Your Very Own Stoop
By nikkita | March 15, 2010
There are a lot of benefits to living in NYC and any of its 5 boroughs. Great opportunities, culture, an exciting lifestyle and if you’re really lucky, a stoop. Stoops are especially effective for entering your home and/or drinking a forty in a brown paper bag. And if you haven’t drank a forty in a brown paper bag, then you haven’t lived.
Fortunately for all of you without stoops, myself included, we can stoopify our existence with Alvaro Uribe’s Stoop Bench. Though, to be perfectly honest, I don’t know why you’d ever waste your time with a bench when you can just have a stoop.
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Seal Photo Bomb
By nikkita | March 15, 2010
Some things don’t need an explanation. The end.
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Australian Coastal Watch – Shark Satellite!!!
By nikkita | March 15, 2010
Step 1: Head on over to the Australian Coastal Watch site and zoom in on the satellite images of a shark infested Bondi Beach.
Step 2: Come back here to chat.
Did you scream? Cry? Squeal? Poop your pants? Yeah, I’m sorry. But I just couldn’t help myself and honestly, you can’t really blame me. And while I may be seriously uneducated about television programming in Australia (including the Discovery Channel’s), I’m going to assume this shark week has already passed. Sorry, Australian readers. But hey, at least you got someone with some huge marketing brains. Even if it makes you poop your pants, it’s still a good thing.
Thanks, Owen!
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Going International, First Class
By nikkita | March 15, 2010
Wuh oh, did the Dairy just turn into a girl fest explosion? Yikes. Better get some sharks on here and quick. But first, the dress. Attention all small framed and adorable women. You may want to take certain precautions while wearing the Par Avion dress. If you get to close to a mailbox, you might get sent away. Then again, Paris isn’t really such a bad place to end up. I’d give it a try myself, but I’m a giant and no postman in his right mind will come near me. For shame. I’ll have to ride in a pricey airplane seat just like everyone else, I guess. Booooo!
[LiliaTodd'sFlickr via FashionablyGeek]
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Umbrella Skirt
By nikkita | March 15, 2010
With the way the weather has been over the weekend (aka HURRICANE BONANZA), a skirt constructed from the fabric of an umbrella just may be a reasonable purchase. Well, at least for most rain showers. But as for the storm we just dealt with, well, you’d probably pull a Mary Poppins and fly away with a gust of wind. And to be honest, my interest in this has nothing to do with our rainy past, but rather with the prospect of making a skirt out of one of those enormous parachutes from elementary school gym class. That’s right. My mind totally went there. Just imagine it. Pure awesomeness.
The Umbrella Skirt is available from Supermarket for $90.00.
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Tampon Chandelier
By nikkita | March 15, 2010
Tampons are special. All it really takes is one to get your attention. But a whole chandelier’s worth? You’re going to be paying attention to me for days! Which is wonderful for me. I have a lot of feelings I’d like to express… But that can wait for later. For now, let us bask in the absorbent glory of the tampon chandelier. It’s so… decadent! I didn’t even know tampons could be decadent. Yeah tampons!
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May This Image Be Forever Burned In Your Brain
By nikkita | March 14, 2010
The only thing that could make this more epic/awesome/fierce/explosively fantastic is if this oddly mutated shark was actually a bear shark. And if Batman had gills. Just sayin’.
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What Candy Should You Eat?
By nikkita | March 14, 2010
And that’s not even half of it. That’s right, there’s plenty more candy to eat. And while I do think this chart does an excellent job with both its organization and suggestions, I’m gonna have to go ahead and draw the conclusion that you should go ahead and eat all of the candy. And by you, I mean me. And by should, I mean will. First up? All the chalk flavors and then maybe some Fun-Dip. But just for the edible stick. Yeah, edible stick! I wonder if this could count as an edible stick (lk-em-stick?) endorsement so the makers of Fun-Dip can stock me up with a lifetime stick supply for my raving efforts. That would totally be the happiest day of my life.
…My God, there is something wrong with me.
Check out the full version of the What Should I Eat? candy chart after the jump!
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Dear Zebra
By nikkita | March 14, 2010
You really shouldn’t do that.
