Engineers Make $11,111 Coffee Maker

The price of a perfect cup of joe? Apparently just over 11K.

A group of engineers who previously worked at Apple and NASA created an $11,111 coffee maker that measures the liquid’s heat as it brews to maintain the “perfect” temperature.

Blossom Coffee company is the brainchild of coffee fan, Jeremy Kuempel, and two colleagues. Kuempel is an MIT engineering graduate who previously worked on Apple’s iPad and at electric-car maker Tesla.

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How to Tattoo A Banana

We love to play with our food, that's why this is one of our favorite Phil in the Whaaat projects - How to Tattoo a Banana. Yes, a banana.

Eyeball on a Stick and Other Gory Body Parts Lollipops

The Gory Body Parts Lollipop Set by ThinkGeek consists of a tiny pink brain (watermelon), a red heart (cherry), a green zombie finger (apple), and an eyeball (fruit punch). The 4-piece set is available to purchase at ThinkGeek.

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Ten Dollar T-Shirt - Sherlock Holmes Elementary

$10 T-Shirt - This weekend only at RetroRanger get the Sherlock Holmes Elementary T-Shirt for just 10 bucks. Hurry, deal ends Sunday at Midnight.



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Obama Supporter Says Free Phone is Good Enough

An enthusiastic protester outside of a Mitt Romney rally explains how President Obama gives all minorities free phones and that is why they should vote for him.

So, ummm, keep Obama in president you know?

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Sisley's Flood at Port-Marley Shower Curtain

Gaining in popularity with the uber-hip are the various custom shower curtain sites on the interwebs.
CafePress has a growing selection of spiff shower curtains. As does ArtsNow, a Chinese supplier of print-on-demand shower curtains.

We know just the bathroom for this custom art shower curtain with the 1870's painting by Alfred Sisley, Flood at Port-Marley.

Set the theme of bathroom with a custom shower curtain, tough durable fabric allows for easy cleaning.

• Made from polyester
• Machine wash cold. Do not bleach or tumble dry
• Fitted with curtain hooks
• Has 13 holes to which rings attach
• Images imprinted using heat dye sublimation technique for lasting effects.
• Measures approximately 66"(w) x 72"(h)

Alfred Sisley Flood Port-Marley Shower Curtain 66" x 72" (Large) from ArtsNow.com

Hey, You Got Your Razor Blade In My Soap!

Hey, you got your soap on my razor blade!

We are so hoping our razor blades come all rusty.


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A Dramatic Reading of Mac & Cheese Ingredients

Awkward Spaceship presents an ingredients list all dramafied. I laughed. I cried. I ate a plate full of maccacheese. nom.

Transform a Regular Cat Into a Magical Uni-Cat

Bring some magic into kitty's life with the Inflatable Unicorn Horn for Cats, a tiny inflatable strap-on unicorn horn to costume up the deserving feline in your life. Oh yes, Cats Love It!


This pussycat must-have features a “four-point elastic strap system” to keep it on your cat’s head and will be available to purchase in mid-October 2012.

image via Archie Mcphee  

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One-Legged Dude Playing Soccer. He Shoots. He Scores. GOOOOOOOOAL!!

Senior Forward Nico Calabria, #13, scores on a corner for Concord-Carlisle Regional High School in Concord, MA.

Everything We Know About Cooking with Poo

Now that you mention it, we're not sure which we would prefer... Cooking with Poo:


or maybe Cooking with Pooh:

That is all. Carry on.

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Happy Birthday Bill Murray

Happy Birthday wishes to the great bringer of happiness. Bill is 62. Huzzah! Huzzah! Hooray!



62 Reasons To Go Batshit Over The Birth Of Bill Murray:

Ten Dollar T-Shirt - Oregon Donor

$10 T-Shirt - This weekend only at RowdyTease get the Oregon Donor T-Shirt for just 10 bucks. Hurry, deal ends Sunday at Midnight.



Oregon Donor T-Shirt Oregon Donor T-Shirts,Sweatshirts,Hats,Buttons - RowdyTease

And Then, Dude Drove By In A Haystack

Must hurry, the horses are waiting for me.

Like a Key West Beach Shower

Just seen over at eBay, it's a cool Key West shower curtain. We dig it.

End Date: Saturday Oct-20 Buy It Now | Add to watch list

Key West Sign Vintage Shower Curtain by Cafe 636718232:

Ride a Scooter, Send Your Mom to Jail

There's plenty of Texas-sized outrage after a Houston area mother was arrested for charges of child neglect while she watched them play on their scooters in front of her. She had to spend the night in jail, and now is suing La Porte Police Department, the officer, and one nosy neighbor.


