May 1st is No Pants Day. If you forgot, the situation can be quickly remedied. Go ahead. Stand up. I'll wait right here.
Are we all pants-less now? No? Yeah, me neither. I mean, I was going to take off my pants at work, right? And then I remembered I'm not 19 and this is not the movie Empire Records.
Well, on with the funnies!
- A Venn diagram to explain how cool (yea, even breezy) No Pants Day is.
- Unusual art - Darth Vader stares wistfully at the Death Star
- A collection of (mostly) artsy Penguin Sci-fi book covers
- Presenting the DIY styrofoam turntable. Aren't you proud? Now people in the Third World can have easy access to anachronistic music systems. Pair it with paper speakers, why don't you.
- Now that my husband is cringing over those terrible audio inventions, I will make him smile again with this Star Wars-themed home theatre.
- This was easily the most hilarious thing I read all week. How many laws did Ferris Bueller break on his day off? Metafilter is on the job. Readers came up with a good dozen misdemeanors and one or two felonies (depending on whether Ferris is over 18), a few probationary offenses for Cameron and Sloane, plus one for us viewers: if Ferris was a minor in the movie, we broke the law by watching him take a shower ...
Let's say Ferris wasn't a minor, m'kay? :D
Posted by: Wende | May 01, 2009 at 09:05 PM
The TT and speakers were really creative. The TT arm looks like it could play LPs pretty well, but the light weight of the base means lots of noise. The speakers, while loud enough to hear, would sound like CRAP. Great find!
Posted by: bb | May 01, 2009 at 09:56 PM
@Wende - if he wasn't a minor there are worse things in store for Ferris! Good thing Jeannie made it impossible for Mr. Rooney to turn him in.
@BB - I didn't credit you with enough of a sense of humor to accept the styrofoam turntable. But wouldn't static electricity be a problem?
Posted by: pam | May 02, 2009 at 07:13 AM
YES! Think of Styrofoam pellets used in packing- they practically spark and always stick together. Static electricity has noise and crackle to sound, and is also the Anti-computer incarnate. You can make a PC builder turn white if you open the case ungrounded-just one touch of static to the MB can kill the PC.
Posted by: bb | May 02, 2009 at 11:39 PM