70. Beautiful fly – Los Angeles – [Link]

Date: 2009-09-10, 10:29PM PDT

I caught a fly.
Shimmers green, red eyes.
Measures approximately 9mm by 5mm, flies great.
Want to give to a good home.

69. WhaleMobile *UNIQUE*

Date: 2009-07-15, 7:22AM EDT

This one of a kind “WhaleMobile” is for sale. It needs new tires, but otherwise starts right up and runs fine. Not street legal, but still fun to drive, good for birthday parties and events. A lever inside the cockpit controls the whale tail, and allows some up and down motion. Water pump inside cockpit still works, and will build up pressure to be released through blowhole up top. It has working headlights.

This was a project my grandfather worked on when I was a kid, and it used to terrify me, as I have an inexplicable fear of these evil creatures. I am hoping to sell it by the end of the month, as I owe child support and don’t have the cash to cover it at the moment. This was built off of the frame of an otherwise perfect 1986 Yugo Cabrio. The vehicle itself has 38,000 miles on it, but it was badly damaged in a hailstorm and the bodywork was completely demolished. My grandfather got the idea of turning it into a WhaleMobile off of some cartoon, and he took his crazy idea and ran with it.

Serious inquiries only, but all are welcome to come and see the WhaleMobile in action. Please leave the harpoons at home.

Call me directly at 502.448.1137 for more details, leave a message if I don’t answer.

68. Planning to pillage? You’ll need one of these! -Seattle [Link]

Date: 2005-11-12, 2:46PM PST

The vikings from the Capitol One commercials may be running out of work, but that doesn’t mean you can’t pillage the next city over. (We suggest Redmond.)

Today only, we’re giving away one very special viking hat. Ideal for the modern pillager, it is constructed from lightweight silver and gold plastic. Complete with faux gold horns and faux gold rope detailing, it makes the statement, “I have come for your grog and your goats.”

As it was never worn into battle, the hat is in mint condition, free of blood and dents.

It is “one size fits most,” and has ritual phrases impressed on the inside of the hat. They read, “CAUTION This is a toy not to be used as a safety helmet. Made in China. WARNING! This is a toy. Does not provide protection.” Lo, be ye warned.

Available for pick up until 6 PM today. No holds.

May your pillage be plentiful and your beer in Ballard be tasty.

67. Stupid clock with day, month and date read out – Ventura [Link]

Date: 2008-06-29, 10:39AM PDT

I bought this stupid clock on E-Bay for my 86-year old aunt, because she is getting confused. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize until it arrived that you have to manually change everything, every day, except the time.

Every day. Push three buttons. If you forget for a day, or only push two buttons, the large, black and white read-out that is so easy to read, is wrong. I found it made her even more confused. If the stupid clock said something, she believed it. I would call her up and tell her what day it is and she would argue with me, because her stupid clock said something different.

Stupid clock. I bought her a new one that automatically changes every day.

This stupid, battery operated clock is free to whomever wants it. You will find it easier to work in harmony with it if you are a fairly cognizant person. On the other hand, if you are not always cognizant and want to drive your family crazy, this is the PERFECT clock for you.

66. Are these yours – Minneapolis [Link]

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Above is an infographic design to compare the Apple iPad vs. the JooJoo vs. the Amazon.com Kindle DX vs. the HP Slate.  Since the HP Slate specs have not been released yet, I had to base the information on speculation and rumors.  This infographic and blog post will be updated upon the actual date of the HP Slate.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced their latest product today, the iPad.  Generally companies make sure to own the domain name of a product or service that they offer.  Apple owns iPod.com and bought Me.com from a company called Snappville.com. However iPad.com is owned by a company called Enero 6 Corporation according to the website.  Apple bought the domain name iSlate.com about a year ago which led people to believe that this would be the name of the new device.

At the bottom of the screenshot you will notice that the website is owned by Enero 6 Corp.  Enero means January in Spanish which is the same month that the iPad was launched. Enero 6 may stand for January 6th. Coincidentally Apple and Steve Jobs had some milestones around that date:

January 6, 1998 – Steve Jobs announces that the company will show a $45 million profit for the first quarter of fiscal year 1998
January 6, 2000 – Steve Jobs announces OS X.
January 6, 2002 – Apple announced the iMac with 15″ LCD.
January 6, 2004 – Apple announced iLife 2004 and iPod Mini at Macworld
January 6, 2005 – Bill Gates was giving a presentation at CES and Windows froze.
January 5, 2009 – Steve Jobs said he would not be at MacWorld because he wanted to spend time with family.
January 6, 2009 – iTunes becomes DRM free.

The Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad is now official!!

Features include:
1. iTunes built in
2. YouTube/YouTube in HD
3. Contact list in book form
4. Same maps application as iPhone (Google) — Classic/satellite/hybrid/terrain/traffic/compass/drop pin features
5. Appears to be a bigger version of an iPhone
6. E-mail support (Message list in a column on the left and full message on the right.)
7. Large on-screen QWERTY keyboard
8. No Adobe Flash support
9. Slide to unlock feature (similar to iPhone)
10. 10 hours of battery life
11. Over a month of standby time
12. Accelerometer and compass
13. WiFi 802.11n/Bluetooth 2.1+EDR/3G Plans
14. 1GHz Apple A4 chip
15. 16GB-64GB Flash storage
16. Full capacitive multi-touch
17. 9.7″ IPS display
18. 0.5 inches thin/1.5 lbs.

19. “We think it’s going to be another gold rush for devs. And of course every iPad comes with the app store on it.”
20. “We rewrote all of our apps for this display. the iPhone SDK supports development for this now… and we’re releasing it today.”

21. Prices
250MB / month through AT&T = $14.99
Unlimited data through AT&T = $29.99
NO CONTRACT AND CANCEL ANYTIME!

22. Separate number touchscreen keypad for data entry on spreadsheets
23. Syncs through USB
24. All iPad 3Gs are unlocked
25. WiFi only models shipping in 60 days — 3G models shipping in 90 days

WordPress is one of the most commonly used blog platforms and is used by millions of websites. The blog platform is completely open source and can be customized through the use of plugins and themes. Below is a comprehensive list of some of the themes I like the most. This is especially useful for designers. If you want to learn more about installing WordPress themes, click here.

1. FFF WordPress Theme [Download]

Erin Martin and Jeffrey Wong have made their own Save the Date wedding trailer. It is over 4 minutes long and is one of the most epic trailers I have ever seen. The trailer even has that deep manly voice that is used for the standard movie trailer. I’m impressed. What about you? Leave a comment here to let us know what you think.

1. AOL Top 100 Videos [Download]

Everyone likes listening to music.  This Adobe AIR desktop widget offers a simple to use way to watch music videos through AOL.  The videos are categorized by ranking and genre.

I’ve seen some funny Rickrollings in my day, but this one is one of the most epic. It features a show in the UK called TalkGOD receiving an e-mail that says “I think there is a real shame that there is cynicism directed towards this channel which only wants to help fellow members of the flock. When will people learn that God will never give them up, never let them down, never run around, or hurt them?” The e-mail reader agreed wholeheartedly with the e-mail until he found out that he just got Punk’d.