BlogCadre - lazy weekend

LwL: WDuck, adjustable breast implants, skilled fingers, Load-ding, dishwasher trick, Gelli Baff

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:08:24 -0500

Here are your Lazy Weekend Links for this weekend:

Eating on a toilet never sounds appetizing to me, but apparently the owners of WDuck seem to think differently. I suppose sitting on a toilet while eating dinner is better than eating your dinner from a toilet bowl. Either way... disgusting.

Please tell me these adjustable breast implants are a joke. I thought those pump high-tops from the 90s were silly, but these implants are just plain ridiculous.

A Chinese man can write 10 Arabic numerals simultaneously with his 10 fingers. I wish I could see a video of this.

I dislike setting my cellphone on the floor when it's charging or stretching the cord so that it sits on our buffet making a possible strangulation device. I suppose I could use a different outlet, but I like to charge my phone in a place where I won't forget it when I'm leaving the house. The Load-ding is exactly what I need -- a hammock for my gadgets.

Here's a neat trick: Clean your dishwasher with Kool-Aid.

If you enjoy bathing in gelatin (yeah, because we all do) then I suppose you will enjoy Gelli Baff. "Gelli Baff turns a normal bath into a pool of brightly-colored gelatinous goop. Its a powder that holds 400 times its weight in water, similar to the substance used in disposable diapers. A packet of dissolver is included to turn the goop back into water when it’s time to rinse."

LwL: Edible serving pieces, Obesity gene, Remembering Kurt Vonnegut, Titanic watches, Dinosaurs linked to birds

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:07 -0500

Today is Friday the 13th. Hopefully none of you will experience any bad luck or other weirdness today. Here are your Lazy Weekend Links for this 'finally feeling like Spring' weekend.

See how Sara Thacher created cast sugar plates and salt cups for a dinner party she held for five of her good friends. I'm not entirely grooving on the salt cups because I don't like things real salty, however, I think the whole idea of edible serving pieces is quite creative.

Geneticists from Oxford University and Peninsula Medical School in Exeter are claiming they have linked a specific gene to obesity.

Kurt Vonnegut died at the age of 84 from brain injuries after a recent fall. Let's remember Mr. Vonnegut.

Geneva watchmaker Romain Jerome SA has created a "Titanic-DNA" collection in which the luxury wristwatches are made from the steel and coal from the Titanic which sank in 1912.

Based on our latest BlogCadre poll, most of you believe the egg came before the chicken. Well, I think we are all wrong -- Maybe it was the dinosaur that came first. It's strange to think that the T. Rex and the chicken are related in some way.

Here are some outrageous origami creations.

Have a good weekend!

LwL: Easter Links Edition

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:07:37 -0500

To celebrate this Easter weekend, here are some Easter-related links to pass the time away.

Make your own Peeps with this Peeps Marshmallow Maker.

Create your own custom-dyed Easter eggs without the mess. Design custom wrappers that will wrap around your eggs.

Watch as Raiden Peep and Random Peep fight to the death in Mortal Peep Fight!!!

The Easter Peeps are invading Earth!

Since 1994 each state sends a decorated egg to the White House for display. Check out the 2007 Easter Egg Collection here. [via Neatorama]

Happy Easter weekend, 'Cadre!

LwL: Harry Potter book covers, Retro games, Monopoly, Optimus Maximus, Toss it, Bad lyrics

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:58:28 -0500

If your weekend outlook is rain, rain and more rain here are some Lazy Weekend Links to pass some time away.

Harry Potter fans, check out the covers of the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (There are two covers, adult and children's editions. The cover pictured is the adult edition.)

Spinner has come out with the 20 Worst Lyrics Ever. The lyrics are humorous, but what's more humorous is the commentary written by the Spinner Staff.

Here is a useful guide on when to toss things out. Whoa, I have a lot of work cut out for me this weekend.

Neave Games has put together remakes of retro arcade games such as Asteroids, Frogger and Space Invaders. It's a nice compilation and well-worth playing.

I hate playing Monopoly because alliances and enemies are made amongst your friends for the 8 hours a single game is played. It's ugly. Well, if you follow the actual Monopoly rules, playing Monopoly should be painless.

Feast your eyes on the $1,490 Optimus Maximus keyboard. Slideshow.

Enjoy your weekend!

LwL: St. Patrick's Day Edition

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:56:36 -0500

This Saturday, March 17, 2007 is St. Patrick's Day. Here are some St. Pattie's Day links to celebrate this fine occassion.

Orange County, FL residents, watch out for the speed trap in the area of University Boulevard and state Road 417. You can't miss it -- It's a "Deputy Leprachaun" equipped with a laser speed-detection gun and a sign which reads, "Watch your speed or it will cost you your pot of gold." [via Weird Daily]

I couldn't find a recipe for green beer so this green beer t-shirt over at ThinkGeek will have to do.

