we were driving to london today, and were passing stonehenge. the uber-hip guitar player who was riding along with us called a friend to tell him he was looking at “that thing from the spinal tap movie”. then, i glanced down out my window (we were in a van, fairly high up), as a rolls royce was passing us. i noticed the driver, a 50-something guy, and another person (female: wife? daughter? other?) sitting directly behind him. then i noticed why: he had a surfboard in the car, which was taking up the other front seat and back seat (front seat reclined flat). something about that moment in time — rocker talking to his friend about spinal tap, stonehenge, rolls royce with a surfboard in it — well, i was momentarily humored and disoriented.

my first response to this chair was “oh, that’s so cool”.

but, after looking a bit longer, i’m thinking it looks like a wheelchair for a moto-fixated harley-geezer. might be the only motorcycle-like thing i’ll ever have, someday…

while the hover scooter is pretty cool (though it’s a bit baffling why the guy in the promo photo is wearing a tie!), the $1.5million hovering bed might be even more cool. i totally cracked up, however, at the sub-title to the article: [dutch designer] warns people with piercings not to enter magnet field between floor, bed.

(ht to dave barry)

all you manly men will be slice veggies and prepare dinner if you have one of these.

(ht to dave barry)

ooh — this is way too cool.  a collection of “pens” with bluetooth that replace the need for a laptop!  they project a screen and a keyboard!  check it out…

UPDATE:  here’s the scoop on the “reality” of this technology.

it took me a second looking at these pictures to figure out what the kite was in the photos! the computer pointer kite turns photos into a bit of performance art. what a kick. look closely at the photos, you can see the kite strings. sure, you could just photoshop in a big cursor on your pics — but having it be real is somehow more fun.

certainly, this has to be one of the most confusing and odd crime ledger headlines i’ve ever seen:

Police arrest naked man after he flails car with a stolen pigeon

(ht to dave barry)

i find this an odd cross-section of intriguing, disturbing, amusing and odd. apparently this guy has been tattooing pigs for years. a recent exhibition in china (where he creates his art) got him into hot water (hot mud? hot ink?) due to a lenin tattoo on one of the pigs.

here’s an article

here’s a gallery (i have to admit, the louis vuitton pig does seem to qualify as an intriguing piece of art).

disclaimer: no pigs, or animals of any kind, were injured in the writing of this blog post.

(ht to bobbie)

we’re all awaiting the fireworks. here are three very, very tired dcla peeps — holli, rachel and kaylyn — barely staying awake.

fantastic!