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Whisper, An App for Anonymously Sharing Secrets
Whisper is an app for anonymously sharing secrets with a picture and overlaid text. Kevin Roose spent some time with the app, and wrote about…
NFL Logos Redesigned as Hipsters
Portland-based comic artist Dave Rappoccio asked “What if the NFL logos were hipsters?” and decided to redesign all 32 logos as they might have looked…
Man Builds Awesome Colored Ice Block Fort in the Backyard of His Home in Northern Canada
Redditor UnspeakableFilth spent much of December building an elaborate fort out of ice blocks in the backyard of his home in Northwestern Ontario. Persistent subzero…
How ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Should Have Ended
This animated episode of How It Should Have Ended (HISHE) features an alternate ending for the 2013 fantasy adventure film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of…
Photos of Manhattan’s 42nd Street Taken in the 1980s and 1990s During Its Final Years of Seediness
As a young aspiring artist in the late 1980s and early 1990s, illustrator Mitch O’Connell found himself exploring Manhattan’s 42nd street, camera in hand. The…
Man Saves a Confused Skunk with a Cup Stuck on Its Head
Jeremi Lorenti and his friend helped save a skunk with a cup stuck on its head, and posted a video of the harrowing experience on…
#Stock Tips, An Old School Hard Copy Zine Celebrating the Wonder of Soup
Friends Rachel Fershleiser and Ami Greko are banding together to create an old school, black-and-white hard copy zine celebrating the wonder that is soup. Because…
The Original ‘RoboCop’ Remixed by Eclectic Method
Eclectic Method remixes the classic 1987 sci-fi action film RoboCop in this video. The song is available to download online from Soundcloud. ‘Robocop,’ the classic,…
Chrome Update Shows Which Tabs Are Making Noise
Back in November, the Chrome beta introduced a feature that made it easier to track down noisy tabs. Now that feature — which adds small…
The World of Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Spirited Away’ Recreated in ‘Minecraft’
Animator Alan Becker is recreating the fantastic world of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away in Minecraft, and has thus far mostly completed the bath house, the…