October 2007
“Why oh why oh why? When there’s an entire downstairs available, why do you...”
– GDFAF #13: Shana Tova/Tom Bellamy/The Cribbler (19/10/7) « Oh.
Bob Dylan advertises SUVs →
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #417 (via Ape Lad)
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Test Page Wall Clock
Quite some time ago, we featured the D&G Test Card Watch, and now we’ve come across a similar timepiece for your wall in the Nextime Test Page Clock.
As with the wristwatch, it features the brightly coloured design famous from the early television test card. It also has the words ‘One Moment Please’ written across the bottom for added early viewing authenticity.
It costs just under £32...
Chinese luxury market -- all smoke and mirrors?
AccessAsia’s review of Dana Thomas’s Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster has some really interesting stuff about the state of luxury goods in China. When I was there in September, I was surprised by the Rolls Royce dealerships in Shanghai and Beijing, and by the number of “high street” luxury brand stores lining the main drags, but AccessAsia says it’s all a...
Toothbrush discovered in woman's nose
Doctors in India removed a three-inch piece of a toothbrush, including the business end, from a 31-year-old woman’s nose.
So how did it get there? The woman claims she is not sure. She says, “Around two months ago as I was brushing my teeth, my husband accidentally pushed me and the toothbrush in my hand broke. I was left holding the lower portion of the brush but couldn’t locate the...
Cat alarm clock (via mercedesboy230)
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Cult of the Amateur author fails to do his...
It’s hard not to feel some schadenfreude when you see ‘Cult of the Amateur’ author Andrew Keen demonstrating a particularly lazy bit of amateur blogging himself. Today’s entry, ‘Anonymity shouldn’t pay (even in Sheffield)’ reads:
“Finally anonymity on the Internet is being punished. The Guardian today reports on anonymous Sheffield Wednesday bloggers who are being sued by the club for their...
My duhpreshun
Let me show you it.
Uh, maybes u need teh coffees?
photo: babykailan
capped and submitted by: Capped by Rachel Campbell
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Killer Monkeys!
Anyone else read about this? Languar monkeys in Delhi have killed the city’s deputy mayor!! Delhi has a massive monkey problem with the critters attracted by rubbish and the possiblity of a free meal, not helped by tourists all to willing to oblige them. Apparently Languar’s were introduced to kill the pesky Rhesus macaque monkeys but can get pretty aggressive. However killing them...
Jan Bowman
Jan Bowman writes:
I’m writing a children’s picture book about Birmingham and the Enlightenment, which will be ready to send to publishers by December. Inspired by the work of Czech illustrator Sasek it will also show undiscovered treasures lurking in the city, such as the attached. I’m looking for other good visual suggestions and suspect you/your readership can help. There are some more...
Out of his gourdes
Johnny Cash, drugged to his eyeballs, singing about the plight of Native Americans with a worried looking June Carter Cash and Pete Seeger. The song is ‘As Long As the Grass Shall Grow’ from the album Bitter Tears. One of his best, in my view, especially the song about Custer: Copyleft of Lenin’s Tomb (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)
Politico baby pants for endless...
TwistedTwee does a line of baby pants with the faces of prominent British politicians on them. When I have a daughter, she will be pleased to crap all over Margaret Thatcher.
Link
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Radiohead book some flights
So, it turns out that Thom Yorke’s pronouncements about stopping touring to save the planet might have fallen apart when faced with the prospect of not earning money from touring; the band are lining up a leisurely tour for 2008, says manager Bryce Edge: “We plan to tour next year,” he said. “Starting in May through to probably the end of the year, with lots of holidays in...
Lolmonty
JonHall has added a photo to the pool:
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys. (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)
Photoshops
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Library Tries To Be Secular – Church Goes...
Wolverhampton Council is in trouble with a local church because it refused to put up a religious poster in one of its libraries. Such has been the ferocity of the attack, that the policy of not providing advertising space for religion is being reconsidered. (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)
Web Publishing: Build Your Own Mashups with...
Web application Popfly takes a building block approach to mashup creation, allowing regular folks like us to connect services like Flickr, Twitter, and maps to your heart’s content and your creativity’s limit. It’s all available through a drag and drop interface somewhere along the lines of Yahoo Pipes. Popfly is free to use, requires a Windows Live login and the Silverlight...
Punto It psychedelic penguin money box
Not just a money box, this is a psychedelic penguin money box from Punto It.
Punto It is a Japanese designer and the penguin is one item from the Animal Bank series of money boxes created by Ideaco. Sized at 14 x 13 x 23cm, this ceramic bird has a slot to drop in your coins at the top - and hopefully a way of accessing the cash later. Let’s be honest, you won’t want to smash it...
