My dream has come true.

That's some serious tool porn right there.

I want to eat clown face soo bad right now! All it needs is a little maraschino cherry nose.

$250 is the shipping charge - consider it the loser tax for this bourgeois, faux-ironic absurdity.

Don't Chinese gold farmers rack up this kind of time every day?

I totally need this, if only to finally give my mother the heart attack she's been threatening to have for the past 30 years.

It's getting harder and harder to find rabbits at English speaking markets - all of my butchers claim they can no longer get healthy rabbits at all. I just had a big lunch, but damn, now I'm hungry.

I don't buy the numbers on this one, but I can vouch for the skill of these artists. I haven't been to China, but their reproduction oil painting peers in Thailand are frighteningly talented artists - usually much more adept at their craft than the MFAs that are being cranked out in American art departments.

Not only is Fairey a blatant plagiarist, but at this point, design-wise, he's totally phoning it in. It's a shame that the post on the excellent and imaginative Jordan Crane design posted earlier has to share the same as this hack work.

Kudos to a good parent.

Anthony - Pettibon was very, very briefly in Black Flag at the beginning, on bass.

Kira from Black Flag and Mike Watt from the Minutemen still play gigs together as Dos. They just did a set in Long Beach on Monday night. IMHO, it's just about the best thing both of them have done/are doing in their post-Flag/Minutemen days.

Isn't this what hands are for?

The teeth on this are really beautiful for some reason.

Seeing these (which are kind of neat), I'm immediately reminded of the submissions I've been getting from a particularly untalented, but well equipped with what appears to be a money bin's worth of postage, artist. Over the past decade about twice a year I receive an unsolicited submission from said artist with a packet of Forget Me Nots included.

It works, but not as intended - I'll never forget how bad the artist's work is.

Way too small for 10 chickens, and pricey too. If you're enough of a do-it-yourselfer to raise chickens, building a proper coop certainly shouldn't be beyond you.

What does it say about me that the first thing I thought about when I read the headline was cocaine?

#3 All Pez dispensers are phallic, just some more than most.

One of my neighbor's older sisters had parts from this thing when I was a kid, but I never figured out what the heck they were supposed to do or be for. Now I know.

I love Missouri, I have family there and have considered moving there on occasion, but I've noticed an upswing in "Crazy Shit Happened in Missouri" stories recently (That kids doing ultimate fighting story is out of Missouri, for example). I think that the Show Me State is trying to give Florida a run for its money as the official state of ridiculous news.

The probably keep these in the same warehouse where they keep the Ark of the Covenant. Good thing we didn't mail them that!

I've flown through a fair number of airports in the past decade and only once had body jewelery set off a detector. I just pulled up my shirt, explained, and moved on. That was before we went down the 9/11 rabbit hole, though.

Once again, I learn that I went to the wrong high school.

This is totally a bad idea from a "keeping your favourite books dry" angle, but it's totally tempting, as I would spend 8-12 hours a day reading in the bath if I were idle rich or retired.

I totally need one of these.

Given that they're only supposedly effective against knife slashes, and not punctures, the short sleeve version seems pretty pointless.

Maybe parents of goth teens could buy these in black and with locks at the neck and wrists so their upper middle class, suburbanite children can engage in faux-self harm while maintaining in their faux-bondage look?

I had no idea they had agreed upon stops. I figured everyone just went while in the saddle.

Thanks pimping the pool. I'll be adding a pile of new images and some commentary on the Masatoshi pieces in the pool this weekend, BTW.

As said above, there are other laptops that pre-date the MacBook Air with solid state drive options. Have any of these been flagged? I'm specifically thinking of various industrial laptops that look very different from consumer models and that have various odd features like solid state drives, armoured housings and external antennas.

This makes sense, as about 90% of the tourists I saw last year in Thailand were either from Northern Europe or Great Britain. It was nice seeing the ugly European instead of the ugly American abroad for a change.

You didn't hear about it from the US media, because the whole country is in serious denial. Get ready to wallpaper your tenements with dollars folks!

I wish they would make more ancient/medieval weapons. I would kill to have a tiny LEGO phalanx or a clan of ashigaru spearmen at my disposal.

That being said, I just ordered my colonial marine. The perfect minifig to nuke the planet from orbit, the only way to be sure.

People who put citrus in their beer deserve a faceful of acid, IMHO.

The LA one recently got massively shut down by the cops.

http://www.yovenice.com/2008/03/01/la-urban-iditarod-update/

Hot Shit! Wow! I can't wait for this to come out in the states.

And what kind of experience do these officers have? Is there a legion of badged photo experts somewhere in a basement in London? I think not.

