I haven’t posted anything really wacky lately so I thought this was appropriate in bringing the wack factor back to jordenf.com. Meet the Dick Towel… this is normally the point in my blog posts where I explain the product… but I feel it’s pretty self-explanatory.
The towel comes with 3 images on it: Tight Buns, Tiny Bird, and the not as creatively named Huge Cock. Obviously a great Christmas gift for your children or grandmother to find under the tree.
This towel will definitely get you noticed at the beach or when you take your kids swimming at the community pool, but I don’t know if it will get “Chicks Hot” like the website claims it will. My only other question is, when do you use the Tiny Bird part of the towel? No guy in their right mind would pretend they had a tiny tool.
Now apparently if you are a fan of the show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia you will already recognize this towel as the guys from Paddy’s Pub were planning on using the Dick Towel as a promotional item. Now Danny DeVito wearing a Dick Towel is definitely something I do not need to see!
Well if you are bold enough to rock out with your… well you know what out, you can go to DickTowel.com and purchase one of these fine pieces of fabric for $19.95US.
Okay Beatles fans get ready for the most awesome stocking stuffer (albeit an expensive one) for Christmas.
Apple and EMI are releasing a limited edition Apple shaped 16GB USB device that contains all 14 Beatles albums! The albums are all digitally remastered in stereo and are DRM free (Note for Mom and Dad: DRM free means that you can share the music with anyone without getting put in jail). The albums also come in two formats – 320 Kbps MP3 and lossless FLAC 24-bit (Note for Mom and Dad: I know you guys know what an MP3 is but FLAC format is a higher quality version of an MP3 and actually sound cleaner than a CD would… neat huh!?)
As if getting the whole Beatles collection in two different file formats wasn’t enough The Beatles Apple USB also comes with rare photographs, replicated album art, enhanced liner notes, and 13 mini-documentary films.
There will only be 30,000 of these released (at $263CAD) so you may want to get your pre-order on now at The Beatles Store. Canadians, it looks like we will have to order from Amazon.ca as the Beatles website does not ship to us in the Great White North. Release date is December 8th.
With 99 days to go until the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, VANOC has taken one more step in decorating our city. One of the most recognizable symbols in the world, the Olympic rings, will now be on display in Coal Harbour for everyone from the Bentall Building to the top of Grouse Mountain to see!
These 45 feet high LED illuminated rings sit atop a barge in the middle of Coal Harbour just out from the brand new Vancouver Convention Centre. The location was picked because the Vancouver Convention Centre will be where all the media (and their cameras) will hang out and the shoreline surrounding Coal Harbour will also be a high traffic area for athletes and tourists alike. One other benefit to having the rings in the middle of the water is that unless you have scuba gear and can get around the security boats guarding it, defacing the rings as an Olympic protest is going to be really hard.
VANOC wanted to show off their Olympic green initiative by making the rings out of thousands of tiny LED lights. These lights consume approximately eight per cent of the electricity that an equivalent incandescent bulb would. And not only do the lights need less energy but according to Premier Gordon Campbell the rings can be programmed to create complex light shows and anytime a Canadian athlete wins a medal they will put on a special light display to let everyone around them know.
These are the second set of LED Olympic Rings currently in Vancouver, the other set has been in place for a little while now at Vancouver International Airport… not a bad way to welcome tourists!
For more images of the LED Rings and everything else to do with the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 you can visit my Flick Feed.
I’ve always been very impressed with my BlackBerry. I’m always in awe with the technology that goes into it. It’s quite incredible when you break-down all the things you can do on the device such as: send an instant message, surf the web, email, play video games, map your route with the GPS, listen to mp3s, take pictures, record video, and of course phone and text people. That really is an all-in-one device… and it’s not even an iPhone!
Well my cousin sent me a message today about an all-in-one phone that blows the Berry and iPhone out of the mobile water. It’s called the Pomegranate. Not only does this phone look super slick but has some incredible features as well including:
Projector
Global Voice Translator
Coffee Maker
Shaver
Harmonica
Wait… a freakin’ harmonic and a coffee machine!!??? You have got to be kidding me! I encourage you to watch the full 6 minute video below or at least visit their website to experience everything you can do with this bad boy. Of course you can phone, text, surf and do all that regular boring stuff too… but you can do it all while shaving!!!!
So upon clicking through the site trying to figure out how much one of these things was going to cost me I learned that they were created in Nova Scotia, Canada. I thought to myself ‘Cool, I’m glad another Canadian mobile phone company has stepped up to the plate to compete with BlackBerry juggernaut Research In Motion‘… Nothing like a little friendly competition right?
So when I tried to click a few links to find out more information I kept getting sent to the Discover Nova Scotia tourism website. I thought ‘Hmmm something isn’t right here.’ Upon further research I then came to the conclusion that this phone is actually is not a phone at all. It’s a complete fake and is all part of a new viral marketing campaign by the Government of Nova Scotia to attract more tourists.
That’s a pretty slick idea as it got me clicking around the site… but I have to tell you I’m more pissed off at Nova Scotia for tricking me into thinking I was getting a phone that I could play the harmonica on. So congrats Eastern Canada… you have now been relegated to the END of my “places to see before I die” list.
Are you an aspiring musician that has new song ideas popping into your head at all times? Wish you could bring your guitar to work so that you could jam out a few chords on your lunch break? Do you ever feel that when a party is starting to get a little lame that you could possibly save it by leading everyone in a sing along of Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi?
Not only does this shirt look awesome but it actually plays like a proper guitar as it includes all the major chords (which are pre-recorded by a real electric guitar). It also comes with a mini-amplifier that turns up to 11 so you can bust out a proper jam session like the nerds in the video below:
How could these guys NOT be fighting off chicks left right and centre with those chops! Also did you notice the gentleman rocking out on his Drum Kit Shirt in the background? Oh yes, the folks over at ThinkGeek decided that an Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt wasn’t enough and wanted to create The White Stripes of t-shirt bands so the also created the Electronic Drum Kit Shirt, which plays 7 different drum sounds! So now you can play The Hardest Button to Button on the back of the bus and make all sorts of new fans and groupies.
Now the real kicker here is that these shirts are only $30US! Beats paying $176 for a shirt from Christian Audigier that makes you look like a douche and does nothing but rests on your shoulders and covers your chest and stomach with an ugly-ass skull that says Heart Breaker underneath it.
So now you really only need an electric bass guitar shirt (those bassists always get left out) and maybe throw in a playable piano tie as well and you could be picking up tonnes of babes on the beach or underneath a tree or wherever super sensitive musicians and poets hang out.
Rock On!
jordenf
Find more pictures of these two shirts on my Flickr Feed or if you would like to read a related post you can always check out mine on The Art of the Air Instrument!