KPRC reports the whole story started when mom, Tammy Cooper, was sitting on her front porch watching her two kids, ages nine and six, play on their scooters in their calm, suburban cul-de-sac.
For some horrible reason, her neighbor called the police on her for apparently abandoning her children.
There are scary times. Most netizens can’t help but express that even if mom was inside making lunch there’s nothing wrong with kids playing outside unsupervised, and that police were never the answer. Couldn’t Nosy Neighbor first check on mom first before calling in the SWAT team?

Read more on KPRC.

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Hero-Dog Kabang Headed to UC-Davis for Nose Job

Kabang, pictured here, had her snout and upper jaw sheered off when she leapt in front of a speeding motorcycle just before Christmas last year in an apparent attempt to save two little girls in Zamboanga City, Philippines. The dog, which has become a national hero and an international sensation, is being brought to UC Davis for reconstructive surgery.

More: sfgate.com

12 Beatnik Slang Words and Phrases for Cool Cats and Kittens

Top 12 Beatnik slang words that we plan on using, every day, until someone makes us stop:

1. A shape in a drape - A well-dressed person. “Usually she just wears jeans, but she sure is a shape in a drape in that dress.”
   
   
2. Bright disease - To know too much. “He has bright disease. Make sure he doesn’t rat us out.”
   
   
3. Dixie fried - Drunk. “It’s Friday and the eagle flies tonight. Let’s go get dixie fried.”
   
   
4. Focus your audio - Listen carefully. “Shut your trap and focus your audio. This is important.”
   
   
5. Interviewing your brains - Thinking. “I can see you’re interviewing your brains, so I’ll leave you alone.”
   
   
6. Pearl diver - A person who washes dishes. “I’m just a pearl diver at a greasy spoon, but it’s a job.”
   
   
7. Quail hunting - Picking up chicks. “I’m going quail hunting and you’re my wingman.”
   
   
8. Red onion - A hole in the wall; a really crappy bar. “I thought we were going somewhere nice but he just took me to the red onion on the corner.”
   
   
9. Slated for crashville - Out of control. “That girl’s been in college for five minutes and is already slated for crashville.”
   
   
10. Threw babies out of the balcony - A big success; interchangeable with “went down a storm.” “I was afraid the party would suck, but it threw babies out of the balcony.”
    
    
11. X-ray eyes - To understand something, to see through confusion. “That guy is so smart. He’s got x-ray eyes.”
    
    
12. Zonk on the head - A bad thing. “It stormed all night and we lost power, but the real zonk on the head was when hail broke the bedroom window.”
    

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Hula Cam at Burning Man 2012

Meanwhile, back at Black Rock City, the playa was alive with lovelies...


Thank you, thank you, thank you for not showing any dudes.

Thinking of Opening a Hedgehog Racing Franchise

Don't be a slow hedgehog. A cautionary tale from Seth Godin:

Fast and Alive Hedgehog Photo from The Garden of Eaden

For fifty years, it was a national disgrace.

Motor cars in the UK often left behind road kill. Hedgehogs would meander across the road and splat.

Today, you hardly see that anymore. One reason is that there are fewer hedgehogs due to suburbanization. The real reason, though, is that slow hedgehogs became former hedgehogs, which meant that they were unable to produce more slow hedgehog kids. The new hedgehogs are fast.

Draw your own organizational analogy.

Source: All the slow hedgehogs are dead:

Oh My, Someone at this School Will Be Very Embarrassed

We've always been very stout education supporters ourselves, but not quite prepared for pubic partnership. S'pose we'd have to see the teachers first.

From Jerome Williams Eats the Internet For Breakfast. (Not very nutritious, Jerome.)
and Oopsy: “Super Embarrassing” Typo on School Banner:

Dr. Oz Says Green Coffee Bean Extract Burns Fat Faster:

It's all about the Green Coffee Bean Extract. So says Dr. Oz.



Dr. Oz has revealed the results of his own study: it works! Dr. Oz's green coffee bean extract project participants lost an average of two pounds a week, compared to one pound in those who did not take the weight loss supplement.
View slideshow: Dr. Oz Reveals Skinny on Fat Burner Phenomenon Green Coffee Bean Extract

Want to try it? Dr. Oz warns to avoid being followed by false advertising, whether via marketing labels misusing his name (he does not endorse products) or those claiming they are "pure." The green coffee bean supplement should contact chlorogenic acid extract, which can be listed as either GCA (green coffee antioidant) or Svetol, says Dr. Oz.

