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The Six Year Anniversary of the Re-Naming of Yiying Lu’s ‘Lifting A Dreamer’ To Twitter ‘Fail Whale’
Today marks the six year anniversary naming of the once-ubiquitous “Fail Whale“, a colorful illustration of a “white beluga whale held up by a flock…
Breathe and Destroy, A Mashup of The Prodigy’s Song ‘Breathe’ and Metallica’s ‘Seek & Destroy’
“Breathe and Destroy” is a great musical mashup by Wax Audio of “Breathe” by The Prodigy and “Seek & Destroy” by Metallica. We’ve previously written…
Brian Williams Interviews Edward Snowden
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams interviewed Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor responsible for leaking a number of classified documents to media…
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Stars of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ by Screen Junkies
In this video, Hal Rudnick of Screen Junkies gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the award-winning cast of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Hal digs up…
ClickTape, An Ingenious Minimalist Tape Dispenser That is Shaped Like a Roll of Tape
ClickTape is an ingenious minimalist tape dispenser with a circular form that is shaped like a roll of tape. The tape roll fits into the…
A Series of Creepy Illustrations of ‘Looney Tunes’ Cartoons
Mexico City animator, illustrator, and designer Rafael Aguilar (a.k.a. “Rafahu“) has created Psychotoons I, a series of creepy illustrations of Looney Tunes cartoons. The complete…
‘TwoDots’, A Minimalistic Video Game About Connecting Dots
TwoDots is a minimalistic video game by Dots featuring gameplay centered around connecting dots with two thematic characters, Amelia and Jacques. The game follows up…
Suggestions For Getting A Better Night’s Sleep Despite A Desperately Meowing Cat Pining For Attention
CATastrophe, a humorous web series about whose first and second episodes we’ve written about, offers a few suggestions for getting a better night’s sleep despite…
A Build-Your-Own Sushi Playset Made Out of Wooden Blocks
Japanese design studio plaplax has created an ingenious build-your-own sushi playset out of wooden blocks. The set is sold out but, according to the plaplax…
Lighting Giants, Colorful Light Art Projected on Massive Shipyard Cranes in Croatia
Each night shipyard cranes in Pula, Croatia illuminate in vibrant, ever-changing colors as part of a new light art installation, “Lighting Giants”. The cranes are…