In other Ikea-related news, they seem to be purging their catalogue of the more amusingly-named items. No more the Anja Rand, supporting your feet with Objectivism! No more the Jerker desk!
Finally, the child raised by affordable Swedish design
Archive for the ‘novelties’ Category
oddly compelling video for the first week of October.
Monday, October 8th, 2007How to draw Octopus Pie, a short film by Meredith Gran
Some Flight of the Conchords for you:
Prince of Parties (the lads do psychedelia: Ravi Shankar!)
Foux da fa fa (the lads do Scopitone: baguette!)
Frodo, Don’t Wear The Ring (the lads do LOTR: bling!)
The Humans are Dead: (part one) part two: binary solo
The importance of marching bands in foreign pop (an unexhaustive two-part survey):
Emanuela by Fettes Brot
Matadorby Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Monday, December 18th, 2006
I like it, but this has no reason to exist: Billy Idol, Slash, and Derek Sherinian cover “In the Summertime”. Slash?!???
the rapture is loading…loading…l0ading
Monday, December 18th, 2006Left Behind: the video game (a review). For no apparent reason, it gives one of the best and most succinct explanations of rapture philosophy that I’ve ever read.
Sunday, November 19th, 2006
new books for children:
a horse named paul revere, by Adam Horowitz, Adam Yauch and Michael Diamond
and of course, that classic, My Little Golden Book About ZOGG
I hate your online service: a symposium
Sunday, November 5th, 2006Ze Frank on Friendster.
Paul Ford hates google. Or at least is really, really obsessed with it.
Maciej Ceglowski distrusts audioblogging.
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
The 2007 Men of Mortuaries Calendar is Now Available!
Sample information: Have you ever gotten lucky in a coffin?
“It’s very uncomfortable in there.” -Ken McKenzie
all web audio memes in one song! ROFL MAO!
Saturday, August 26th, 2006cover versions never meant to be
Thursday, August 17th, 2006radiodread: the reggae cover album
baby rock records: turning the nihilistic music of your misspent youth into soothing lullabies. karma police. enter sandman. and, of course, their infinitely creepy version of smells like teen spirit. God help me, I think I want some of these…
patriotic condiments
Thursday, August 10th, 2006Minuteman Salsa, protecting our borders with the power of “a Native Texan product containing no fat, low sodium, and 100% American pride.”
“W Ketchup comes in one flavor: American.” It is also OU-certified as kosher, and an organic version is soon to be available.
see also: halal soft drinks
visual documentation of global warming
Friday, July 14th, 2006In the spirit, no doubt, of The Economist’s Big Mac Index of inflation, the Chronicle presents another unconventional index of warming global temperatures. Or should that be “undex”?
sweet black jesus, yes
Monday, June 26th, 2006Stevie Wonder. Superstitious. Live on Sesame Street. There was, oddly, no leavening of muppets, but check out the VERY SERIOUS maraca player in the green shirt, and the tiny little hesher on the balcony.
how to open a beer…
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006that new “silent” ringtone all the kids are talking about
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006Supposedly, this highpitched tone is out of the hearing range of many adults. So of course, it is supposed to be all the rage as a custom ringtone for the younger set, unhearable by older authority figures. I can hear it and it hurts my ears. Does that count?
increased energy conservation cheaper, safer bet than increased energy production
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006To wit: someone ran the numbers and figured that a nationwide incandescent to compact fluorescent light bulb trade-in would save as much energy cost as building a new nuke plant would produce.
Now, that’s not factoring in the added environmental cost: although any fluorescent fixture contains a tiny amount of mercury, it is enough that a dead CFL bulb is considered hazardous waste already, let alone when people who don’t read the fine print are dumping them willy-nilly into the trash. Overall, I think even the mercury which makes it into the groundwater is going to pale in comparison to the emissions of most power plants, but it would be interesting to see another, environmental-impact cost breakdown.
How (Not) to Dirty Talk in German
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006See also: the Zompist Phrasebook (scroll down to “A Little Romance”. You’ll see.)