Weekend Reader: The Week’s Most Popular Posts

Weekend ReaderThe fridge is still full of leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner, and it’s time for us to reheat a few of this week’s most-snarfd articles for your dining pleasure. Don’t want to be late to the snarfd dinner table next time? Subscribe the feed.

Sexiest. Teapot. Ever. Designer Joey Roth has come up with arguably the sexiest teapot ever, the Sorapot. This was actually one of the first articles written for snarfd, and Joey’s work got us a lot of attention. He’s since been picked up by Gizmodo, The Design Blog, and a ton of other sites. We also took a phone call from a well-known nationally syndicated TV show looking for a demo of the Sorapot. Good luck and congratulations, Joey!

Money Shots: You’ve really got to see this composite photo from Flickr contributor Musely. He’s lined up four Washington landmarks which appear on U.S. paper money with the real deal. Visit Musely’s Flickr collection for more.

Airline Mechanic Wins $600k and Neglects to Tell His Wife About It: His name falls trippingly from the tongue: Arnim Ramdass. Donna Campbell, his wife, wondered why Mr. Ramdass had suddenly developed an aversion to keeping the TV on around the house — or why he had the phone disconnected. Probably because he was hiding over half a million dollars in lottery winnings from his spouse. Now that the jig’s up, he’s nowhere to be found. Yet.

CrashBonsai: Life’s Little Mishaps: Take a finely detailed model car and make is look like a terrible wreck. Add bonsai tree. That’s CrashBonsai, the cultural collision of Japanese horticulture and America’s love for the automobile. It’s the brainchild of artist John Rooney, and is the perfect gift for the lead-footed Zennist on your Christmas list.

The Only Complete Swiss Army Knife: Speaking of gifts, here’s one for someone with deep pockets (literally): a 112 function, 87 blade pocketknife. “But won’t that be a little unwieldy?” you say. Why, yes: this beast weighs in at just shy of three pounds and is almost nine inches wide. But it has everything. You’d better have $1,199.95 plus shipping if you want this under your tree — which you could probably cut down with The Only Complete Swiss Army Knife’s built-in saw.

Because that’s how rich people roll.

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