Instant Mustache!

I already have a mustache (a van dyke, to be accurate) that I've had for around 10 years now, but you never know when a mustache needs to appear completely without warning. First...Popstache:



Clip it on to your soda or water bottle, and with each sip you look a little more sophisticated than before. Make sure you keep it right side up, or else you might end up looking a bit strange; nobody has a handlebar goatee.

You might not be the one in need of mustaching, the solution of which is the mustache ring:



Give a mustache to anybody else, even if they already have a mustache. It's like the Green Lantern's power ring, but designed by Apple for simplicity and interactivity.

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Hey! It's That Thing!

When I designed this webpage, I used details taken from a Sears catalog to get the funky shapes -- and there's one person out there who knows it:



Yes, that is the exact clock from which I adapted that circle-thingy in the upper- left- hand- corner of this blog. Photo above copied from Retrothing, who claims to have copied it from BigHappyFunHouse.

Decalomania

"Decalomania" sounds like a psychological problem of some sort, but it's actually why so many antique cards have kitschy stickers in the windows. Started as a method for unremovable postage stamps, they proved better off used to stick pictures to the insides of car windows.