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Villain Pub, A New Animated Series Where Iconic Movie Bad Guys Throw Back Drinks and Drown Their Sorrows
The folks at How It Should Have Ended (HISHE) have created Villain Pub, a new animated series where iconic movie bad guys throw back drinks…
The Guy Who Has Never Seen ‘Game of Thrones’
CollegeHumor has created an original comedy short about Tedward (Brian Murphy), The Guy Who Has Never Seen Game of Thrones. Tedward shows how little he…
The Inspiration Pad, A Notebook Filled With Creative Variations of the Typical Lined Paper Layout
The Inspiration Pad is a notebook in which each of the 48 pages features a unique variation of the typical lined notebook paper layout. The…
An Incredible Design Concept for a Warp Drive Spacecraft by NASA Physicist Harold White and Artist Mark Rademaker
NASA physicist Harold White and artist Mark Rademaker have designed an incredible theoretical design concept for a warp drive spacecraft with input by graphic designer…
Cat Earnestly Swats At Bird in Video on Laptop Screen
In this video posted by Vizabela, an adorable cat named Kitty swats earnestly at the screen of a laptop, trying very hard to get at…
Birdsnap, A New Birdwatching App That Uses Computer Vision and Learning to Identify Birds
Birdsnap is a new birdwatching app for iOS that uses computer vision and machine learning to identify birds. The app can identify 500 different North…
Breaking News, A News App Featuring Proximity Alerts for When a Story Breaks Near You
Breaking News is an app designed to alert users when stories important to them break featuring proximity alerts that filter the news alerts more specifically…
Bird Song Hero, An Interactive Game That Teaches Users How to Recognize Bird Songs
Bird Song Hero is an interactive online game, developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, that teaches users how to identify the songs of different…
Digital Video and Imaging Expert Tim Jenison Hypothesizes Vermeer Used an Optical Machine to Create His Paintings
The Music Lesson by Johannes Vermeer In this fascinating Boing Boing post, digital video and imaging expert Tim Jenison presents his intriguing hypothesis for how…
Vessyl, A Smart Beverage Container That Recognizes and Tracks Everything You Drink
Vessyl is a beverage container by Mark One that recognizes and tracks everything you drink so as to better understand things like calorie and sugar…