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Nail-Bitingly Brilliant Fingernail Art

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Like so many nervous nellies, 24-year-old Media student Kayleigh O’Connor would routinely chew her fingernails almost to the bone. “I bit [them] so badly that they looked like something out of a horror film,” she says on her DeviantArt page. To compensate, the Birmingham-born nail-biter glues on false nails, but not the kind you can buy at your local pharmacy for $4.50 – they’re ones which Miss O’Connor skillfully sculpts and paints to create ingenious designs. These fingernails, you wouldn’t wanna gnaw at them.

Her designs, which are painstakingly detailed, are inspired by several different sources, from movies to television, music to arcade games, and nature to food. For some time, she would proudly display them in front of only friends and family, but now she photographs them and posts them on her blog for our viewing pleasure. Check out some of O’Connor’s weird and wonderful designs below, where, if you’re cultured enough, you may recognise a few familiar faces. [Read more…]

12 Things To Do After You’ve Written A New Blog Post [Infographic]

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So, you’ve just written a new blog post. You’ve read it over, read it over again, spell-checked it, inserted images, inserted YouTube videos, attached naughty, inappropriate tags and uploaded it for all to see. It’s a magnificent piece of blogging, armed with the power to inform, entertain and possibly even arouse your readers. But wait… how exactly do you get people to read it?

Look no further than this handy new infographic from DivvyHQ, which also doubles up as a printable checklist. Entitled “12 Things To Do After You’ve Written A New Blog Post,” it takes you through a dozen reliable techniques of boosting up your blog’s view count and attracting valuable readers to your site. Twitter is covered, as are bookmarking sites and RSS feeds, along with a handful of other useful schemes and methods.

The infographic’s creator advises a specific printing style for using it as a checklist, which is explained underneath the infographic. [Read more…]

Stuff On My Cat: A Review

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Ever since the advent of lolcat-popularising weblog I Can Has Cheezburger? in early 2007, funny felines have become a widely beloved sensation of the world wide web. Yes, thanks to ICHC’s side-splitting hilariousness, humorous videos of comical cats now fill the comedy corridors of YouTube; priceless pictures of knee-slapping kittens decorate the hallways of flickr and twitpic; even the App Store has taken advantage of the cat-loving craze, with iPhone app CatPaint allowing users to seamlessly insert cats into photographs with the prod of a finger.

One site of many that should raise the interest of cat lovers the world over is Stuff on My Cat, a picture-based blog featuring items submitted by the site’s users. Launched in 2005, it exists to showcase images of cats with – get this, right – stuff on them. This “stuff” could be anything: it could be a cowboy hat, a toy car, a toddler, a slice of toast or, as you can see above, a rainbow-tinted afro. And it’s not restricted to just one measly object being placed on your cat – no no, you can have several objects on your cat, as one user did when, rather interestingly, placing a banana and toilet roll on their puzzled little pussycat. [Read more…]

The Four Biggest Shakespearian Jerks

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Plenty of people like to write about the worst Shakespearian villains, but what people don’t realize is that a jerk does not necessarily a villain make, and vice versa.  What follows are the top Shakesperian jerks, whether they are “heroes,” “villains,” or otherwise. [Read more…]

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