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Hello Grumpy, A T-Shirt Design That Joins Grumpy Cat & Hello Kitty
Hello Grumpy is a clever t-shirt design released by BustedTees that brings together both Tard the Grumpy Cat and the Japanese fictional character Hello Kitty.…
Amanda Palmer’s TED Talk – The Art of Asking
Amanda (Fucking) Palmer recently gave a TED Talk in Long Beach, California. It’s called “The Art of Asking” and it gives a fantastic insight on…
Intricately Carved Pencil Lead Sculptures
Hungarian artist cerkahegyzo uses a most unexpected medium for his intricate sculptures: pencil leads. He carves the tiny figurines and seemingly impossible chains using needles,…
Googly Eyes Glasses
I am going to go ahead and say it, these Googly Eyes Glasses by Archie McPhee have got to be this year’s number 1 fashion…
The Return of ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’
Comedian Colin Mochrie has just revealed in a tweet that the popular improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway? will be returning. Ryan Stiles also told The Wenatchee…
A Million Times, An Analog Display Made of 288 Clocks
“A Million Times” is an array of 288 analog clocks that serve as a kind of analog display—the two hands on each clock do not…
Digital Paintings of Star Wars Characters as Fruits & Vegetables
Chewbanana Netherlands-based artist and illustrator Nela Krzewniak has created a tasty series of digital paintings that show some well-known Star Wars characters as different fruits…
The Sun’s Beautiful, Violent Surface In Action
In this awe-inspiring video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, you can see the Sun’s massive, roiling surface in action. The loops of plasma coming…
Boomerang for Gmail, A Plugin That Lets Users Schedule When Emails are Sent and Received
Boomerang for Gmail is a Firefox and Chrome plugin that lets Gmail users schedule when emails are sent and received. The plugin has several clever…
Bullfrogs Eat Everything, Including Their Own Kind
In a short video from the Frogs and Toads series on National Geographic, we learn that Bullfrogs Eat Everything. A bullfrog will go after anything…