Maybe that egg wouldn't be getting abused by soldiers if it had been wearing a pair of egg pants.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84243328@N00/2212929636/

I have an ex-coworker who lives on this stuff. She was persistently drunk at work (and stank of booze the whole time), smoked like a chimney and tanned almost to leather, but the most strange and disturbing thing about her was her utter devotion to Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi.

I've been following the development of this bike for a couple of years. I'm 5' 4", so riding one isn't really in my future, but what long distance rider wouldn't kill for a dual sport with a 500 - 700 mile range?

This is an example of why the Internet is better than TV - Just because I saw the post doesn't mean I have to inadvertently hear it.

In high school I spent a summer working in the office and we had a mega copier/binder that was 30' feet long. It was ridiculously complicated to use, but it could spit out dozens of copies of 100 page bound booklets like a gunslinger.

I always loved the Thinkpad butterfly keyboard - it's a design that really deserves a revisitation.

#106 Teresa

I did read your notice, thank you. The running bit is missing the word "ads" following the word "running". Fast typing...

And I wasn't complaining. I'll read into your choice of words as I feel like on that one. I was criticizing - as one blogger to a group of others, and their staff, I think that you guys fucked up several times in handling this issue.

First the ads shouldn't be in the posts, anyways - you don't see magazines, newspapers or other written publications running ads inside of their articles, or having their articles sponsored by major corporations. It's a credibility destroying move. You guys have enough dough/gumption to solve your moblogging problems on your own dime. Given that a prime area where BB has "issue credibility" is on copyright/DRM issues, the MS ad is a particularly credibility damaging choice.

Secondly, by deleting (or holding) posts, you use a sledgehammer when a regular hammer would have done nicely. I have never seen a forum or blog that suddenly started wiping/hiding/mass editing user comments be better off, community-wise, afterward. You could have very easily put up a notice that you were going to clean up the trolls and then scalpeled them out, without dropping a bomb on the whole thing.

Mass deletion is bad form, dudes. And having running in the posts really eats at your credibility.

MS? Huh? Sponsored posts are a big turn off.

I've known an iHole or two in my day...

Must own digital accordion... Mmm... Electro-Polka.

Why does this in no way surprise me?

I can understand the business decisions that go into not having Nazi symbology in either the sets or the game, but it is disappointing from a historical perspective. I'm Jewish, and I'd have no problem buying either the game or the sets (I'm planning on picking up all of them) if they had historically correct Nazi references. I wish LEGO would do more historical sets, including historical military sets.

Most of Europe still hasn't come to terms with its own historical and contemporary antisemitism, so this omission just strikes me as another sweeping under the rug of the issue.

Great - now thieves can wardrive around, looking for trucks with lots of tagged gear to break into!

That is a pile of awesome parts.

The guy on the right is a certifiable McPerson.

The Yahoo takeover of Flickr was a non-event, other than screwing up the login for those of us with no use for Yahoo's other products, and the MS takeover would likely be an equally meaningless non-event.

I love how the video is bookended by ads for casinos. I guess it's only OK to sin in Mississippi if the state gets its fair share.

I'm a huge enthusiast for body modification of all types, but these women are being used in what amounts to a human zoo or forced freakshow.

I worked with several Thai artists last year, and they had one hell of a hard time leaving the country. For those of use with US or EU passports it may seem strange, but Thailand doesn't like to let people even travel outside the country for leisure or business without establishing a good reason first, as they sometimes don't return.

Practically the whole contents of my carry-on bag are electronics! Haven't had this happen to me, but I wouldn't surprise me at all.

#15 Even before the TSA era, Oakland had weird security. In 1999 I was walking through the airport, and a roving "random check" crew flagged me for a wanding. Their equipment must have been way, way turned up, because I ended up having to take off my shirt (in the middle of the terminal) to show them that my nipple piercing was not a concealed weapon. And they had the TSA "I live in my own reality" mentality down pat.

I remember seeing the Black House, when I was a teenager, I walked by it, not knowing what it was, until much later. It's a damn shame that it wasn't preserved for historical reasons. I hope the yuppies that move into the condos go Amityville crazy living there.

I spent half my childhood dreaming of owning the Galaxy Explorer, but I never got one of my own. My first LEGO set wasn't a set at all, but a brown paper bag filled with late 70s, early 80s LEGO, which was followed soon after by my acquisition of the Yellow Castle.

20+ years later my collection now occupies dozens of plastic bins and several of 20 gallon steel drums. LEGO still owns my soul to this day.

I've had one of these for about a year and a half, and I love it. I always hated the mouthpieces on bike bottles, and this is way better.

