Scale Mat: Wipe your feet on the dried up tears of previous overweight visitors.

Want to really get underneath someone’s skin in a way mere words simply can’t obtain? Talk about someone’s weight. Most people hate that. Am I advocating it? No. It’s just not nice to make fun of them or criticize them. But advocating something as clever and funny as a door mat that doubles as a scale is funny. Next time your friends/family come over, walk do the door and pause for a moment, listening to see if they notice the Doormat Scale and if they then realize how much pressure they actually exert on the earth with those two feet of theirs. If there was ever a way to make fun or highlight someone’s weight without getting too personal or mean, this would be the way.

Then again, we could always turn the tables and say put this mat at the back door. For every time you come home from a nice meal out on the town, stepping on Mr. Truth will surely drop kick your feelings of self righteousness and force you to remember all of the junk you crammed in your gut. The scale never forgets…

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Facebook, dead beat friends, and friending your dad can have undesired consequences… [Humor]

Last week we had the happy tale of the extra social bride and groom and today we have a slightly less stellar but equally happy (for us…the ones who get to point and laugh) social networking moment. Remember kids, if you friend parents, teachers, other important figures who have power over you, perhaps it’s a wise thing to refrain from insults and other insulting comments directed towards them. At the very least, delete the comments calling your mom/step mom a hooker. Sadly, this isn’t the first account of someone letting slip some personal feelings about their boss, family members, or friends, and forgetting that the entire world can see. Lack of common sense on their part with a healthy dose of humor on ours. Is it bad to laugh at other peoples’ lapse of common sense?

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F your smartphone. No really! [iPhone Art]

We could try all day to express our feelings of anger, disgust, and outright hate by “talking it out” or using other means. But why do all of that nonsense when a simple “fuck” is all that is really needed? Think you have it bad for that smartphone of yours? The owner of this iPhone obviously had some anger problems. It isn’t so bad though. Instead of punching kittens and killing fish he decided to go the verbal route and use one of the most versatile and colorful words contained within the confines of the human language. The creators precision and use of color and ingenuity is brilliant. Bravo good chap, bravo.

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Microsoft’s new “Bing” search engine already diseased?

While Microsoft’s Bing search engine still isn’t fully live, I had some time to think about what Bing really meant. Just look at it. It doesn’t look or even sound like it originated from the English language. So where did it come from? According to the Chinese language, “bing” means “disease”. Awesome! Isn’t it amusing when companies pick these obscure names they hope will stand out and stick in your mind but don’t do any/very little background research on the name in question? I for one enjoy occurrences such as these. I wonder how Redmond will counter such the message or stigma that could now possibly be attached to bing…don’t you?

Source: Tech Crunch