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This Was First, A Website Collecting the First Posts of Popular Websites
This Was First is a website that collects the first posts of some of the most trafficked news, social, and e-commerce websites like YouTube, Twitter,…

Cinder, An Open Source Creative Coding Platform
Cinder is a free programming library for creative coding. The platform can be used for everything from complex interactive installations to iPhone apps (watch this…

Orange is the New Black, A Netflix Original Series Based on the Book by Former Convict Piper Kerman
“It’s just like the Hamptons, only f&$*ing horrible.” Orange is the New Black is a new Netflix original series based on the 2011 book (a…

Terrible JPEG Compression Transforms ‘The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’ Into ‘Tej Uqahdfs”me$nolcr Dlc!ulfgr’
As part of an experiment to demonstrate the poor quality of JPEG compression, Tom Scott saved Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at various qualities, transforming the…

What Life Would Be Like If You Were a Dog
In a recent video, BuzzFeed explains how different your life would be if you were a dog. For example, you would eat twice as much,…

Continuous City, Illustrated Book That Explores Fanciful Alternate Layouts of New York City
Continuous City is an upcoming book by artist Brian Foo that explores a series of fanciful alternate layouts of New York City through hand painted…

Modern Problems Even Superman Can’t Defeat
CollegeHumor illustrator H. Caldwell Tanner created a funny series of Superman comic book covers exploring “Modern Problems Even Superman Can’t Defeat.” You can view all…

Kitten Happily Wiggles His Ears While Drinking From a Bottle
A 2.5-week-old foster kitten happily wiggles his ears while drinking from a bottle in this video uploaded by Rebecca Rachelle. via Pouch

A Fun Irish Waltz Cover of Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’
Mitchell Jarvis and Postmodern Jukebox perform a "Lucky Charms-and-Guinness inspired" Irish waltz cover of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" .

Supercut of the Phrase ‘We’re Not so Different, You and I’ in Movies
New York comedian Bryan Menegus created a Slacktory Supercut titled “We’re not so different, you and I”, which highlights the phrase being spoken in popular…
