‘Chicks in Hats’ Shows Off a Multitude of Chicken Personalities, in Hats

Don’t expect a gallery of human chicks in hats, because this post is going to be about actual chicks in hats. You know, baby chickens.

Chicks in Hats2If you’ve seen chicks in real life before, then you know how hard it is to get them to stay put. Which is why I think Julie Persons did a fantastic job capturing them in all sorts of poses with wacky hats on their heads in her new photo series, ‘Chicks in Hats.’

Check out the gallery for more awesome shots of the chicks.

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Prints from the series are on sale in Julie’s Etsy shop for $3(USD) each.

[via Incredible Things]


Jon Stewart vs Bill O’Reilly To Beat The Obama-Romney Debates?

Jon Stewart vs Bill O'Reilly To Beat The Obama-Romney Debates?He’s done it before. Back in 2010 when the Tea Party Republcans helped overtake the majority in the House of Representatives, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart jumped into the debate ring with
his co-faux newscaster collaborator, Stephen Colbert. Touted as the "Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear,"
the event was well attended in DC. This go-around Stewart has targeted
Bill O’Reilly, the Fox News talk-show host to help iron out some of the
pressing issues of this year’s presidential election campaign.


Swing Table Brings the Fun Back to Mealtimes

How many times did your mom have to scold you to quit messing around and rocking in your chairs at the dinner table when it was time to eat? I don’t know about you, but my mom would always say she felt like a broken record whenever she’d remind me and my siblings to stop whatever it was we were doing while we were seated there.

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But when you’ve got the Swing Table, it’s time to forget all those rules and start having fun because the table itself requires you to. That’s because instead of the usual seats, you get swings instead. The table itself doesn’t have any legs of its own because it’s attached to the frames of the table.

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The Swing Table was designed by Duffy London and it’s for sale, too. But while we love the table, we don’t really love the price – since it actually retails for £6,895 (~$11,190 USD). Guess we’ll have to resort to tipping our dining chairs back for now.

[via Yanko Design]


Giant Fist Koozie is Every Beer Drinker’s Dream Koozie

You gotta love those koozies that keep your beer (or whatever your beverage of choice is) insulated while you eat, watch TV, or do whatever it is you do while you gulp down your drink. If you’re feeling especially macho, then you need a koozie that reflects just that. And there’s only one koozie that’ll manage to do just that for you: the Giant Fist Koozie.


It sort of reminds me of the Sandman’s massive fists which he formed out of sand, just as he was getting ready to land a huge punch of Spiderman. And if it were green, there’s only one character that this giant fist could belong to, and that’s The Hulk.

Aside from insulating your cans, most bottles and plastic cups (including the iconic red booze cups) also fit fine into the Giant First Koozie. It’s normally available for $16.49(USD) from Perpetual Kid, although it’s out of stock right now. But check back once in a while because it might be back in stock soon.

[via Gadget Review]


Play Pong While You Wait for the Traffic Light to Turn Green

Some walk lights have buttons you can press to let the system know that there are pedestrians waiting to cross, while some others have a Pong game unit instead.

Too bad you can only find the latter in Germany.

Pedestrian Crossing LightsApparently someone thought that pedestrians needed some entertainment while they wait for the lights to turn red. That entertainment came in the form of Street Pong. These basically allow pedestrians on opposite sides of the street to play pong while the cars go zooming past.

The cool thing is that there’s actually a timer which counts down just how much playing time you have left before it’s time to cross the street.

Awesome stuff. Now if we can only get these everywhere.

[via Geekologie]


Profanity Generator Lets You Get Creative with Your Curses

Here’s a couple of things you can do when you’re angry: grab your Damnit Doll, whip out your Calligraphuck Cards, or reach for your Profanity Generator. The first two options delay your expression of anger, while the last just helps you come up with words to describe it.

Creative Cursing Profanity GeneratorI’m not saying you should take the pad and yell out insults to the person who offended you. Rather, you might find that it actually helps dissipate your anger by showing you a neat selection of often humorous curses like ‘crap wad’, ‘fart monkey’, and ‘ass waffle.’ Yes, I said ‘ass waffle.’ With syrup.

