Archive for April, 2008

JohnK Wants to Know if You Would Buy Ren and Stimpy Toys

Friday, April 11th, 2008 | No Comments

John is doing a little market research. “Wouldya buy toys like this?”

Yes, and the George Liquor and Goofy Gremlins lines as well. Please, John, make this happen soon.
Click through for more pics of JohnK’s toys. There are several posts about the toys so make sure to go upstream to see more [...]

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Megan Williamson Fills failbetter with Spring Goodness

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Megan Williamson is featured in the Spring 2008 issue of failbetter:

More of Megan Williamson’s beautiful work can be found on her website.

Megan Williamson is a painter formed by the sophisticated use of the French modernist tradition. Although her paintings may look at first glance especially indebted to the Fauve painters — Matisse, Marquet, and Roualt, [...]

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33-1... The pause for PABST is the best part of bridge!

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | No Comments

“I’ll re-double that 33 to 1 bid… The pause for PABST is the best part of bridge!”
You ain’t kiddin’, sister.

Leif Peng’s awesome Today’s Inspiration is filled with illustration awesomeness. The image above and copy below comes from a fantastic post about comic strip ads, click through for more 33-1 goodness from the Pabst [...]

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Takayuki Furuta - Robotics Zen Master

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | No Comments

Boing Boing posted a link to an exciting proposal from Takayuki Furuta to build a 60ft Gundam robot. I decided to dig around and read a bit more about Mr. Furuta and located an interview on PingMag MAKE. I found this particular quote very inspiring:

When I was a child [age 2 to 8] [...]

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WalkScore - How Walkable is Your House?

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | No Comments

WalkScore is one of those nifty web services that uses map data to give you an idea of how “walkability” of a particular address. You just pop in the address you want to look at and WalkScore grabs all of the local business information to determine how much walking you’ll be able to do [...]

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Moomin Toys! Fun!

Monday, April 7th, 2008 | No Comments

I’m a sucker for vinyl toys and other plastic doodads. So I was really pleased to stumble across this selection of Moomin toys on A Calm Shop:

Not Familiar with Moomin?
Drop by the Finnish website for Moomin and click around. They have such cute Flash animations (especially the loading sequence on the home page).
Here’s [...]

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Kitty! Three minutes of happy kitten fun!

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 | No Comments

Neatorama tried to resist, but I won’t. This is just too awesome. Three minutes of happy kitten fun!

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