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This billboard was visible from Pittsburgh’s Liberty Bridge last baseball season, though I’m just now getting around to posting it: So what is it that Budweiser does with this ad? Are they trying to link their beer to the first North American professional sports franchise to have 18 consecutive losing seasons, or to the yellow P? [...]
From the Whatever Works website (and, I presume, catalog) comes what is quite probably the most useless product I’ve seen this week (and it’s probably patented): a sheet tucker. Yet for years we’ve been doing hospital corners with our hands, silly us….
From Purdue University (hat tip Reason) comes what is apparently an updated version of something I’ve somehow missed all these years: a global meteor strike calculator.
As if the news that 1 in 4 UK lap dancers has a college degree isn’t funny enough by itself, the more specific details of the finding are absolutely howl-worthy (emphasis all mine): The researchers found arts degree graduates were most likely to report that they had turned to dancing after being unable to find [...]
Courtesy of security expert Bruce Schneier, a link to SnapScouts, an Android program for “crowd sourcing crime prevention.” If you have any doubt as to what point the website owners are making, their company is called “MiniTru.”
From the always-entertaining Failblog:
The unfortunate thing about global commerce is that company names that aren’t problematic in, say, German, can become offensive or silly in other languages. Would you buy from Assmann Electronics?
There is a whole string of riddles that ask “How do you hide a hundred-dollar bill from” a particular type of physician. There’s pretty much the whole array of them here, but what I can’t seem to find right now is a discussion on some board somewhere about the proper answer regarding an ED doc. [...]
Here’s an ad from the Sunday paper a few weeks ago that’s unintentionally hilarious and disgusting to anyone who thinks of BV as an abbreviation for bacterial vaginosis. The BV in the ad, incidentally, is actually a vineyard. Bonus link: irony, defined.
It’s only natural that I would fall in love with an online store named ThinkGeek, but they’ve really outdone themselves with this sleeping bag.
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