Zombie pierced skulls and love letters.

I can finally write that letter of resignation I have so been meaning to.

Jacques Pense, a guy who does creative advertising and design for Behance Network, developed some tasteful zombie stationary for 13th Street, an NBC-Universal owned crime and horror channel.

I personally love the staple and hole punch sheets. Makes for great love letter paper to help spice it up in the bedroom. Now somebody just needs to make vampire stationary for the never ending zombies vs. vampire battle.

You can check out more of Jacques Pense's cool stuff here: http://www.behance.net/JacquesPense

Stationary Of Horror [behance]

A Home for Hobbits

Ah, the world's tiniest home is now for sale for a mere £110,000. Um, that's about $154K. This little house is 7 feet wide and 47 feet long, making it one of the smallest homes in the world. Oh, wait, there are those huts in third world countries. At 312-square feet, this tiny home sits squished between 2 houses in Toronto, Canada, and because of my affinity for tiny things, I want to buy it for the heck of it.
It even has it's own website, putting it 1 step ahead of me.

http://www.paulfite.com/2008/01/worlds-smallest-house-for-sale.html

Earthquakes taking over the world?

I feel like I hear about a new devastating earthquake every week. So I wanted to find out how many earthquakes there have been so far this month, and I was surprised to find out that just yesterday, there were 60 earthquakes worldwide, ranging from 2.5 to 6.9 on the Richter scale.

The U.S. Geology Survey, (USGS), says that earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have been constant over the years. They also believe that part of the reason for so many earthquakes is the improvement in their technology over the last 20 years. They are able to detect and locate more earthquakes with the current 8,000 worldwide seismograph stations rather than 350 stations back in 1931. USGS also mentions that nowadays, more people are interested in the natural disasters and because of today's technology, lets say, the internet, people are more informed. 

So my surprise to hear of the 60 earthquakes just yesterday, isn't so surprising after all. The National Earthquake information center now locates about 20,000 earthquakes annually or approximately 50 per day.

Although USGS assures us that according to their long-term records they expect about 17 major earthquakes (7.0 - 7.9) and one great earthquake (8.0 or above) in any given year, it doesn't sound very reassuring when you think about the major earthquakes hitting Haiti, Chile, Taiwan and Turkey in just two months this year.

Here's a picture of a map of global seismic activity as of this moment, on April 14th. Click the link to go to the interactive map and watch the earthquakes take over the world daily.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

via [usgs]

Here is something familiar, anybody heard of the WePad?

I know, its not fair to knock down gadgets that you've never tried before. But when I heard that German company neofonie is developing the WePad, I had to smirk.

Without an actual demonstration, its unclear as to whether this new gadget will run comparably to the iPad, so I cannot be pessimistic yet. But WePad advertises using Android technology. Having first hand experience with Android on the G1 phone, I absolutely hate it. Its slow, not always responsive to your touch and not fluid at all. It freezes all the time. Having experienced such frustration with Android technology before makes me a little skeptical about it being used on other gadgets. But because the WePad is competiting with Apple's iPad, I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps the two systems running on the WePad, (Android and Linux), will improve on past issues and be used in a smart way. After all, its not entirely fair to compare the Android's poor performance on a cell phone to a tablet.

At first glance, it seems like Neofonie isn't being very original with the WePad. It looks like they took the basic design of the iPad and put their version of the iPhone OS on it. It's like what Burger King did with McDonald's sausage egg McMuffin sandwich,"it's not that original, but it's only a buck."But the guys at WePad obviously didn't watch that commercial since the price of their base WePad, the 16GB, is 449 Euro, which is about $609 which makes it significantly more expensive than the $499 16 GB iPad.

So what are the differences?
First of all, WePad says they want you to enjoy the internet your way and says it won't tell you what you can buy and do because that, to WePad, is not freedom. They say using the Android software will give developers the freedom to create any app they dream of and any app that already exists for Android will also run on the WePad.

Physically, the first thing that will jump out at you is the size. The iPad has a 9.7-inch glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display. The WePad does the same thing at 11.6 inches. Here are some more comparisons from the WePad website.

So preordering starts in Germany on April 27, with mass ordering by August 2010. But who cares about that. If the WePad is limited to Germany, what is the point?

Recycled Keyboard Clutch

I'm all for recycling, and since chicks have to carry around so much stuff, (tricorder, street fighter action keychain, robot chickie, the usual), why not carry it in a recycled, awesome clutch. This makes me want to rip my keyboard apart and make a keyboard bikini set. Hmmm...

http://www.neatoshop.com/product/Recycled-Keyboard-Clutch

Breast Expansion Madness

Apparently breast expansion videos are the new fetish. Anything involving boobs getting bigger, I am a fan. Yes, the water explosion is my favorite.

Embarrassing Moments: Tourists

Screw taking a picture of this historical building. This is much better, a bunch of people looking like idiots as they try to lean on the leaning tower of Pisa.