Line rider isn’t so much a game as it is a really entertaining way to pass a few minutes of your life away. There’s no way to win, but for some reason it is fun to play and see if you can do “better” than you did the last time. Simply draw a line on the page using the pencil tool, press the play button, and a small child will sled his way down your newly created mountainside. Set up jumps, slam him into walls, or just give him a lazy ride down the slope, the choice is yours. Nothing says fun like slamming a cartoon sleder into a freshly drawn snow wall.
Mixing a little bit of style with a little bit of pin-up girl porn art, Paul Smith’s Moneyclip is just the ticket to a subtle bit of sexy chic in your pocket. Featuring an embossed black leather exterior and a white interior lined with a nudie girl and red stitching, this clip is surely a great way to spend money organizing your money.
The problem with the standard pint sized beer glass is that your sweaty palms quickly make the cold beer warm and flat, and the cold glass, pre-sweaty palms, makes the glass sweat on you like a freshman at prom. Since sweat on sweat beer drinking action is never a good thing, someone (probably a genius) invented a solution. Called the Double Walled Beer Glass, it’s insulated to keep separate your cold beer and your warm hands. Hand blown and dishwasher and microwave safe, these 15-ounce glasses are sure to be a suitable place to store your favorite drink on its last stop before stomach town.
Here’s a cool idea for a cutting board: Make it so you don’t spill all of your newly cut veggies when you try and transfer them from the board to the pot. The Folding Cutting Board by Mark Sanders turns into a chute when you’re done cutting, so that you can easily slide your ingredients into what you are cooking without loosing half of them to the floor goblins. It’s made of polypropylene (sturdy stuff) and is dishwasher-safe, so it’s sure to be aiding and abetting your salad preparation for many years to come.
Freeride mountain biking has always been a sport that wows me. The guys that do it take their bikes and throw themselves off of the biggest cliffs they can find, landing among rocks and cactus and all sorts of other things that would tear them up if they land even a little bit funny, and they do it cause it’s fun for them. The paychecks are small, the fan clubs are smaller, but their love of the sport is huge, and that’s what makes it so pure. The following video is a collection of all of the reasons I love watching freeride mountain biking: the jumps, the falls, and the feeling you get just watching them of “how can anybody do that and survive?”
Here’s an interesting way to prepare a meal: Do it in your dishwasher. Yes, the appliance normally reserved for after dinner cleanup can now be used for pre meal preparation. Turns out that salmon can be poached in you dishwasher using the “normal” cycle, as long as it’s in a foil packet that keeps the meat out of the soapy sudsyness. The following website has a recipe for dishwasher salmon with a piquant dill sauce that goes well with a glass of Australian chardonnay. Sounds cleanly delicious.
It used to be that if you wanted your food to be mobile, you had to wait for the Wienermobile to come around. Now though, there’s another edible auto on the road: the Spammobile. Looking like their famous can of pre-packaged meat (sorta), the Spammobile is touring the country, treating Spam fans everywhere to a little Spammy treat. It’s even got a smiley face in the grill (Or is it a grill in the grill? Thanks Nelly). Be on the lookout, the Spammobile could be rolling through a city near you (and you wouldn’t want to miss that once in a lifetime opportunity).
Benny Benassi is well known for his music videos, probably more than he is for the music itself. In his video for Satisfaction, a few scantily clad well-endowed women are demoing power tools in a late night infomercial style setting. If you’re not a fan of techno, this may just be the best reason yet to start. Warning: Definitely NSFW
If you find your laundry constantly gets thrown on the floor, only to die a slow and painful death while it festers away, waiting for you to throw in a sack and take it to the washing machine, make things a little easier on yourself with the Laundry Rug. Looking like a laundry crime scene, the rug features outlines of common apparel, and a built-in drawstring, so when you’re finally ready to do the laundry, you simply synch the rug up around your clothes and away you go. It even comes packaged in a laundry machine for gift giving to that friend who always smells kinda funny. Form and function in one neat little package, I like it.
For the kid who has everything, and is sure to get everything via some sort of trust fund/being the prince of a large country, the Golden Rocking Horse could be just the birthday present you’ve been looking for. Featuring 30-kilograms (80 pounds) of 24-karat gold, the carved horse was designed by Japanese jewelry designer Ginza Tanaka as a tribute to the birth of Prince Hisahito, in line to become Japan’s emperor. At a price of 150 million yen (1.28 million dollars), it’s not your everyday children’s toy, but can you really put a price on a child’s happiness? (Yes, yes you can, and it’s much less than 1.28 million, but that’s just my opinion)
