Zoomdoggle: More fun than work!

When most people travel, they pack their passports, clothes, a book or two, and more often than not, a camera. Dogglers bring props as well.

Why’s that?

Even a long line at customs can be a good time in tiger ears, and even the most staid group tour becomes laugh-tastic with fake-eye glasses.

In our next installment we’ll be discussing eating out abroad. The ladies love it.

Meet college kid Will Foster. He liked paintball a lot, so he built a half-scale Panzer tank with a diesel engine and a 360-degree rotating gun turret with scuba-tank-powered air canon. And it all works.

Let’s repeat that: He built a half-scale Panzer tank with a diesel engine and a 360-degree rotating gun turret with scuba-tank-powered air canon.

This is one student with an awesome dedication to his doggle.

Link: Mlive.com (Make sure to check out the video)

Evan Kessler may have been “born in a small town,” but he’s got high hopes, higher hair (all of us Jews do in the summer time), and a pretty high success rate with his If I Blog It They Will Come blog.

The premise is simple: Evan writes about a celebrity every day until they send in a picture of themselves reading his blog. If he’d asked my opinion, I might have said “it’ll never work.” And if Evan had listened, he’d never have gotten this picture of Kevin Costner after 101 posts.

His next target is Robin Williams. Fifty-nine posts in, the only advice worth giving would seem to be: Doggle on my friend. Doggle on.

LINK: Ifiblogit

I already know what I look like with a mustache — but what would my friends look like? How about my family members? Vague acquaintances? Former presidents? That’s what Mustachr is for!

Just upload a picture, then spend hours happily giving it different facial hair combinations. Lesson: Everybody looks good in a Fu-Manchu. Everybody.

Exactly 100 major motion pictures are packed into this two-minute clip.

How many of them can you ID?

I got 49, but I had to use the use the pause button some. Watch the whole thing twice, and ask a friend for help.

LINK: Neatorama

I think we’ve just found the way to have the first official Zoomdoggle reader dinner doggle. Hanging out with friends over meals is always fun. Hanging literally hundreds of feet in the air with friends, is much, much cooler.

This is not a drill, people. A company will actually rent a crane and hoist your dinner party into the air. Throw in some extra cash and they’ll even lift up a second platform with a band. Only one question: What happens if you drop your fork?

Links: Dinner in the Sky via Geekologie

If Tetris were played on graphing paper and required a feel for balance, it would Poiser. I’ve already spent an hour today stacking its tiny boxes. Little. Blue. Addictive.

I haven’t had this much trouble balancing on a seesaw since I was a kid, having seesaw battles with my friends. But that’s a doggle for another day. For now, let’s just keep it to computer blocks.

Link: Poiser via Neatorama

What exactly are these pictures of? New gang signs?

Ways to flip off people in foreign countries?

A new Mixed Martial Arts version of thumb wrestling?

Nope, it’s Finger Yoga, the newest way to doggle at your desk. The exercises let me stretch my digits, align my chakras and create crazy-cool finger origami–all at the same time. Also, I think this is how Deepak Chopra shakes hands. May the doggle be with you.

Links: Finger Yoga via The Presurfer

A big thank you to friend of the doggle, Juan Carlos, for sending in this Cash Doggle he made of me before Zoomdoggle was even an itch in my pants.

It’s always a pleasant when you forget you’ve doggled at all… only to be reminded by the evidence.

Once again it’s time to doggle with our food. I busted out the office pepper grinder to try this one out today, and it definitely works. It’s hard to know what’s more fun–seeing the amazed looks on your coworkers’ face, or feeling like you have a wizard’s finger. Doggling is magic.