For all of you out there who love to tweet, here’s something special for you to chirp about today. Introducing our Thursday sale – for five hours only, buy a dark t-shirt, get a white t-shirt free*! Use coupon code “YINYANG” at checkout and fill your shopping cart with something black, white, or red all over.

Besides, everything that’s good comes better in pairs; hot and cold (apple pie and ice cream), wet and dry (beach and sand), day and night (sleeping in and staying up)! It’s hard to deny a balance in life that makes people feel happy and they can be the simplest of things. Food, beach, sleep…honestly, what could be better?

As Mr. Einstein once said, “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” And like life, the clock is stopping for no one. Starting at 9 a.m. (PST), you’ve got until 2 p.m. (PST) to cash in on today’s “daily double.” All you have to do? Type in your favorite hobby, interest or topic into our search bar above, click on the dark t-shirt version, and you’re halfway there. Pick out your fav white tee to boot, because we all know opposites attract. Go to the checkout, and its easy as that apple pie we mentioned earlier. Now let’s go eat some.

*Buy any adult dark t-shirt and get a free adult white t-shirt, up to $22 value. Limit one free white t-shirt or one $22 discount per order. Free white t-shirt must be $22 or less, or you will only receive a discount of $22 off your total order. Must add at least one dark t-shirt and one white t-shirt to your shopping cart, and enter coupon code YINYANG at check out. Promotion starts on September 2, 2010, at 9:00 a.m. (PST) and ends on September 2, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. (PST). All orders must be from the CafePress Marketplace. Excludes CafePress Groups, Make and bulk orders. Offer valid online at cafepress.com only, cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotions and may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice.

Fast food chains have gone rogue. Gone are the times of the naïve hamburger and milkshake. Here to stay are its weird cousin counterparts evolved from its ancestors. Doubledowns, McRib sandwiches and now…drumroll…the Skinwich.

The Skinwich? Sounds a bit scandalous. Nudity or not, it is a combination of crisp bacon, melty cheese, delightfully grilled bun, and fried chicken skins, piled on top of one another. “Delicious!” I say, as the hairs on the back of my neck make me shutter and spasm.

Can you believe this would be a sandwich? Well, we can’t either. Who knows if it’s even real, but hoax or not, we have the shirts to bring it to life. It’s like the little alien baby you want to see grow. Check out the sandwich shop here and Viva El Skinwich!

As baseball heats up and football kicks off (unfortunately basketball & hockey are on ice, but they’ll be back soon!), it’s fun to take a gander at those time-honored sports rivalries that make great games unforgettable. Here are five of the all-time-classic match-ups. Each is exemplified on sports-themed gear designed by our highly-competitive & highly-opinionated CafePress community:

5. Michigan vs. Ohio State.

Geographically close (weather permitting),

this football rivalry is a gridiron clash.

4. Lakers vs. Celtics.

An old favorite returns, as Kobe vs. Shaq picks up

where Larry vs. Magic left off.

3. Cowboys vs. Redskins.

NFC East rivals, these two square off twice a year.

Throw the season records out, it’s always a nail biter.

2. Duke vs. North Carolina.

Funny how the color blue can have two shades that

are so similar, yet so far away. Lace ’em up, boyz.

1. Red Sox vs. Yankees.

East Coaster or not, many a fan look forward to this match-up.

If they have cable TV in Heaven, you know Babe Ruth is watching.

Needless to say, this is a U.S.-centric, male sports Top 5 list.

Someday we’ll cover a world of rivalries (for serious international ones, drop by an India vs. Pakistan cricket match, Celtics vs. Rangers football match in Scotland, or the dropping of the puck at a Montreal Canadiens vs. Toronto Maple Leafs game). Not to mention mano vs. toro in a Madrid bullfighting ring. Plus there are all those great female rivalries out there, from tennis and golf to track and skiing. Tune in later for more lists.

We’ve got some goodies for you this weekend. Why? Because it’s Friday, and we like Fridays and weekends and you.

You too can be a superhero, jumping off buildings, flying across the sky, landing from fearless heights with little to no scratches. Reach new heights with parkour, a form of non-competitive physical discipline where you adapt your body’s movements to your environment. It’s getting from point A to point B the fastest way in the fastest amount of time, no matter what obstacles are in the way. Chain-link fence? Over and up, weaksauce. Through a fountain, up a 10-foot wall across a five-foot-long trail of hot coals at the top? I’ll watch and clap on the side and tell you how great you are. Instead of reaching those new heights, most of us out-of-parkour-shapers could go for a $14 parkour t-shirt.

