• Movie reviews/re-enactments done with lolcats. So great! New Moon and Sex and the City.
• Team Edward [James Olmos]
• Annie shows us how to do a really great tie-dye manicure. Is is way cooler than it sounds.
• How a web designer goes straight to hell. I hope I never come across as this retarded when getting something designed!
• Drinking glasses that say either Milk, Orange, or Coca cola depending on which drink you put in them? Yes please! These cipher glasses are genius!
• All the major plot points of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (aka nothing but spoilers) plus a few extras to throw you off the scent. Can you guess which ones?
• A lovely tattoo in a lovely font. Can anyone tell me what the font is called?
• Twilight Moms (will taking the piss out of Twilight ever get boring?)
• Growing up means suddenly liking sushi, and also from More is Better “you and your vagina are so demanding”. Just read them, she’s funny, I promise!
• Lawyers often get it wrong when trying to protect their client’s trademarks, issuing cease and desist letters for mere mentions of a brand name and generally not understanding the laws they’re trying to protect. Copyright gets invoked incorrectly in the same manner. So how do you protect your ideas these days? Get known, and be the best, the go to gal!
• Men spend more money than women. It’s true! They buy TVs and playstations and the first thing they spot in the store so they can leave, while women research and find sales and will (mostly) happily walk the shopping strip twice in a day just to make sure they’re getting the best bargain. (I don’t agree with the claim that women spend their money on making men happy though, many do but I certainly don’t!)

Best of Twilight

Piece of Me fan video. Makes me feel sad for Britney

Can you fucking believe it’s December already?!

• Lovers Diary last week was beautiful and sad and romantic.
• I have a really exciting project will you work on it for free? From the genius that bought us the 7 legged spider.
• Get Excited and Make Things and Keep Calm and Conjure a Patronus Charm. I’ll take one of each thanks!
• The list of common misconceptions is a fantastic read. Putting to rest many of the uh, misconceptions, we’ve grown up with.
  

  Bats are not blind. While most bat species do use echolocation to augment their vision, all bats have eyes and are capable of sight.

• Currently rewatching the Harry Potter movies and at this very moment I’m watching The Goblet of Fire with Cedric Diggory aka Robert Pattinson aka Edward Cullen. How appropriate that this popped up on my reader right now – Harry Potter vs Twilight.
• I love how with celebrity caricatures even though every feature is so exaggerated it’s still really easy to tell who it is.
  
• The designer you treat like shit has quit unexpectedly.
• Famous men crying. They all look so vulnerable! My favourite is Daniel Craig.
• Buyers generally don’t care that your experience and time are worth paying for. Most only care who can do the job cheapest. That doesn’t mean the buyer is stupid, it doesn’t mean they’re a terrible person. And it’s not your place to accuse them of it.
• OMFG I die. My black side zip cotton jacket is an poor substitute for this beauty.
• Kaylah is so cute. Even when she’s putting a pencil through her nose.
• Dude it’s 2.30 on a Friday. I’m a graphic designer. The suitcase is full of tacos. And a frisbee.
• Your cute kitties for the week – one and two.


Top 60 Ghetto Black Names


no, YOU’RE SO PRETTY


Santogold – You Will Find A Way – FIFA 08 Original Version


Nom nom nom kitty

• The Naked Redhead details a few of the reasons Twilight is shit.
  

  First, Bella is un-dateable because she has a condition I like to call, “I look like I have scurvy.”

  Gold.

• Bad Romance fashion!
• I have a feeling that scottish folds are the cutest kitties every. Kitty dressed in a lobster costume in a lobster pot and (a a potential scottish fold) kitty trying to eat a piano.
• Tash cooked for Amanda Palmer and her crew. Amaze.
• Chickie Little has written an amazing guide on how to yum char, if you’ve always been too scared to try it because you don’t know the etiquette then you’re in luck!
• Wee bit of a back story. About 6 months ago our parliament passed a bill that removed the “reasonable force” defence when disciplining children, meaning that no more horrible mothers will escape punishment when they whip their children.

  Since then there has been a citizens initiated referendum asking whether people should be allowed to hit their kids (it was actually terribly worded and not at all in plain english). It wasted a whole lot of money even though it’s non-binding. A whole bunch of crazies have decided that citizen initiated referenda should be binding and there was a protest in Auckland to demonstrate their feelings.