Love, Nikkita
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Keyboard Cat Reincarnated
By nikkita | March 14, 2010
I’m sorry, but new Keyboard Cat does not hold a candle to original Keyboard Cat. Then again, I am kind of biased when it comes to both my keyboards and my cats. And as far as the song goes, I’ve already used that loop in GarageBand to its fullest cheesy potential. But hey, at least Charles Schmidt, owner and manager of the original Keyboard Cat, is still living his life even after the loss of his feline friend. Keep on meowing, Charles.
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Trololololo – Literally
By nikkita | March 14, 2010
Remember that one Russian guy that we all love? You know, the one who doesn’t need to move his mouth to sing? Yeah, he’s the best. And by the best, I mean the absolute scariest. Seriously, this guy could contend with the likes of a Crispin Glover minotaur beast hybrid for super creep eccentricity that you wouldn’t invite to your birthday party. Anyway, someone did us the huge favor of literalizing all his “ooooooh”s, and if I do say so myself, he’s done a fine job.
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Happy Pi Day!!!
By nikkita | March 14, 2010
March 14th = 3.14!
Unfortunately, I was too busy brushing my teeth or putting away groceries or something during the official Pi minute at 1:59 (3.14159… get it??). Come to think of it, Pi minute could have actually been last night in the a.m.. Come to think of that, thanks to daylight savings, Pi Day will actually be an hour longer this year! Wait… that’s not right. Oh well, go ahead and eat an hour’s worth of extra pie and other round shaped foods anyway!
So which geeky holiday is next? The Ides of March, of course. Make sure to stab a friend in the back tomorrow!
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Hoboken!!!!
By nikkita | March 12, 2010
Have a great weekend, everyone!
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5 Second Films
By nikkita | March 12, 2010
It takes a very special storyteller to an entertain his audience for a mere 5 seconds, that’s why if you haven’t already heard of 5 Second Films, then your life is a shameful waste. Here. I’ll help you make it better. Check out this video of the top 20 5 second films by 5 Second Films and then head on over to 5 Second Films and watch more 5 second films. Voila. Your quality of life has just improved 100% in 5 (more like 
seconds. Don’t thank me. Thank Tom-fucking-Watson.
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The Internet Has Collided – Chatroulette On Missed Connections
By nikkita | March 12, 2010
Because Missed Connections couldn’t possibly be any vaguer, a bunch of webcam junkies realized they could use its services for their Chatroulette infatuations. To be fair, I have no idea how else they’re going to reconnect with a disconnected user. Have you not seen ChatrouletteMap? Everybody is online!
Anyway, here are a couple of gems that Zane found in the Philadelphia region. Who knows, maybe we can play a part in the reunion of two love-at-first-sight birds or some creepy stalker felony.
Met on Chatroulette – m4w – 20 (chatroulette)
I met you on Chat roulette, you just got back from your friends crib. the connection broke and you seemed like fun. I gave you an email that expired in 24 hours, hoping you just didnt get a chance to write it down.
Chat Roulette – m4w – 34 (New Orleans)
Hi there! We met on CR over the weekend. You were the most interesting person I met. We talked about clothes and textures… You remember me. Tell me what you were wearing to confirm who you are. I would love to continue our conversation…
S
chat roulette friday nite – m4m
hey we were chattin online friday nite on chatroulette.com. my computer crashed and i lost the connection. we were talkin about how there should be a way to find the person by hittin the back button. lol i said craigslist. u seemed like a cool guy to talk to and id like to chat again. i hope you actually check this bc i dont know where in delaware ur at. i was in cleveland ohio. hit me up!
Chatroulette Froze/ Disconected – m4w – 20 (New York/Phila)
You live in New York and are a freshman in school. You want to be a dental hygenist and ran the 400 and 600 meter in high school. You recently had dental work/braces.
I really enjoyed talking to you unfourtantely we didnot exchange names. I hope this finds you.
Dave
Good luck, dorks.
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The CIA Spiked The Bread
By nikkita | March 12, 2010
In 1951, the French Village of Pont-Saint-Esprit was struck with a mysterious case of chaotic insanity when inhabitants mysteriously suffered from intense hallucinations leaving many institutionalized and 5 dead.
One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: “I am a plane”, before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets.
So what happened? The best explanation at the time was the possibility of a psychedelic mold in the town’s bread supply. If that doesn’t make you feel uneasy, then just you wait. Turns out things were a little different, as discovered by investigative journalist H P Albarelli Jr., who claims the outbreak to be a result of the C.I.A. lacing the town’s bread with LSD as a tactic of experimental mind control during the Cold War.