They say in that movie, “white men can’t jump.” Apparently kittens can’t either. Silly kitten, tricks are for kids. When you’re done laughing at this little guy, check out our $14 hilarious cat t-shirts and laugh a little more.

Remember that lady from the 50s with red hair, had a husband named Desi and got herself into funky, quirky, crazy situations that involved eating through a chocolate factory? Well, today is Lucille Ball’s birthday, and if you love her as much as us, celebrate and spread the love (on some strawberries, maybe?) with a yummy chocolate t-shirt that is also (surprise!) $14.

If you haven’t noticed, we love the number 14 today and for the entire weekend, our white and light t-shirts are only $14. So explore CafePress and find your favorite, and let us help you give your legs and your wallet a rest this weekend!

Having a bad hair day? You’re not alone. In the never-ending search for the perfect coiffure, some wild and wacky hairdos are growing in popularity. Fortunately, among our design community, cooler heads prevail. Here are some of their fun and funky hairstyle designs that are making the cut:

Funny Hairstyles for Men

10. The afro. A classic makes its triumphant return. Channel early Michael Jackson.

9. The fauxhawk. Popular from the college campus to the Lollapalooza stage.

8. The mohawk. A nod to American Indians (though few who wear one know that).

7. The mullet. No hairdo creates more controversy. You either love it, or you hate it.

6. The rat tail. A second cousin to the mullet, good for hitting the road sans brush.

5. The dreads. Next stop, Jamaica (by way of urban America). No need for a comb here.

4. The ‘stache. Hey, not every hairdo grows on top. The way its worn says it all.

Funny Hairstyles for Women

3. The pigtails. Never seen an actual pig wear one, but quite popular with young girls.

2. The side ponytail. 30 years later and it’s still turning heads. But only to one side.

1. The curlers. Technically not a hair style, but still…fits right in at the grocery store.

And the loveliest lady of them all…

CafePress is proud to be partnering with Design by Humans to offer a fashionable new line of T-shirts. It’s all part of our fun and fabulous new cafepressfashn collection.

These eye-catching tees make a real fashion statement with bold graphics covering the entire shirt front (and heck, around some corners of it too).  Just like the T-shirt offering from CafePress, Design by Humans tees are also designed by a community of artists (many of them humans, if I’m not mistaken).

Feeling fashnable and creative? Your art can be the next designs selling like hot-cakes at cafepressfashn. To enter your artwork for the collection, simply visit http://www.designbyhumans.com and follow their submission steps.

In the meantime, see what’s in the collection now. And remember, we’ll be offering different tees in our Cafepressfashn collection as time goes on.

In this week’s installment of “shirts that make you go hmm…”

Hmm.  Well… here’s one scenario:

Wendy is an aspiring writer who’s noticed that Hollywood is going literary – literally.  With the runaway successes of “Harry Potter” and “Twilight,”  Wendy comes up with a plan: write a series of children’s books that will be so darn unique and successful that no studio executive can resist optioning her work.

Feeling that the teenage market is just a bit saturated and noting the crazy success of Pixar films, Wendy decides to go younger.  Problem: magicians, vampires and zombies are done, and kinda scary.  Monsters, well, that’s a broader area, and “Where the Wild Things Are” may be indicative of a new monster craze.  Problem 2: monsters are also scary, and frightening small children most likely won’t lead to a particularly lucrative film deal.

Wendy decides that her Monster will be cute, and taking a cue from “The Lion King” and other animated smash hits about esoteric animals, she decides to make him a wildebeest.  Then, to take the edge off his beastly monster-ness, she makes him plaid and humanizes her protagonist monster by arming him with a spork, rather than fangs or laser beams or a fleet of vicious pirhana.

As it turns out, Plaid Spork-Wielding Wildebeest is a really cute little anti-hero, even when he’s flinging sporks around.  After all, everyone wants to throw a spork now and again, especially at the DMV.  (Stay tuned for “Plaid Spork-Wielding Wildebeest Goes to the DMV,” available as soon as it’s written and illustrated.)

Or, maybe this design is an actual warning sign in Australia, land of groovy poisonous creatures and crocodiles bigger than a shark.

Hmm.

In this week’s installment of Shirts that Make You Go Hmm….

