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Safety Maps, Share a Safe Place to Meet in Case of Emergency
Safety Maps is an ingenious service by Do projects that allows you to create a map of a safe place to meet in case of…
Jackie Kashian on Los Angeles Pet Owners
Comedienne Jackie Kashian‘s routine “Animals” is from her It Is Never Going To Be Bread album. She has a podcast called The Dork Forest and…
Know Your Meme Acquired by Cheezburger Network
Know Your Meme, which was launched at Rocketboom three years ago, has been acquired by Cheezburger Network. Cheezburger, the Internet publisher best known for popularizing…
Soundscapes: Field Recordings From Burning Man
The Black Rock Desert is the perfect place to create huge art and bring together tens of thousands of people precisely because it is one…
ISS, An Improvised Space Station Sitcom by monochrom
ISS, directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Roland Gratzer of the art prank group monochrom, is an improvised sitcom about the crew of the International Space…
RoboGames 2011, The World’s Largest Robot Competition
photo via Willow Garage photo by Scott Beale The 8th annual RoboGames, the world’s largest robot competition, takes place April 15-17th, 2011 at the San…
International Pillow Fight Day 2011
With International Pillow Fight Day 2011 scheduled for April 2, dozen of cities around the world–from Adelaide to Zürich–brace for the feathery onslaught. The United…
Color.xxx Launch Party at New Work City
Last week when the new Color app launched there was much discussion around their $41 million pre-launch funding. Poking fun at the situation, Tony Bacigalupo,…
MoCCA Fest 2011, A Benefit for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
MoCCA Fest 2011, a fundraiser and 10th anniversary celebration for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA), takes place April 9-10 at the 69th…
Realistic Animatronic Eye Mechanism
This animatronic human eye mechanism built by Dan Thompson of the special effects company Visionary Effects is creepily realistic in its movements. via Gizmodo See…