Artist Mark Bennett had made blueprints of fictional homes including Ricky & Lucy Ricardo, Bruce Wayne, and Wilma & Fred Flintstone.
There’s a condom shortage at the Vancouver Olympics, so the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research is shipping in an emergency supply.
“When we heard about the condom shortage in Vancouver, we felt it important to respond immediately,” said Kerry Whiteside, CANFAR’s Executive Director.
Their response is quite swift. Maybe the USA should get CANFAR to manage FEMA?
A little more than a year ago, artist Christopher Niemann gave us a wonderful set of photographs of New Yorkisms made with Lego. Now comes word that he’s expanded on the original idea and made a book out of his creations.
Already ordered.
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
FastMac is pre-selling a replacement U.S. power outlet that has two USB charging ports as well as the normal two power outlets.
I’m surprised we haven’t seen more of these out there.
A new photoblog about weird goings-on on airplanes and in airports. Should be a good one to keep an eye on.
His socks must really stink!
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka” but “That’s funny…”
Researchers studied the Times most emailed article list and found some surprising results:
People preferred e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes, and they liked to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics.
Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list.
And now I’m jonesing for someone to actually write an article that demands the headline, “How Your Pet’s Diet Threatens Your Marriage, and Why It’s Bush’s Fault”.
In mid-January, the Wall Street Journal analyzed the actual amount of play time of the average football game. They added up the amount of time the ball was actually alive and in play in four different games, and it averaged out to about 11 minutes. They concluded that the average game broadcast on TV shows 17 minutes of replays and 67 minutes of players standing around. With the biggest game of the year coming up, I decided to do my own analysis of the actual play time.
After more than 40 years, Heinz has updated the ketchup packet. The new packet allows both squeezing and dipping, will cost a little bit more, and will hold three times as much ketchup.
No one seems to know if you can put them on the floor, stomp on them, and get them to shoot all over your friends.
Reading the ramblings of Sleep Talkin’ Man remind me that while I don’t talk in my sleep, I sometimes say and do things in that weird, semi-conscious state between sleep and full, wide awake, consciousness…things that are strange and strangely related to the context of the waking environment…and most times, things that I would never say or do if fully awake. For example, I was once awakened by a ringing telephone on my nightstand at 4:30 a.m., and I went all Maxwell Smart and tried to answer a shoe which was not far from my bed. I remember trying to hit the answer button on the bottom of my shoe, holding it up to my ear to talk, and being perplexed as to why it was still ringing. It took about 30 seconds before I realized what I was doing, but by then it was too late to answer the real phone. Another time, I incorporated my dog’s nails clicking on a linoleum floor near my bedroom into my dream as rain hitting the window, shot up out of bed, and tried to close the window to prevent the rain from coming in.
And it can be worse when there’s someone else there.
I have a standard spiel where I tell overnight guests that they should just ignore anything and everything, good or bad, that comes out of my mouth for the first five minutes after I wake up, especially if I’m awoken suddenly by an alarm clock, an inadvertent kick, etc.
Tracy did not heed my advice.
The Times has a profile of Ernie Anastos, the NYC anchor who’s infamous for the “Keep fucking that chicken” slip. On page three of the article, he addresses the faux-pas, and maintains that he said, “Keep plucking that chicken”.
Months later, he said that he is certain he said “plucking,” but that pretending it did not happen would have been a mistake. “If you keep saying, ‘I didn’t really say that,’ it doesn’t sound right,” he said. “This is New York. That particular word is practically ‘hello,’ the way it is used.”
Smart girls don’t need to tell you they’re smart. They just do smart shit.
Apple introduced the hotly anticipated “iPad”, which is basically just a giant iPhone or iPod touch. I, and I think it’s safe to say that most people, wanted the below:
There is one “feature” that I find interesting…apparently, the 3G service from AT&T will be month-to-month, non-contractual, and can be activated or deactivated at any time from the device itself. Oh, and it’s SIM unlocked, so you can put any SIM with a data plan in there.
(is it just me, or does the name “iPad” sound like some sort of technologically advanced tampon?)
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