Want to know what parades and events are going on in your area? Check out this site. You may also want to read up on who St. Patrick is while you are there.

Need something green to settle your stomach after a weekend of celebrating? Here is a howto on making Mylanta mint chocolate chip ice cream. [via Make]

Happy St. Pattie's Day, Cadre!

[Photo of my niece, Siena. 2007]

LwL: Pilot crashes into inlaws' home, spitting is a crime, how crayons are made, dolphin with prosthetic tail, subway sketches

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:55:09 -0600

Here are your Lazy Weekend Links for this Daylight Saving Time weekend:

Piece of advice: Dont' spit in someone's face, especially in San Francisco -- It has been ruled as criminal assault in a recent case.

A pilot intentionally crashes his airplane into his in-laws' Indiana home. His eight-year-old daughter was also on the plane. Both father and daughter died. A woman was in the house at the time but was unharmed.

To add to my Sesame Street flashback phase recently, here is a classic clip showing us how crayons are made.

A dolphin in Japan received a prosthetic tail after losing its previous tail to a skin disease.

Here is a very cool collection of sketches done in the NYC subway. [via delicious]

Enjoy your weekend and don't forget to change your clocks!

LwL: geek furniture, purchase food with mobile phone, baby for down payment, emoticons, cut trans fats, Google traffic status

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:35:59 -0600

Here are your Lazy Weekend Links for this weekend:

In need of more seating in your apartment or home? Are you a geek? Well, have I got the perfect piece of furniture for you. Check out these giant computer key seats. [via Random Good Stuff]

Soon the tech savvy will be able to purchase food with their mobile phones at participating fast food restaurants in Japan.

In Colorado, three people accused of swapping a 5-month-old baby for a down payment on a used car.

What's your favorite emoticon? Here are Japan's thirty top favorites.

The Girl Scouts are cutting trans fats from their popular assortment of cookies.

Google has now added real-time traffic status for 30 major cities in the U.S. [via Hackszine]

Happy weekend!

LwL: No more weddings, Superstitious airline logo, Your heart, Boombox, Vintage Hungarian commercials, R2-D2 trash can

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:11:33 -0600

Here are your Lazy Weekend Links for this weekend:

An Argentinian couple has placed a paid announcement in a major newspaper "expressing their desire for some social neglect," meaning, they don't want to be invited to anymore weddings.

Brussels Airlines is adding one more ball to their 13-ball logo on all tails and sides of their Airbuses because it was scaring superstitious customers away.

Heart disease is the number one killer in women -- take care of your heart.

Forget iPods. Bring the Boombox back.

Check out this small collection of vintage Hungarian commercials I found on YouTube: sausages, milk, bug killer, workgloves. Did anyone else notice that the milk looked a little thick? Who eats that much sausage? And do people really hold hands a lot when they are wearing workgloves?

I had an R2-D2 cake at my 5th birthday, but no R2-D2 trash can.

Happy weekend!

LwL: Toyota's bad product placement ad, Chimps used tools, "Sweep the Leg" music video, Lego Relativity, 5 yr. old gives birth

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:36:58 -0600

Here are your Lazy Weekend Links for this fine weekend:

This has got to be one of the worst product placement ads I've seen. I don't foresee many people buying Toyotas in the near future.

Scientists have found evidence that 4,300 years ago Chimpanzees in West Africa used stone tools.

The original Karate Kid cast from the 80s reunited to put together a music video for the group No More Kings for their song "Sweep The Leg". The video stars Billy Zabka who played "Johnny", the bad boy of the Cobra Kai.

Here is a 3D Lego model of M.C. Escher's Relativity. It was created by Andrew Lipson. [via digg]

Believe it or not, a 5-year-old girl gave birth. "Not possible," you say? Read the article, look at the pictures, and you decide. [via digg]

Happy weekend!

LwL: creepy surgical masks, human finger in chocolate, unique mailboxes, full circle rainbow

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:45:30 -0600

Here are your Lazy Weekend Links for this weekend:

Kids have yet another reason why they should be afraid to go to the dentist. [via growabrain]

A man in Germany found a human finger in an Italian chocolate (brand was not given). Police say it may have gone unnoticed because the fingertip, complete with fingernail, could have been mistaken for a nut.

Check out this gallery of funny and unique mailboxes. [via MonkeyFilter]

Here is an amazing photo of a full circle rainbow. The photo was taken in Canberra on top of the Telstra Tower. [via digg]

Have a fabulous weekend Cadre!

LwL: Fungus, Caffeine and baldness, memory chip, uranium sting, table-top gaming, UW student on year 13

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:38:36 -0600

Here are this weekend's Lazy Weekend Links:

The world's largest living organism is in fact a fungus that covers 2,200 acres.

