Hasta La Gadget!

Who doesn’t love kittens? I’m no professional web designer, but I’ve tried designing a site or two, and let me just say it involved a lot of hard work. One of the tiring aspects of web design is having to insert placeholders for designs, images, or code that aren’t ready yet.

So to make that aspect of design less of a pain and a bit more fun, Placekitten was born.

It’s essentially an image gallery of sorts that was created with web designers in mind. Using the site, developers, designers, and cat lovers can generate various sizes of cat and kitten images that can be used as placeholders in their designs. Just use the URL below to get started.

http://placekitten.com/width/height

For example, if you want an image that’s 300×200, just type “http://placekitten.com/300/200” into your URL to get your correctly-sized kitty.

Here’s a couple of examples generated by the service:

Awwwwww. Placekitten exists thanks to Mark James.

[via Red Ferret]

Pumpkin sports are becoming the trend in many parts of the country around Halloween time. Pumpkin Paddling, Bowling, and Aerial Bombing are but a few of the punkin sports faves. Take a look at some of the ways folks are having fun with pumkins…

Car Design is setting aside several weeks to test designers to sketch up the coolest new rides imaginable, while only providing a single word each week as inspiration. Sounds like a blast!

Insects, contrary to popular belief, are not that different from humans.  Studies show that our buggy friends suffer from one of the human world’s most common emotional ailments: the friendzone.  So, with that perspective, we look at these beautiful macro photos of bug BFFs.

Also note that many of these bugs were friendzoned by nature, as different species cannot reproduce with each other – this is, by definition, the reproductive barrier that defines a “species.”  Permanent, unavoidable, natural friendzone.

This picture really speaks a thousand words: it seems to be the perfect friendship dynamic!  The best friendship since Shaggy and Scooby, rivaled only by Timon and Pumbaa.  Praying Mantis and Snail probably wouldn’t make a splash at the box office, but it would surely leave a trail of slime on our hearts!

Nature’s version of two friends stopping to get a drink out of a water fountain.  On a related note, I never understood how snails can survive on both land and water.  Are there just different types of snails?  do snails have gills?  The only logical conclusion: snails are robots.

It seems that snails (and the occasional frog) are actually just the forest’s form of free public transportation.  Talk about a long commute.

These pictures were all taken by Nordin Seruyan, who lives in an area that is heavily-populated by giant snails, and he did an awesome job capturing the essence of nature’s symbiotic relationships in these photos!

Head on over to the Nordin Seruyan Photography page on Facebook and give this man your like!  My feelings would be appropriately represented by the Give That Man a Cookie meme.

If you’re as into bugs as I am, you’ll want to head on over to look at these Solar Powered Robotic Bugs and these incredible Steampunk Bug creations!

[via Incredible Things]

We’ve all watched a child tear through wrapping paper with excitement to get through the gift it contains, only to  discover that they find more entertainment value in the wrapping then the gift itself. This is often disappointing to the gift-giver as it was the gift, and not the wrapping paper, that they selected with care. But who says it has to be that way? Certainly not Gift Couture – a business that designs wrapping paper that is as fun as the present it contains.