Tuesday, June 21, 2011 // Woot
These days animation and beer commercials mix like beer and chocolate milk. Even the occasional Budweiser frog is carefully rendered not to appeal to kids. But in the early days of TV, you couldn’t turn on the set without some whimsical cartoon lush pulling on a tall, cool, animated one. There were just more cartoon […]
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 // Woot
These days animation and beer commercials mix like beer and chocolate milk. Even the occasional Budweiser frog is carefully rendered not to appeal to kids. But in the early days of TV, you couldn’t turn on the set without some whimsical cartoon lush pulling on a tall, cool, animated one. There were just more cartoon […]
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 // Woot
A Buckyballs History Of The United States You can’t spell “America” without “Buckyballs”, except literally. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777: Starving, demoralized, and riddled with typhoid and dysentery, Washington’s troops are on the verge of mutiny when a shipment of small, powerful rare earth magnets arrives from Philadelphia. Wrote Private Abijah Tate in his diary: “Provisions […]
Monday, June 20, 2011 // Woot
On June 20th, 1948, everyone hoped they were at the start of something big… but no one had any idea it would last for twenty one years straight. Unfortunately nobody bothered to save a copy, but it probably looked something like this. Of course, that’s Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin with a parody of the […]
Monday, June 20, 2011 // Woot
SU-PER-SON-IC, E-LEC-TRON-IC The biggest problem with today’s society is that people don’t take the time to stop and bust out The Robot anymore. And that’s a shame, really, because the Robot is basically the best dance ever. You can bust it out for anything! Did you get a promotion at work? Do the Robot in […]
Monday, June 20, 2011 // Woot
Behold the Desktop Mo’ai! Who created these mysterious stone heads? And for what purpose? No one knows. Their origin is an ancient mystery, shrouded in the mists of time gone by, forgotten forever, like the name of the guy who built Newton’s Cradle, or the author of “You Want it When?” Thanks to decades of […]
Sunday, June 19, 2011 // Woot
Hey, if it works for the video game guys, we’ll give it a try. The wave of the future is microtransactions! So there we were, sitting around trying to figure out how to spice up this refurbished Current Generation 32GB iPod Touch deal. “What can we do to make this more exciting than just another […]
Saturday, June 18, 2011 // Woot
The Roar Of The Greasepaint And the award for “Most Innovative Dinner Theater Script” goes to… Wow! WOW! I can’t believe I’m actually up here at last! Man! This thing sure is heavier than it looks! Okay, well, first of all, I’d like to thank my Mom and Dad, first for believing in me when […]
Friday, June 17, 2011 // Woot
We’re seeing more and more knives left out in the cold like this. It’s just a tragedy. I blame Food Network, to be honest. People see all these fancy chefs making beautiful entrees and they think, “Hey, I wanna do that too!” So they run out and buy some fancy knives, like these Kai Tan […]
Friday, June 17, 2011 // Woot
Every week I find a song to perfectly represent a state in the union. The project moves alphabetically, and to be eligible a song has to meet the following criteria: The name of the song must include the name of the state. The song must be dedicated to or describe the entire state, not just […]