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Big Something Crashes Into Jupiter - Secret Space Colony Feared Lost

Something crashed into Jupiter Monday night. Hey, has anybody seen Pluto?



Large object impact on Jupiter, Sept. 10th 11:35 UT, event captured on video by Anthony Wesley and Christopher Go.

More: http://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/zpidw/large_object_impact_on_jupit...

Sideshow Bob and How He Came to Sing

Monday night Kelsey Grammer and Conan O'Brien reminisced about working on The Simpsons together and the creation of the elusive Sideshow Bob.



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Sofa? More Like So Fine! Nicolas Cage Furniture

Seriously, we've seen some bad Nicolas Cage stuff, but this...

A couch made of Nicolas Cage’s face!

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It's Tiger Teasing Time in Thailand

wtf are the Pink Girls doing with the big beautiful cats at the Tiger Temple? Are they fishing for tigers? Feeding the tigers? Exercising the tigers? We just don't know.

Gallagher 2.0 - Using Mind Power to Blow Up Watermelons

A group of hackers from Kentucky have modified a Star Wars Force Trainer toy to allow users to blow up a watermelon. Using only their mind.



Members of the Louisville, Ky.-based hacker group LVL1 modified the toy to be able to trigger any event of their choosing once the headgear detects adequate brain activity. In their first project, called Mind over Melons, the device is connected to an air compressor, and then a watermelon is shoved on top.

With enough concentration, the compressor blows up a watermelon in a spectacular display of the mind. The Mind over Melons project was shown at Connect, a technology and art event in Bernheim Forest in Kentucky, in August.

Strategic Canadian Syrup Reserve Robbed

Yes, but, is the Bacon Repository intact?


Filed under, “No, really, this could only happen in Canada“:

TORONTO—Sticky-fingered thieves made off with as much as 30 million Canadian dollars (US$30.4 million) worth of maple syrup from a little-known strategic reserve in rural Quebec—leaving authorities to investigate just how much is missing and where it has gone.
The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers said late Thursday that during a routine inventory check at a facility that stores some 10 million pounds of syrup, inspectors discovered barrels had been emptied and reported “missing a large quantity of maple syrup.”
Quebec produces about 75% of the world’s maple syrup. Despite the theft, the federation said there would be no immediate impact on world-wide syrup supply.

We’re picturing the strategic Canadian syrup reserve being guarded by packs of vicious moose. We’ll check to see if we’re right.

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Quack Quack Said the Dog.

Japan’s OPPO has made the Quack, a duck-billed protective muzzle for dogs. Just strap it on your dog’s head and morph them into a duck. It is available to purchase from Japanese online retailer, Winkl.



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Potty-Mouth Cockatoo Calls Out Whore

Who's a good bird? Who's a good bird? Is it Willy? Is Willy a good bird? Yeah, we agree.

In court documents, Kathleen Melker of 55 Harris Ave. asserts she was within earshot of Willy, her neighbor's pet, when he repeatedly called her "whore." The incident, she says, punctuated an acrimonious relationship with Lynne Taylor of 51 Harris Ave. that she says included Taylor pelting rocks over the fence and threats to capture Melker's cat and "drown it in the Bay." No charges have been filed.

Taylor -- and Willy -- are now being accused in Municipal Court of violating the city's animal-noise ordinance.

More on nasty little Willy: Warwick woman accused of training pet bird to swear at ex-husband's new girlfriend | Breaking News | providencejournal.com | The Providence Journal:

Football Trick Shots For a New Football Season

Yay! Football is back and so are sweet football trick shots.

Happy Cows Reportedly Happy With Outcome.

A California judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) seeking to stop California dairy farmers from running TV ads touting how happy, healthy and well-cared for dairy herds are.
PETA, which filed the lawsuit in 2011, had argued that the California Milk Advisory Board and the California Department of Food and Agriculture had violated state rules that bar misleading or inaccurate marketing with the “Happy Cows” ads.
The animal rights group had demanded that California dairy farmers prove that California cows are “happy cows,” as the milk board claimed in the ads.
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You'll Feel All Warm and Hugged, But Look Abducted

Seems somebody needs a hug. And that somebody should be voted off the island ASAP. Unless the hands can actually perform a useful function. hmmm thinking. From laughingsquid.com: Hug Me, A Fashion Line Designed To Make People Feel Warm & Hugged:

Fashion designer Si Ieong Chan has created Hug Me, a Fall/Winter 2012-2013 collection of men’s outerwear that includes a green puffy jacket with five sets of interlocking hands, a pink gingham suit with wrapping/grabbing hands and more. The line is meant “to express how the (dis) connection between people to people and the loneliness…” More images of the collection are available at Chan’s website.

