Quote of the Day:
“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth -anonymously and posthumously.” -Thomas Sowell
Fact of the Day:
Cyndi Lauper did the theme song for Pee Wee’s Playhouse but was given credit under the name Ellen Shaw. –Source
Today’s Holiday:
Race Your Mouse Day…Bring. It. On.
Link of the Day:
Learn more about sinkholes over the world here.
Cute Overload has some adorable pets in wigs. Go look at them!
Here’s an invention we all can use…at least to scare children. A USB drive with a teddy bear head that gets its head ripped off and shoved into your drive. It’s precious and scary, all at once. My kind of toy.
If your grandma has ever got on your case about being Satanic because you’re playing video games or listening to some real rock music, now’s your chance to worship god while playing a knock off video game that imitates songs that want to be rock…except they replace “baby” for “Jesus.”
Yeah, Guitar Praise really is that lame.
Quote of the Day:
“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.” -Peter Ustinov
Fact of the Day:
Using an orange-handled coffee pot to denote decaffeinated brew dates back to
1923, when General Foods first introduced Sanka. As a promotional gimmick, they provided restaurants and diners with orange-y pots that matched the orange packaging of their decaf coffee. –Source
Today’s Holiday:
Global Forgiveness Day –I’m sensing a lot of forgiving this month…man, we must have f* up the rest of the year.
Link of the Day:
If you dug a hole through the world, you probably won’t end up in China (unless you live in Argentina). To find out where you would actually end up, try this site. I’d be in the ocean near Madagascar.
Quote of the Day:
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.” -Jane Austen
Fact of the Day:
Wasps can sniff out food toxins, crop fungus, bodies, drugs, and even 2,4-DNT, a volatile component in dynamite that dogs struggle to smell, so they may be the drug and bomb sniffing dogs of the future. –Source
Today’s Holiday:
National Dog Day and Women’s Equality Day –is it a coincidence they’re on the same date? I don’t think so.
Link of the Day:
The ten best sand artists and their work, via WebUrbanist.
I know you’ve been lacking some absolutely precious animal stories in your life lately, so here’s a great one. This black bear that resides in a safari park in the UK has been stealing people’s hubcaps for years. Then a woman enters the park missing all four of her hubcaps and the bear steals one from the car in front of her and drops it at her car window and knocks to let her know it’s there. What a sweetheart. A bear that shares and shows it cares. Lub. -Thanks Neatorama
Looking to scare your children with adorable play toys? Then you need the Avenging Narwhal play set.
The narwhal uses its tusk to impale the cute animals of the world, specifically baby seals, baby penguins and koalas. This 5-1/2″ long, hard vinyl narwhal comes with four magic tusks (crystal, onyx, ruby and ice) to impale the three 1-1/2″ long, soft vinyl cuties. Don’t let cute overrun the world, fight back with your own Avenging Narwhal!
Thanks to Neatorama for discovering this lovely toy.
Our laptop has been in the shop, so we should start getting more Comic-Con updates in the next few days, but for the time being, perhaps you would like to see a round up of some of the other sites that covered the convention.
Wired has a great collection of tattoos at Comic-con.
The Official Star Wars blog owes it to its readers to have the best Star Wars costumes at the convention.
Joystiq has a variety of costumes, some of which I posted, others I didn’t even see.
CinemaBlend also has some I posted and some I didn’t notice. It’s insane to try to get every costume there -possibly impossible.
Yahoo has a very nice costume gallery. Be sure to see the whole thing.
And lastly, I Am Bored has 13 great pics.