While waiting to see King Kong the other night, I ran across a new size roll of Mentos at the dollar store. They’re not the tiny mini-rolls, and they’re not as long as the regular size rolls either. It’s a special medium-sized roll for when you’re not in the mood for an entire large roll… Read more »
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Christmas Story Parodies
Another Christmas movie in 30 seconds re-enacted by bunnies… A Christmas Story with bunnies And what if A Christmas Story was a horror movie? It might look a little like this.
MS Adds “Bird’s Eye View” to Virtual Earth
Microsoft launched a new feature called “Bird’s Eye View” to their Virtual Earth mapping service. From what I can tell, it provides aerial shots of just a few spots around the country. I have to assume that they’ll be adding more, since the current list of bird’s eye locations is pretty small. This isn’t to… Read more »
Creative Uses for Old Altoids Tins
Altoids has announced the winners of their “Tin Million Uses” contest which challenged people to come up with innovative uses for old Altoids tins. They selected six winners: Electronic Musical Instrument MP3 Player Case Cookie Baking Tin Speaker/Headphone Switcher Pinhole Camera Morse Code Generator These are all pretty cool I’d also like to see the… Read more »
Geek Gift Guides
I guess I’m a day late for the newly coined “Cyber Monday,” but I’ve put together a collection of geek holiday gift guides, for that hard to buy for person on your list this year. Wired Magazine: Ultimate Geek Gift Guide Make Magazine Gift Guide Cnet Holiday Gift Guide 2005 Ars Technica 2005 Holiday Shopping… Read more »
Online Secret Santa Take 2
I’m trying again this year with the Online Secret Santa. Last year’s effort didn’t turn out that great. I didn’t receive a gift and the one I sent turned out to be a non-deliverable address. Oh well! I wasn’t out anything, but I didn’t get a gift either. The way it works is you sign… Read more »
Black Friday
The day after Thanksgiving, or “Black Friday” usually provides some pretty good deals. Here are a few sites to give you a jump on what the stores will be discounting this year. http://bf2005.com/ http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/ http://www.blackfridaydeals.net/ http://blackfridaydeals.blogspot.com/ http://www.theblackfriday.com/index.shtml
Best Ads On TV
I ran across a site a little while back that reminded me a lot of the old Adcritic site which used to host free ads from all over TV. Well, their bandwidth costs were too high or something so they had to shut down and retool and came back with a pay version of the… Read more »
New Yahoo Maps Beta
You probably could have guessed that this was on its way based on how Yahoo has been closly following behind Google on just about every new release. In addition, given the fact that Microsoft also has a similar tool makes this release even less surprising. Yahoo has released a click-and-drag version of their mapping tool… Read more »
New Cherry Flavor Mentos
It’s been a good month for Mentos! I ran across my first box of Fruit Mentos that included the new cherry flavor last night at The Wal-Market. Mentos has been advertising the addition of the new cherry flavor as “Coming Fall ’05” for a while now. I have to say, they’re pretty good. They’ve a… Read more »
Sugar Free Cool Mint Mentos
Continuing in my never-ending pursuit to discover new Mentos flavors, I’ve recently run across a new flavor. Previously, I’d only seen the berry flavor sugar free Mentos, but just the other day, while grocery shopping, I discoverd the sugar free cool mint flavor. They are much better than the sugar free berry! They are also… Read more »
The Shining Trailer Remix
Original trailer for The Shining (quicktime movie) Hilarious trailer remix (quicktime movie)
A Fitting Home
I finally had a chance to build a fitting home for my newest prize possession last night. I made a trip out to Hobby Lobby and found myself a shadow box and created a museum-quality display for the one of a kind kidney-bean shaped Mentos. Now all I need to do is get the lasers… Read more »
Mentos rocket
Sombody spent a little time building a rocket out of a big mentos tube. I guess this is one way to ensure that evil martians don’t kill us when we rocket towards their planet. How could anyone or anything possibly have any sort of ill will towards something mentos related? At the very least, the… Read more »
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Happy National Talk Like a Pirate Day! Update: Check out the Corsair Ergonomic keyboard for pirates
