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Photos of Bizarre and Hilarious Fireworks Packaging by Cabel Sasser
Shortly before the 4th of July, Cabel Sasser visited a fireworks store in Washington State and photographed the “awkwardest, worst, clip-artiest, mis-translatediest” fireworks packages that…
Man Flies Camera Drone Directly Into Fireworks Display to Capture Incredibly Up-Close Footage of Exploding Fireworks
Jos Stiglingh flew a DJI Phantom aerial drone directly into a fireworks display in West Palm Beach and captured this stunningly up-close aerial footage of…
Delightfully Intricate Miniatures of Ancient Architecture Carved into Blocks of Stone
Artist Matthew Simmonds creates delightfully intricate miniatures of ancient stone architecture in blocks of marble and other stones. Simmonds has had a lifelong fascination with…
A Wonderfully Legible Redesign of a Parking Sign
New York City-based designer Nikki Sylianteng has come up with a simple redesign of quite possibly the most confusing type of street sign: The parking…
Using Fluorescent Dye To Show How Sponges Filter Feed
In this fascinating demonstration of how sponges filter feed by produced by Shape of Life, researchers introduce harmless fluorescent dye in the water near the…
OK Go Imagines an Epic Fourth of July Video in Response to Hypothetical Request From President Obama
Los Angeles-based band OK Go imagined an epic Fourth of July video in response to a hypothetical request from President Obama. In this request, Obama…
Man Launches Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaign for Potato Salad
Zack Danger Brown has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to fund the making of potato salad. Brown has already blown past his goal of $10,…
‘Rude Goldberg Machine’, An Animated Video Featuring a Particularly Cheeky Rube Goldberg Machine
“Rude Goldberg Machine” is an animated video by Yotam Perel featuring a particularly cheeky Rube Goldberg machine. Perel has more of his work posted on…
‘This American Life’ Launching Spin-Off Storytelling Podcast ‘Serial’ in Fall 2014
Beloved public radio fixture This American Life will be launching its first spin-off podcast, the weekly Serial, featuring ongoing stories that take multiple weeks to…
PangramTweets, A Collection of Tweets That Use Every Letter of the Alphabet
PangramTweets is a Twitter account created by American Dialect Society president Jesse Sheidlower that utilizes a bot to locate and automatically retweet tweets that use…