The Profanity Generator is available online from Fred Flare for $10.95(USD).

[via Instash]


Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas Board Game Is a Real Trip Through Bat Country

If you can believe it, the first Johnny Depp movie I saw was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – and I’ve been a fan ever since. It was an unconventional take on the quest to find the American dream. On a side note, I had no idea that they needed to do that many drugs to find it.

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Board GameJonathan Baldwin found the movie so inspiring that he created an entire board game based on it. It’s basically an attache case filled with all sorts of tiny vials, petri dishes, and lighter–aka drug paraphernalia. Of course, he didn’t actually use real drugs, because that would be illegal.

Baldwin described it as a “a scientifically-accurate, organic chemistry board game based around Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” The chemistry geek in me totally loves the idea and the attention to detail Baldwin gave to the board game.

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No idea if Baldwin is going to be putting this up for sale, although I have a feeling he won’t be.

[via NoPuedoCreer via Oh Gizmo!]


Cupcake Nuggets Are Fried Up For Your Enjoyment: Get The Recipe

Cupcakes have been an obsession of food connoisseurs everywhere for years, and we’ve seen some weird creations thus far.  The Cupcake Nuggets?  Extremely original – no sarcasm.  Savor this moment, friends, because my posts are generally dripping in sarcasm, and my fried chicken wings are always dripping in grease.  If you can’t make transparent spots in a pile of napkins, you’re not doing it right.

Cupcake Project is the mastermind / evil scientist behind this wonderful creation.  I just have one question: is the world prepared to handle this kind of treat and the power that lives within it?  Said power: 10,000,000 calories that go straight to your sexy love handles and turn them into (still sexy) love safety bars.

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So, they look delicious, but what exactly are Cupcake Nuggets?  Prepare to have your collective mind blown, friends, because this is a little bit of cupcake-ception and a whole lot of fried oil.  Each Cupcake Nugget is a carefully crafted piece of cupcake which has been breaded with cupcakes and then deep fried in a vat of goodness.  Yes, they were designed to look like chicken nuggets, but I can assure you that they taste like the world’s favorite snack.  (Which is cupcakes, according to the same statistician who said that his cologne works every time sixty percent of the time.)

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The special sauce pictured above is meant to look like barbecue sauce, but it’s actually raspberry jam!  (The baker had almost as much fun trying to stick to the chicken nuggets theme as I did launching pennies at the children playing in the snow, but that’s a story for a different time.)

I have been told that the Cupcake Nuggets taste like donuts with a crispy exterior, but surely you’ll want to grab the recipe and experience the slices of heaven for yourself!  If you’re not ambitious enough to try making these treats, then I’d recommend you hop on over to the Cupcakewurst Cupcake-Filled Sausage or the Ned Stark Cake Pops if you’re a Game of Thrones fan like me.  Tyrion Lannister for President 2012.

[via: That’s Nerdalicious]


This super awesome post was written by Jack, lead blogger at Cool Gizmo Toys.  Jack puts together lists to help geeks quickly find the stuff that they love, and has a free eBook that you can get today!


Robot Drummer Has Two Times More Arms (and Two Times More Groupies) Than You

We’re no stranger to robot drummers – or robot musicians for that matter – but StickBoy stands out for a couple of reasons. Make that four reasons. The rock and roll robot makes up for its seemingly immobile hips by having four arms.

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Frank Barnes of Robocross built StickBoy back in 2007. The robot’s arms, two legs and awesome metal mohawk head are powered by compressed air. He uses a 14-piece Pearl drum set with double bass pedals. According to the Robocross website, StickBoy can rock out to 8 songs, including AC/DC’s TNT, Rage Against the Machine’s Bullet in the Head and the song used below, the Ramones’ Blitzkrieg Bop.

Was that punk, metal or robot rock?

[Robocross via You Bent My Wookie]


Imagine The Fear & Loathing With This Hunter S. Thompson Board Game

Ever wish you could live out Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas without actually risking life imprisonment or a complete mental breakdown from carrying and consuming such an insane cache of drugs? Well now you can thanks to the Fear and Loathing Board Game.