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A Brilliantly Manic Cover of Tom Waits’ Wonderfully Frenzied Anthem ‘Going Out West’
Nick Parton, a British musician and self-described “Rain Dog”, performed a brilliantly manic cover of the guitar-heavy, wonderfully frenzied Tom Waits anthem “Going Out West”…
Regional Terms For Carbonated Beverages
xkcd has created a comprehensive Carbonated Beverage Language Map to help reduce confusion with regional refreshment terminology. There’s one person in Missouri who says "carbo…
Recommendo, A Handy Book of Helpful Recommended Favorite Things Compiled From a Weekly Email List
Author Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review, in partnership with Boing Boing co-founder Mark…
Engineers Feverishly Work to Build a Robotic Dog for an Overbearing Boss in the Animated Short ‘A Model Dog’
In the animated short “A Model Dog” by illustrator Joel Plosz, a team of two engineers work feverishly behind the scenes to build a robotic…
The Oddly Paradoxical History of the Iconic DeLorean
In a fascinating Vox video essay, editor Phil Edwards takes a look at the oddly paradoxical history of the incredibly distinctive DMC DeLorean. The car…
How Change Becomes Inevitable for a Selfish Phil Connors as He Lives ‘Groundhog Day’ Over and Over
Filmmaker Michael Tucker of the video essay series Lessons From a Screenplay takes a look at the “Inescapable Premise” of the 1993 film Groundhog Day.…
Founder of Lexicon Branding Shares How They Named Such Iconic Products as Swiffer, Fios and BlackBerry
Meghan McDonough of Quartz contacted David Placek, founder of the legendary Lexicon Branding in Sausalito, California, to speak about how the company came up with…
The Missing Crucial Ingredient That Prevents White Chocolate From Being Considered a True Chocolate
ACS Reactions takes a look at the specific ingredients and the chemistry behind creating the cocoa butter based confection white chocolate. The narrator notes that…
How 50 Different People From 50 Different States in the United States Refer to a Fizzy Soft Drink (Soda vs Pop)
In a quenching episode of the Condé Nast Traveler series Culturally Speaking, 50 people from 50 different states within the USA shared their regional name…
Eye of the Tiger
This tiger is a true survivor. via Miss Cellania