Category: Odd Stuff
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Steampunk Walking Stick
I ran across this pretty cool steampunk walking stick on Hammacher Schlemmer today. It is pretty cool looking even when closed. When this brass and wood staff is opened it is a working telescope. Sweet. Here’s the description from their site: Recalling the canes favored among Victorian gentleman to compliment proper attire, the walking stick has…
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Chinese Olympic Conspiracies
So my first real look at the Olympics happened to be the young girls of the Chinese gymnastic team winning the gold. My thoughts while watching them were how young they looked. I like the rest of the world had to Google how old you were supposed to be to compete and then how old…
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Weird Yet Some How Interesting Simpsons vs Star Trek Video
Never thought I would here a combined Simpsons theme and Star Trek theme, but here you go… Very bizarre.
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Wii Remote Theremin Doing the Star Trek Theme
This is not something you see every day. Here is a video of a Wii remote turned theremin (you know the creepy scifi sounds of old movies) performing the Star Trek theme. Pretty cool.
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Haunted Bird Feeder v2
My Mom just loved my original haunted bird feeder and requested one of her own. I hadn’t really thought I would ever make another one, but heck it is Mom afterall. She wanted a smaller version. Something she could sit on her window sill then she added two story. So I picked up a Pet…
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Haunted Birder Feeder v1
I had this pretty nice bird feeder (it is a Colonial Bird Feeder from Pet Zone), but the one window was broken out so the bird feed would not stay in the feeder. I thought, “what do you do with a broken window”. You board it up. So I set to work. First, I repaired…
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DIY Skeletons Chairs
I’m currently on the look out for one or two free straight back chairs for yet another project I want to try, I saw this DIY Halloween project posted over at Halloweenhotlist.blogspot.com and I want some. So first step is to find the chairs, which could take a while. So until the chairs are in…
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Way Cool Creepy Papier Mache Halloween Props
There’s this guy that is doing amazing Halloween displays. His main medium is papier mache. I stumbled across his site the other day, Stolloween.com, This guy’s work is amazing. I wish I had half his talent. If I did, I would be armpit deep in papier mache right now. Once I get a few things…
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Autumn Is Already Here
It is only July and we are already getting back-to-school and Halloween being shoved down our little retail throats. Halloween I don’t mind, school I could live without (and I don’t even take classes any more – it is just that to me back-to-school means the beginning of the end). The only thing good about…
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Blobfest Starts Today
It is the 50th anniversary of the film THE BLOB. Filmed in Chester County way back in 1958 and starring Steve McQueen. Each year the Colonial Theater (this would be the theater in the famous scene where everyone is running out escaping the BLOB) has a BLOBfest to celebrate their fifteen minutes of fame and…
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Pig in Boots
This little piggy won’t be going to market. At least that’s what the farmer says. Little Cinders, a saddleback pig, has a phobia. She’s afraid of dirt (mysophobia). Go figure. A pig that can’t play in the mud. The fine folks at the Northern England farm fit her with a pair of little rubber boots…
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Unicorn Found
Okay so it is not an actual fantastical beasty. Not the typical mythical horse with a single horn on its head. Rather it is a deer born with one horn in the center of its head was found in Italy. A genetic defect, but cool anyway. Probably how the whole thing got started in the…