Could someone please make the IWOOT team some of these please:
We can’t get enough of these fuming fowls whether it’s on the iPhone or the cuddly, all most real-life versions, but having seen these cupcakes (check out all the other attempts on Google: search ‘Angry Birds cupcakes’) we’re now partially obsessed with eating a cupcake with an Angry Bird on it.
Cripes. So it’s not enough that Google Street View can now catch criminals in the act, now it’s good for life-improvement as well. The man in this image from the popular routefinder/stalker’s favourite has reportedly turned his life around and lost 7 stone after seeing himself as the rest of the world does:
Thanks to some nifty dieting and a bit of exercise (there really is no better way), this rotund self-regarder proves that there are potentially no limits to the good Google Street View can do (we are not sponsored by Google). So when’s the bad stuff going to start happening? People discovering affairs, working out who ran over their dogs, that kind of thing? Surely it’s only a matter of time…
Via The Telegraph.
Again, we’ve been thoroughly impressed with both the amount and the quality of your pumpkins. There’ve been vomiting pumpkins, mother-in-law pumpkins, sci-fi pumpkins… someone even entered a melon. Can’t think why. Anyway, it’s been a tough decision (so tough that we had to throw it open to an office vote), but we’ve finally come up with a winner we think is worthy of the Wand Remote Control:
Aww. This pumpkin was carved by Paul Lewis (and obviously modelled on Lennox the dog), so well done to Paul from all of us and enjoy your prize!
You may remember that last year we had a very successful pumpkin carving competition to celebrate Halloween. Well, shockingly, we’ve decided not to fix something that ain’t broke and do the exact same thing again! We were so impressed by the standard last year that we’re dead excited (Halloween joke-ette) to see what you’ll come up with this time around.
But what are you carving for, exactly? Whoever carves the best pumpkin will be the lucky winner of one of our superb Wand Remote Controls, the perfect thing to make your living room that little bit more magical. Use it to control anything that has a remote control – lights, the telly, your iPod dock, whatever you’ve got.
Here’s a picture of last year’s winner to get you in the mood and give you inspiration:
You can see some more of our favourites from last year by clicking here. We want the most creative, elaborate, scary or interesting pumpkin sculpture you can possibly craft – the standard of last year’s competition was extremely high, and we want to beat it. Once you’ve carved your pumpkin, photograph it and post it on our Facebook page, here.
So get a pumpkin and get carving to be in with a chance of winning! You’ve got until midday on Monday November 1st to post your photographs on our Faceook page.
That’s right, we’ve been bowled over by another Star Wars novelty. This time, it’s an exceptionally impressive pumpkin carving, fashioned into the shape of R2D2 by a clever and improbably-named person called Noel Dickover. Pictures are on your left and below…
Now, we don’t want to get you too excited, but you might call this an inspiration for a forthcoming competition at IWOOT. So best keep your eyes peeled (that’s a good Halloween-y sort of phrase, isn’t it? Surprised no-one’s made a decent pun out of it yet… here’s hoping…).
Via the ever-excellent NPR.
We’re not kidding. This is ridiculous.
Now, we know what you’re thinking, and you’re right. Anyone who takes their cat FOR A WALK in the first place needs to take a long hard look at themselves. Man’s quest to anthropomorphise his pets has often led to some bizarre outcomes, but this has to be among the strangest. Fortunately the look on the cat’s face as the batty old lady washes its paws is full of enough contempt to leave you in no doubt that the cat knows that what’s happening is totally wrong.
Via Robot Vs Badger.
Flipping heck, us Brits know how to theme a week, don’t we?! Whoever had the idea of having a National Cupcake week clearly has some kind of higher intelligence than ours, but at least we’re prepared with some rather nice Cupcake-y products. In fact, just this week we launched a new Giant Cupcake Pan for you to make oversized cupcakes with, and there’s always our trusty Teacup Cakes if you’ve got someone important coming round for tea.
If you’re looking for inspiration for making your own cupcakes to celebrate this most tasty of festivals, then look no further than the winner of the 2010 Cupcake Champion competition (honestly, who thought of this? It’s amazing!). David Bennett, who previously worked in several Michelin-starred restaurants, obviously values the humble cupcake high enough to craft a sumptuous-sounding Mango & Passion Fruit cupcake that won him the coveted title. There’s a list of the finalists and their cupcake creations at this link – some of them are literally insane. Mojito cupcake, anyone?
So… a nice family BBQ was plotted for Bank Holiday Monday. My brother, sister and I would cook and then my Mum and Stepdad would come round and eat. It clouded over so I, Ella ‘I feel the cold’ Williamson, suggested we cook everything in the oven and then my brother and sister were going to finish it off on the BBQ so our parents would never know we hadn’t been slaving over hot coal all day. We were all feeling lazy so we decided to pop the mini BBQ on the windowsill. It was pretty smoky so we had all the windows open, but were generally feeling pretty smug about our genius plan.
The doorbell went minutes later and we buzzed our guests up assuming it was the parentals. Imagine our horror when not one, not two, but three firemen in full regalia walked into my brother’s flat and extinguish our BBQ. The neighbours must have been alarmed by the smoke and called the Fire Brigade. We were mortified. The firemen (thankfully) didn’t have any other fires on that afternoon so found the whole thing quite amusing. They even stayed for a photo shoot:
Yup, you read it right. Bacon for your toaster. How frikkin’ cool is that? What with microwave poached eggs taking about two minutes – you could have an awesome breakfast in three. I did notice the advert looked a little old. So there must be a reason why we cant currently buy this…
“Reddi-Bacon (1964) was precooked and there was very little extra fat involved when the foil packets were heated. However, there was occasional slight leaking from torn or damaged foil packages, and that undoubtably caused some smoking and ruined toasters. The problems with the packaging was vexing enough to the company that Reddi-Bacon never really made it out of test markets before the product was pulled from the market.”
Oopsy – probably should have shown this to Danny Woot before I gave him the pack I found in the back of the fridge!!!!! I hope our toaster’s ok.
Via Geekologie
Every day one of the creative team is responsible for making the rest of the team lunch. More often than not, it’s baguettes or wraps. It’s a logical system that benfits us all. The only thing that has from time-to-time thrown a curve ball our way is the fact that JennaWoot is a vegetarian. Initially I thought this would would be the day I least looked forward to lunch. Boy, has she proven me wrong. The hard cold facts are that I love meat, and will never have the will power or the drive to remove it from my life. That aside, I have a new found respect for the culinary ways of the strong-willed ones. I have been fortuante enought to experience the delights of asparagus on a bbq and grilled halloumi cheese. I am constantly on the lookout for new delicious vegetarian things to eat, because we all know that a few veg dinners mid-week are actually GOOD for you.
It is with this in mind that I found Rike Sita’s blog – gibberlicious. It is full with wonderful veg based recipes, and whilst scouring through all of them, found myself laughing hysterically at this particular pie. All meals are provided with step by step instructions, and nice photo slide shows. Give it a read, I’m sure like me, you will find yourself drooling:)
