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blood puddle pillows perfect for halloween slumber

filed under: just plain fun

With Halloween just hours away, here’s a great idea for anyone looking for a good last-minute fright.

These blood puddle pillows are just the thing for scaring the crap out of your roommate when they wake up and find you lying there in a pool of red tomorrow morning…

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October 30th, 2008 4 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

skull and crossbones clock: ooh, that’s scary!

filed under: strange and wonderful | timepieces

Skull Automaton Clock

This amazing clock may have been constructed almost 400 years ago, but it’s just as bone-chilling as it was back then. To tell the time, just crack open his skull cap, and the clock is where his brains should be.

The skull and crossbones automaton clock has a mechanical moving jaw, and snakes that dart out of its eyeballs…

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October 28th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

voodoo glow skull arrives just in time for halloween

filed under: just plain fun | strange and wonderful

Glowing Scary Deaths-Head Toy

I’m thinking that this Halloween, I’d like to scare all the neighborhood kids out of their wits with a bunch of these disembodied robo-heads sitting in my front windows.

The brilliantly named “Glowing Scary Deaths-Head Toy” looks like your average, everyday metal-headed, Skeletor-robot-zombie until you flip the switch…

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October 9th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

bioshock big daddy gets real

filed under: video games

Bioshock Big Daddy Life-Size

If you’re an Xbox 360 fan like me, you’re probably looking forward to the upcoming release of Bioshock. For those of you who unfamiliar with the game, the baddest baddie in the atmospheric thriller is known as “Big Daddy.”
It turns out that there’s now a life-sized replica of the scary creature making the rounds over in the UK…

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July 28th, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

miracles of modern medicine: the giant eyeball magnet

filed under: retro | strange and wonderful

800 pound magnet

This makes me very, very glad that medical science has progressed in our lifetimes. Apparently, back in the 1930’s, doctors thought this giant, 800-lb. magnet would be a good way to remove metal fragments from patients’ eyes.

It’s also quite good for sucking all the metal fillings out of their heads. I’m pretty sure that Phil Ken Sebben got his start this way…

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January 26th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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