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Welcome To The Planet of the Leafblowers
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Category: Humor
Tuna Eye for the Gaijin Guy
This just screams “EAT ME!”
“I was at the grocery store and I got the urge to eat something new. I looked around and I didn’t really see much until I found a food that could look back. It was only a hundred yen, which is less than a buck, so I figured I’d give it a whirl. It had a sticker on it that said that it should be cooked, but I didn’t really know how to cook it. I tried to find stuff online, but there aren’t a lot of English webpages devoted to eating fish eyes, so I just decided to boil it.”
Tineye helped track the source of that image of culinary goodness. Jesse hunts for awesome things to eat, eats them and describes the experience.
Update 3 May 2010: This just in from Planet Ross – a matching set!
Now we can watch Avatar in 3D through fish eye lenses! Yay!
The Original Pointer Sisters
Plastic face protection from snowstorms. Canada, Montreal, 1939, and they were apparently available in two sizes, regular and deluxe. For some reason, this comes to mind. G’head. Click it.
Too Many Things Are Wrong Here.
Hmm. Exposed in an unfinished particleboard Kybo with a tile floor, wearing a bikini under her clothes, hiding behind empty beer bottles, surrounded by cases of Lucky Light, and, um, well, I dunno, Babs, but it sure looks like Texas to me. I can’t even guess what’s in the box to her left.
What’s really odd is that I found this image on a Russian website.
[Image found in here. Some NSFW/NSFK.]
Hot Links Я Us
Trivia: Sluggo had a dual role in Ernie Bushmiller‘s “Nancy” comics. He played himself as well as Nancy’s Aunt Fritzi.
Ken Nordine’s got a website… Last updated July 2006.
There be some funny in the comments section here. [Tip o’ the Tarboosh to Wheels for the link.]
Acme Corporation was sued for product defects. Writ of litigation may be viewed here.
This made me laff and laff and laff.
Is Snopes for real? Click here to find out.
Gorilla suits from the past: great article here.
“Curta” is an awesome mechanical calculator designed by a POW in WWII. More retro calculators at the home page.
Saturday Matinee – A Baboon, The Baboons, The Guana Batz, The Aquabats, The Skatalites
How to get a baboon to tell you where the water is in the Kalahari. Amazing. [Found here.]
The logical follow up to that video is The Baboons‘ “Drinkin’ Gasoline.” (Don’t laugh, they were on Walker, Texas Ranger, and if Mr. N says they’re awesome then they ARE awesome.)
The logical follow up to that video is more Rockabilly. Here are the Guana Batz with “Streetwise.” Following the Guana Batz we have:
The Aquabats! Here’s a live version of “Fashion Zombies.” One last one before we go:
The Skatalites‘ rock steady ska with “Lawless Street.” Have a great weekend folks, see y’all tomorrow.
Want. Really Want.
I’d just add a huge rearview mirror so I could jump before the Amtrak nails me. And a cooler.
[Found here.]
A Tortoise in Paris
This is Beyond the Valley of Awesome, 26 Gigapixels worth.
That’s a panoramic view of Paris above, the Eiffel Tower is on the horizon at far left. The black donut in middle left is where we’re going. I didn’t believe it at first, until I zoomed in. Below are screen shots from the same image.
We zoom in a little, the Eiffel Tower is still there, skewed by the lens.
Ignore the yellow “I’s” here. On the website linked above you can use them to click for zoomed images of historical sites.
That image by itself would be worth copying and framing, IMO.
The orange dealies scattered around are clay chimney pots, vents for the flats below.
It’s likely the tortoise was photoshopped in as a prank/copyright by the professional zoomers since there is no barrier to keep it from falling off of the sheet metal roof, but I don’t care… the photo detail is still awesome. After all, look where we came from:
“I AM NOT A PEPPER! I AM A FREE CHILI!”
Giant Isopod! Yay!
These pups live in the deep, scrounging around in the darkness for rotted detritus, and occasionally they are captured on trawling lines. The one in the picture is about 2-1/2 feet long and was found clinging to a submarine returning from an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. They’re related to common pillbugs, wood lice and lawn shrimp. Wikipiddlia has this:
“In northern Taiwan and other areas, they are common at seaside restaurants, served boiled and bisected with a clean lateral slice. The white meat, similar to crab or lobster in texture, is then easily removed.”
I’d eat it.
Tacky Raccoons 