Video: Simpsons Map For Quake III Arena

Not a big Quake III fan, but just the first-person sensation of rifling (literally) through a 3-dimensional mock-up of the Simpsons house gave me chills.

Save Your Soda For Later With The Soda Seal

tabs: they’re for punks and lameasses

The Soda Seal. It’s such a f**king simple concept you’d wonder why it’s taken this long to happen.

Imagine being able to close your soda can and save its contents for later. I’m not sure why you would want to keep that 1/3 of Mountain Dew, if you think there might be occasion at the dinner table later that evening to whip the can out and do the dew, but you never know.

So Johan DeBroyer and Robert Davis are looking for investors, in case anybody is interested.

Cool T-Shirt: “Bad Moon” by the Ames Bros.

Frank Kozik called the Ames Brothers “the best poster artists in the business.” Designers of scores of rock posters and CD art, they’ve turned their hands to T-shirts. This comic-booky, retro-inspired werewolf shirt will look great with a leather jacket, Converse sneaks, and a punch to the face.

Available at Anonymous Venice

Employee Laid Off, Hired To Blog About It By Former Boss

Copy editor Brayden Simms is blogging about being laid off — for his former employer!

It takes a brass pair to sack a person and then ask him or her to write about it — but the Miami Herald did just that. But, it gets better — they hired Mr. Simms to blog about having no money since he was let go. I thought that sort of thing was illegal under the Geneva Convention.

From Simms’ blog:

“You may like the club life and spend a hefty percentage of your paycheck entertaining yourself. You may at least admit to coveting the iPhone or Nintendo’s Wii.

But that doesn’t mean you aren’t interested in an economic tune-up. After all, if you save and don’t fritter away your pay, then you’ll have money for the things that really matter.”

And he learned that valuable lesson when he got laid off from the company he is now blogging for. His misfortune is the Herald’s gain.

Farming With Dynamite

It never fails; you’re hip-deep in the tomatoes, farming implement in hand, when you suddenly realize that you’ve forgot something. What did you forget? The f**king dynamite!

This helpful pamphlet, given away by the good people at Dupont in 1910, lists the virtues of farming with explosives; indeed, dynamite is referred to as “the greatest aid to profitable farming.”

Take, for example, those troublesome stumps. Dynamite: it removes the stumps. Further, if you are the impatient sort and cannot wait for your tree to become a stump, you can blow up the whole goddamn tree:

“…Red Cross Dynamite will lift it bodily from the ground, and it will usually fall with the wind. When this is done, there is no stump to remove.” (emphasis theirs)

But that is nothing compared to the efficiency of plowing with dynamite. Tilling the soil with mere horses in tow? I say neigh.

Loving this book: