It’s a cooler, with a catapult in it, remote-controlled. Just load up 12 cans of beer, and have them launched to you whenever you’re thirsty.
And it doesn’t matter how thirsty you are — it can reload in just two seconds.
Awesome?
ShootABrew is available for pre-order. It’s $300, and they don’t say if it’ll ship before Christmas or not.
I’ve never really understood people who dress up their pets in little coats and booties. Dressing them up for a laugh is one thing, but buying little sweaters and hats as a serious endeavour is something completely different.
Enter a line of doggy clothes called Rover, who really go above and beyond in terms of puppy fashion. Here is the description from the about section:
Taking a refreshing departure from pink ruffles and glittered decals, Rover introduces the new approach to dressing your dog. Classically tailored garments paired with fresh detailing epitomize the Rover style.
Which looks a little something like this:
Little Skipper here has a nicer coat than I do. I don’t know how I feel about that.
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Dun dun dun!
Remember this awesome video from Chatroulette? A guy named Merton taped himself doing piano improv, and the internet went all a-flutter saying it was Ben Folds.
Then Ben Folds did a Chatroulette session during a concert.
But people weren’t convinced.
Well, here is definite proof that they are not the same person!
Except … something is off! There seems to be cuts in the video, and they don’t appear in the same frame (until the end, and then only kind of). I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but something seems strange. Maybe Merton is just Ben Fold’s equally talented brother.
What say you, readers?
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Go ahead, push it. I’ll wait.
If you are more “real world” and less “virtual cyber fake world”, you can buy a physical plastic version of this, complete with I’m-sure tinny yodelling, for $12.50 here. Amazing that I’m shilling the tinny plastic version as “less fake.” Unbelievable.
The Emergency Yodel Button even has its own dedicated website, at EmergencyYodel.com, so if the occasion finally does happen to arise, and you are, wonder of wonders, actually sitting at a computer, you can yell to your friends, “Hang on! I know exactly what to do!” and then frantically type “emergency yodel button” into Google or Bing — why not Yahoo!? — and save the day with a perfect yodel.
(Thanks Colin, and Don Juan Oban)
It’s almost trite, the idea that fast food is so stuffed full of preservatives (and salt, another preservative) that it basically doesn’t have an expiry date.
But it’s still compellingly gross to see such longevity documented. New York artist Sally Davies bought herself a McDonald’s hamburger and fries on April 10. She’s been taking a picture of it every day since.
It still looks the same.
As website Good.is notes, the hamburger actually starts to look better on Day 137 than it did on Day 94. Creepy!
UPDATE: According to the Toronto Star, the burger and fries are now rock-hard, but they “artificial smell” is gone. Also, Davies was born in Winnipeg. Cool!
As my parents gear up for a month in central and eastern Europe, they’ve been perusing a number of guidebooks. One of them, for the Czech Republic, said it listed the Top 10 pubs in Prague.
Intrigued, I flipped to the indicated page, and at No. 6 or so, burst out laughing.
O’Che’s, they said, was a Cuban-Irish pub. The combination was just delicious enough and just absurd enough to really appeal to me.
I Googled it — it’s real — they’ve even got a Facebook page.
Apparently, they are also known for their extensive sports coverage, their darts league, and their Thursday cocktail specials.
Guinness meets Guevara? Count me in.
I just love the absurdity of this video. It’s difficult to properly explain, but I laughed. As the Daily What says:
Need your daily fix of mustachioed babies rocking out to Balkan folk-inspired modern house music? Riva Starr has got you covered.
So, Slate has a very informative article on squatting while you hang a rat — it’s supposed to be healthier.
Anyway, they link to a website that offers a “convertible” toilet. It lets you sit any one of four different ways depending on how you like to poop. There’s the Forward Sit, the Aft Sit, the Asian Squat and the South-East Squat. So many options.
Here’s the animated gif that purports to show the whole thing:
Anyway, the Slate writer tried perching on his toilet seat, holding on to the towel rack, to give this squatting thing a try. He liked it.
Me, I’m not sure. Any readers want to chime in?
If designer Yeongwoo Kim has his way, you soon will be. That’s his award-winning “Eco Urinal” you see above.
I … like it?
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When is a country officially about to go bankrupt? When it starts thinking about selling ads on its currency.
Luckily, this proposal is just coming out of left field — not actually being floated by any government that I’m aware of.
Art Marcovici mocks up a few possibilities, including this one:
Now, how would you feel buying, say, off-brand tomato soup, instead of Campbell’s, with this money?
Oh dear:
Events in the life of Welsh coal miner David Wilson, born 1846:
- Aug. 26, 1857: Fractured the forefinger of his right hand.
- Aug. 26, 1859: Fell from horseback and broke his left leg below the knee.
- Aug. 26, 1860: Broke both bones of his left forearm.
- Aug. 26, 1861: Broke his left leg above the ankle.
- Aug. 26, 1862: Broke both legs, the right one so badly that it had to be amputated.
Seeing a pattern, he renounced for 28 years doing any work on Aug. 26, but in 1890 he forgot the date, went to work, and broke his left leg for the fourth time.
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Introducing, the Drawdio:
I took electronics in shop class in like Grade 8, and I think I could figure out how to make this by following any one of the several sets of instructions here.
Cheap and weird? I like it!
We cannot be sure. But we do know that it’s worse over the phone:
This film, which is sort of like I imagine a retro look inside a paranoid schizophrenic’s head would look, is the product of MK12 — a “tactical design and research bureau.”
But it’s not just a film. They’ve also got a website, where you can read the press kit and download the font that was used in the film.
I am really unsure exactly what to say or think. But I do know that this has stuck with me all day.
So much so, in fact, that Cuomo put Garcia’s face on the cover of the new Weezer album.
If this is a joke, I might have to “say it ain’t so!”
Ahem.
Sorry, that was lame.
Anyway, although this seems like it must be fake, it appears to be very real:
We struggled super hard trying to come up with an album title, trying to find some kind of phrase that summed up the whole aesthetic behind the album: ‘Heavy Mental,’ ‘Smaller Than Life,’” Cuomo says. “I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia — it just had this amazing vibe. We didn’t want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as ‘the Hurley record’ even if left it without that title, so we just called it ‘Hurley.’ No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face
Oooh kay. I say it’s way more likely that Weezer are capitalizing on the immense popularity of Lost, and the character of Hurley in particular, but I’m a pessimist like that.
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