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Planet Hiltron, What Celebrities Would Look Like as Ordinary People
Tom Cruise and Mariah Carey “Planet Hiltron” is a cleverly photoshopped collection of images by New York City-based artist and writer Danny Evans that gives…
Currently, Get the Forecast Every Time You Open a New Tab in Chrome
Currently is a Chrome Extension that replaces the new tab screen with the time, date, and a weather forecast for your area. You can customize…
Jim’ll Paint It, A Guy Named Jim Paints Your Requests in MS Paint
Please paint me the brave little toaster…in bed with two slim sexy soldiers (the bread type), smoking a cigar with used pop tart wrappers strewn…
Bout App for iOS Encourages Silly Picture Taking
The Bout app for iOS does for picture-taking what DrawSomething did for doodling. The app gives you a topic — for example, “Your best Spiderman…
A Star Wars Remix of the Schoolhouse Rock! Song, “Interjections!”
OneMinuteGalactica created a Star Wars remix of the classic Schoolhouse Rock! animated song, “Interjections.” video via OneMinuteGalactica, image via Wired GeekDad with art by Ethan…
A Wombat Being Cute and Snuggly With a Guy at a Park
In this video, a cute orphan wombat named Douglas gets snuggly with a redheaded gentleman. It gets really cute at the 1:10 ‘flipping over to…
Mario and Sonic Face Their Evil Counterparts in Detailed Paintings
Artist Joshua Summana has created amazing portraits of Mario, Donkey Kong, and Sonic, and already has plans for other gaming icons. Previously, Summana painted a…
AsapScience on the Differences Between Butter & Margarine
Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE discuss the chemical and health differences between butter and margarine in their latest video, “Butter vs Margarine.”
Chuck, A Bookshelf with Flexible Wooden Shelves
Chuck is an ingenious bookshelf with thin flexible wooden shelves that can be bent to make space for books. The bookshelf is a design concept…
Animated Version of the Laughing Squid Logo
London-based animator Ross Plaskow of Floppydisk Animation brought the Laughing Squid logo to life with a custom made animated version. Thanks Ross! image via Floppydisk…