Article Archive for December 2011

Nanny State At It Again: Don’t Use Your Teeth When Sheep Castrating …
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Posted in News on 31 December 2011
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Nanny state bureaucrats at it again. If it’s not banning foie gras, not allowing kids to ride alligators, now they recommend that you don’t castrate sheep with your teeth … what will they take away next?! 🙂 Via the WSJ. Don’t forget to read the comments – most interesting. Photo via 4HP Blogspot. You can […]

Disney Pixar CARS 2: The Art of CARS 2 – The D’uh You Want It Review
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Posted in Disney Pixar, Disney Pixar CARS 3 on 31 December 2011
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The Art of CARS 2 is totally honest. It is totally 100% freakin’ sheer art. The sheer amount of art, artistry, blood, sweat, toil and art on every single square smidgen just staggers the imagination. Then you open the book. 🙂 There are the things you’d expect – the sheer details and storyboards … but […]

Don’t Drink Out of the Coke Can, Let Me Get You a Glass …
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Posted in Food on 30 December 2011
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Don’t drink Cola Cola out of can when you pour it into a glass version of the can … (Amazon link). You can also get it at the official Coca Cola store – you might be shocked but they sell a few licensed items.

Squirrel! With Nasty Sharp Pointy Teeth – Run For Your Lives!
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Posted in News on 30 December 2011
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Yikes! “Fossils of a tiny and previously unknown saber-toothed, squirrel-like creature have been discovered in Argentina, providing new clues to how small mammals lived among dinosaurs more than 93 million years ago.” You can read more at the Huffington Post.

Pixar Shares a Fun Pic …
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Posted in Disney Pixar on 30 December 2011
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You can view the full size here. Original Twitpic here.  

Disney Pixar CARS: Disney Store Combat Ship Review (Awesome 1:55 Ship)
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Posted in Disney Pixar, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Disney Store, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS 3 on 30 December 2011
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The Disney Store Combat Ship is massive. It’s even got lights and sounds! If you look closely, you can see the lights at the tip of the ship and when you press down on the gun turret, there are at three phrases it shouts (I’m not sure the ship has that many more lines in […]

Swedish Goat? Burn, Baby Burn
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Posted in Internet on 29 December 2011
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Every year, in the Swedish town of Gavle, since 1966, they build a giant Christmas goat and take bets whether it gets light up like a well, giant, giant pile of twigs (which it is) … If you bet December 11, you win! 45 years, 28 years burnt to a smoldering shell …  IT BURNS! […]

Disney Pixar CARS Director’s Edition 11-Disc DVD Blu Ray Back On Sale
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Posted in Disney Pixar, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Retail on 29 December 2011
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The 11-disc Blu Ray DVD CARS Director’s Edition set is on sale again for $59.49 Of course, your actual price may vary from this by the time you click. 🙂 It was $59.99 at my first screenshot. 🙂

Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG is a Massive Hit
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Posted in Video Games on 29 December 2011
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif – December 26, 2011 – Over a million gamers worldwide celebrated the holidays in front of their PCs with lightsabers, Sith lords and Jedi knights as BioWareâ„¢, a Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA), continued to see an unprecedented amount of player engagement for Star Warsâ„¢: The Old Republicâ„¢. Over this […]