Fun Stuff

Hello? Inspector Gadget here…

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I can’t decide if this is the greatest invention ever made, or the stupidest. I give you hi-call, the bluetooth enabled glove that enables you to take calls in the winter without removing your gloves or getting your phone out of your bulky pocket.

The left glove has a speaker and a microphone sewed into thumb and pinkie

Remember in the 80’s when we all thought we’d have flying cars (or at least hoverboards) by now? Well folks, we just took another step towards all that fantastic 80’s technology.

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day

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This the the poem I read to the kids tonight in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day:

The Pirate
By Shel Silverstein

Oh, the blithery, blathery pirate
(His name, I believe, is Claude),
His manner is sullen and irate,
And his humor is vulgar and broad.

He has often been known to imprison
His friends in the hold dark and dank,
Or lash them up high on the mizzen,
Or force them to stroll down a plank.

He will selfishly ask you to dig up
Some barrels of ill-gotten gold,
And if you so much as just higgup,
He’ll leave you to fill up the hole.

He may cast you adrift in a rowboat
(He has no reaction to tears)
Or put you ashore without NO boat
On an island and leave you for years.

He’s a rotter, a wretch and a sinner,
He’s foul as a fellow can be,
But if you invite him to dinner,
Oh, please sit him next to me!

The $#it fountain

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The other day, we were walking around Chicago and we happened upon this:

Yes, that is a fountain that looks like an enormous pile of poop. And aptly named too:

(I only wish I had a better camera)

After some quick googling, I discovered that it is dedicated to all the neighborhood dogs and their owners who don’t pick up after them.

Only in Chicago my friends.

The best part about the Olympics: Diver Face

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Chances are you’ve seen this somewhere on the Internet, but just in case you haven’t, I don’t want to deprive you.

When you’re doing some world class diving, you probably have other things on your mind than smiling for the cameras. I think this also speaks to just how fast these people are actually moving through the air. Nonetheless, tell me this isn’t hilarious:

You can see more here and here.

I’m sure they’re all so happy to have these hi res photos on the Internet.

Vegetarianism is a Disease

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That’s not just some eye catching headline, designed to upset you and draw you in. It’s actually a fact.

It turns out there is something called the “lone star tick”, whose bite actually makes you allergic to meat.

Technically it doesn’t really make you a vegetarian, since you could still eat poultry and fish, but it is still very interesting that a bug bite could change something so fundamental about your way of life.

It begs the question: was vegetarianism originally an unnatural state brought about by tick bites? And are all the vegetarians since descended from copy-cat followers on? And what other states of being can be brought about by bug bites (besides “itchy”)? Could this explain the difference between “dog people” and “cat people”? Could it explain exercise fanatics? People who like the little disgusting things known as deviled eggs?

Wait a minute! Maybe I’m thinking about this the wrong way. Maybe vegetarianism is a super power, transferred by the bite of an insect. There is some precedent for that.

In any case, nature never ceases to amaze me.

Link via Sara.