Doc Blades

Electrically Heated Pants

It’s like being tased in the balls. Only painful.

I’d need something like this if I ever moved any further north. Seriously, it was 45° F the other day and I was wearing two shirts, a sweater and a jacket. I start shivering when anyone even mentions Canada. I actually freeze solid when Canadians breathe on me. When it comes to cold, I’m a big pansy.

Electric heated pants are a must-have for any Floridian moving north, no matter how ugly they are. And they are pretty ugly. Actually, my eyes have just started bleeding. I’m going to have to look away now.

Also, if you didn’t get the reference at the beginning of the article, you need to watch The IT Crowd. Unfortunantly, it’s only on British television, so you’ll have to download it. And I’m not saying you should get it from here, but it’s listed at tvRSS. Wink wink.

[Via Coolest Gadgets]

Funeral Candy

And the strange candy keeps pouring in.

Pushin Daisies, which sells mortuary novelties, has to have the ultimate niche market. They have casket shaped business card holders, hearse keychains, hearse model cars and an array of other merchandise that could only appeal to morticians with a sense of humor or goth kids who actually have a job outside of the mall.

My favorite items outside of the candy are the casket invitation box, the crime scene bandages, and the sleep mask with X’s over the eyes.

[Funeral Candy]

Lemon-flavored Urine Candy. Hooray?

Finding strange products seems to be getting easier. In a surprisingly long line of gross medical themed candies, there’s Formula Pee, which is candy packaged in real urine specimen  jars. The candy is a liquid, translucent yellow in color and sour lemon flavored. How appropriate.

Other medical themed candies on the site: kidney stones, candy blood, and a variety of candies in test tubes, including Uncle Urnie’s Ashes. You know, just in case you wondered what your dearly departed would taste like in candy form.

I’m curious now if there’s a line of funeral candies. You know, to set the mood. Kinda like those penis candies for bachelorette parties (or if you just like that sort of thing).

Off to research!

[Formula Pee | Via Nerd Approved]

WTF Wednesdays – Poop Chewtoy

It’s just so disturbing.

Why do you want to encourage your dog to chew on poop? Why is it fuzzy? Who buys these things? Why is it called “Little Poopsie?”

My head hurts.

[Little Poopsie | Via Nerd Approved]

WTF Wednesday?

I think my head just exploded.

MCP on Twitter

Found a few Tron characters on Twitter last night.

You can now follow all of the minutia in the lives of the Tron characters. MCP issues commands and makes decisions and locks down comm towers. Every once in a while he’ll say something from the movie, and the other characters reply. I enjoy that the name section on their twitter pages are the user names from the movie. Well, except @bitprogram, because he wasn’t a program anyway.

Unfortunantly it looks like it’s just a script that loops every ~20 minutes, so I wouldn’t recommend hitting the follow button, but it’s good fun just to read through. In fact, I think I’m going to watch Tron tonight.

@masterconsole (MCP), @tronprogram, @bitprogram, and @sarkprogram

TinySong – Easy Way to Share Your Poor Taste in Music

Ever wanted to share what you’re listening to with all of your social networked friends? No? Not a Myspace fan, huh?

Well, this is different.

TinySong lets you create a, well, tiny url for a song. It’s perfect for Twitter, or even a Facebook status because the average url comes in at 24 characters. It uses Grooveshark’s huge database of songs, so you’re almost guaranteed to find the song you want. In fact, when click on a TinySong link, you’ll be taken to the Grooveshark page for that song, so there are no surprises. In other words: no surprise Rick Rolls.

So, give it a ty. http://tinysong.com/1Xa

Mario Batali Doll Flips Spaghetti

I’m the motha flippin’.

I’ll admit that I’m a fan of Mario Batali. Iron Chef America, Molto Mario, and now apparently he has a PBS show with Gwyneth Paltrow. The man’s a genius when it comes to food, even if everything dish he cooks costs a hundred dollars.

Looks like he’s starting to take advantage of his fame with some well-placed marketing. He has his own wine label, cheese, crocs, a Nintendo DS game in the works, and this wind-up doll that actually flips a pan of spaghetti and meatballs. Normally, I’d say this is ridiculous, but I really really want one of these dolls! They’re genius.

Sure, G.I. Joe has karate chop action, but I don’t see Duke making a delicious veal parmigiana. Transformers, well, transform, but they can’t turn raw ingredients into shrimp diavolo. Batali is on par with MacGyver.

[Food Flippin' Mario |Via Nerd Approved]

Slowdowns

Sorry for the slowdown in posts and dropoff in post quality recently. It’s senior year at university, and sometimes I need extra time to study. Not to worry, I’ve got a huge backlog of good stuff coming up, I just have to find the time to put all the words together.