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Man, I'm dying for a pizza right now. I have my favourite pizza joint on speed dial, but that wastes too much time. This is a fat guy emergency! Bring me the Pizzaphone!
Chuck E. Cheese is a place for mum-on-mum deathmatches. An uninvited kid joined another kid's party. And when the cops finally showed up, they found a rumble between 40 bloodthirsty parents. More, plus video:
The BBC has a fantastic, 3-minute clip touring a frozen pizza factory that manufactures 2 million pizzas a week. There's something about precision, large-scale automation, even when the technology isn't necessary cutting edge, that's even more telling of our technological place in the world than sleek touchscreen phones and GPS navigators. Notice the eerie lack of humans, the cold airshot of sauce onto crust and the phallic towers of pepperoni being diced to scraps by machines. Has Man sold his soul to the robots so soon? And just for some crappy frozen pizzas? [BBC via MAKE]
Today was a very special day in pizza tech news. First, Dominos, oh boy Dominos: you've automated pizza ordering and delivery in a way that I never specifically thought about, but now that it's out, have already welcomed as a new sign that humans are making progress in this world. You can now order, pay for and track delivery of a pizza from a graphical menu on your TiVo. And on top of that, a free medium Papa John's pie can be yours via its now-painfully-antiquated web delivery system all for becoming a fan of PJ's on Facebook.
Ahh...digitally controllable TV, and the chance of fresh tasty pizza: That's what TiVo and Dominos Pizza are now offering. Broadband-connected TiVo users will be able to order pizza for delivery or pick-up (though that'd involve leaving the comforting hug of your sofa's cushions...crazy!) and then can even track the progress all via the TiVo interface. It starts today, it's free to broadband TiVo subscribers, and the only inconvenience is having to pay in cash when the food arrives. Press release below.
AU: We know this is coming to Australia next year... just a few more months before you can literally live on your couch.
Call me crazy, but I don't really see the point of this Stonebake Pizza Oven. I mean, what's wrong with a regular oven? It can cook pizzas perfectly well, and when you don't want a pizza it can cook many other things as well. Not so with this silly thing, which can make one thing and one thing alone. Want to bake a cake, perhaps a pan of brownies? Too goddamned bad, you shortsighted idiot. You bought an oven designed to only cook pizzas, and now you have to live with that choice. [Product Page via Random Good Stuff]
Does the act of cutting up a pizza vex you to no end? Do you find yourself with numerous nicks and cuts on your palms because you constantly use the wrong end of a pizza cutter to slice pies? Lucky for you, there's pizza scissors. The manufacturer claims the US$20 shears-and-spatula design won't damage plates or trays like a pizza wheel or knife would, but we think if that's the main reason you purchase one of these, you probably have bigger issues on your plate than a few dinged pieces of china. [SkyMall via Random Good Stuff]
A 43-year-old man from Maryland has sold the domain name pizza.com for almost 10,000 times the price he paid for it. Chris Clark registered the name pizza.com in 1994 for just $20, and continued to pay the annual registration fee until January of this year, when he heard the domain name vodka.com had gone for a massive $3 million, and decided he wanted a slice of the pie.
Even if Domino's is allowing you to track your pizza, the bottom line is that I'm hungry now (and I would like to avoid tapeworm). For the most impatient among us, this Dual Pizza Oven could have us eating two 12" pizzas in 90 seconds or less.
LOS ANGELES, California (Agencies) — Hello Kitty, actress, astrophysicist and acclaimed author of the play I Can Has Pink Cheezburger, has been found dead in her Los Angeles apartment on Tuesday, probably because of an accident with a home appliance and drug overdose. LAPD, however, is not ruling out other possibilities:
