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Ryan Gosling’s cereal problem

Francis Andrews Reader Find

By Francis Andrews in New Trends on Friday 17 May 2013

Sometimes the best things in life are of the simplest, most mundane kind, like this collection of six second clips, known in iSpeak as Vines, of Ryan Gosling refusing his cereal.

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Funniest Faced Monkeys

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By Eugenia Viti in New Trends on Thursday 16 May 2013

Sometimes humor at the simplest form can really hit the spot. Check out these funny monkey faces and brighten your day. I think the descriptions are just as funny as the pictures, and also somewhat informative on why the monkey looks the way it does.

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Now you can type with a cat font

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By Erik Kraft in New Trends on Thursday 16 May 2013

Nekofont. The internet is powered by cats, so you might as well write in cats too. If you’re secretly 8, like me, you’ll want to test it out with swears. Then you can get on with your life. (Not really, because you are writing words with cats).

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Infographic shows superhero life expectancies

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Monday 13 May 2013

Creative agency Designbysoap were commissioned by a client to take a cold, hard look at the lifestyle habits of superheroes and comic book characters, then thought about whether they possessed regenerative powers, are human or immortal, and if they have died in a plot. The result is this rad infographic tabulating scores for how long they’ll [...]

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World’s tallest tree, bonsai version

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By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Monday 13 May 2013

What happens when you combine the art of shaping a Bonsai Tree with the powerful strength of a Redwood? You get a little Bonsai Redwood tree. Now you can nurture the world’s largest tree in a small pot on your bedside table. Take a look at the Redwood Empire Bonsai Society to get a small taste of [...]

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Daily bacon keeps 105-year-old woman going strong

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Saturday 11 May 2013

This 105-year-old Texan woman really knows how to throw a party! For her 105th birthday, she organized a three-day event with over 200 guests. And not only does she still party, she also loves mowing her lawn and dancing. What’s the secret to this great-grandmother’s good health? Bacon. Despite the negative health-effects typically associated with [...]

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Geography of Twitter: Mapping out a month of tweets

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Saturday 11 May 2013

Thanks to a paper that gleaned geolocation data from 1,535,929,521 tweets from 71,273,997 unique users in Oct 23-Nov 30 last year, some fabulous maps showing a month in the life of Twitter were generated. The world of Twitter, as you can see, is beautiful.

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20-foot balloon dinosaur at the Virginia Museum of Natural History

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By Eugenia Viti in New Trends on Thursday 9 May 2013

That’s right, some wonderfully talented and imaginative people teamed up with school kids to make a twenty foot balloon Acrocanthosaurus for display at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Using a real skeleton of the dinosaur as a guide, they tried to make it as realistic as possible. However, nobody really knows what their skin [...]

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In Shanghai, you can post postcards to your future self

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Wednesday 8 May 2013

If you’ve ever wanted to send letters to your future self — or someone else — but never knew how to for obvious logistical reasons, now you can. In Shanghai, you can locate one of these crafty postcard cafes and post a card as far into the future as you like. There are 365 different [...]

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Get your own Star Trek email address

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Wednesday 8 May 2013

The Enterprise, or er, franchise, has an updated offering for communication-hungry Trekkies: personalized Star Trek email addresses. Yes, this means that for $15 a year, your emails can now boldly go where no email has gone before. You can choose to be part of the indispensable Starfleet crew with a Starfleet.com address, be brave and [...]

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Creative hate mail postcards by Mr. Bingo

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By Nini Baseema in New Trends on Tuesday 7 May 2013

If you want to be destructive, you better be creative at it. This may sound to some of you like an oxymoron, but it’s apparently not. I love these beautifully executed hate mail postcards by Mr Bingo for the very fact that he’s managed to turn something so negative into something that is fun. He [...]

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Meet the winner of the 2013 International German Beard Championship

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By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Tuesday 7 May 2013

This is Dieter Besuch. He has an incredibly unique talent. He can grow beards and sideburns like nobody’s business. And everyone in Germany knows it. Say hello to the winner of the International German Beard Championship 2013. Besuch won gold in the Whiskers Freestyle category and we can all see why. This man is awesome.

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Famous historical figures get updated for the 21st century

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Tuesday 7 May 2013

In a fun ‘what-if’ twist, History TV channel Yesterday recently worked with a bunch of digital artists to give famous historical figures a 21st-century makeover. The results are amusing: Shakespeare looks positively preppy in his checkered shirt and flannel vest, while Marie Antoinette looks like a fidgety socialite. So, if clothes maketh the man, it [...]

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Info-rap-ics: Rap infographic

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Saturday 4 May 2013

So, this is it: ‘The wisdom of rappers quantified’. These mini-infographics by Srahhh will get you guessing the song origins from whence they sprung. Hint: there’s a bit of BIG, a bit of MC Hammer, a bit of Nelly and a bit of Coolio.

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Politicians vs window panes: clever print ads for window-cleaning wet wipes

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Saturday 4 May 2013

We had to laugh when we saw these print ads for Nikol window-cleaning wet wipes the other day. Really digging how the ad folks at Gitam BBDO brought the ‘Stop using newspapers‘ idea to life by squishing the faces of politicians — always news-worthy subjects — against window panes.

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