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Porcelainia, Documentary About a Retired Teacher’s Science-Inspired Porcelain Art
The mini documentary “Porcelainia” takes a look at the beautiful porcelain art of Bobby Jaber, a retired chemistry and physics teacher who makes spherical sculptures…

Digital Detox’s Device-Free ‘Disconnect To Reconnect’ Spot at Outside Lands 2013
The folks behind tech-free event Camp Grounded, Oakland-based organization Digital Detox, offered a place to power down in the woods of Outside Lands 2013. Festival…

The 12th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest
The 12th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest, a celebration of zines and the indie artists and writers who create them, takes place August 31 to…

10 Bets You Will Always Win, Part 7
Richard Wiseman of Quirkology shares part 7 of his ongoing series “10 Bets You Will Always Win.” via Tastefully Offensive

Pepsi Cheetos
“New sense of surprise snacks can play a ‘swooshing’ at the moment when I put in the mouth.” Steve of The Impulsive Buy recently posted…

Inside the Cleverly Designed Studio of Filmmaker Casey Neistat
Over the years we’ve posted many times about the clever short films of Casey Neistat. Recently Neistat gave Gizmodo a tour of his Manhattan studio,…

Peanuts Comics With Lyrics by The Smiths
Oakland, California designer Lauren LoPrete has smartly set lyrics from The Smiths to Peanuts comics in the new Tumblr called “This Charming Charlie” (because Morrissey…

Colorful Data Visualizations of Mathematical Constants Pi, Phi, and e
Cristian Ilies Vasile and Martin Krzywinski created a series of data visualizations based on the digits of mathematical constants Pi, Phi (the golden ratio), and…

Dog Gets Excited When Star Trek Comes On TV
Chappo the dog gets super excited and starts howling repeatedly when the 1989 film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier comes on the television. via…

How To Test Alkaline Batteries To See If They’re Good
Without using a multi-meter, bajarider1000 describes a method to test alkaline batteries to see if they’re still good by simpling dropping them on their end…
