at hitting airplanes with spears or arrows.
• They aren’t interested in maintaining front or back lawns.
• They believe that orange bodypaint is “the new black.”

Mail Online article.

(via Neatorama)

Photo of the Week: The Phoenix Mars Lander

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

An image of the Phoenix Mars Lander, taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (note the heat shield on the bottom right).

Phoenix Lander Photos

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

So far, most of the photos sent by the Phoenix Lander (on Mars) are black and white (or bad false-color images). So . . . here are some good false color images from the Phoenix Lander, colorized and processed by me at Timbotron Heavy Industries Imaging Laboratories:


The barren circumpolar plains - the landing site of the Phoenix Lander.


A vertical cross-section of the horizon and terrain around the lander; a solar panel of the lander fully deployed.


An image of the Phoenix Lander sailing downward through Mars’s atmosphere (you can see the parachute), photo taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; an image of the Lander’s footpad in Martian soil.

Bonus Round: Cool animation of the Phoenix Lander’s descent.

ASCII-O-Matic

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

The Typorganism ASCII-o-matic:

The Jodi Report: Ambush at Doody Gulch

Friday, May 9th, 2008

This week’s installment of the Jodi Cat Sh!t Art Project (the JCSAP):

“Ambush at Doody Gulch.”

Photo of the Week: Fanta, Coke, and Sprite

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

The warm climate of Cambodia makes everyone thirsty for Orange Fanta SaSa, Coca-Cola Hello Cola, and Sprite Smile.

(Photo by Shortie66)