ADD and a hefty daily dosage of Ritalin go with the stock boy trade about as well as severe cataracts and driving Cadillacs. Clean up on aisle 7.
Hey guy, if you really want to pork your patio table’s umbrella hole, that’s fine. This is America after all, and we respect your right to be a complete deviant. However, we suggest the next time you feel the indomitable urge for wrought iron burning in you loins, you haul that curvaceous table inside where you can’t be videotaped by your neighbors. Or watched from the elementary school playground 100 feet away.
Boston Dynamics posted video footage of their Big Dog robot a couple weeks ago and the whole Internet was like, “wow.” We mean, that was some freaktastically impressive engenuity, right Internet? However, early yesterday some additional footage surfaced that might have these Boston Dynamics guys going the way of those cold fusion dorks back in ‘89. P.S. Who names their robot invention after a clothing company that’s almost as retartar as Big Johnson?
The original video:
The latest footage:
Passover is less than a month away, and while you might already have a great hiding place for that Afikoman in mind, there’s no way in the Promised Land your seder will be complete without this lovely “Passover Bag of Plagues” from oytoy.com. It’s got everything from sunglasses to simulate that dark, dark sky to fake blood and a nine-piece, death-of-the-firstborn puzzle! Bring it Moses.
Have any dirty work too dangerous for a human to handle? Ever wished for an automatic, hydromatic, systematic “friend,” R2D2 style? This is your lucky day! Wired.com’s How-To Wiki page will give you all the details needed to build unmanned aerial, ground, or submersible vehicles using radio controlled airplanes, cheap cell phones, and digital cameras. Battle Bots beware, there’s a new ‘bot in town!
Two weeks ago we posted about the upcoming Ben Stiller film, Tropic Thunder. Today, we are excited to post the trailer for this movie. It looks like Mr. Stiller may have upped the comedy ante from where he left us with Zoolander. Fingers are crossed that not all the funny bits make up this teaser.
Slower than you can say “Mazel Tov,” but faster than you can recite the Megilla, Jewno, a spoof of the summer indie flick that made your bubby dig The Moldy Peaches, has hit the tubes courtesy of The Shushan Channel at 92YTribeca. Directed by Stephen J. Levinson, it tells the story of young Jewno as she cooks a little unleavened bun in the oven:
Oy vey!
Pipedream Products has sold over 100,000 celebrity blow-up dolls using the likenesses of J-Lo, Tori Spelling, and Jessica Simpson (among others) since they made them available to the public. For as little as $26.99, you can indulge in a night of unbridled passion with inflatable celebrity doppelgangers like J-Ho, Eva Longwhoria, or Sarah Jessica Porkher. Synthetic love never felt so real.
PC’s never tasted so good.
South Central L.A., March 17, 2008. It’s the one day of the year when L.A.’s Crips gang members ditch their telltale blue apparel in favor of kelly green in honor of their Irish heritage.
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