I'm not sure if they've remedied it, but mine is too fat to really fit well i a bottle cage on my bike - it actually shattered a carbon fiber cage that I used to have.

As to the plastic thing. I'm still not sold on the health dangers of these bottles. Supposedly Camelbak is coming out with these bottles in a different plastic that doesn't contain BPA in '08, so the issue might be moot pretty soon.

The idea of divided, sub-steamers is not new. Pasta restaurants use them all of the time.

The idea of boiling your vegetables in the same pot as you boil your pasta is new, and moronic.

#19 for the win!

Everybody should have a bottle of Tabasco in their luggage - I take one with me whenever I travel.

I so need this.

Oooh. I used to have these, thanks for bringing back the memories. I used to play through Wing Commander, making sure to get perfect kills on every mission. I always loved the great space pilot bar you got to hang out in between missions, too.

Computer games used to come with the best manuals and goodies. The last game I remember coming with a great manual was Fallout 1 & 2.

That thing is a mess waiting to happen. I can't imagine trying to keep it clean.

I don't know anything about guitars, but I like the sort of modernist aesthetic going on here.

So what if they're bad for your health - we all make sacrifices in our banal quest to attract a mate?

How many joint injuries does the average athletic male have by the time they're thirty?

It's Cherry 2000 all over again.

I knew she was a dead woman the minute she got off the plane in Pakistan.

The sad thing is it wouldn't surprise me to see one of her children to grow up, enter politics and suffer the same fate as her and her father before her. Pakistan has become a witch's brew - no one really knows just what's in the pot and what will come of it.

Comment #1 hits the nail right on the head. There's definitely an escalation of sorts that always seems to be going on between the funder and the non-profit.

The devil in all of this is the desire to quantify those being served and the services given. Funders and non-profits tend to be staffed by smart, hard working people who are aware that objectives and results are more often than not abstract to some degree, but rather than trust their own professional judgments regarding the effectiveness of programs, they attempt to devise systems that can quantify things that inherently resist quantification. So long as everyone is willing to play within that artificiality, everyone can go to sleep at night knowing that they've taken no risks, and offended no-one.

I've stared at these in vintage instrument shops for years, but never actually played one or seen one played. I've always loved their faux-future design, though.

Hyakuen is the right term and, IMHO, the proper romanji spelling.

A friend of mine is an occasional buyer for a large hyakuen chain in Japan and every time I see him he asks me if I know of anything that might cost under 50 yen and that I can get in a quantity of 100,000, as if I somehow have a line on that kind of stuff.

I've asked him what kind of stuff they're looking for and the answer is anything that could be sold for 100 yen at a profit. Anything...

There have been desks/storage units similar to this around for a while. They're handy. I know a number of artists who swear by them in their studios.

I was just thinking about the hardiness of this thing myself - if it would stay together mixing some tough dough. At $25, I'd totally try it out, though.

Thanks for using the phrase "Someone is going to fuck the mashed potatoes." I'm coming to your house for X-mas this year!

As stated above, these things are great, and really satisfying to use.

There are a lot of really interesting netsuke portrayals of foreigners from the 18th & 19th centuries that really show just how different and strange Westerners were to the Japanese at the time. They all have a real caricature feel to them.

I second Mr. Meat Popsicle. Russia's ability to field "fifth generation" fighter aircraft is shot, and they simply aren't keeping up with various Western developments in other areas of fighter aircraft design.

The kind of maneuverability that's being shown here is really only of use in fighter vs. fighter combat, something that isn't really relevant to any of the conflicts occurring today. Being able to outmaneuver a NATO aircraft in a dogfight isn't relevant if most fighter vs. fighter combat is taking place a beyond visual range, either.

I think they're a re-purposed product. They were originally marketed for games of home Ro-Sham-Bo, until the groin injury costs started to rival the lawn darts fiasco.

This is weird. My friend just wrote a paper on Western stereotypes of Japanese culture in various media, and she made use of this text. Viva online uploading of obscure texts on niche subjects!

That's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

It seems kind of cool, but only if it came free or nearly free with whatever you were intending to use it for. Like if it was included with IKEA flat-pack furniture that only needs a few pegs to be hammered in.

I was all hot for this book too, until I saw the price.

I've had an obsession with the SR-71 since I was a wee lad. My father brought home a series of huge exploded diagrams of the plane, and I obsessed over them for years. Recently I stayed in a SR-71 themed hotel room in a motel near Iowa City, and I've recently discovered that they have a trainer model on permanent display at the Aerospace Museum in Exposition Park here in Los Angeles.

