My new favorite OS X application has landed and it’s beautiful! A French project, with English and French versions, Poladroid lets you take normal digital photos and turn them into virtual Polaroids via an elegant drag and drop and intuitive “developing” feature (shake them to develop faster!). You can also export the finished photos for print or sharing on the Poladroid Flickr group. You might not be able to find the film as easily anymore, but at least you can relive the good ole days with a little bit of grainy Polaroid visuals on your desktop.

We’re lovers, not fighters, but we’re always prepared to throw down with whatever aggressors may come our way. So watch out World, the editors of Bunch of Nerds don’t play.

You may not be as physically or mentally prepared as we are, but now you can begin your training thanks to the incredible learning guide How To Beat Up Anything.

Very handy in case you need to beat up Tom Hanks, beat up an alligator or even beat up the apple-throwing tree from the Wizard of Oz.

Do you have an animal hunger for everything bacon, so much so that when faced with the decision of Smoked bacon, Double-Smoked bacon, Lardons, Canadian Bacon or even Pancetta, you freeze up and just end up asking for all of them stuffed in between two pieces of bread? Then you need to keep up to date on what’s going on in the world of pork! Thankfully there’s Bacon Today, the premiere source for all things pork, streaky, smoked, un-smoked or anything other types of greasy, pig-based goodness.

Hello! Announced months ago and a few weeks ago starting to trickle through the market, Kidrobot hits a huge home run with their brilliant mini-figure series of The Simpsons. Together with Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Kidrobot created 24 characters, from Homer to Itchy & Scratchy to Sideshow Bob, measuring 3-inches tall and retailing for $7.95.

Created by Josh Rubin, the New York City-based founder of CoolHunting, Freehands are a brilliant and stylish accessory for everyone wanting to use their iPhone on icy days, without freezing your digits off. Together with his father, who oddly enough manufactures and sells gloves, the two realized the ‘glove-or-phone’ conundrum over dinner, quickly sketching out and brainstorming affordable, stylish and functional gloves for the mobile worker.

Available in fleece or leather, Freehands are the perfect gift for your iLove this Christmas, even if they use a Blackberry or other mobile device.

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Are you lazy? Are you a really lazy person? Are you so lazy you don’t even want to be bothered spreading peanut butter onto bread? Do you wish peanut butter came in slices?

Well, it does!

No, really, it does!

The December 1900 issue of Ladies Home Journal contains an incredibly fascinating article by John Elfreth, entitled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”, containing around 30 predictions for the future of the United States and the world in the year 2000. Some of them are what you’d expect from someone in the year 1900 dreaming of a wonderfully progressive Utopian civilization, but some of them are pretty spot on!

Mr. Watkins wrote: “These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from the most learned and conservative minds in America. To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001 – a century from now. These opinions I have carefully transcribed.”

Prediction #1: There will probably be from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000 people in America and its possessions by the lapse of another century. Nicaragua will ask for admission to our Union after the completion of the great canal. Mexico will be next. Europe, seeking more territory to the south of us, will cause many of the South and Central American republics to be voted into the Union by their own people.”

Prediction #2: The American will be taller by from one to two inches. His increase of stature will result from better health, due to vast reforms in medicine, sanitation, food and athletics. He will live fifty years instead of thirty-five as at present – for he will reside in the suburbs. The city house will practically be no more. Building in blocks will be illegal. The trip from suburban home to office will require a few minutes only. A penny will pay the fare.

Prediction #3: Gymnastics will begin in the nursery, where toys and games will be designed to strengthen the muscles. Exercise will be compulsory in the schools. Every school, college and community will have a complete gymnasium. All cities will have public gymnasiums. A man or woman unable to walk ten miles at a stretch will be regarded as a weakling.

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The Baby Wee Wee line of anatomically-correct baby dolls of varying ages, need to be seen to be believed. Introduced through the United Kingdom last year, Baby Wee Wee features a motorized penis, which ah…..erects, and then performs #1, on or at whatever happens to be standing in it’s way. In the above commercial’s case, the dad who was creepy enough to have bought such a thing for his little girls.

A true viral legend, Action Figure’s stunning video of various subjects being punched in the face, in a startling 1000fps high definition format, features some amazing examples of the physics behind a punch to the face.

In a story similar to Jurassic Park, only with a better ending, we’re reading more and more about the Fossil Fuel Brewing Company’s prehistoric range of beer. Receiving quite some good reviews, the beer features a unique form of yeast in the recipe, which was culled from ancient fossilized remains. The yeast is said to differ from modern yeast thanks to it’s unique, prehistoric metabolism, restricting it to only a narrow band of carbohydrates, where modern years can consume just about any kind of sugar.