Laughing Squid
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The Wirecutter, A List of Amazing Gadgets by Brian Lam
Brian Lam, former editor of Gizmodo, has just launched The Wirecutter on The Awl. It is a “new website designed to do one thing: to…
Opposites Posters
These wonderful “Opposites” posters are by design students at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The posters were an assignment for a…
The Skulls of Derik Van Beers, A Short Film by The Perez Brothers
The Skulls of Derik Van Beers is a short film created by California-based filmmakers, the Perez Brothers. The film follows sculpture artist Derik Van Beers…
Wine Stain Portraits by Amelia Harnas
Artist Amelia Harnas creates beautiful embroidered wine stain portraits. We recently wrote about another example of gorgeous embroidery portraiture by artist Cayce Zavaglia. My process…
Cheech & Chong’s Magic Brownie Adventure to Flaming Pole Festival
Cheech and Chong are off to deliver a ’70s van full of “magic brownies” to the Flaming Pole desert festival (just don’t call it…
Mega Super Store
Mega Super Store on The Dog House Diaries
The Simpsons Opening Couch Gag Animated by John Kricfalusi
The “couch gag” in the opening sequence of the October 2nd episode of The Simpsons was animated by John Kricfalusi, who is best known…
Jesus Saves
image via Canvas via Gamefreaks
TSA Requires Breast Cancer Patient To Submit To Pat Down After Scan
My wife Lori Dorn, who has breast cancer, tells her story about a TSA agent at JFK on Thursday who required her to submit to…
Nyan Cat Toaster
The new Nyan Cat Toaster t-shirt by BustedTees shows Nyan Cat encountering the one thing that can stop it for good.