Mustaches and Bubble Gum - Baseball World of Joe Garigiola (1975)

Classic Television Showbiz: Baseball World of Joe Garigiola (1975)

UTweet! Your twitter feed as a commercial

UTweet!

This site uses your twitter stream to make their commercial.

Give it a try. A pretty cool idea.

The Toe Mouse!

Toe Mouse! -- Engadget: "the wireless Toe Mouse concept is primarily intended to help out people with upper limb disabilities, who aren't able to navigate in the usual manner. Just to score some extra flair points, designer Liu Yi also points out it has a 'streamline model that symbolizes the motorboat surfing the internet.' So it's not just practical, it's also poetic."

Double Down, meet Baconater

Double Down, meet Baconater - shaka, when the walls fell.: "replacing bread with fried chicken. It's genius!"

Excerpts from 1980's Dynamite Magazine.

D-Y-N-A-M-I-T-E!: "

Published by Scholastic throughout the 70s & 80s (and actually up until '91 or '92), Dynamite was aimed at a slightly older audience in the middle school range. Dynamite was the brainchild of Jenette Kahn, a follow up to her first popular magazine Kids (which was written for kids, by kids and reminds me kind of a forefather of kids media movements like Nick News with Linda Ellerbee and the like), and it probably provided the framework for her eventual appointment as the publisher of DC comics in 1976 (at the astonishing Doogie Howser-esque age of 28.) The magazine was the blueprint for the other Scholastic publications that would follow (including Hot Dog! and Bananas), featuring pop culture spotlights, games, puzzles and activities for kids 8-12."

Again, like Hot Dog!, I was pretty much completely ignorant of its existence growing up which I kind of regret. Today I thought I'd share a portion of a 1984 issue that featured a National Lampoon style article on Mr. T (which imagined what it would be like if Mr. T changed his famous look…)

SOTA Toys releasing Robot Chicken’s humping robot toy

SOTA Toys releasing Robot Chicken’s humping robot toy: "SOTA (State of the Art) Toys is proud to announce the Humping Robot! This rascal will be arriving in fine retailers later this year."

Rolled up magazine self defense

So many weird things in this video. You choose one.

I just want to know if a giant robot is approaching them in the background?

Open Beer With Your Watch

"Happy Hour™ is built for those who want to have a little fun opening their beverage with a very stylized watch. The patented buckle allows you to pop-open your favorite beverage with nothing more than a flick of the wrist—and without taking off your watch."

http://www.happyhourtimepieces.com/index.html

Personally I use my wedding ring but this works too.

Proof That Heath Ledger Isn't The Only One Who Can Play The Joker

Exclusive: Top-secret new footage from the 'Dark Knight' sequel leaks online (with amazing video)
Just Bizarre.

GlowintheDark Toilet Paper

GlowintheDark Toilet Paper | Accessories | Home:
"Glows in the dark after exposure to light.
Allows you to see the toilet roll clearly at night without having to turn the light on.
Suitable for anyone old enough to be using toilet paper."

The Polaroid Camera Didn't Go Away. It Just Split In Half

Review: Polaroid PoGo Printer Spits Pics on the Quick | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: "you snap off a picture with your cam phone or Pict-Bridge enabled shooter and then send the image to the PoGo via Bluetooth or USB. The PoGo then prints out a borderless image on a 2-inch by 3-inch slice of thermal ZINK photo paper."

Google shuts down music blogs without warning

Google shuts down music blogs without warning |
Music |
guardian.co.uk:

"In what critics are calling 'musicblogocide 2010', Google has deleted at least six popular music blogs that it claims violated copyright law. These sites, hosted by Google's Blogger and Blogspot services, received notices only after their sites – and years of archives – were wiped from the internet."

I have to say I was surprised by this headline. Mainly the "Shoot first, ask questions after" mentality. Read the whole article here.

Justin Timberlake to Play Napster Whiz Kid in Facebook Film

Justin Timberlake to Play Napster Whiz Kid in Facebook Film :

"Call me crazy, but I just can’t get excited about The Social Network, the film currently in development about the founding of Facebook. Yeah, I know that David Fincher is directing and Aaron Sorkin wrote the script. And I love both of them. But come on. How is this going to be anything more than a movie about some geeks on computers? So they hit upon a killer idea, strike it rich, get famous. It just doesn’t seem to lend itself to fascinating filmmaking. But hey, I’ve been wrong before."

I know by the date of this link that this is old news. But it was news to me?!

CBC Radio 3 library now on Free Music Archive

Free Music Archive: CBC Radio 3:
"CBC Radio 3 : Breaking New Sound"
Radio 3's podcasts are truly unique: they're full of amazing, 100% Canadian music from new and emerging artists. This is great news for music fans, and it's even better news for independent Canadian musicians.

The Free Music Archive is a great source for Creative Commons indie bands as it is. So this just makes it a little better.

First full length movie made with Blender to premiere on February 18th?

Plumiferos to premiere on February 18th? | BlenderNation:
"the first feature-length movie in Blender – or in Open Source 3D in general.

The project seemed to have died a silent death about a year and a half ago. It now turns out though that a new team of people has finished the movie in secrecy and indications are that it’ll premiere on February 18th."

SoundUnwound - The editable music encyclopedia

SoundUnwound - The editable music encyclopedia: "SoundUnwound is the new editable music encyclopedia from IMDb and Amazon."

It's like last.fm with a few fun features like an editable library. But without the full length tracks which is a bit of a drawback for me. But still kinda fun.

formspring.me - Get Feedback

formspring.me:

"Send and receive anonymous questions, and learn more about people you find interesting by following their answers."

Muziic - Free on-demand music, internet radio and more!

Muziic - Free on-demand music, internet radio and more! - The YouTube Media Player - YouTube Music

Muziic allows you to stream virtually any song or music video on-demand, tune in to hundreds of internet radio stations, and play music and video files from your computer - 100% free and legally. You can even build playlists combining YouTube videos, your local media files, and content from other cloud-based services. Muziic makes extensive use of the YouTube API, forming the web's first ever "YouTube for Music".

In recent years, YouTube has become a popular source for on-demand music and videos. Its free, community-driven approach make it an attractive service for music lovers around the globe.

The Muziic team observed that while YouTube has embraced the music world and signed licensing agreements with all four of the major labels, the YouTube end-user experience had not been optimized for a music fanatic.

And it has a Facebook app so you can just use it there instead of going to the site.

Seesmic Acquires Ping.fm

Seesmic Acquires Ping.fm:

"Sometime in January you can expect updates to Seesmic’s Blackberry, Android, web, Windows and OSX (via Air) apps. Each will add advanced Ping.fm integration, supporting the ability to post to 50 social networks with a single update, special Ping.fm triggers to specify posting to specific social sites, and the option of using Ping.fm’s e-mail, SMS and chat functionality.

Ping.fm currently boasts 200,000 updates a day from its 500,000 registered members. More than 100 applications already use the Ping.fm API for cross-posting purposes, and although Seesmic will assume full control of the platform, they’re committed to maintaining it and supporting the developer community."

How To Download YouTube Video's In Ubuntu Without Addons, apps, terminal etc

OMG! UBUNTU!: How To Download YouTube Video's In Ubuntu Without Addons, apps, terminal etc:

"Go to the YouTube page of the video you want to download in Firefox

Let it load completely (be sure to select HQ/HD if you want best quality)

Do NOT close the browser OR the page
Open Nautilus and navigate to /tmp
Drag the file named 'Flash' (followed by letters and numbers) to your desktop and rename it.

That's it!

If you use Google Chrome you will find the .flv's inside your ~./cache/google-chrome/Media Cache folder."