It’s not hard to make your own ringtone. We’ve got Japanese guitarist Hide’s James-Bond-style opening anthem to his album Psyence on ours. It gives a splash of daring and adventure to our lives every time our girlfriend calls and asks us to pick up tampons while we’re out at the store. The advantage of making your own ringtone goes beyond cost: how else would you ever be able to make your ringtone a Van Dyke Parks song about murdering small children, or an Ivor Cutler spoken word poem about perverted, drunken Scots? Jamster sure doesn’t sell those.
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Purplos: Disgusting New Zealand Purple Sausage
By 3.8.06
Did you know carrots used to be purple? It’s true — their distinctive fluorescent oranginess was bred into them by Dutch carrot breeders in the 18th century. Likewise, did you know sausages are initially purple? Drive your fist through the loins of a squealing sow, then pull out a steaming spool. See? Gross, but truth is stranger than fiction.
Cut Down on Extraneous Discount Cards
By 3.8.06
Savvy bro Lifehacker got turned onto a great idea posted at DIY Mods on cutting down on all those extra store discount cards bursting out your purse.
What Kind of Shopper Are You, Results
By 3.7.06
Results of poll started on February 22nd asking, What Kind of Shopper Are You?
Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.7.06
• SlickDeals is reporting that the Amazon coupon code TOOLDAYS, which is supposed to be just for tools, is working on nearly every item on Amazon to give a 10% discount. Try the 50OFFMAR code on Tools, too, to get $50 off $250. Good luck!
Hybrid Cars = Bad Investments
By 3.7.06
Consumer Affairs has a summary up on Consumer Reports’ latest article examining the cost benefits of hybrid electricity/gasoline cars.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.6.06
• Ol’ Woot! is trying to push those InFocus 61-inch DLP HDTVs on us one more time, going so far as to add the oh-so-appealing ‘random bag of crap’ along for the $2,505 purchase price. They do say this is the last time they’ll be pitching these, though, thank all that is holy.
New, Gayer, $10 Bill is FABULOUS
By 3.3.06
Plunking down the paper just got a little more fun with the introduction of the new, swishier, $10 bill yesterday.
Morning Deals Roundup
By 3.3.06
$100 off any purchase of $200 or more at Sharper Image. Could expire any second. Now’s the time to stock up on those Jacob’s Ladders, desktop-sized pinball machines and lazy ass robo floor vacs you’ve been saving up for. [via Tech Bargains]
Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.2.06
• Amazon has Firefly – The Complete Series DVDs on sale for $20. If you like good TV, you’ll like Firefly. Seriously, we’ve watched the series straight through like three times. [via SlickDeals]
Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.1.06
• Today’s Woot! is a Denon S-101 DVD Entertainment System with iPod compatibility for $705, shipped. That’s a good price—they normally go for $900 or more—but we can’t help but think that for most folks, a nice DVD player and a set of surround sound speakers and receiver might be a better value, even without the ability to charge an iPod.
Japan’s Hamburger Solution to Gay Pastries
By 3.1.06
The trunk humpers over at Treehugger have the scoop on Japan’s pastry-phobia and one intrepid patisserie’s response to it. Apparently, Japanese men feel that their manhood is called into question when publically eating flouncy, sugary cakes. The solution? Make the pastries look like fast food, including hamburgers and french fries.
Most Ebay Bidders Prefer Paying More for Free Shipping
By 2.28.06
A new study shows that most Ebay shoppers would rather pay less and pay for shipping than pay more and have free shipping.
Morning Deals Round-Up
By 2.28.06
• Yes, today is Free Pancake Day at International House of Pancakes, from 7AM to 2PM. We won’t be joining you as there aren’t any IHOPS near us, but we are with you in syrup.
Cool Recall of the Week: QVC Flaming RC Flying Saucers
By 2.27.06
We don’t usually report on US Consumer Product Safety recalls. The news feed reads like the cryptomaniacal ravings of the maternally paranoid. A typical recall might start “Huggles Q. Featherbottom dolls recalled after small child manages to plunge the torso-sized plush entirely up his own rectum. CEO of Huggles Q. Featherbottom, Inc. claims new dolls will feature an improved Anti-Rectum-Stuffing guard system.” Meanwhile, when royal ‘We’ at the Consumerist were growing up, our royal fathers handed us Swiss Army Knives on our eighth birthdays and then sat around with his royal hands upon royal knees, chuckling, as we cut our hands to bloody ribbons fiddling with it. Boys will be boys, after all. The USCPS are bunch of pussies.
Morning Deals Round-Up
By 2.24.06
• Amazon’s Friday Sale is here, because today is Friday. Highlights include 12-Piece Anodized Aluminum Cookware from Anolon for $170, DEWALT Heavy Duty Drilling & Screwdriving Accessory Combo Kit for $30, Hydrofarm GTV4 4-Foot-Wide Green Thumb Grow Light System for $70, and a Tippmann Model 98 Paintball Marker for $80.
