Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

Attention all geeks…3.14 in a mirror spells Pie!

-via Geekologie

(Ok, fine…I don’t write my 4′s like that either, but STILL!)

This ridiculously-ineffective PSA from 1985 makes me want to swallow a whole bunch of sweet, adorable pills.  I mean, just look at them sing their little song…what could possibly go wrong?

-via Presurfer

Wow…I had no idea.

-via Unique Daily

Two Michigan librarians named Mary & Holly have created an amazing site called Awful Library Books.  It’s exactly what it sounds like – a collection of some of the strangest, creepiest, and most politically incorrect books they’ve discovered on their shelves.  These are some of my favorites:

(Ew…)

-via Neatorama

The blog NerdAbout rolled up their sleeves and dug through Flickr to find the coolest statues on the planet.  Some of them are way out there – these are my favorites.

-Shark Crash, Oxford:

-Frustrated Businessman, LA:

-Pointy Finger, Stockholm:

-Melting Cow Popsicle, Budapest:

I’m a sucker for chain and theme restaurants…I’ll admit it. Nothing gets me more excited.

My favorite theme restaurant of all time is Ed Debevic’s in Chicago.

It’s a 50′s/60′s themed diner – complete with classic music, vintage memorabilia, and most memorably, the rudest waitstaff you’ll ever encounter. I had my 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th birthday party at the restaurant, and I remember being petrified of the staff. They took their characters to a new extreme – shouting, ridiculing orders (“DIET coke?!? You pathetic piece of s**t!”), and releasing their aggression on the most unsuspecting customers (including young, impressionable children, like me…) I know it sounds like a nightmare, but it was a blast.

Weburbanist has compiled a list of some of the wildest theme restaurants from around the world. My favorite is Belgium’s “Dinner in the Sky”. They strap diners into chairs and raise them and the entire dinner table 150 feet above the ground! There isn’t a single meal that goes by that I don’t drop a utensil on the floor, so I’m not sure it would be safe to have me around, but it seems like a wild experience. Click the image to see the rest of the restaurants, including dinner in a fake hospital, a fake airplane, and a fake prison…

-Link via Weburbanist