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How amazing. Brooklyn-based artist Phillip Stearns, whose past work has used largely digital cameras and technology (the Glitch textiles for one), decided to create art with the help of old photographic methods. After he studied the effect of high 15,000 voltages and household cleaning products (think vinegar, baking soda, salt, bleach and hydrogen peroxide) on [...]
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Everything is electronic, and everything is rechargeable these days. So, er, why not ice cubes? Dave and Calvin Laituri from Wayland, Massachusetts, developed these stainless steel pieces that act just like ice cubes, and ensures your drink cools down to the temperature you want without any risk of it getting watered down. They’ve called it [...]
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These days, when the economical crisis is part of every headline and we struggle to think positively about our future, it’s a challenge to find a realistic pep talk. When I came across this TEDx talk by Federico Pistono, I was glad to know that there are many great young minds who research and share [...]
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I don’t remember all that much about the Nietzsche that I’ve read. I do, however, remember the essence of The Family Circus, and I find it more nihilistic than anything old Friedrich wrote. If you swap out the grody familial schlock and put in some random Nietzsche quotes, it improves the comic considerably. I almost [...]
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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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Hey kids, let’s go spider shopping! If you’re a leather-clad, head-banging metal fiend, your pet of choice is surely the tarantula. But if you want to go the extra mile, that tarantula must be … wait for it … the Poecilotheria Metallica, aka The Most Badass Pet Of All Time. And if its name isn’t [...]
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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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A thermometer measures temperature. Sure, but it can do so much more. New York-based Kinsa, which aims to create the world’s first real-time map of human health, has given the thermometer a complete overhaul with its Kinsa Smart Thermometer. The redesigned thermometer leverages on the connectivity of the smartphone to go beyond measuring your body [...]
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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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David LaFerriere might just be the best dad ever. Since 2008, this graphic designer and dad has been illustrating his kid’s sandwich bags with cool drawings. He’s even photographed almost every illustrated bag, which comes to a staggering total of over 1,100 bags. You can even check out each individual bag on Flickr.
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Let’s face it, everybody loves a good photobomb. But even better than a good one-off photobomb is this collection of some of the greatest photobombs of all time. Take a moment to soak in the hilarity.
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Following art director Zachary Smith’s brilliant Tumblr blog, Kim Jong Il Looking At Things Tumblr, which shows, er, the esteemed leader looking at things when he was still alive, someone else has gone ahead to set up a Tumblr of his successor and son, Kim Jong Un, looking at things too. We like the original [...]
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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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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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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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