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KoPoint Wire, A New Opinion and Content Aggregating Blog
KoPoint Wire is a new opinion and content-aggregating blog focusing on media, politics, sports, and technology. KoPoint founder Dan Patterson is starting off by hitting…
SoundsGood, A Hearing Aid for Women Looks Like a High-Tech Earring
The SoundsGood hearing aid for women allows the speaker to visually see their voice as graphic sound waves. Of course, for the wearer of the…
Dizzy Dali Dinner, A Surreal Dinner Hosted by Salvador Dali (1941)
The 1941 newsreel “Dizzy Dali Dinner” documents Salvador Dali’s Night in a Surrealist Forest Ball, a dinner event in Pebble Beach, California that was a…
New York The Wonder City (1938)
“New York The Wonder City” is a 1938 short film that gives a glimpse of pre-World War II New York City. The film was…
Red Tails, An Action-Packed Movie About WWII Tuskegee Airmen From Lucasfilm
Red Tails is a new action-packed flick from Lucasfilm about the Tuskegee Airmen, the African-American Army Air Corps underdogs that fought “against all odds and…
1960’s Film Alphabet, Poster That Quizzes Your 1960s Movie Knowledge
Coming off the heels of the 1980’s Film Alphabet and the 1990’s Film Alphabet, designer Stephen Wildish now challenges our 1960s pop culture movie knowledge…
Vancouvria: Dream of the Suburbs, A Funny Spoof of Portlandia
Portland filmmaker Brighton West has created Vancouvria: Dream of the Suburbs, a brilliant spoof video of Portlandia: Dream of the 90s, the original promotional video…
Shake On It, ESPN Commercial About Wagers Between Rival Fans
“Shake On It” is a humorous ESPN commercial about the wagers between fans of rival sports teams (and what happens to the loser of…
Social Networking Shower Curtain
The Social Shower Curtain by SpinningHat is a great way to bring social networking into the bathroom. via Craziest Gadgets
Jimmy Kimmel Challenge: I Gave My Kids a Terrible Present Part 2
Last month, late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel sent a challenge out to parents to gift their children terrible presents, film it and submit the results…