Leash's Stuff: October 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009

Halloween Drinks

Absolute Monster Cocktail
Ingredients:
4 oz Seagram’s Vanilla Vodka
4 cubes Ice
4 oz Monster energy drink

Directions:
Combine the Absolut vanilla vodka, Monster energy drink and ice cubes in a blender. Blend until slushy, pour into a highball glass, and serve.

After Dark Cocktail
Ingredients:
1/3 oz Coffee Liqueur
1/3 oz Irish Cream
1/3 oz Licor 43

Directions:
Layer, in order.

Jagermonster
Ingredients:
1 oz Jagermeister
5 oz Orange Juice
1 dash Grenadine

Directions:
Pour Jagermeister over ice in a 12 oz highball or old-fashioned glass. Add a dash of grenadine, add orange juice, and serve.

Dragon Blood Punch Cocktail
Ingredients:
750 ml Vodka
1/2 cup Orange Liqueur
6 cups Fruit Punch
6 cups Cranberry Juice
6 cups Apple Juice
2 liters Ginger Ale

Directions:
Chill all ingredients the night before. Just before serving combine everything in a punch bowl. Add Dry Ice for Fog Effect. Enjoy ;)

First Blood Cocktail
Ingredients:
2 oz Triple Sec
1 1/2 oz Sloe Gin
1 splash Cherry Juice
oz (Fill to Top)
1 splash Grenadine
2 whole Cherries

Directions:
Add ingredients to a Collins glass with ice. Stir and serve. I recommend Maraschino cherries and the juice from the jar.

Frisky Witch Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 part Vodka
1 part Black Sambuca

Directions:
Pour into glass, stir and enjoy.

Devil's Advocate Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 shot Bacardi Limon Rum
1 shot Triple Sec
4 oz Cranberry Juice
1 tbsp Grenadine
3/4 oz Sweet and Sour Mix

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Shake well, strain over ice cubes in a glass, and serve.

Voodoo Dew Cocktail
Ingredients:
3 shots Vodka
1 can Mountain Dew

Directions:
Pour shots into a mason jar or large glass. Add mountain dew, mix well, and serve.

Devil's Sweat
Ingredients:
3 oz Triple Sec
1 oz Lime Juice
2 oz Grenadine

Directions:
Stir ingredients together in a mixing tin. Pour over ice cubes in an old-fashioned, rocks or lowball glass, and serve.

Russian Monster Tom Collins
Ingredients:
4 oz Vodka
1/2 tsp Grenadine
5 oz Sweet and Sour Mix

Directions:
Mix vodka and sour mix (to taste) over ice in a glass. Add grenadine (to taste), and serve.

Braindead
Ingredients:
2 cl Vodka
2 cl Triple Sec
2 cubes Ice
2 cl Sweet and Sour Mix

Directions:
Fill the shaker half with ice cubes, and add the ingredients. Shake well. Serve in a shot glass.

Neon Voodoo
Ingredients:
1 part Vodka
1 part Apple Juice
3 parts Mountain Dew

Directions:
Combine the vodka, apple juice, and mountain dew in a blender with about 6-8 ice cubes, and blend on high for about 10 seconds. Add more vodka if desired.

Learn to Smile

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/29/knit-hat-stabs-you-i.html

Hey Jude Flow Chart

http://www.makemymood.com/2009/10/30/hey-jude-flow-diagram/

In their book Tossed & Found, one of the things that Linda and John Meyers explain is how they found and in turn created this fantastic chess set using an old type tray, risers, and both cases of letters. The results are incredible and inspirational for those who like to do things themselves. Have a look at their blog for more and definitely pick up the book.
http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2009/10/29/wary-meyers-type-chess-set/

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Cool Age Defying Ad

http://www.makemymood.com/2009/10/27/smart-advertisment/

Pin-up Frame

"Koichiro Kawatani's Pin-up Frames look awfully fancy, but in reality, they're a lightweight plastic version of the traditional ornate wood frame. In fact, they're so light, you can hang the frames without the need for picture hangers and just use the included plastic pins to mount them onto a surface to highlight your favourite photo or piece of artwork practically anywhere"
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/decorative-office-accessories/koichiro-kawatanis-pinup-frame-099768

Candy Corn traffic cones

Candy Corn traffic cones on DC streets for Halloween

Laughing Squid has photos of the "Candy Corn Cones" that street artist diabetik is plopping around in Washington, DC.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/28/candy-corn-traffic-c.html

Memento Mori of the Day

http://www.makemymood.com/2009/10/28/life-after-death/

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Printeresting Halloween Costumes

Printeresting Hallowe’en Costume Suggestions
October 27, 2009, by RL Tillman
Kids, there’s still time to work on your print-related Hallowe’en costumes!

a squeegee	sexy litho guy
sexy CMYK	self-portrait intaglio print of Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Bookmark and Share

http://www.printeresting.org/2009/10/27/printeresting-halloween-costume-suggestions/

Crib Pencils

Over at the Paper Pastries etsy shop you'll find these adorable Know It All Pencils. The set of six has little facts stamp into the side of each, literally at your finger tips.
via

Sweet Site - Wonder-Wall

http://wonder-wall.com/#project/en

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Keychest coming to reality

Disney Keychest to make buy-once view-anywhere movies a reality with Apple's help?
by Thomas Ricker, Engadget, posted Oct 22nd 2009
"You know who's missing from the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (or DECE) consortium? A group bent on redefining the way we buy, access, and play digital content with a membership roster that includes Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, Fox, HP, Intel, Lions Gate, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, VeriSign, and Warner Bros? Right, Apple and Disney, the latter landing a lengthy piece in the Wall Street Journal describing Disney's own distributed content ownership scheme that goes by the code-name, "Keychest;" a DRM solution that instantly provides access to content on any participating service (digital download store, mobile-phone provider, or on-demand cable for example) when a purchase is made. Keychest does this though a system of unique keys that are issued when a movie is purchased. The keys are then stored in a central repository (aka, chest) that participants would query. In this scenario, the movies would reside with each delivery company on their respective systems -- movies would not be downloaded. On the bright side, if a content provider went out of business you would still have access to your films elsewhere. The proposed solution would work with Blu-ray disc purchases too, since BD players are internet-enabled by design -- DVD keys would have to be manually typed in by the user. So in effect, you'd now be paying once for ownership rights to the film, not to the physical media. If it sounds similar to DECE it is, but Disney claims that its approach is more streamlined and you know, better.

Disney has been quietly courting other movie studios with Keychest and intends to go public with its technology next month. Of course, with Steve Jobs listed as Disney's largest stockholder and the rumored Apple tablet being a media-redefining device that will single-handedly save newspapers while ridding the world of hunger and ignorance, well, you can see where the speculation is headed."

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Disney wants you to throw out your DVDs
By DVICE

Still holding onto that DVD collection? (If so — why?) Well, Disney doesn't think you need to anymore. Nope, all you need, according to the company, is its "Keychest." Well, and a television, computer, cellphone or that sort of thing.

So what's Keychest? It's a distribution platform being developed by Disney and Apple that makes it so when you purchase something — a movie being the easiest example — you'd be able to use that something over a variety of platforms. Buy Iron Man, say, and you could then watch it on your computer, television or portable what-have-you. That's because once you've made the purchase through keychest, you'll get a keycode that'll unlock said purchase.

If you think about it, it's a lot like a DVD, just a digital one. After all, you can use a DVD on any device capable of playing them, but — thanks to DRM — if you bought a movie on the Xbox Marketplace, you wouldn't then be able to turn around and magically play it on a different machine.

Disney isn't the first one to think of a cross-platform distribution method, though we're definitely pro any idea that shakes up the horribly insular nature of today's DRM media.

Friday, October 23, 2009

The Recycle Game

Viral Ad Campaign of the Day: Volkswagen tests its fun-tastic musical-stairs theory on recycling stations, turning an ordinary Bottle Bank into a coin-less arcade game to answer the question “can we get more people to use the bottle bank by making it fun to do?”
http://thedw.us/post/215799205/viral-ad-campaign-of-the-day-volkswagen-tests-its