Showing posts with label Found on the Web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Found on the Web. Show all posts

Friday, February 03, 2012

Victoria Caswell deserves better

Victoria Caswell makes a great sewing kit, which makes the design and general interest blog rounds to end up on Boing Boing, where the comments tear it a new one.
To sum up the Boingers loving embrace this wondrous thing:

It is both incomplete and it has too much stuff in it. It's too big and the pockets are sewn wrong. It evokes both a history of anti-GLBT sentiment and the murderous tendencies of a fictional serial killer. It is just like a WWII sewing kit, and clearly she didn't do enough research. It can therefore only be appreciated as irony or non utility art.

Honestly I don't know why I read the bottom half of the internet. Sometimes I comfort myself thinking that all the comments I read are written by automated bots. An army of comment bots acting like "methed up, blindfolded rednecks mauling each other with hunting knives." Either that, or deal with the knowledge that the people walking around every day, voting, raising children, working and living all around us are the same fucks that actually post to the internet.

Image from Boing Boing who got if from Lovely Package.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Matrix Warranty Shirt

In an attempt to make a cool Matrix styled t-shirt, a clever graphic designer grabbed some readily available Japanese text and arranged it as the familiar "falling code".

But what, ultimately, does it say? Enter Tian, editor of the "Hanzi Smatter" website. While Engrish is the mistranslation of English by those in the far East, Hanzi Smatter is dedicated to Western misuse of Chinese characters. Readers send in suspicious tattoos and Asian-themed products, and Tian attempts to make sense of it all.

Among the many entries of regrettable body art, was this spiffy looking shirt. What does it really say? It says that the graphic designer grabbed the warranty information for an IBM computer. It adds a level of irony to an already cool shirt if you know it says things like "In the case that a malfunction should occur, only repair service will be offered." or "We do not accept orders by FAX."

Unfortunately, we don't know where you can buy such a shirt, but if you find on,e feel free to sound clever about what the shirt actually says.

[Hanzi Smatter: IBM Support Tee]

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Ultimate relaxation

Source: http://heypais.livejournal.com/69475.html
In our house the dangle paw position is called "longpaws" after the Jeff Goldblum episode of Friends.

Friday, July 30, 2010

The ABCs of Google search bar

The Google Search bar in Firefox has an "auto complete" function. Start typing and Google will guess where your search will go. Given that is probably based on the frequency and prevalence of these terms, it is another cool way to feel out the zeitgeist of the web. This was another draft post from a few years ago, so some of the autocomplete words changed since then. Now I have an ABC timecapsule of 2008.
20082010
A is for Amazon
B is for bebo
C is for craigslist
D is for dictionary
E is for ebay
F is for facebook
G is for gmail
H is for hotmail
I is for imdb
J is for jobs
K is for Kelly blue book
L is for Lowes
M is for myspace
N is for next
O is for orkut
P is for photobucket
Q is for qvc
R is for runescape
S is for Sears
T is for Target
U is for utube
V is for verizon wireless
W is for weather
X is for xbox
Y is for youtube
Z is for zip codes
A is for Amazon
B is for Best Buy
C is for craigslist
D is for dictionary
E is for ebay
F is for facebook
G is for gmail
H is for Hotmail
I is for Ikea
J is for Jet Blue
K is for Kohls
L is for Lowes
M is for myspace
N is for netflix
O is for orbitz
P is for Pandora
Q is for quotes
R is for realtor.com
S is for Sears
T is for Target
U is for usps
V is for verizon wireless
W is for weather
X is for xbox
Y is for youtube
Z is for zillow

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Sonic Obama Potter fans rejoice

Don't ever change Japan. We need your crazy mashups now more than ever.



(via various re-tweets on twitter)

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I look like Justin Timberlake (62%)



In 2006 I ran a celebrity look-alike program and got Russell Crow and Tom Cruise. I ran it again today and got Ben Affleck, Justin Tinberlake and Barack Obama. Not too shabby.

Source: Celebrity Collage.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Dharma Jumpsuit now available

With this season of Lost viewers will be treated to some of the Island back-story, including the Dharma Initiative.

ABC has obliged fans with providing Official Dharma jumpsuits, as seen in the show. Only the "main logo" patch seems to be available currently, but enterprising fans know where to get the various others.

The jumpsuit is not exactly like the ones seen on the show, but given the different variations seen, it is close enough for most fans.

It is nice to see big networks understanding that fans don't necessarily want trinkets with the show name on it, we want replica items from the world the show is from.
Namaste.

[ABC Store Jumpsuit]

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Star Wars Misters: Really?



From the "slap a Yoda on it" branch of Lucasfilm Licensing, comes these "compact, cool" Star Wars misters.

Does anyone else feel this is an un-needed branded product?

[Wireless Catalog]