  Editing the Herald has quite a few of the great protest signs up. (not that NZ’s Dancing With the Stars has been cancelled, Carly Binding was a part of NZ’s made for TV girl group True Bliss, and it’s section 59 not 51) Other favourites are Hit My Baby One More Time, Violence = Love, and Advice Dog Says “Beat Kids – Reduce Stress”.

• Last week I got to chat with bad ass Michelle of Wicked Whimsy. We talked about style, and blogging, and cats! Check it out.
• Cuddly Rigor Mortis is exactly the kind of art I love! Check out the article on Eat Me Daily then head over to the Cuddly Rigor Mortis shop and send pick me up a present. Go on!
• I want one! I’d also love a back yard to put it in.
• Facebook official is the new pin/going steady/exclusive.
• A horrible but unfortunately not uncommon of a child being taken away from its mother by other family in the Middle East.
• Definatalie is the queen of whimsy.
• A customers value is much more than the amount of their current purchase. So why don’t companies get this? Especially the big ones, sure my $30 a month might seem small now but what about when I have my empire and that turns into thousand per month…that you’re not going to get?
• 50 practical tips to save you half a lifetime.
  

  If milk’s even a bit off, it’s off.

• The truth about college.
• Happysaddiagram – that bit in the middle.
• And one final cute to help you through the week.

How Twilight should have ended

• To get more traffic to your site you may need porn.
• Have you entered to win an exclusive shirt yet?
• Ms Von has all the tricks. I consistently fail at using lists for productivity, and I work from home so I can’t use the first ten minutes trick, but the 20 minute timer. That sounds like gold.
• Regarding equal rights for gay people:
  

  The National Guard will stand outside the courthouses and force you to grow the hell up, and you will be remembered in history like those sad ugly white people yelling at the black kids coming to class.

  Hopefully it happens sooner rather than later!

• Next time you’re having trouble deciding just ask What Would a Unicorn Do?
• She’s off to off the Wizard – Wizard of Oz 2.
• [redacted] is one of my new favourite blogs. A couple of great posts to get you started – 30 Things I’ve Learned By The Time I Turned 30, and That Time I Was In Asia: Massage in the First Degree.
• I refuse to grow up!
• What an amazing talent. This tattoo seems to move out from the skin without the need for 3D glasses. Beautiful.
• Bish, plz. U cant read mah pokur face.

• Advanced fashion quiz: Clutch or vibrator?
• Feminism is not a dirty word.
• Who you are does not have to = what you do. Most people these days realise that you may just be using your unglamorous job to pay for your hobbies, or until something better comes along, or because the economy is shit and everyone in your company was made redundant. It’s not the end of the world.
• I read someone’s comment the other day that said you are not just your age, you are also all the ages that came before it. At 24 I also have the experiences of a one, two, ten, 15 and 21 year old. Which means the tactics used to sell products to a five year old will probably still work on me, just dressed up a bit. Make me want something bad enough and I will get it.
• Puddle thinking.

• Why is it considered the height of civilization to work 8 to 10 hours a day in a mind numbing “job”, to commute 1-3 hours per day, to eat processed and manufactured food, to live in wood and steel cans isolated from mother nature and the very land base we are destroying, all to finally collapse at the end of the day in front of a brightly colored display of moving pictures and sound that feeds various violent or sexual fantasies directly into our brains, only to repeat the next day?

  via Poor Taste

Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
Despite the horrific choreography this video is AMAZE

A cute kitty being fed with chopsticks? Yes please!

Seeing my dog the day I got back from Afghanistan

This cat is totes pissed! The commentary is ridculous and therefore hilarious.

• Are you missing amazing things in life because you’re always rushing to your next destination?
• How old is this woman? Digital retouchers go mad!
• Have you ever seen a tattoo do itself? Now you can.
• I’m a bit of a geek blogger Charlie has been so kind to let Cupcakes and Mace use her blog name as a necklace in our C² range. The lovely lady herself models her I’m a bit of a geek necklace on her blog! She’s so adorbs.
  You can get your own I’m a bit of a geek necklace too!
• Michelle has turned her ongoing negative experience with a counterfeit Melissa shoe seller into a public service announcement. Some great advice if you’re looking into buying Melissa shoes, or if you’re having trouble dealing with a seller on eBay.