It's totally surreal to park your car 20 feet away from one of these. The triangular plate pattern on the underside of the aircraft is possibly one of the most beautiful things the defense industry has ever produced.

This calls for full scale Titans and ruined Titan parts. Love that rollercoaster, too.

The Takashi Murakami show at MOCA has a no photography policy, but at the opening for every one person they stopped from taking photos five more just snapped away.

Stopping photography at major art shows has crossed a social and technological Rubicon - they're either going to have to realize that amateur photography is a goldmine of publicity and take advantage of it, or they're going to have to body cavity searches at the door.

Isn't this how much of the world makes their products? Why is it that in Nairobi an illiterate metalworker on the street can come up with these concepts, but in the US it takes a highly educated college student. I guess this is a sign that the level of education in colleges in the US is going up - they're now actually interested in doing practical work.

You're right, though. Garbage miners are going to be the robber barons of the mid-late 21st Century.

I presume that the brainiacs responsible for this ridiculousness are still gainfully employed by the Federal Government and marching steadily towards their cushy pension?

Haven't they been selling a credit card dispenser version of this in catalogs for years? And hasn't, so far as I can tell, no one ever ordered or wanted one?

Cthulhu would be so proud!

I love these things. They were using one to compact dirt at a construction site across from my house and I was soo jealous of the operator.

It is a beautiful looking tool, I'll say.

As far as I'm concerned, the point of a clever mouse trap IS to kill the mouse.

As pointed out above, a glass will trap a mouse for about 0.1 seconds before it jumps to safety. More importantly, if you think tossing a mouse out in the garden is going to keep it from either re-entering your home or breeding more mice (who can then enter your home en masse) , then you're ready for a dunce cap.

If there's any one "childhood computer program" that made me who I am today, it's probably Logo. I loved that little triangle.

Military sites are given various levels of historic all the time in California.

Hangar one has always been a building that inspires everything that's wonderful about the age of flight. It would be a crime to tear it down, some new destiny should be found for it.

Hell, when I was a kid, we had to ride these ten miles, uphill in the snow to get to school, where they would beat us!

One could buy this, or one could simply learn how to properly hammer a nail. I swear, the de-evolution of man is in full swing.

Sky Harbor is the one airport I have flown through where the TSA goons struck me as potentially dangerous and odd. Sure they always come off as ridiculous and as unwitting accomplices to a security theatre, but at Sky Harbor one of the guys walking me through the X-ray decided to tell me that he didn't like that I wasn't "smiling" and didn't like the look on my face. This wasn't after any big inconvenience - I was changing planes with a friend and there was no line, no hassle, no reason for me to be fussy as we were zipping through security. I think this was before the whole "war on moisture" incident, too.

Such a waste of money. There's nothing wrong with the swastika - it's about time we stop obsessing about it.

As a cooking nut, and a Wusthof fetishist, I can tell you that I do use those "unused" portions of my knife, and that any of these modifications, would actually make a knife less good at it's job, and potentially dangerous, too boot.

Something about this image says MODBLOG to me.

I've never wanted to be in Atlanta so much. If I don't see some pictures of this on Flickr, I'm gonna cry.

Go Furries!

What's annoying about this is the media's ongoing description of the device as a "fake bomb." It's not a "fake bomb" it was mistaken for a real bomb by security.

What's up with the whole submachinegun statement? Are they trying to tell us that they have a policy of shooting things (or people in possession of said things) on sight if they don't know what they are?

I've been searched, as I boarded a plane. Let me tell you that they're going to have to change the whole way that they schedule and process passengers if they want to do that. Searching me (apparently my bag of vinyl records was an object of high suspicion), the goth couple and the nice Muslim family with their baby practically shut down the boarding process for ten minutes. Imagine if they had to do that for each and every flight...

Many, if not all cafe's in airports no longer have metal cutlery - further bizarroizing the level of service to price ratio that you experience at an airport. On the other hand, on my JAL flight from Bangkok to Tokyo, they gave us our very own metal cutlery, right on the plane.

I know that submitter... I've done the same thing a half dozen times. I use my mess bag both for biking and travel, and I've at times forgotten to thoroughly de-terrorize it. I've been let on planes with an assortment of knives, bike tools and folding tools, no problems.

The only time I've ever had security say something to me was a weird staredown at Sky Harbor in Phoenix where the TSA goon told me that he didn't like the look on my face.

This reminds me of the really neat geostationary balloon that the USAF is using/testing near Marfa, TX.

Checking that out from the side of the road was way more interesting than any of the actual art that I saw in Marfa. Maybe this piece could be equipped with infrared cameras and it could do double duty as art and as border protection.