The External Hard Drives from Meninos are fantastically original, and would look great next to your laptop or desktop.
Featuring an acrylic case with an adhesive vinyl coating, the hard drives are available in a variety of creative styles, including DuHDcell Batteries, Viagra, Wonka Bars, Finder Icons, HD-40, McHDCain and Backup Obama, HD Wars, Pulp and Fiction, HDeinz, and MarHDoro.
Plus, if you can’t find one that you like, they’ll even customize a design for you if you’ve got something in mind.
Specs include SATA drives in 250 or 500 GB capacities, USB 2.0 connections, and Mac and PC compatibility.
Just don’t forget to lock it down though, because these will disappear fast!
Darcy Prendergast’s Off The Rails is a fantastic short about “all the crazy people met on public transportation”.
It’s done in stop motion claymation, and the lighting, tone, and color are all fantastically original and engaging.
Since Off The Rails has been on YouTube since October of ‘06, but has only managed a mere 20,000+ views, I’m going to call it an undiscovered gem of the ‘Tubes.
In 1970, Emma Ely bought a brand new Chevy Camaro SS 350. 38 years later, she’s racked up a total of 1,104,000 miles on the well worn V8.
Assuming a purchase price of $3,500, that means Emma has paid about 3/10 of a cent per mile for the car! To put that in perspective, if you pay $30,000 for a car and then drive it for 100,000 miles, you’ll have paid 30 cents per mile, or 100 times as much as Emma!
What’s even more amazing is that the engine, transmission, and rear end are all original, and have never required a major overhaul.
According to Emma, she gets the oil changed every 3,000 miles (that’s 368 oil changes during the life of the car) and attributes the car’s longevity to her careful attention to any maintenance issues.
McDonald’s has partnered with MySpace to bring you the Big Mac Chant-Off, a competition that lets you mash-up the music from their audio kit, or lay down a track of your own, with the winning remix appearing in the next McDonald’s commercial.
The only rule: You still need to use the original lyrics.
Say it with me now: Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
Sling Ice is a fantastic Flash game that puts you in charge of a Sling or a Slingette as you chase after the Oozeville power source elements that were taken by evil monsters.
To play, just stretch your blob, aim, and release. The goal is to move from one grab peg to the next, and as you touch each peg, it turns green. After all of the grab pags have been turned green, a portal will open up and you can grab that to move to the next level.
I profiled the original Sling on DYH a long while back, and Sling Ice is the third in the series, so they’ve definitely perfected things by now, and it shows, with fantastic gameplay, a good story line, and smooth graphics.
There’s not much to say about Al, except that his life is pretty boring. He goes to work, listens to talk radio, then comes home and listens to talk radio. He’s a compulsive note taker, constantly logging in the minutiae of his life in a little brown book. Also, he possesses the uncanny ability to fix just about anything that’s broken.
Then one day, Al’s life turns upside down when he’s kidnapped by a masked vigilante after an unusual day in his otherwise mundane life.
New chapters debut each and every Monday, and if web is going to become the future of entertainment, I think this is a good start.
Chinny Chin Chin’s Pigeon Ring Necklaces take the band that identifies racing pigeons and turns them into jewelry.
Wear a little piece of sporting greatness around your neck with this original pigeon racing ring necklace. Complete with sterling silver chain and individual pigeon profile.
It’s fantastically morbid, and trashy chic, which goes well with the whole pigeon motif.
Pixish wants to connect image makers with image buyers to form a collaborative smorgasbord of creativity. It’s “a way to engage creative people online to submit, judge, and source amazing images”.
Here’s how it works:
For artists, “Pixish is a great place to find fun projects, ideas to fuel your creativity, and great prizes to win!”
For publishers, “Pixish connects you with a vibrant community of creative people, gives you tools to engage, and helps you find brilliant original work.”
Sling Ice is a fantastic Flash game that puts you in charge of a Sling or a Slingette as you chase after the Oozeville power source elements that were taken by evil monsters.
…CollegeHumor knows no limits?
CollegeHumor continues its streak of fantastic original videos with Internet Commenter Funeral, Ashes to Ashes, Dust to F1RST!: