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Alongside, An App to Colorfully Visualize Your Foursquare Relationships
Kate Ray has built Alongside, a web app that visualizes your Foursquare relationships with colorful lines. Here’s an example of how the lines intersect. My…
Kids in Eastern Congo Meet a White Guy for the First Time & Marvel at his Hairy Arms
“The vanilla gorilla… great white sasquatch… Or Viking…” Justin “The Viking” Wren, UFC fighting veteran and a missionary for Kingdom Building Ministries (KBM), traveled…
Hand-Carved Skulls Made from Ammonite Fossils
These one-of-a-kind, hand-carved skulls from Skullis were created using beautiful ammonite fossils. The detailed sculptures range from $60 all the way up to $1300 depending…
Solving a Rubik’s Cube While Juggling
Ravi Fernando pulled off an impressive stunt by solving a Rubik’s Cube while juggling it alongside two other balls. video via Steve Berke Comedy via…
Hand-Painted Nesting Dolls Inspired by Popular TV Shows and Movies
Star Wars Nesting Dolls San Francisco-based illustrator and designer Andy Stattmiller has hand-painted an excellent collection of nesting dolls that are all inspired by famous…
Valibation, A Short Film About Smartphones and Self-Worth
Valibation is a short film from Ulterior Productions about a man who’s a little too attached to his smartphone. The film is reminiscent of Cronenberg’s iconic Videodrome, and…
Baby Elephant Takes a Mud Bath
Navann the baby elephant splashes about in a mud bath at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. via Tastefully Offensive
Scientists Discover 530 Million-Year-Old Sea Creature Fossil
image credit Yie Jang via LiveScience Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Yunnan University have discovered a well-preserved fossil of a 530 million-year-old sea creature, an anthropod…
The White Whale, A Moby-Dick Inspired Illustration by Dan McCarthy
The White Whale is a Moby-Dick inspired illustration by Dan McCarthy that shows a giant scarred up white sperm whale charging through a large group…
Hand-Drawn Floor Plans of Popular TV Show Apartments and Houses
House of the Simpson Family (The Simpsons) Spanish professional interior designer Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde (aka “nikneuk“) has hand-drawn an incredibly detailed series of floor plans…