Mr Albarelli came across CIA documents while investigating the suspicious suicide of Frank Olson, a biochemist working for the SOD who fell from a 13th floor window two years after the Cursed Bread incident. One note transcribes a conversation between a CIA agent and a Sandoz official who mentions the “secret of Pont-Saint-Esprit” and explains that it was not “at all” caused by mould but by diethylamide, the D in LSD.
While compiling his book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, Mr Albarelli spoke to former colleagues of Mr Olson, two of whom told him that the Pont-Saint-Esprit incident was part of a mind control experiment run by the CIA and US army.
After the Korean War the Americans launched a vast research programme into the mental manipulation of prisoners and enemy troops.
Scientists at Fort Detrick told him that agents had sprayed LSD into the air and also contaminated “local foot products”.
Mr Albarelli said the real “smoking gun” was a White House document sent to members of the Rockefeller Commission formed in 1975 to investigate CIA abuses. It contained the names of a number of French nationals who had been secretly employed by the CIA and made direct reference to the “Pont St. Esprit incident.” In its quest to research LSD as an offensive weapon, Mr Albarelli claims, the US army also drugged over 5,700 unwitting American servicemen between 1953 and 1965.
Holy shit, America.
Read more about the “cursed bread incident” and the C.I.A. here and/or check out H P Albarelli Jr.’s book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments.
[Telegraph via BoingBoing]
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Darth Vader To Celebrate Earth Hour – Join The Dark Side!
By nikkita | March 12, 2010
These ads for this year’s Earth Hour (March 27th) are so unbelievably fantastic. Look at all those happy animals! And Vader’s butterfly headband! Almost makes you want to join the Dark Side, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, if you’re not ready for a commitment to the Dark Lord of the Sith, you can stick with Earth Hour, a single hour where everyone in the world is encouraged to take a stance against climate change by turning off the lights.
On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people, organizations, corporations and governments around the world will come together to make a bold statement about their concern for climate change by doing something quite simple—turning off their lights for one hour. In the U.S. where we are already feeling the impacts of climate change, Earth Hour sends a clear message that Americans care about this issue and want to turn the lights out on dirty air, dangerous dependency on foreign oil and costly climate change impacts, and make the switch to cleaner air, a strong economic future and a more secure nation.
Participation is easy. By flipping off your lights on March 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time you will be making the switch to a cleaner, more secure nation and prosperous America. View the toolkits, to find out what else you can do to get involved including leading the Earth Hour movement in your community.
Learn more about Earth Hour here!
[EarthHour.be via LikeCool]
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How To Get YouTube To Film You?
By nikkita | March 12, 2010
This totally sums up everything I hate and love about the internet, a place of equal parts imbecile and brilliance. Okay, maybe the ratio is a little bleaker than that. Something more like 999 idiots to every redeemable person, but usually their genius makes up for (most) of their peers. So thank you, camaha126. You’re truly one in a thousand.
P.S. The other answers do make for a fun read. Enjoy.
[YahooAnswers via TechEBlog]
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PB & J & Money
By nikkita | March 11, 2010
Now, I don’t like to be a tease but sometimes writing about goods that are sold out is inevitable, as in this case. This wallet is just too fantastic to ignore. And while it doesn’t take much to make a wallet apart from functionality and compatibility, this puppy not only looks like a PB & J sammich, it can literally be pulled apart to reveal its inner creamy and jelly goodness. Don’t worry, it’s magnetized for easy reassembly and security, and nothing will fall out as long as your bread is zipped.
If you’re up for the wait, you can leave your email with ModCloth to be notified when the Peanut Butter and Jam Wallet ($14.99) will be back in stock.
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Nikon – The Pinkening
By nikkita | March 11, 2010
My God. And I thought the chemical devil snake made me uncomfortable. I knew nothing of anxiety until now, watching this brave soul disassemble, paint and reassemble a Nikon D90. Words just can’t express how awful this is making me feel. Then again, it could be all that coffee that’s making me so nervous. Well, it’s definitely not helping. At least the banjo is a little soothing.
How long were you guys able to watch before you had to stop or jump ahead? Personally, I’m still trying to make it through this thing in one sitting…
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