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Billy Mays Costume Contest

OddO — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:25:13 +0000

Billy Mays III, the son of the popular pitch man that popularized prduct such as Oxy Clean and Kaboom is hosting a costume party in honor of his dead father.

Little Billy posted the following on his website:

“Halloween is approaching rapidly and it goes without saying that “deceased celebrities” (and balloon boy) will most likely be a huge theme at every gathering.

There will no doubt be a multitude of people dressed as Billy Mays (or zombie

Billy Mays).. it is one of the easiest costumes of all time to put together. (Beard, blue button-down, khakis, prop product, etc..)”

Billy wants people to send him pics of their Billy getups — the winner gets a bunch of prizes … including, of course, a tub of OxiClean.

Billy Mays III want everyone to send him pictures of their Billy Mays costume, the winner of the said contest will get a whole buch of prizes include of course a bucket of Oxy Clean which was the product that made his dad popular.

Odds of birth giving

OddO — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:01:45 +0000

With all these advances in science, there has been numrous cases of these sorts of things. Altering the genetics of your baby like their sex, traits, features, etc. or even having 6 or may be 8 all at the same time. There was also a case of a 66 year old lady giving birth and now we have a 19 pound baby which make me wonder it’s mother’s size.

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State of the art urinals

OddO — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:38:49 +0000

Before they made the ultimate toilet seat that washes, moisturizes, aerates the water, warms the seats and more. Now they are coming up with the hands free urinals. I wonder what will come next?

Seven Odd Notions of Prison

Tombro — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:54:55 +0000

People have been locking other people for years and years and years and, not surprisingly, people have tried going about this in a variety of strange and interesting ways. The problem gets tricky when you have a lot of people locked up together. Here are some approaches that people have taken that stray a bit from the good old familiar gray building with the towers and the walls and Burt Reynolds playing football in the yard.

Prison Concept #1: The Panopticon

Remember the HBO series “Oz“? In it the narrator, Augustus Hill, appears in a floating cube — essentially a glass cell where everyone sees everything. In addition, the unit he’s in, “Emerald City” was designed as a place where everyone could be seen at any time (although there were actually lots of nooks and crannies where Bad Things could and did happen. Turns out “Oz” absconded with a page from Jeremy Bentham.

Bentham proposed the Panopticon, a round prison building with a central guard tower. The cells would be backlit so that prisoners would be silhouetted, and guards in the tower would be shielded so that the prisoners would never know when they were really being watched. Paging George Orwell…

A schematic of the Panopticon as proposed by Bentham

A real panopticon in Cuba. Quaint!

It’s even more charming on the inside — what lovely light!

Mac finally caught a virus

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:27:33 +0000

After so many years of bragging being invulnerable to virus, Mac final ly got the attention they have wanted. As the Mac gains in popularity, it also earns more attention from malware developers, and it’s this lack of malware being actively developed, not some special, inherent security, that have really kept the Mac a “safe” platform for the time being.

An MP3 player that instills the fear of God

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:39:59 +0000

Lord knows I love getting boxes full of goodies, especially when they contain a hodgepodge of MP3 players and speakers. Apparently, the Almighty One also believes that Crave readers need a little more God-fearing in their lives, because my latest shipment included an MP3 player in this shape…

Who needs lungs?

OddO — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:21:27 +0000

If you’re this creature you won’t be worrying about lung cancer

The frogs lunglessness was accidentally discovered during a disection by David Bickford, a bioligist at the National University of Singapore.

The frog is said to be one of the multiple newly discovered species in Borneo.

Self Milking Cow

OddO — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:09:14 +0000

A cow in India named Radha, miraculously releases milk every time she’s fed.

The World’s Largest Natural Mirror

OddO — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:47:25 +0000

Imagine a nearly perfect mirror surface spread across the Earth stretching out miles in every direction. Sounds like something right out of Alice’s Wonderland but Salar de Uyuni is very very real. When covered with a thin sheet of water, this 4,000+ square-mile salt flat creates a stunning reflection of everything above it.

Over 40,000 years ago this part of Bolivia was a prehistoric lake. Today, the area is home to a smattering of flamingos, some tourist hotels (including a salt hotel) and and an estimated 10 billion tons of salt. Just imagine getting lost in this surrealistic environment! More below and at Neatorama, Sarifb and Fogonazos

233 Unusual and/or Useful Websites You Should Know

OddO — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:49:04 +0000

[Correction: Thanks to a reader tip we're now up from 93 to 233!]

Looking for something but you aren’t sure just what it is? Sometimes a search engine just isn’t enough if you have no real idea of what you’re searching for. With that in mind, here are 93 233 great sites for finding all kinds of things online from the useful and unusual to the bizarre and obscure.

Since this is OddOrama after all let’s start with the weird (and somewhat more obvious) ones and work from there. These sites are all worth seeing if you haven’t already: Cracked, Dark Roasted Blend, Deputy Dog, Digg’s Offbeat News Section, Grow a Brain, Miss Cellania, Neatorama, The Presurfer, WebUrbanist, National Geographic’s Weird News Section. Know a few of these? That’s alright, these lists get more obscure as you go – with many that may be less entertaining but make up for it by being strangely useful!

MakeUseOf likewise has a two-part series with 40 usual websites you should know and 40 more. Many of these are far more useful if also more obscure. Some of them serve a single function you might never have thought you needed but that could prove useful once you know it exists. These are perhaps more geeky and functional in general, but haven’t you always wanted fast-and-easy disposable logins for popular websites or even free disposable phone numbers?

WebUpon has a two-part series featuring 9 websites you should know and 9 more along the same lines. The emphasis here is on semi-useful niche sites you may not have heard of. Some choice ones from the second (and arguably more interesting) list include a textbook rental site, local venue reviews and a bizarre community-based lending program.

ACleverCookie’s list of 7 clever websites you should know about truly does have strange and unheard of sites, including ones that help you find older versions of programs you use, discover local happenings in your area or even find out who is sick in your area. Some are more useful than others but they’re all pretty interesting and even more obscure than those on some of these other lists.

DailyBits has a more targeted list of 18 undiscovered gaming websites you should know that serve a variety of functions from highly specific game-related sites to more general resources. If you’re a gamer this is a must-bookmark article. The list includes all kinds of freeware, cheat, gaming trivia and history for pretty much every kind of game geek.

And to top it off, here are 100 more useful ones from LifeHacker.biz. Know of more? That’s what comments are for!