In a recent study published in the International Journal of Dermatology, scientists are claiming that caffeine can stimulate hair growth in bald men -- Well, if you drink an estimated 60 cups per day. Doesn't sound too appealing to me, right? A German cosmetics firm has developed a caffeine-rich solution that can be rubbed onto your scalp.

According to this NY Times article, scientists have built a memory chip that is about the size of a blood cell (1/2000th of an inch).

Here are modernized table-top arcades which play your favorite retro games.

A Russian man was caught selling weapons-grade uranium. Oleg Khinsagov has been sentenced to 8.5 years in prison.

University of Wisconsin - Whitewater student will be entering year 13. Johnny Lechner stays for the young women, parties and other campus activities.

Happy weekend.

LwL: Dogpatch USA, Hawking in Space, banned cartoon, controversial treatment, Cartoons aid Autism treatment, Aircraft on eBay

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:17:41 -0600

Lazy Weekend Links are back in style like leggings and pirate boots so all of you better watch out! Here are your Links for this weekend:

With some coaxing by Sir Richard Branson, Stephen Hawking is planning to go into space in 2009.

If you liked the photos of the abandoned Japanese amusement park, you will enjoy reading up on an amusement park with quite a history behind it. Dogpatch USA is a defunct theme park located in Arkansas. Opened to the public in 1968, it was based on the comic strip Li'l Abner. The fictional town in which Li'l Abner was based was called Dogpatch. You can read up about it here.

Can you keep track of the number of inappropriate racial things going on in this banned Betty Boop cartoon? Pretty ridiculous.

Parents and doctors agree to undergo controversial treatment that keeps girl child-sized.

Cartoons which help teach autistic children about human emotions is being launched nationwide. The DVD series is called the Transporters and uses real people's faces on cartoon vehicles.

Jealous of the man who bought a fighter jet on eBay? Well, now is your chance to get in on the action. Put your bid in for a MiG 21F USSR Military Aircraft on eBay. [via File22.com]

Happy weekend!

LwL: Commercials from the 80s: Atari, Nintendo and Wendy's

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:12:12 -0600

This weekend's Lazy Weekend Links are dedicated to commercials from the 80s.

Here is a Game Boy 2-in-1 Arcade Classics commercial with a belly-jiggling, disco-dancing, goldchain-wearing, John Travolta wannabe. Warning: Hairy chest shot at the end.

Just three words, "Where's the beef?" I know Wendy's came out with a slew of "Where's the beef?" commercials, but I believe this was the original commercial that started it all.

The NES Power Glove never worked, but the commercial sure is amusing.

This is a very cool Atari commercial, "What will we come up with next." Kids these days will never be able to appreciate gaming from our generation.

Have a good holiday weekend and stuff yourself senseless with your Thanksgiving leftovers.

LwL: cicada moulting, count the flags, dishwasher howto, fictional diseases, men's tie knots howto, girl gamer rants

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:08:51 -0600

Here are this weekend's Lazy Weekend Links:

Here is a time-lapse video of a cicada moulting.

Can you guess how many flags are in this video? Hint: There are more than 200. I can only count to 10 so I just kept watching the video to listen to the song playing in the background.

Here is a howto on loading your dishwasher properly.

Check out this list of fictional diseases found on Wikipedia.

Here is a howto on tying various men's ties.

A chick gamer rants about a GameStop display that advertises games for girls. I don't know -- I wouldn't mind playing Cooking Mama.

Have a good weekend!

LwL: 2D Pi, The Chipmunks in slow motion, CA - new Dairy State?, rotating home, AeroPress Coffee Machine, Boyfriend Arm Pillow

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:32:34 -0500

Here are your Lazy Weekend Links for this weekend:

Here is a visualization of Pi. The creator assigned a color to numbers 0 to 9. If you stare at the image long enough you can see dolphins swimming through the ocean.

Ah, I miss The Chipmunks. Kids these days probably don't even know who The Chipmunks, which is a crying shame. Even if you don't know who The Chipmunks are you'll probably know this Christmas song classic -- slow it down a bit and you can hear the actual voices of the men singing Alvin, Simon and Theodore's parts. [via MetaFilter]

What's happening Wisconsin? You can't let California become the new Dairy State!

Are you tired of the view from your bedroom window? Get a rotating home and dial-a-view.

Feast your eyes on the AeroPress Coffee Machine.

Independent reviews suggest the new Aerobie AeroPress delivers the smoothest, richest, purest and fastest cup of coffee (under 30 seconds) you’re likely to find and the bonus is that the AeroPress costs just US$30. And while it might look like a French Press because both use immersion and pressure, it works quite differently.

Are you lonely and need a man to snuggle up with... or how about a man's arm and half of a chest? Snuggle up to the Boyfriend Arm Pillow.

Have a fantabulous weekend!