ironrap

Last night I was watching a baseball game and one of the commentators came up with this great stat: “In the time it’s taken you to watch this game, you could have flown from Baltimore to Iceland.” Only in baseball! In fairness it was a long game.
You can always tell who your real friends [...]

Did you know that cooking bacon is a lot like making candy?
It’s true! As you cook bacon – water leaves in the form of steam. The less water there is in bacon – the faster it cooks/burns. This is why you have to be extremely vigilant over your bacon as it approaches the final [...]

I was on the internet today and I found this page called Pets in Uniform. What they do is take a picture of your pet, and manipulate the photo such that it appears to be wearing a uniform. The results are pretty hilarious, so I of course made one of my cat. Now, I’m [...]

Here is a cutting edge idea for an ad for fast acting medicine. It’s cutting edge, because the ad takes place in two segments.
In the first 15 second segment, an actor is talking with a make-up artist backstage.
Actor: [with raspy voice] I don’t feel so good. I don’t think I can go on tonight.
Make-Up Artist: [...]

Are you a big fan of world class sarcastic eye rolling? I know I am.
If you are, then you should have seen The Daily Show’s ‘moment of zen’ last night. It was a news clip from MSNBC. I’ve produced the transcript here:
Dara Brown: …they do say that the energy produced by dolphin calls can promote [...]

After viewing this Powerpoint presentation about video games, here is my idea for a video game innovation. Add a second optical sensor to a mouse in order to detect twisting. This would allow for the creation of an ultra-realistic bobsled simulator. Other possible titles include:
- EA Sports Hawaii Surf Girls 2006
- Chubby Checkers’ Super Dance-Off
- [...]

Here is my idea; a line of deodorant targeted directly to sweaty nerds. There are a lot of brands of deodorant that are aimed at people involved in stereotypically sweaty activities such as mountain biking, yachting, firefighting and shadow boxing. How about a deodorant specifically formulated to deal with the kind of sweat produced after [...]