I hate captchas. Half the time you can’t read what they say; then the other half of the time you’re trying to figure out if what you’re typing is really a word. I understand the point, proving you’re a human and not a bot, but come on. With all the smart people out there working on software, on security, this is the best we can come up with? Seriously guys, this is the best way to tell a person from 472 lines of code? I’m not saying I have the answer, but I do miss the time when things like captchas weren’t necessary.
Anyways, the above rant should serve to illustrate how funny I found this shirt from Rizzo Tees. “WTF does that say?” echoes the thought process exactly! Ever notice how captchas have gotten harder and harder over the past few years? I understand they need to make captchas harder to outsmart the latest um, captcha-reading software, but dammit, they’re starting to outsmart me. This just reinforces that we are (or at least I certainly am) dumber than a computer, and that the machine/robot apocalypse is coming to assure the destruction of humankind as we know it. Or something like that, anyways.
I honestly don’t know what that says on the shirt. Windolph Gossh? Windolph, Gossln? Stupid Human? Eh, I don’t know. the “Gotcha, this is not legible” bit in the corner is brilliant too, it looks so natural I’m willing to bet some people will miss it when they see you wearing this shirt. You know, probably the same people that can’t solve captchas.
While there’s not an image of a person wearing it posted on the site yet (maybe uploading photos to Rizzo Tees requires a captcha?), Chris from Rizzo Tees tells me it’s 10″ wide and chest-centered. Perfect! This shirt is awesome and has universal appeal, since we all have to deal with this crap online everyday.
See the rest of the Rizzo Tees collection, complete with a chick not wearing pants and a shirt making fun of Detroit
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The Chop Shop is a relatively new find for me, and it hasn’t been featured here on T-Shirt Review Blog before. Chop Shop is actually a spinoff of The Chopping Block, a graphic design studio from New York. I have a hard time categorizing their tees, but there are consistent design elements that grab my eye.
Right off the bat, I notice the incredible attention to detail. Many designs include dozens and dozens of small silhouettes of pop culture elements. Shirts featuring 28 classic rock stars, 55 film and TV vehicles, and 50 film and TV aliens invite you to play “how many can you recognize?” over and over. The ones you can’t get will drive you mad. It’s a really clever idea, and it’d be interesting to see what they come up with next to explore this style of design.
There are also strong overtures to robots throughout the site. The collection is quite impressive really, and anyone into sci-fi would find several shirts that suit them. There’s a small handful of shirts that seem a bit out of place topically, and that makes it difficult at times to determine where the site is going as far as voice and theme are concerned. The science fiction tees on almost every page serve as a redirect though to enforce the idea that this is the Chop Shop’s strong suit.
That said, it’s worth mentioning that the site makes extensive use of Flash to tasteful ends. There are numerous easter eggs scattered around that are lost on the casual observer, but are gems to those willing to explore with their mouse. I usually am not a fan of Flash sites, but the Chop Shop experience pleasantly urges me to reconsider.
I recommend checking out what Chop Shop has to offer and seeing if there isn’t something there to tickle your fancy, especially if you’re into science fiction or robots. I think this could be the go-to place in the future for robot t-shirts if they choose to pursue that. The aforementioned “how many can you name?” t-shirts can’t be forgotten either. Those are particularly clever, and I’d like to see where they go with those tees.
You may have heard that authorities in Colorado spent the better part of the day tracking down a 6 year old boy they thought floated away in a homemade hot air balloon that looked like a flying saucer. I can’t make this stuff up, folks. After rescue teams tethered the balloon to the ground and pitchforked it like a…uh, like a thing you stab with a pitchfork, they opened the hatch to find (gasp!) no boy inside.
Eventually they locate the boy in the house at home, safe and sound. At least there’s a happy ending. People wasted no time drafting up t-shirts, so I just thought I’d point them out. Found via Mashable.
Conan O’Brien recently talked with the co-creator of the USB port on The Tonight Show. It’s a hilarious interview and Ajay Bhatt is a great sport through the whole thing. There’s a t-shirt in the final minute of the video that had me cracking up. I wonder how long until we see this one online?
As a reader here there is little doubt that you own at the very least, a single t-shirt. It sort of goes without saying, really…as common as our classic tee has become. How many people out there don’t own a t-shirt though? I mean not even one; not even a plain white tee? There’s an answer for that (and thousands of other probability questions) at Book of Odds.
Book of Odds is a really interesting read and is probably an insurance estimator’s dream. As I starting fumbling around the site, I of course thought I’d see what came up for “t-shirt.” Hmmm…nothing. This isn’t very promising. A search for “shirt” yields what I’m looking for though! Have a peek:
See the little icon at the right of each odds statement, that looks like a little list? It turns out that you can hover over that and have any odds statement printed on a t-shirt through Zazzle. Pretty sweet! The tees have the Book of Odds logo on the left breast and your odds statement of choice on the back. If you’re a trivia nut (I know I am) you’ll probably find some pretty interesting nuggets on this site.
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