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Walking Sri Lanka, A Fast-Paced Video Tour of Sri Lankan Cuisine
“Walking Sri Lanka” is a fast-paced video tour of the delicious food and colorful sights of Sri Lanka. The video was shot over the course…
Quidditch World Cup VI, A Fictional Sport From ‘Harry Potter’ Turned International Competitive Phenomena
The sixth annual Quidditch World Cup took place on April 13th-14th in Kissimee, Florida. Quidditch, based on the fictional sport played atop broomsticks from…
The 2nd Annual Climber’s Prom at Mission Cliffs in San Francisco
The 2nd annual Climber’s Prom takes place at the Mission Cliffs climbing gym in San Francisco on April 19, 2013. Poofy dresses and duct tape…
LEGO Spirograph Draws Complex Geometric Patterns
BricTechnic user PG52 created a complex spirograph using LEGO bricks. You can see it in action in the video above, and find more photos and…
Patton Oswalt’s Improvised Plot Proposal For ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ on ‘Parks and Recreation’
“We sense a disturbance in the time ribbon.” In an outtake for the next episode of Parks and Recreation, actor Patton Oswalt guest stars as…
Dove Uses a Sketch Artist to Show Women That They Are More Beautiful Than They Think They Are
You are more beautiful than you think. As part of Dove’s Real Beauty Campaign, the company conducted a social experiment demonstrating that, although only…
TodoCat, A Browser-Based To-Do List In the Form of a Cat Meme
Jonathan Soma has created TodoCat, a browser-based to-do list modeled on the Sophisticated Cat meme. Users can save their to-do lists in their browser, or…
Netflix Original Series ‘Hemlock Grove’ Features Sex, Gore, and Supernatural Horror
The monster is within. The trailer for Hemlock Grove — a new Netflix original series from executive producer Eli Roth — features two minutes of…
Space Monkey, A Cloud Storage Service That Lets Users Control Their Own Datacenters
Space Monkey is a cloud storage service that allows the user to control their own one terabyte datacenter. The service aims to cut down on…
Anatomy Box, Paper Art Children’s Book Guides Reader Through Human Anatomy
“Anatomy Box” by Italian artist Valentina Formisano is an unbound children’s book that guides the reader through human anatomy with a series of paper cut…