ThinkGeek has thought up some imaginative products and listed them in today’s newsletter. Too bad they are fakes.

The USB pet rock is the best idea on here, if it concealed a battery.  It looks better, and conceals it’s purpose better than external batteries. The Portable USB Power Supply is so mundane by comparison.  What ever happened to the USB Fondue Set or the George Foreman USB iGrill?  Wouldn’t those be so cool?  Well, USB offers only so much power.  The USB Plasma Ball is real.

The Squeeze Bacon is sure to be popular with coworkers.  It is extraordinarily popular.  One guy ordered a burger with some fifty pieces of bacon.

This sleeping bag would be just the thing for young Jedis.

Star Wars asciimation — telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl (port 23)

– from telnet.org

See also asciimation.co.nz.

Ordering a domain name just for a two page site about screwballitude.  See it now at screwballitude.com.

I spent too much time updating a single page at screwballitude.Lyndell.NET.  Somehow I found this single service website on single serving websites, and now I’m reviving an old site I have done nothing with for so long.

Examples

• This Peanut Looks Like A Duck
• Schrodinger The Cat (.com)
• Schrodinger’s Cat: Collapsing a Probability Wave Near You
• IsThisYourPaperOnSingleServingSites
• Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?
• What Color Is The Empire State Building
• isittuesday
• purple
• The Hamster Dance

Some of these can be useful:

• Best Hamburger Recipes
• How To Open A Coconut
• How To Bake A Potato
• How To Cut A Pineapple

• What Is My IP is useful at work as a quick and easy way for customer to determine just what their public IP address is. If behind NAT, checking you computer won’t tell you because you are using a private IP address behind NAT.
• The Official Shotgun Rules doesn’t count, but hey.
• Time.gov is has more content, but it is just so useful.

These are websites dedicated to single books.

• Upgrade Your Life
• WEB STYLE GUIDE

I should fashion my personal site, Lyndell.US, into somehting meanful like Gina Trapani.  We need something like this for chili.

I’ve recieved an email showing some bizarre juxtoposition in Photoshoppery like the Predator & Prey Series at worth1000.com. Some are adorable, like the Kitten Duckling. I didn’t find the dogbirds I saw in the email. Lambchop is clearly the wolf in sheeps clothing.

Some are bizarre like Boba de Milo – bounty hunter disarmed. Leia Reclining is classic. But the Last Supper? More can be found in the Star Wars Ren Series.

instant katz recreating a Far Side comic won’t win friends.

For some punnerific goodness, or not:

• Size Matters
• MAT*H
• BACH to the Future
• Mars Cars
• Bad Toys
• Womb Rider
• Jurassic Lark – if Bug’s Life didn’t scare you enough about Birds.
• Blazing Paddles
• Piddler on the Roof
• Mars
• Bet Smart
• Ice Ale – Carpe Cerevisi – Seize the beer!
• HELLBOT – two parodies in one!
• Wonderful Lime
• Wall – a show about nothing.
• ark knight
• The House Nunny
• Paws – Dreyfuss was in Claws?
• President Evil – our current Commander in Chief is not so supportive of gun rights.
• Gone
• FINDING EMO
• FATatouille
• HellToy II
• WAL*RUS

Miscellaneous:

• Aston Martin – Now that’s a flying car
• BOND CAR – Road supremecy
• 0.25mm Gatling Pen – The pen is mightier than the sword.
• 12-tone-music – “Even though he wasn´t really a good pianist, he was the only one, who could play Schönbergs 12-tone-pianosuite op. 25 flawless.”
• Bart pan.
• Marshmellow Igloo

Oh, and the Star Trek Parodies

• Termidata
• Marvin and the Enterprise
• Toilet Trek – just sad
• Just Hanging Out
• Monologue
• Bean Trek
• Leutenant Commander Bean

and Star Wars

• Attack of the Muppets
• Jabba Cone
• Jedi Shrek/Princess Fiona Organa
• Attack Of The clowns
• saving anakin skywalker
• Macey at the Bat
• Fly Casual
• iDeath – Fully operational Mac!
• Dark Knight – “No, Robin. I am your father!”

Even the Statue of Libery is not exempted.

• Originality
• Lady of the Sea
• Statue of oil Liberty
• Arrested Liberty – “you have no rights, so remain silent… anything you do say will be deemed unpatriotic and used against you in a court of law.”
• frodoliberty
• VIGILANCE3 – Homeland Security
• Great Wall Liberty
• Stairway to Lilberty
• Sexy Liberty – Good thing Liberty wasn’t made in more modern times.
• Redentor Liberty

Secular-Mystic:  an oxymoron wrapped in an hyphenation.

On Jan. 5, 1949, the annexation-happy City Council unanimously passed “An ordinance annexing the suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, to the city of Houston.”  — Chron.com

Found Kid’s Portrait (Flash) at guardian.co.uk, Cadbury’s ad raises an eyebrow.  The Hanger ad was fun too.  For the screwball musician out there: Gorilla.  I’ll need to ask a pessimist what he thinks about a company named aglassandahalffullproductions.com.

Virgin Atlantic could be me flying again.

Someone even builds a walk-in beer fridge for real.

Need a replica White House?

• A replica White House, built in 2002, is on the market in Atlanta for $9.8 million
• It is owned by Fred Milani, a developer who builds and sells “McMansions”
• Nearby residents have mixed feelings about the replica White House
• The house is one-third the size of the real White House but still boasts an Oval Office

– CNN.com

OHNOZ!  Rakkav introduces me to another humorous take on music: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (Wikipedia).  Just listen to their samples.

 

 

 

While thinking about it, I should get PDQ Bach (Wikipedia) CDs.  He was in Houston and I missed it?  OK, so I wasn’t working in the theater district then.

From Wired on What’s Inside Raid? Watch Out, Kitty!:

Fragrance  Unscented Raid smells like a kerosene spill in a nerve gas factory. Lemon Scent Raid smells like a kerosene spill in a nerve gas factory with a hint of lemon.