So maybe it’s pointless, but at least it’s happy!
Monk-e-Mail. A little bit of viral marketing for y’all on a Monday morning. Choose your chimp, select your environment, create your audio and forward to a friend. Or enemy. Or relative. Or anyone except the person who interviewed you for a job last week.
Make your own Signbot Scrolling LED Sign. Hey, it’s fun and it’s December, so lighten up. Write some text and click Generate Sign to make your own animated scrolling text LED sign to use on MySpace, as your forum sig or avatar, or anywhere else.
The Concert Ticket Generator. Just one of the fun things you can play with at the Says-it.com site. Enjoy. The Concert Ticket Generator is the simplest of all the generators; it just composites text onto a background image in one stage, using a TrueType font (the Fake Receipt font, which mimics a dot matrix printer). All other elements in the image are static, part of the background image.
The Warning Sign Generator. Make your own signs and scare people. Choose a layout, choose a symbol, craft a message. Loads of fun, and half the calories of normal pastimes.
Drop Spots. Kind of a treasure hunt for trivia. Hide something in town, note the details down on the site and let others exchange their trivia for yours and pass on the fun. International too. A dropspot is a kind of alternative mailbox. It’s a hiding place in a public space, where people can leave things for exchange. Anything. It’s a wierd and wonderful way to add personal character to the streets that we live in. Stash something fun and see what you get back.
Instant Weight Loss Kit. Forget about all that fancy tech stuff, if you want to really lose inches off your waist you need this. OK, so it may be an elasticated tape measure and some useful labels, but that’s not the point is it? We’re talking self-esteem here people. £4.99. The tiny 32 page booklet explains how the elasticated tape measure can be used to achieve any waist size desired. There are also special nutrition advice labels guaranteeing zero calories…
Limited Edition Briefcase Go-Kart Track. Ha, dose krazy Deutschlanden. Diese produkt is a kompletely self-contained go-kart game with two karts, a 2 metre track, two controllers, a stop watch and a 9V battery block for 5 hours gaming power. Pleez don’t ask why it is being sold in such a gorgeous aluminium briefcase as that is their little secret. €598.00. Set the Karts on the conductive strips – and you experience genuine running atmosphere. Sent you give the speed to full power with the control quadrant on…
Deer Ride. Tasteless gifts #365. A motion activated deer which sings…oh dear me no, sorry but that’s as far as we go with this one, I’m afraid. Nurse! The tablets please. $19.95. So THIS is where Buck, the Animated Trophy came from! This motion-activated deer lifts his head and sings “Low Rider” and “Sweet Home Alabama”! Watch the hunters BOBBLE their heads to the beat as the car BOUNCES and headlights FLASH!! A great gift for your favorite hunter, or anyone!
DIY David Blaine Type Street Magic. A small but interesting selection of street magic tricks that you can practice yourself. Of course most of them require the use of a special ‘tool’ which conveniently happens to be for sale thereabouts, but what the heck, it’s all good clean fun. Street Magic Trick methods to allow you to perform similar style tricks to David Blaine’s…
NetDisaster. Apply a lot of virtual damage to any website you choose. On a whim. To make yourself feel better. Could be your boss’ home page, a competitor who’s just beaten you to an order, or your ex’s new mySpace profile. Yes it’s pathetic, but what the heck. Choose what catastrophe you’d like the target-site to suffer from. The disasters are sorted by category. One disaster is selected at random every time you view the home page, but you can select…
The Aerosoarer is billed as the world’s smallest fully remote controllable indoor aeroplane. So there. It weighs 3.5 grams, which is only a little less than my brain, has a 26cm wingspan and is made of Styrofoam. The flight time is a massive 40 seconds though, so don’t get too attached to them mid-air pyrotechnics, Orville. £24.99. Using the latest in Infra Red technology the controller has just two buttons to control the throttle and rudder. The controller also acts…
Test Tube Aliens. Weird, very weird. Grow them, feed them, watch them glow in the dark. The truth is out there, way out there. Priced at £12.95 ($24.98). Looking after your alien involves adding slime food, exposure to the correct amount of daylight / darkness and letting the aliens cocoon dissolve over a fourteen-day period. The final size of the alien is 8 times the original birth size. Mistreat your alien and its heart will change colour; prompting you to…
Yippee, the Lemmings DHTML game is back online. Critter lovers who played this brilliant game on CD a few years ago will love love love this. Enjoy!
The Natural Sounds Wireless Doorbell. Umm…ahh….err…. it’s $24.95. Announce their arrival with a traditional doorbell sound–or fart noises. It’s a wireless doorbell with a twist. Flip the switch on the back of the transmitter unit from Normal Mode to Fart Mode, and a non-chime sound will herald their button pushing. Includes “out of order” sign to keep people from using your current doorbell button.
