Take a cloned Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games console, put it into a NES controller and what do you get? A NES Mini! The controller now comes loaded with more than 70 old school NES games and there's also a cartridge connector at the back. Sweet!
Dude travels the world to visit filming locations of movies like Hostel, Any Way The Wind Blows, The Illusionist and 28 Days Later. He then takes a photo of himself at the location where a particular scene of the movie was shot.
The International Poster Gallery recently had an exhibition featuring over 50 consumer advertising posters (most of them extremely rare) from the 50s to the early 60s. You can view the posters here.
These cardboard animal figures from Cardboard Safari make great home and office decorations. Each cardboard puzzle is laser-cut for precision fit and easily assembles using slotted construction.
"O is for Obstinacy... The obstinacy of the pig, Is nature—as you see; But boys and girls who have a mind, Should never stubborn be." The Fireside Picture Alphabet is a really bizarre alphabet book and definitely not the first book you buy for kids who want to learn their ABCs.
The Hollywood Handy Coaster Handles, an invention in the 1950s, turns every glass or canned beverage into a clever drinking mug. I thought the idea was brilliant. It also acts like a coaster to protect the table.
The Wii Light Sword works with your Nintendo Wii games console to give you a lightsaber-like sword. Slip your Wii Remote into the handle and press the on button to instantly power up your light sword. The sword uses 22 ultra bright LEDs to give it the power up and down effect.
Dark Roasted Blend has posted several retro-futuristic space graphics taken from popular Soviet tech & science magazines. I've always admired how artists visualize the future of space travel and colonization. Looking at the state of space exploration now and comparing it to the images by these artists, we humans still have a long way to go if we are going to be living among the stars.
Selling two COMPLETE COLLECTIONS of the first 26 years of PLAYBOY MAGAZINE.Each collection contains all 312 Playboys published between December,1953 and December,1979.In addition,the winning bidder will also receive another 670 monthly issues of Plaboy magazine FOR FREE!Oh, he also mentioned that the new owner of this Playboy magazine collection will also get some extras that he cannot list due to eBay's categorization restrictions. Hmm... cannot list huh. Maybe it comes with a Playboy cover girl or two. Yeah baby, yeah!
All 1,294 Playboys are protected by clear poly bags (unless still in their original wrapping) and are stored (standing,so no weight is on any issue) in chronological order in one of approximately 80 Playboy black vinyl library cases.The condition of these magazines is EXCELLENT,ranging from "Fine+" to "Pristine",in magazine grading terminology.They have been kept in a dry,temperature-controlled and smoke-free home for decades.
Coasters, fridge magnets and other crafts made from Perler beads to give the pixel effect of video game characters! You'll find a few popular characters there like Pacman, Mario and Pikachu. Too bad these works of art aren't for sale.
Planet Tyler's Flickr photoset contains some of the wonderful things found in University of Buffalo's History of Medicine Collection such as the Oxypathor, electric chest and lung protector, and this 1861 Illustrated Manual of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy.
If only I had this amazing money jar bank when I was a kid then I wouldn't be breaking my piggy banks everytime I want to find out how money I have saved. This money jar bank by Discovery Kids automatically counts the value of each coin as you drop them in. It will then display the total value on its LCD. Neat!
This stamp keyboard is absolutely beautiful. The person behind it has made about 10 such keyboards for his friends and family. Each keyboard is pasted (I think) with stamps of a single nation and often commemorate a royal coronation or celebrate a particular sport. Now I know what to do with that dusty old stamp collection.
This is my lifetime collection of collectibles. This is a big step I'm taking in order to move on and accomplish a new plan I have for my future.
This collection is mainly Star Wars but also has over 15 carded Spawn figures, about 15 carded Austin Powers figures, 18 inch Mini Me, 18 inch Hellboy Tower Records exclusive, 16 inch Ozzy Osbourne 'Bark at the Moon' Werewolf and many many more misc. figures. WWE figures of Trish Status and other girl figures are also included.
You can pretty much start your own toy store or just continue this giant collection.
.. Many loose figures of Star Wars, some vintage vehicles, Comic-Book Girl character figures. Almost everything is in excellent to mint like condition. There are over 1,1160 modern carded Star Wars figures.
Witnesses said police beat up some protestors with batons. Organisers said at least 400 people were arrested and 19 injured. Police, however, said more than 100 people had been detained.Two million dollars for each Indian in Malaysia! Crikey! I bet there must be quite a lot of Malaysians now checking their family history to see if they have any ancestors from India. You know what? Maybe we all should blame the British for whatever misfortunes we had and demand some compensation too. I would settle for just half a million. Don't want to be so greedy like those Malaysian Indians.
"Over the last 50 years Indian have been marginalised in this country and we now want the same rights as enjoyed by other communities," M. Kulasegaran, opposition lawmaker with the Democratic Action Party (DAP), told AFP.
"They have no rights to stop us from protesting today. This is the will of the people," he said.
The lawsuit targets Britain, Malaysia's former colonial ruler, and is aimed at highlighting what ethnic Indians here say is continuing discrimination by the Malay-Muslim majority government.
It seeks four trillion dollars' compensation for the estimated two million ethnic Indians whose ancestors were brought here as indentured labourers by Britain in the 1800s -- two million dollars each.
In 1941, the British Secret Service approached Waddington with its master plan, and before long, production of a “special edition” Monopoly set was underway. For the top-secret mission, the factory set aside a small, secure room—unknown to the rest of its employees—where skilled craftsmen sat and painstakingly carved small niches and openings into the games’ cardboard boxes. Along with the standard thimble, car, and Scotty dog, the POW version included additional “playing” pieces, such as a metal file, a magnetic compass, and of course, a regional silk escape map, complete with marked safe-houses along the way—all neatly concealed in the game’s box. Even better, some of the Monopoly money was real. Actual German, Italian, and French currency was placed underneath the play money for escapees to use for bribes. Also, because of its collaboration with the International Red Cross, Waddington could track which sets would be delivered to which camps, meaning escape maps specific to the area could be hidden in each game set. Allied soldiers and pilots headed to the front lines were told to look for the special edition game if they were captured. The identifying mark to check for? A red dot in the corner of the Free Parking space.You can also read a PDF of Brian's story from his website.
He should have sung 'Mila kuda si planina' (which roughly means 'You know my dear how we love your mountains').
But he instead sang 'Mila kura si planina' which can be interpreted as 'My dear, my penis is a mountain'.
Now Henry could be one of the few Englishmen at the Euro 2008 finals in Austria and Switzerland as Croatian fans adopt him as a lucky omen.
They believe his mistake relaxed their chuckling players, who scored an early goal in the 3-2 win that put Croatia top of the group and knocked out England.
The Military Vehicle Technology Foundation has the largest private collection of military vehicles in the world. It has hundreds of tanks from different time periods and other vehicles like a SdKfz 2 Kleines Kettenkrad half-track motorcycle, a SCUD missile launcher and a M48A5 AVLB armored vehicle-launched bridge. Pics of a tour of the impressive collection can be found here and here.
Here's a Flickr photoset of beverage ads found in old magazines. There are currently 140 different ads in the set. Enjoy.
Becky, an avid banana label collector, has been collecting banana labels since 1991. Now she has 6757 different banana labels in her collection! She also has 93 broccoli and 157 asparagus bands.
Now here's a damn good reason for me to download Joost, a software that allows anyone to watch TV shows for free. The entire first season of the Transformers Generation 1 series is now on Joost! I'm not kidding. And they are also adding new episodes from season two every week. I love you, Joost!!!
Realdoll Doctor (link not safe for work) has pictures of breasts, hip, neck surgeries (and more) done on Realdolls (also not safe for work) - yup, those love dolls made famous by the movie Lars and The Real Girl, one of my favourite films of 2007!
I'm adding Covering The Mouse to my favourites. It is a delightful blog that pays tribute to artists that did covers of the music of Disney. Reading it, I found out that Kiss singer Gene Simmons actually did a cover of the song When You Wish Upon A Star in 1978. What a surprise! After listening to his cover, I thought it was very nicely done. I wonder if he sang it while wearing the trademark Kiss face paint and stage outfits.
DivineCaroline posted several pictures of product names, food labels and signs with rather odd English translations such as this "Unbelievable this is not butter" butter. Check out her parts two and three too.
The toy was produced in 1967 by Remco Toys and follows the Hamilton Invaders, Monkey Division and Land of the Giants pistol toy line of the Sixties. The exciting difference is the toy’s Star Trek decal inserts, photo box decal and box specific printing with Desilu Productions (owner of the Star Trek series at the time). “Based on the Exciting NBC TV Series”
The grenade launching, cap snapping toy pistol is in very fine almost mint condition with no missing, worn or broken parts. Decals are fine and unworn. The cap gun part has been fired as there is powder residue in the discharge area. It is unknown if there were ever caps supplied with the toy. The box or instructions do not list them. Color combination is a black body / blue handles and muzzle; box shows blue body / black handles and muzzle.
I love these clever Christmas cards made by Singaporean graphic designer Jonathan Yuen (check out his flash portfolio site - it's the most beautiful I've ever seen). Each laminated envelope box comes with four thick X'mas figure cards that can pop out a mini Christmas tree, reindeer, Santa Claus and Snowman.
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Illustration students from the Norwich School of Art & Design spent the summer examining ways of representing the human head. The students drew close to 6000 heads.
The chief reason that the island belonged to Johor was laid in the Treaty of Cession of Singapore, between the British East India Company and the sultan and the temenggong of Johor. It implied that Johor had sovereignty over islets beyond 10 miles of its coast. The island is located 25.5 nautical miles from Singapore. This is further strengthened by the fact that the British government had requested approval from the Sultanate of Johor to build a lighthouse on the island, which Johor agreed to provide in 1844. Apart from that, the Singaporean claim on the island violates the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.According to a friend of mine who has pretty close relations to the Malaysian team fighting the case, he said Malaysia is very confident of winning it because of their success record in the past. In 2002, the ICJ awarded two islands, Sipadan and Ligitan to Malaysia after a similar dispute between Malaysia and Indonesia.
"We now know that the Mentawai segment (facing Padang) has accumulated a lot of strained energy. It will be the next one to rupture," he told AFP.
Natawidjaja estimated that the quake's magnitude could reach 8.5 to 8.9.
"The shaking will be very strong" in Padang, he said, with many buildings likely to collapse.
The number of casualties "will depend on how many people can escape" but, according to a worst-case scenario, a tsunami wave would be 5.5 metres high and go two kilometres deep into Padang, devastating "half of the city".
This Radiographs photoset contains several crazy but real x-ray images such as this one that shows a large dildo beyond the point of self-retrieval in the rectum and sigmoid of the poor patient. Remember ladies, be careful when you're playing with those dildos aye. You don't want them to go in too deep.
"There are girls who come every single day," Loizeau said. "No one understands it."
The $7-an-hour playroom inside the store has toys and dolls, costumes, makeup and jewellry, and a small catwalk for girls to parade on under disco lights. The store also includes a beauty salon, where girls can get everything from a glamorous hairstyle to a painted butterfly on a cheek, plus a coffee shop. And the Barbie playroom is available for parties, starting at around $650.
A few Barbies are for sale, but selling dolls isn't the retail focus of the store. Instead, there are T-shirts, skirts, pants and handbags - most in shades of pink - that are designed and made in Argentina and only available at the Barbie Store. The items sell for 10 per cent more than similar clothes at other stores without the Barbie logo, Loizeau said.
I'm not too keen on bondage (I don't like to tie or be tied, really!) but somehow I find myself liking these Bondage Cellphone Charms - mini baby dolls tied up S&M style. I think they are cute.
This rare handmade robot Zippo lighter is just awesome! The brass and copper lighter is made by an English jeweller. It has arms and ears on the side, rollers for feet that go around from the front onto the base and up the back.
Photos of Witness Appeal signs in London. From the photoset: "Today, the Metropolitan Police have taken this literary device and added a twist – reducing news events down to the bare bones, printing them as stories on attractive fluorescent yellow boards, and then placing them at the exact location where those events originally occurred."
Dude bought a 1975 Chevrolet Camaro and wants to transform it into Bumblebee, as seen in the Transformers movie. He is still working on the car's interior but as you can see from his pics, the exterior already looks like Bumblebee!
The 2007 best magazine covers as chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Read the stories behind the covers and view all the entries.
Hot Dog inspired bag and shirt designs by Thea Kluge are so cute that I may buy a few as gifts for some of my hot dog loving friends.
This life-sized Lego Man made totally from cardboard, has separate head, torso and legs pieces that interlock like the original Lego Man. His arms and hands can rotate/swivel 360 degrees and his legs can move from 'upright' to 'sitting' position.
Gal used Monopoly money to make this sexy dress. To match it, she also made a purse from Monopoly "Chance" cards and a necklace using rolled up Monopoly money and the car token. Also, check out the equally awesome dress made using UNO cards.
Comic Life, the cool software (previously only for Mac) that allows anyone to create astounding comics easily is now available for the PC. Yay!!! I'm going to try out the 30-day unhindered demo.
714 DC comic books from the Golden Age are up for grabs on eBay. Seller says, "A total of 714 DC Golden Age Comic found in a collector’s attic…..Everything Unrestored ….This is a complete intact unpicked collection with a full inventory….Collection is made up of Runs….We have never had something like this before, a fantastic find….Golden Age Collections are impossible to track down…." The total value of this collection according to the seller is a staggering $101,024!
Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited is a subscription service that gives unlimited access to thousands of Marvel comics through your web browser. For a limited time only, they are now providing 250 free samples for viewing.
