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Harvard Sailing Team Updates Their Mailing List
NYC based Ivy League Sketch Comedy team Harvard Sailing Team works on updating their mailing list, adding some pretty interesting email addresses.
Save NYC Food Trucks, Grassroots Campaign to End Metered Parking Ban of New York City Food Trucks
A recent court ruling makes it illegal for food-truck operators to sell food from metered parking spaces in New York City. The organization, Save NYC…
Silhouette Floating Lamp, A Table Lamp with a Levitating Lampshade
Designer Angela Jansen and engineer Ger Jansen, both of Netherlands-based company Light Light, co-created the Silhouette Floating Lamp, a table lamp with a unique levitating…
The 1/2 Project, Bizarre Composite Face Portraits
In the 1/2 Project, Venezuelan artist Jesús González RodrÃguez creates portraits by combining front and side views of his subjects into bizarre composites. via My…
Human Slinky
Romanian-born Ioan Veniamin Oprea created a very unique one-person act in the shape of a rainbow Human Slinky costume. The costume, and a five-year…
The Eatery, App Shares Your Photos of Meals to Improve Your Health
The Eatery is a free experimental app from San Francisco-based health startup, Massive Health, that has users take photos of their meals, share it using…
Yukigassen, Japanese Competitive Snowball Fighting
Yukigassen is a Japanese winter sport that is a cross between capture the flag and a snowball fight. Created in 1988, the sport has since…
Album Raises New and Troubling Questions, A New Rarities Album by They Might Be Giants
Album Raises New and Troubling Questions (iTunes & Amazon) is a new rarities album by They Might Be Giants featuring 20 previously unreleased tracks, including…
Visualization of How Earth’s Population Reached 7 Billion
“7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast?” is a clever visualization of how the Earth’s population went from 300 million in the…
Paper Plate Skeleton
Karen Howard has posted an Instructable that shows how to make an awesome Paper Plate Skeleton. via Make