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HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Returns For Season 4
HBO’s award-winning period drama series Boardwalk Empire from writer Terence Winter (The Sopranos) director Martin Scorsese will be returning for its fourth season on Sunday,…
Melted Cassette Tape Skulls and Skeletons
From 2005 to 2007 artist Brian Dettmer made a series of human and animal skulls and skeletons out of melted cassette tapes. In some of…
Receiptmate, A Receipt Scanning App With Evernote Integration
Receiptmate is an app for iOS that allows users to scan their receipts for easy tagging and filing in Evernote. The app is currently available…
Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul in a Juicy Fruit Commercial (2000)
In 2000, Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman) appeared on a commercial for Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum. Before Breaking Bad, Aaron was also…
Art Car: The Movie, Documentary Follows Artists Prepping For the Houston Art Car Parade
Art Car: The Movie is a 2011 documentary film made by Houston-based del monte films that “follows Rebecca Bass and her high school class as…
How Big Is Space? by Earth Unplugged
In “How Big is Space?,” a recent episode of Earth Unplugged by BBC Earth Productions, they examine how much space we need to live, how…
Two Beers In with Cody and Kerry, Web Series Where Everyone Pounds Two Beers & Then Talks About Stuff
Two Beers In with Cody and Kerry is a web series where hosts Cody Lindquist and Kerry McGuire and their guest “pound two beers…
The Backwards Song, An Entire Song Performed in Reverse & Flipped
Musician Rob Scallon performed an entire song backwards, and then reversed it so it plays relatively like an ordinary song. Here’s how “The Backwards Song”…
Pan Planets, Realistic Planet Photos Created With a Frying Pan
Italian artists Giuliano Antonio Lo Re and Matteo Gallinelli used an ordinary frying pan to create surprisingly convincing planet photos for their series “Pan Planets.”…
The First Rule of Having In-Flight Internet According to The Oatmeal
Matthew Inman, also known as The Oatmeal, says the first rule of having in-flight internet access is to post about having in-flight Wi-Fi on a…