Design a sticker for Chiquita (link roundup)

Some of the new stickers adorning Chiquita bananas. You can read about the project here, and design your own sticker here.

And a few more links:

1. Stormtrooper Iwo Jima homage. Via.

2. Spinach Artichoke Dip recipe.

3. Loek van Mil is a 7'1" pitching prospect on the Twins.

*Previously: "El Pulpo," the polydactyly pitcher.

*Buy baseball bobbleheads at eBay.

Advertising roundup

Optical illusion by McCann for Hygiene makes it look like a stain disappears as you get closer to the sweater.




Iwo Jima homage by BETC Euro RSCG to promote the Great Fashion Sale (to fight AIDS).




Very stretchy gum ad by McCann Worldgroup.




Percept/H placed pawprints leading to a toilet to promote a dog trainer.




McCann put a sumo on a revolving door to promote Meiji milk.

*See more of my favorite ads here.

*Buy vintage advertising at eBay.

Lego minifig shadow, triumphant Chess pieces, and more

Drowned car, Iwo Jima chess pieces, and Lego minifig shadow by Ivan Puig.

*Previously: Underwater circus.

*Buy Lego minifigs at eBay.

Workers heroically erect a lamp post (link roundup)

Iwo Jima homage - - spotted in Nik Daum's latest photo gallery from Shanghai. Don't miss the photo of hikers looking at the city far below.

And a few more links:

1. Nazi werewolf.

2. Ten more minutes of Final Fantasy 13.

3. Simple, fun flash game about a penguin fleeing an avalanche. Via.

*Previously: Werewolf paper toy.

*Buy Final Fantasy toys at Play-Asia.

The Invention of Color; Iwo Jima parody

Two Threadless t-shirts currently up for vote. If you'd like the chance to buy them, vote by clicking on the voting widgets.


The Invention of Color by Ben Hartnett.




Iwo Jumpa by Eugen Cazacu.


And don't forget to enter this month's contest to win a $100 Threadelss store credit.

*Buy Oswald the Lucky Rabbit toys at eBay.

Crate Men Attack Australia (link roundup)

Go to Australia and you just might see a crate man scaling a building. This site documents sightings. Via these fine sites.

And a few more links:

1. Hopefully it's just gamesmanship, but the Philadelphia Public Library system has announced that all libraries will be closed beginning October 2 due to budget problems. Via.

2. A former ESPN employee says Fred Smoot is a tremendous trash-talker who seemingly had done extensive research on opposing receivers' private lives for material, Nick Saban was stunningly vulgar, and that a former ESPN employee who killed himself was "almost universally loathed."

3. Iwo Jima Memorial, if it was sponsored by Disney. Via.

*Previously: Library's parking garage looks like giant books.

*BUy The Librarian from the Black Lagoon at Amazon.

Overloaded bicycle (link roundup)

Overloaded bicycle spotted amidst the latest batch of excellent photos taken in China by Nik Daum. Don't miss the Iwo Jima Memorial homage.

And a few more links:

1. Executing someone in Florida apparently requires eight injections. Via.

2. Pithy and very funny Uncomfortable Plot Summaries. For example: Conan the Barbarian: Petty thief murders religious leader. Or: Demolition Man: In a future where crime is completely eradicated, a black man steals and murders.

3. Scuba diving beneath Hagia Sophia in Instanbul.

*Previously: The lamentations of Conan.

*Buy Conan posters at eBay.

Panda Iwo Jima Parody

Artist's blog.


Panda Revolution III by ~xiaobaosg on deviantART

Threadless T-Shirt Design: Musical Iwo Jima Parody

Iwo Jima Parody for Public Finance Magazine

Spotted here. Public Finance Magazine's official site.

Threadless T-Shirt Design: Iwo Jima, if it involved pirates

Parody: Iwo Jima Monument meets call for blog contributors

Link. More Iwo Jima parodies here.

Clever/depressing Iwo Jima Memorial Parody

Seems to be a newspaper ad. Link.