After they saved the princess, Mario and Luigi moved to Manchester, UK and went into the restaurant business. I knew these guys would eventually open a restaurant, but I always imagined it would be a joint venture, not next-door competing eateries. Found at Google Street View, ever the source for coincidence, not irony. This is [...]

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Is desk clutter a pain in the ass? With the The Butt Station Desk Accessory Holder not only will the fun colors perk up your desk, butt this is one functional derrière. The Butt Station is a tape dispenser with cutter, pen and memo/card holder, and the magnetic rump holds paper clips! It’s bold enough [...]

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It’s coming… IMAX 3D – December 2010. Trailer after the jump…

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Make your next party painfully amusing by inviting Fred Toothpick Holder, Ouch!, the voodoo-it-yourself toothpick holder. Perfect for finger food, emergency hexes, and jump-starting the good times. With Ouch, olives will never be boring again!

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You’ll never blame her again for losing the keys with this pair of Human Key Holders (His and Hers) mounted to the wall. Simply attach your keys to the key provided, and insert the key into the male or female forms.

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Not only functional, but also therapeutic, “The Ex” Knife Set and Holder is a five-piece knife set plus holder that makes for the perfect gift and a guaranteed conversation piece. Constructed with heavy-gauge durable stainless steel, each knife offers a razor-sharp precision cutting blade and a hollow, ergonomically designed for comfortable handle.

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I’ve read that Aristotle taught his students while they walked around. It seemed to enhance learning and make the activity more enjoyable. The self-experimenter Seth Roberts has found that doing two boring things together, like walking on a treadmill and studying flash cards, results in a pleasant experience…
Fact 1: For the last few weeks, I’ve [...]

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Here’s a fascinating post on “foil impressioning” — a simple lockpicking technique that uses the lock itself to fashion a working key out of soft aluminium tape. You just stick a key loaded with this stuff into a lock and wiggle it around in a special way and the lock opens itself.

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When Bunnie Huang was in South China overseeing production on his versatile ChumbyOne device, he discovered a major quality issue with Kingston’s MicroSD cards. At first, he assumed that he’d gotten a counterfeit batch, but further investigation proved them to be legit. Kingston wasn’t willing to give Bunnie any details on its QA process, so [...]

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King Tut, plus 10 other royal mummies, recently became the first ancient Egyptians to get their DNA analyzed. The results, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, turned up a treasure trove of new information about the famous boy king, his family and Egyptian royalty in general. Among the discoveries…

Tutankhamun had [...]

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$2.99… talk me out of it. This is much cooler than the “I AM T-PAIN” app.

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This scale wirelessly sends my weight, fat mass, and BMI to a personal web page at Withings.com and to my Google Health page, my RunKeeper account, and my DailyBurn account.
To set it up, I connected it to my computer with a USB cable and filled out some information online. The USB port is hidden in [...]

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I visited my friend at her home yesterday. She just had a baby boy, who is the proud owner of this adorable little pacifier that doubles as his very own mute button.
You can buy it on Amazon for $6.
I might have to order a couple just to have on hand for gift-giving opportunities.

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Although its name suggests perhaps even grander capabilities, Windows enthusiasts are excited over the discovery of a hidden “GodMode” feature that lets users access all of the operating system’s control panels from within a single folder.
To enter “GodMode,” one need only create a new folder and then rename the folder to the following:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Once that is [...]

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At the Eiffel Tower’s official web site, you can check out scans of the original blueprints created by Gustave Eiffel in preparation for the 1889 World’s Fair. The famous tower in Paris was the source of much controversy (many thought its skeletal design ruined the classical cityscape) and remained the tallest structure in the world [...]

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It is just guarana, glucose, and orange flavor. I guess it’s big in the UK and recently some guys bought US distribution rights.
Although, I do have a feeling the FDA will get their panties in a bundle when they catch wind of this; And I would love to see a commercial for this stuff. Parent [...]

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Geekologie’s superb “Evolution of Storage” infographic traces the history of data, music and photo storage from the wax cylinder to the 2TB hard drive. I think I’ll print this out and hang it on the wall of my office, for the same reason poets kept skulls on their writing desks*: “this too shall pass, all [...]

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Visualizing empires decline by Pedro M Cruz, who explains: “The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. The visual emphasis is on their decline.” Here’s more on the data and methodology.

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