Rubik's Cube Fun -- Salt & Pepper Mills, Mice, Card Readers, Cakes, Electronics

The set of Rubik's Cube salt and pepper mills will only run you 15 bucks, and hey, it'll be fun to season your food now.

Fat Man and Circuit Girl created a NES mouse and a Rubik's Cube mouse, too. Okay, I might just be posting about this because of their awesome names. Or maybe it's because it involves yet another NES item, hehe.

There are also some items that don't look 'exactly' like Rubik's Cube because their colors aren't the same or the pieces aren't all the same size, but you get the idea:


Rubik's Cube card reader


Rubik's Cube mirror blocks

Oooh, and check out this blast from the past 80s cake with the Rubik's Cube, Super Mario, and Garbage Pail kids...

(From Cake Wrecks....there are some other great vintage cakes in that post, too)



This one is an electronic push-button version instead of the normal twist-around kind. It also has an extra five games you can play on it, so Rubik's Cube definitely got a modern makeover here!

More Geeky Pillows - Cmd + Z, OS X, and laptop

I posted about the Ctrl Alt Del pillows back in May, but since then, I keep stumbling across more.

Apparently Mac users wanted their equivalent, so meet the Cmd + Z pillows:



And here's some OS X ones:



Or how about the laptop to sleep on?

Jim's Skull Art

Some people like to make art out of garbage.

Some people like to make art out of money.

Other people like to make art out of food. Or even dead animals.

Jim? He does skulls. They mostly seem to be created using rope/cord/hemp material (I can't find the material he actually uses), but there are other various kinds of skull sculptures, too. The work is intricate and detailed, so even if skulls might not be your thing, check out the art work involved.

Dry Erase Clock

In a lot of ways, we've come to rely on technology for....well, for everything. Clocks, planners, and alarms are certainly no exception and are actually one of the most frequently used functions of cell phones and such now.

But for some, it's still better to revert back to creative uses of old methods. This dry erase clock is one of those methods. No need to use a fancy phone, your computer, or heck, even good ol' fashioned pen and paper. Hang this on your wall and write your reminders of the day's events right on the face of it. It can't get any clearer than that!

Then again, for the 135 bucks you'd spend on this, maybe you should just get that phone you've been eye-ing instead...

Girlfriend proposes 10 minutes before the wedding

An in-depth article gives all the details of their relationship and how this worked out. Basically, though, the girlfriend of many years and mother of their children together was planning the boyfriend's surprise birthday party and thought "hey, why not make it a surprise wedding?"

With the help of some friends and family, she coordinated the entire event, took him to the place, everyone jumped out and yelled "surprise" as usual. Then she took the mic, got everyone's attention, and proposed, telling him he had 10 minutes to get ready because the wedding was happening right then.

Yikes! Of course he said yes and they'd discussed marriage before but because of financial reasons hadn't done it yet. Talk about a quirky way to propose!