• The Governator says FUCK YOU.
• I can hardly imagine what internet at 61mbps would be like. The average US broadband speed is only 4.8mbps!
• Those dirty rotten houses…
• Jude Law and Ewan McGregor sharing breakfast in bed. Keira Knightley looking more princess than anorexic. Lorenzo Agius catches these images and more in a totally gorgeous way.
• If you’ve spent any time at all on highly visited or commented on blogs you might have heard terms like ‘Poe’s Law’ and ‘Rule 34′ bandied about. But what does that mean, and are there any other internet rules you should know about?
• 25 years and 7 million dollars for a job that doesn’t even exist?!

Hilarious piss take of radio friendly “artists” featuring Sarah Silverman!

• Mac users always take the love too far.
• Doe Deere takes us behind the scenes of a cosmetic line. Specifically the lipstick line of her Lime Crime brand. I don’t wear much makeup but I’m grateful that there are determined ladies like Deere forcing the labs and marketers to stop treating consumers like they don’t have a mind of there own. Often the only reason we buy their lipstick is because we can’t find anything we really like, not because we absolutely love it.
• Jimmy Jangles made an A-Z list of his favourite NZ blogs and I’m on it. :D I love the tag line he gave me “Eats candy and makes lots of plastic Unicorns.”
• And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I took off in a balloon filled with hot air.
• As you may well know I am a big fan of microwave cooking. Jo kindly put up her recipe for microwave brownies at my request. I haven’t tried them yet as my candy stash should last me another few days. But one day soon…
• Wow, Australia has some weirdo animals.
• Cherry picking – The act of pointing at individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position.
• If reading threads on abortion, feminism, and fat acceptance is getting dull try spicing it up with a game of bingo. There’s one for concern trolls, anti choice, transphobia, anti feminists, rape apologists, and anti gay. Have fun!
• Winona cracks some Darwin/hair pin jokes.
  

  “For keeping your bangs under control, these pins are a natural selection.”

• It is always amazing how people adapt to their situation. Jessica Cox is the first pilot with no arms.
• If this article is anything to go by I can proudly call myself a creative type. It outlines productivity tips that creative types already know.
• Happy Birthday Bitch.
• How to make chocolate chip cookies just like the delicious fat chewy ones you get at specialty bakeries. Yum!


Sky Cake (delicious sky cake!)


An Atheist Finds God!


Brian Regan foods and labels


Maru the cat


Maru in the bin. My favourite part starts at 1.43

• A guest post on Shapely Prose addresses a very real issue that both women and men need to talk about. A woman cannot afford to let her guard down around men she doen’t know, ever, and especially in secluded or confined areas. Every guy she meets is Schrödinger’s Rapist. This is a post that every male should read – a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced.
  Includes great pointers on how to read the mostly obvious signals women send.
  A reversal of the roles usually assigned in rape scenarios really makes you think. Instead of thinking of rape as something that will happen to one in six women, how about realising rape is something that likely one in 60 men will commit. That means there are probably a few rapists in your area and maybe even in your circle of friends. (I don’t mean to scare monger, but it’s a very real and scary issue)
• Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About is a very strange site (and an ugly one too). The writing is quite entertaining but it’s about a German woman that sounds insane and a British man that sounds like an asshole and I can’t figure out why they’re together if they hate each other so much. Utterly fascinating.
• Pretty.
• What a gorgeous concept for a watch.
• Wow. Watching the Worldometer numbers tick (or speed!) by is pretty mind blowing.

• Lardee and ickle attempt to make cupcakes!
• “Excuse me, do you have a good, dry sack?”
• Top ten defences that aren’t actually defences when it comes to rape. This post is specific to Roman Polanski but I can think of far too many other cases where statements like “It wasn’t rape-rape” is used.
• So fucking future! WANT.
• Another amazing craftster tutorial. Make amazing gift bows out of magazines and some brads. Awesome!
• Punks not dead.
• Maegan documents another beautiful DIY. This time it’s jewellery.


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