Friday, March 18, 2011
handiest map I've seen yet
Click here for the interactive Penis Size Worldwide Map, thanks to The Hairpin.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
neigh!
What do you wear with leg warmers that make you look like you have a mane growing down the back of your legs?

available at etsy; via buzzfeed
Why, $2100 shoes made from real horse hooves and fur of course!

available at the Cheltonham Racecourse Festival; via neatorama
And then there's this.

via Zoo Fashion, which I totally recommend you check out.
UPDATE: Another fabulous photo of the hoof shoes - and that guy is well on his way to becoming a Satyr.

via swns.com, and thanks hairpin

available at etsy; via buzzfeed
Why, $2100 shoes made from real horse hooves and fur of course!

available at the Cheltonham Racecourse Festival; via neatorama
And then there's this.

via Zoo Fashion, which I totally recommend you check out.
UPDATE: Another fabulous photo of the hoof shoes - and that guy is well on his way to becoming a Satyr.

via swns.com, and thanks hairpin
Monday, March 14, 2011
spirit hoods - everybody's doing it
No, I will not be sporting a Spirit Hood anytime soon. They are silly.
Besides, there are no tigers.
via everlasting blort
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
steampunk insects
Artist Tom Hardwidge uses bullets, watch parts, and other bits to create his Arthrobots.
More buggies here, at 1-800-Recycling.
More buggies here, at 1-800-Recycling.
Filed Under
art,
clever way to recycle
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
haters are just jealous
Not all elected officials can look this good in a tiger suit.
Full story here; photo courtesy of the Boston Globe.
Full story here; photo courtesy of the Boston Globe.
Filed Under
politics,
tiger costume
Thursday, February 17, 2011
technology
I came across this photo today (on Neatorama) of an IBM350 memory storage unit being loaded onto a plane in 1956:
via
via
Here's another view. It was called the 350 because it used 350 discs to store - get ready - 5MB worth of data.
via
In comparison, here's a man holding two Samsung memory chips, created in 2009, which hold 32GB each. That's a total of 65,536 megabytes, or more than 13,000 times the storage capacity of the IBM350.
via
Do you think those guys on the plane had any idea what the future would hold?
Filed Under
science,
technology
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tibetan tiger rugs via I'M REVOLTING
“It is said that the tiger skin . . . creates anger and keeps the aspirant away from snakes, scorpions and other insects.”
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Hipsters Throughout History: The Definitive List
George Sand was a woman writer with a man's name!
And she banged Chopin!
Antonin Artaud once said "we are all just meatbags full of cum."
Which is a VICE "do".
F. Scott Fitzgerald came from the Midwest and reinvented himself as
a "cool" New Yorker. Sound familiar?
a "cool" New Yorker. Sound familiar?
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
nightmare fodder
YouTube user ceeceelemon, named after the soda C.C. Lemon, is a Japanese gentleman who enjoys wearing female masks with unblinking, unmoving eyes.
And for the pleasure of everyone else in the world, he uploads videos of himself doing this: ceeceelemon's channel. They are unnerving and provoke the uncanny valley response.
via buzzfeed

And for the pleasure of everyone else in the world, he uploads videos of himself doing this: ceeceelemon's channel. They are unnerving and provoke the uncanny valley response.
via buzzfeed
Filed Under
fetish,
look at him go,
masks
Monday, January 10, 2011
ah!
Probo the robot is supposed to help autistic children with detecting emotion.

Looks like Oscar the Grouch meets Alf, scares the hell out of me.
thanks Arbroath

Looks like Oscar the Grouch meets Alf, scares the hell out of me.
thanks Arbroath
Filed Under
cringe,
disturbing
Friday, January 7, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
wave hello
Ms. wool and misc did this once - I'm curious, who's reading our little blog here? Say hi in the comments!

(If we don't get any comments the otter gets it.)
photo via

(If we don't get any comments the otter gets it.)
photo via
Filed Under
curiousity
abandoned men's club becomes one man's palace
The three-story Harmony Men's Club was built in 1909 in Alabama, boarded up in the 1960's, and purchased in 1999 by David Hurlbutt for $100,000. After he scraped off all the pigeon crap, he found this:




More photos of this unique space at Yatzer.




More photos of this unique space at Yatzer.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
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