In order to make people feel warm and hugged, some of the clothes would be padding and the hands (gloves) would be adding wad to make it looks puffy as childish soft toys. Some pieces are also to keep repeating a certain part (For example, sleeves) to make people feeling full and not alone or enlarge the scale by magnifying a certain part on clothes, which makes people feel a sense of relief.????
Everybody needs love, Don’t you?

Getting Extreme with the Trampo-Walling Crew

From theadrenalist.com: What is Trampo-Walling?:
Trampo-walling, if it wasn’t obvious, involves a trampoline and a 5 meter wall. You use the trampoline to jump to the edge of the wall, before falling back down again and repeating the process. Various tricks are then implemented.

The extreme sports landscape is fluid. For a blossoming, and still ancillary, niche of the sporting world, there’s plenty of room for improvements and for invention. It’s a testament to Adrenalists the world over that stagnancy has never been extreme sports’ problem. That’s why new sports, like Trampo-Walling, are so interesting. They’re not even on the cusp of mainstream acceptance, like ESPN’s ubiquitous X-Games events, but they’re still practiced and tweaked by a minority that can’t wait to try something dangerous and unknown. We even covered the sport early in its creation  with our Elevating the Trampoline feature.

Cats Launch Toxoplasma Attack on England

Cat plot to overthrow England moves beyond talk:

A parasite spread by cats is infecting 1,000 new people every day in Britain – about 350,000 a year – according to an official assessment of the risks posed by toxoplasma, which can cause serious illness and has been tentatively linked with schizophrenia and other psychotic disturbances.

More the cats don't want you to know: Beware of the cat: Britain's hidden toxoplasma problem - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent:

Most Extreme Cliff Diving Spots - Red Rock Park, Vermont

Living vicariously through: Most Extreme Cliff Diving Spots:

Red Rock Park, Vermont
This park in South Burlington is probably one of the more dangerous places to dive. The water in Lake Champlain is cold enough to take your breath away (if the jump hasn’t already), and the narrow cliff walls can sandwich a jumper that’s not careful about avoiding the adjacent rock face. The 80-foot jumps are not for beginners, but then again, most of these places should come with a warning and a guide. Between the numerous obstacles, the height and the mental tnesion, Red Rock Park is one of the most extreme places a cliff diver could try to tackle.

We Can't Wait Any Longer, We Must Have Hover Bikes Now!

A small California-based firm called Aerofex revived a flawed concept craft created in the 60s and fixed it. Long gone are the clunky controls that caused the bike to rollover or flip, throwing the rider to the ground, or worse. Now the bike is controlled intuitively; to balance the bike a rider must just shift his weight and balance himself.

So far the Aerofex has been tested up to 30 mph and 15 feet off the ground, but the company says the vehicle can go much faster and higher than that, not that it needs to, however. As Space.com notes, the Aerofex may hold most promise as an off-road emergency vehicle, ferrying medical supplies and expertise over rough terrain to otherwise unreachable places of need.

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Chemistry Set Shot Glass Set

Better Living Though Better Chemistry.
Chemistry Set Shot Glass Set:

The Chemistry Set Shot Glass Set is a four-piece set of colored plastic shot glasses made to look like small versions of scientific flasks and beakers. The set is available to purchase at Living Royal.
via The Awesomer

Missing woman joins search for herself

Funny Hall of Fame: ‘Missing’ woman unknowingly joins search for herself:

Oh, toads on fire, this is so funny:

A group of tourists spent hours Saturday night looking for a missing woman near Iceland’s Eldgja canyon, only to find her among the search party.
The group was travelling through Iceland on a tour bus and stopped near the volcanic canyon in the southern highlands Saturday afternoon, reports the Icelandic news organization mbl.is.
One of the women on the bus left to change her clothes and freshen up. When she came back, her busmates didn’t recognize her.
Soon, there was word of a missing passenger. The woman didn’t recognize the description of herself, and joined in the search.

At 3 a.m., with fifty people combing the region, the woman finally had a “Hold on…” moment, and realized it was her that they – and she – had been looking for.
We all know EXACTLY what went through her mind right then: “Scotty…one to beam up. Scotty?”