Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Nestle Viral Marketing Campaign
A mashup of Butterfinger, Balls of Fury (which opens on Labor Day), and lots of brightly-colored insanity. I find the central image and slogan, “Follow the Finger,” hilarious, in a stupid sort of way. This does not conjure images of candy in my mind.
No Comments » - Posted in Products, asinine, candy by stinkfinger
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Three-Sentence Review: The Zombie Butts Trilogy
1.) Pictured below is the second book in this wildly successful kids’ trilogy about asses bent on world domination.
2.) The first is The Day My Butt Went Psycho, and the third is Butt Wars: The Final Conflict. You may read sample chapters at the website.
3.) I would have wanted these when I was a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Books, kids, zombies/living dead by stinkfinger
Friday, August 31st, 2007
How a Lightsaber Works
A really good article from the fine folks at “How Stuff Works”.
Make sure and hit the “next” buttons at the bottoms of the pages.
Important Safety Information: A lightsaber is not a toy! Keep it out of reach of children at all times. Lightsaber locks are required in most states.
There are two ends to any lightsaber [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Fire and Flame, How To, Ray Guns, Robots, Science, information, tech by FatFinger
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Boris the motherfucker!
Trying to get away from the doubleplussupergrossfestival that FOB has become in recent days, I present to you something of only mild horror to only a portion of the population.
ABC News reports that a spider web of Middle Earth proportions has been spotted in a Texas park.
4 Comments » - Posted in Nature, News, animals by Thumb
Friday, August 31st, 2007
L.A. is Fucking Hot
This is a shot of the dashboard thermometer of the rental car I’m driving on the business trip I am currently on. I’ve enhanced the image to show you that it says 108 degrees, Farenheit. It was 109 in instant before, but apparently I parked in the shade before I could snap it.
Temperatures like this [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Fire and Flame, Nature, photos, piss and moan by Digit
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Black Holes Have No Hair*
And a singularity is infinitely smaller than this:
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No Comments » - Posted in The Great Beyond by stinkfinger
Friday, August 31st, 2007
How Shit Happens, No. 5: The Burbs
5 Comments » - Posted in quotes by stinkfinger
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Crapola translator
Found an entertaining little web-utility. It’s called the “Crapola Web Translator.” You enter the address of a webpage, and the script does its best to translate that page into your choice of one of the following (Sometimes it doesn’t work, though – it doesn’t seem to work on FOB. It does work on Merchbot, though).
-Yoda
-ROT13 [...]
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