Sleepless Peruvian farmer Ignacio was watching the same Saturday Night Live rerun for the 50th time in his lonely Andes hut with his trusty llama Fernando, and realized that he still had no answer as to who Quién es Más Macho – Ricardo Montalban, or Fernando Lamas?

Ignacio looked to his Fernando for guidance, but Fernando wasn’t interested.  Such matters were above him, and in any case Fernando himself felt that he was clearly más macho than either aging star mentioned.

Ignacio then realized that Fernando the Llama was, indeed, the most macho of all.  But was he the most macho of all llamas?  He posed this question to Fernando, who snorted his derision while chewing some freshly harvested alfalfa and then proceeded to spit at the television in annoyance.  Ignacio understood, and happened to agree – could anybody compare with the lush brown and white coat, the perfect roman nose, the bountiful fringe of lash highlighting the bright and lively eyes of his own Fernando?

Not having a llama version of Dogster for a comparison point, Ignacio decided to investigate the situation by examining neighboring llamas to determine quién indeed was el más macho de todos in the llama world.  And so he and Fernando trekked bravely through the Andes, searching high and low for other (and often inferior) llamas.

After a few failed attempts at closer llama inspection from farmers who didn’t appreciate the handsome duo trespassing on their lands (Ignacio, truth be told, wasn’t a bad-looking fellow himself), and the awkward matter of approaching perfect strangers during other random llama sightings with such an odd request, Ignacio realized that he’d have to be more official if he were to continue his llama census without the inconvenience of shouted insults, off-putting dogs and the occasional brandished weapon.

And so he and Fernando came up with the perfect T-shirt to formalize their project.  The “random llama inspection” T-shirt, above, was just perfect for the bilingual llama owner ISO other attractive llamas as a comparison point.

(Regrettably, Fernando himself did not fit into the T-shirt, and as far as we know nobody makes llama-wear yet.  He’s considering that as his next project.)

In the latest installment of “shirts that make you go hmm…”

You are a gay Scandinavian penguin lover, devastated at the memory of gay penguins Roy and Silo breaking up when that harlot Scrappy decided to lure Silo away forever.  You knew she was trouble from the beginning, but nobody would listen.  Not even Roy.

Feeling that Roy might have been better off staying in the closet and avoiding the painful tabloid breakups so common to celebrities, you designed this shirt to warn any future penguins from having such a public same-sex relationship.

Or maybe you designed it to make Silo feel guilty, since you suspect that he’s just putting on appearances to please the naysayers and the media.

Or maybe you don’t like tuxedos.

Hmm.

In this week’s “shirts that make you go hmm…”

Well, OK.  It’s a sticker, not a shirt.  But still.  Huh?

Here’s one scenario:

Darlene was a fourth-generation aerialist, descended from a long line of Russian-born circus performers.  Darlene was the star performer in the touring troupe of Cirque du Soleil, right up until her left pinky toe began to twich uncontrollably at all the wrong moments.  The tightrope, after all, is not known for its forgiveness.

At first, Darlene thought it was just a strained tendon.  But doctor after doctor couldn’t find anything, and after one of Darlene’s ill-timed episodes led to a trapeze fall during a performance she went to see a specialist.

Knowing that Darlene was depressed and that her work was suffering, her long-time aerialist partner Svetlana had secretly made up this special sticker and stuck it to the back of Darlene’s Geo Metro, a relic from her time outside the circus when she decided to make a go as a stand-up comedienne.  (Well, techincally she was an airborne comedienne, as Darlene’s hook was delivering her performance while flying through the air via lighting equipment, thus enraging gaffers and stage managers at various open mic venues.)

Svetlana surely couldn’t know that Darlene would return from seeing a specialist to find out that she was suffering from the incurable toe-version of alien hand syndrome, thus making the now-affixed gift a bit too true to be funny.  Darlene also suspected that Svetlana’s gag gift may have cursed her (circus performers can be so superstitious), and decided then and there to leave the circus forever.

Nonetheless, Darlene kept the sticker on her Geo Metro, and the last thing her circus friends saw of her was a sad, waving hand out the driver’s side door, the sticker getting smaller and smaller as she drove away.

Lest you think this story ends up tragically, rest assured that Darlene was always a lot funnier when she wasn’t trying to tell jokes while flying through the air.  Sometimes, multi-tasking just isn’t a good thing.