Archive for June, 2008

Nougat Quiz

We’ve all eaten more than our fare share of candy bars in our day, so you would think indentifying a candy bar just by looking at its innards would be easy. It’s actually harder than you’d think … and way more fun. Can you name this mound of nougat?


How about this one?

Hit the vending machine for research, then ponder this one:

Ready for the answers? Click on over to the official quiz. It made my day. The only way this quiz could possibly be better is if it were beamed over the Internet via WonkaVision.

Link: AOL Food

http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/06/nougat-quiz/

Dance-Doggle

What would it look like if James Brown was still alive… and liked house music?

Meet the Melbourne Shuffle:

Link: Trendhunter

http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/06/dance-doggle/

Honorary Doggler: Jim Denevan

Who is Jim Denevan? Is he an artist who superimposes cool line drawings onto existing pictures with Photoshop?

Nope! That’s all real people. And Jimmy did it himself by making marks on a beach. Long marks. Huge marks. Miles long marks. With a stick!

What an amazing way to spend a day at the beach. But what happens when the tide rolls in? His pictures wash away. No doggle is forever.

Links: Jim Denevan via Dark Roasted Blend

http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/06/honorary-doggler-jim-denevan/

Drum-Doggle

We love joining a drum circle, as much as the next person, but do you know what the real problem with a drum circle is? There’s never any place to rest your drink. Until now. This may well be God’s gift to furniture.

A table that makes drum sounds when you hit it — how cool is that? Bet this is how all the furniture at Tommy Lee’s house works.

I haven’t looked through the site all the way yet, but I’m guessing it costs a ton. Sometimes a good doggle does.

Link: Musical Furnishings

http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/06/drum-doggle/

Book-Doggle

Up until last night I thought there were only three things I could do with my tallywhacker:

1. Make women smile.

2. Pass water.

3. Hold as if I was going to pass water. Think about making women smile. And crank out some smiles of my own.

Then a lady-friend bought me the Penis Pokey book!

Every page features a hole… a hole that lets Professor Ween-bean play dress-up!

My favorite is the monkey.

continue reading .

http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/06/book-doggle/

Hat-Doggle

Do the British know how to doggle or what?

First person to tell me where to get one wins, um, a picture of me enjoying my prize.

Link: Bestweekever.

http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/06/hat-doggle/

Branding Excersize

Question: Ever inquisitive friend of the doggle Aaron asks “If Zoomdoggle were a store, how would it advertise?”

Answer: Exactly like this! Try watching without smiling. Impossible. Really. Just try.

In fact, we’re thinking of making this the official Zoomdoggle theme song. Zoomdoggle should be the kind of place where fish and lizards hang out with cats and chinchillas!

http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/06/branding-excersize/

King-Doggle

This is not a drill people. The WowWee Alive Elvis Singing Elvis with Microphone has gone on sale from $349 to $59.99. Get ‘em while they’re hot.

BONUS: Because it’s Elvis the re-sale market is hot. Think of it like an investment you can sing into!

Link: Buy.

http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/06/king-doggle/

Honorary Doggler: Desiree Palmen

First, see if you can spot the people in each of these pictures… it starts easy, but gets harder.

Desiree Palmen

No photoshopping here.

Desiree Palmen

Or here. It’s getting harder, right?

Desiree Palmen

Or even here. Do you still see the people? They’re there. And they’re wearing clothes hand made by Palmen. Wowsers.

Link: Desireepalmen via Trendhunter.

http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/06/honorary-doggler-desiree-palmen/

Six Degrees of Doggle

Kevin Bacon

Time for another doggle you can do at your desk. This time though, one the whole office can get in on. You know the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? This is like that. Only with Wikipedia. And fun. Here’s how it works, start with two seemingly unconnected things, say Teletubbies and Xenon gas. Next, connect the two in six jumps or less.

I went from Teletubbies to 3-2-1 Contact, a show about science that I used to watch when I was young. Because Contact is about science (and Xenon is a gas), it makes sense to click there next.

From science, to scientist.

To chemistry.

To periodic table.

Just one more jump and you’re there. That’s six in total.

Here’s the fun bit though: The same friend that introduced me to the game, tells me her whole office races when they’re bored. Give it a go.

http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/06/six-degrees-of-doggle/