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Extremely High-Waisted Harem Pants
The Harem Jumpsuit by Sparkle & Fade is made to look like an extremely high-waisted pair of harem pants, a very similar style to the…
Captain Picard’s Mean Pizza-Launchin’ Machine by Brandon Bird
Star Trek‘s Captain Jean-Luc Picard drives a mean pizza-launchin’ machine while hunting down an enemy Borg in this latest drawing by Los Angeles-based artist Brandon…
Lion Sculpture Made Out of Shredded Hotel Receipts
British designer Kyle Bean has created a two-foot tall lion sculpture made from shredded hotel receipts as a commission for the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG).…
Extensive Video Collection by They Might Be Giants Available on Vimeo
Flood We recently learned that there is an extensive collection of videos –music, extras, or otherwise– by They Might Be Giants are available to view…
Dr. What vs. Master Mondalek, A Doctor Who-Themed Burlesque Show in San Francisco
Dr. What vs. Master Mondalek is a Doctor Who-themed art, game, and burlesque show taking place at The Box Factory in San Francisco on Friday,…
C-3PO Raps to Promote the Star Tours Ride at Disneyland (1986)
Everything is Terrible has posted VHS footage from A Vacation In Space, a television special that aired in 1986 to help promote the Star Tours…
Bike Sharing Service Coming to San Francisco Bay Area
Bay Area Bike Share is a new bike share service coming to the San Francisco Bay Area in August 2013. The service will be operated…
Restaurant Photographs Babies Next to Their Baby-Sized Burritos To Prove Their Size
The grande burritos at Gordito’s, a Mexican restaurant in Seattle, Washington, are so big that they have photographed them next to babies to prove it.…
Surveillance Cameras Wear Party Hats for George Orwell’s 110th Birthday
June 25th was the 110th birthday of Nineteen Eighty-Four author George Orwell. To mark the occasion, Dutch art group FRONT404 decorated surveillance cameras in downtown…
Go Read, An Open-Source Google Reader Clone by Matt Jibson
Developer Matt Jibson has created Go Read, an open-source Google Reader clone. His goals, as detailed in a recent blog post, were to create an…