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Garfield minus Garfield

So

great.

[via Joe Peach]

Hands-Free Funnel Holder

From the website:

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Hands-Free Funnel Holder

Hands-free funnel holder takes the hassle out of fluid transfer, providing a third hand.

The Unifunnel® secures itself to the opening of any size tank, then grasps the base of any size funnel.

The result is sure-handed pouring of gas, oil, coolant, powders or other hazardous substances when working with cars, mowers, generators and more.

6" x 3" x 2".

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$9.98.

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of 2009

"The data for this list is collected by TorrentFreak from several sources, including reports from all the large BitTorrent trackers. All release formats, including cammed versions, are counted."

[via ChartsBin]

Corkscrewdriver

Wood and stainless steel.

$15.52.

[via Bem Legaus!]

Once upon a time on a bicycle in New York City

J. David Goodman's November 3, 2009 New York Times City Room Blog post went back into the virtual time machine to the Manhattan of the late 1800s, when bicycles and their riders were feared or despised by many of their fellow Gothamites.

FunFact: In the final decade of the nineteenth century the bicycle was the equivalent of early PCs in the late twentieth in terms of being "the hot thing."

From the post: A New York Times column  called "Gossip of the Cyclers," which ran from 1894 to 1899, "... tracked the growing popularity of cycling in its nascent years, offering a revealing — and often amusing — window into the days when riding on two wheels was as high tech as writing code."

"Some ideas about riding were tested in the column, such as the notion that one would develop 'bicycle face' from riding: 'the strained, half-despairing look which has come to be regarded as a characteristic of wheelmen.'"

"Other columns voiced similarly specious health concerns, with particular emphasis on the danger to the lungs posed by arching one’s body for speed, a position the column once called 'the monkey hump.' Needless to say, the unnamed Times cycling reporter did not look kindly on drop handlebars, or velocity of any sort."

"Such coverage was not limited to The Times, said David V. Herlihy, author of 'Bicycle: The History.' Practically every daily newspaper had a column."

"'The magnitude of cycling as a pastime is hard to grasp in these end-of-the-century days, when one is told that ‘everyone’ is now a wheelman,' Gossip of the Cyclers reported...."

"Indeed, as cycling became middle class, The Times took a decidedly middle-of-the-road editorial stance, supporting such things as the free passage of cyclists over the Brooklyn Bridge (there had been a toll) while advocating tougher punishment for 'scorchers,' whose behavior elicited vehement denunciations — in the days before blog comments — in letters to the editor. 'Have pedestrians any rights in crossing the streets that bicyclists should respect?' asked one angry reader in 1895. (The more things change…)"

BlogTalkRadio.com — Now everyone can have a radio talk show

Maybe I'll put bookofjoeTV on hold for a few years and try this instead.

"BlogTalkRadio gives anyone anywhere the ability to host a live Internet Talk Radio show, simply by using a telephone and a computer."

"Anyone."

Huh.

Wonder how that works for TechnoDolts™?

Only one way to find out.

Stay tuned.

But don't wait up.

What is it?

Answer here this time tomorrow.

EarthTunnel — Around the world, one image at a time

"98 meters down, 35,499,902 to go."

[via Benjamin Nguyen Duong]

Pixel Door Numbers

Self-adhesive; 2.2" (5.5cm) H.

White, Terracotta, Metallic Blue, Metallic Green, Metallic Magenta.

Apiece, $28.85.