Big Pickles

I will definitely be putting this skill to good use.

It's not that I mind chip clips, there just never seem to be enough of them around when you need them.

Labels: snack food origami

Holy smokes, this is what my house needs.

Though we try to avoid it, at times our stairs become overrun with shoes. Because the stairs are right by the front door, and they are natural little storage shelves, they usually have at least one pair of shoes on them.

Too bad our stairs are carpeted. But I am definitely going to think about this.

Labels: stairs with drawers that will store your shoes

Have you ever noticed how fast Wikipedia updates? Whenever there is some breaking story in the news, you can usually go to Wikipedia to get the latest information.

Wikiclock takes that phenomenon to the extreme. It's a clock that runs solely on wiki technology. So far I haven't seen it off by more than 15 minutes.

Labels: internet, wikipedia

Traffic reporting while under the influence of cold medicine.

I hear this is getting a lot of play in Utah.

(Via dooce.)

Labels: audio, fun

When we were kids, and we would ask our parents if we were poor, the answer we always heard was that we had enough money to keep shoes on our feet. Obviously, that meant nothing to us. Of course we had shoes.

As I look through these colorized photos from the 1940s, the thing that stands out are all the barefoot kids. Especially this one. Even though I know that the kids with shoes are probably jealous of the kids that get to go barefoot, it's still kind of sad.

Labels: pictures

So tightrope walkers gather in Korea to walk across a rope stretched across the Han river.

Result: the greatest headline ever.

Labels: news

Have I mentioned that they know how to do TV in Japan? (Of course, I'm only seeing the highlights. For all I know their typical daytime lineup makes ours look like the Renaissance.)

Anyway, believe me when I tell you that you will enjoy this video of a secretary taking care of some routine paperwork.

Labels: japan, tv, video

Not me!

Labels: kids, video

We've all seen these before, but I thought this one was particularly impressive. My favorite part was the use of the cell phone.

Labels: fun, video

"There's no need to spell out why this waffle iron rocks harder than most."

Ha!

Labels: shopping, tech

So this guy wants to create a video of Michael Jackson's live performance of Billy Jean, that's just his white glove, right?

And instead of writing a program that looks at every video frame and isolates the glove, he figures it would be easier to get 10,000 or so people on the internet to do the work for him.

So if you want to help him out, go to White Glove Tracking, draw a box around a white glove, and click to submit the frame. Hey, do two or three while you're at it--it's fun!

Labels: fun, internet

Bond Girls are a cultural icon. They are often cheesy, over-the-top caricatures (just look at the names: Pussy Galore? Holly Goodhead? Xenia Onatopp? Sheesh.) so like everything else cheesy, sometimes they work and sometimes, not so much. And so I give you:

The Ten Best Bond Girls

The Ten Worst Bond Girls

Labels: film