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Save Yourself, Mammal! A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection
“Save Yourself, Mammal!”, a collection of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics by Zach Weiner, is now available for pre-order. Proceeds from the sale of the…
How to Make a Modern Hourglass
The Hourglass HGS by designer Mark Newson is a beautiful handmade hourglass that keeps time using stainless steel “nanoballs.” Director Philip Andelman filmed “The…
DON-8r and Dona, Two Donation Requesting Robots
Charity robo-canvassers may soon be a reality. DON-8r by Tim Pryde and Dona by Min Su Kim are two examples of begging robots. As these…
A Visit To Rackspace Headquarters In San Antonio
Here are a few photos from our January visit to the headquarters Rackspace in San Antonio, which is located in converted shopping mall. We use…
San Francisco Model Made Using One Hundred Thousand Toothpicks
Scott Weaver’s “Rolling Through the Bay” (which we wrote about back in 2008) is a beautifully intricate model of San Francisco made of 100,000 toothpicks.…
Humblebrag, Bragging That Masks The Brag In a Faux-Humble Guise
Harris Wittels, a standup comedian and writer on “Parks and Recreation”, created the Twitter account @Humblebrag, to call out “Humblebrags” which he describes as “a…
Coffee Brewing Guides by Independent Coffee Roasters
Portland’s Stumptown Coffee Roasters created an excellent step-by-step Brewing Guide for various ways of making coffee, including Press Pot, Chemex, Moka Pot, Vacuum Pot, Melitta,…
Pixels Hall Of Fame, A Brief History of Famous Pixels
Pixels Hall Of Fame, a brief history of famous pixels by Riccardo Bucchioni. via Rampaged Reality
Stackable LEGO Utensils For Kids
Snack & Stack are a set of fun, stackable LEGO utensils for kids available through Our Shop. Kids love building lego. And this Snack &…
I Ain’t Gonna Pee Pee My Bed Tonight!
First there is horror of the incomprehensible. Why is this18th-century Joe Cocker boy is singing about pissing his bed? And the elderly figure in the…