November 2011
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A Peever's Internet Companion
Greasemonkey script or some other sort of browser plug-in or add-on. Identifies and highlights potential peeve-bait (from “irregardless” to sentence-terminal prepositions) on every page you visit, underlining questionable or contentious words and phrases with tooltips explaining the usage issues involved, with references to reliable usage manuals.
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Pukulele
iPhone app: Fart Piano meets Guitar Hero meets horking. Strum out the Hawaiian vomiting melodies any time, any place.
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Sbeakers
Small pair of desktop computer speakers shaped like Beaker from The Muppets.
Built in high-pass filtering mode that aggressively cuts out everything below 2KHz to turn your audio output into high-pitched Beakerspeak.
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notactuallyadick.tumblr.com
Blog that features reader-submitted images that look to a greater or lesser extent like dicks but aren’t actually dicks. A banana and two strawberries, or distorted drawing of Pinocchio, or an odd knot in a tree, etc.
Technically SFW except for it has “dick” in the title.
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Rearranged Meal Photo Blog
Blog featuring before-and-after photos of meals as they were delivered to the diner and as they look after the diner moves things around to their satisfaction before digging in.
Is the bacon in the wrong place? Why do they even put the lettuce on the plate if you don’t want to eat it? This plate needs rotating 90 degrees clockwise! And so forth.
Potential corpus of material for...
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Deep Placemat Nine
Commemorative laminated-plastic placemats featuring headshots and character bios for all the major characters of the third Star Trek franchise, done up like an LCARS display of crew dossier files.
Pros: would make millions and millions of dollars.
Cons: would get sued by Paramount for millions and millions of dollars.
