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Dachshund Salt and Pepper Shakers

Kikkerland Dachshund Salt and Pepper Shakers at All Modern via Lori Dorn

photo by Scott Beale What Color Is The Empire State Building? is a handy website that lets you know what each night’s colors represent. You…

Devo is releasing their first new album in 20 years, “Something For Everybody”. It comes out June 15th and is now available for pre-order. In…

The Puppet Makers is a beautiful new web comic by Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt about a rococo Steampunk murder mystery in Versailles that takes…

How do you get five “boatercycles” – aka motorcycle-powered pontoon boats – to the Ganges River? You start off with a party on Newtown Creek,…

Props to SFMOMA for tweeting this clip recently. Of course as we all know the internet is made of cats, so what better way than…

Derrick Comedy introduces GINK, the last social network you’ll ever need. via MaxiumFun

photo by bawol After hitting San Francisco and other cities, Banksy is now actively posting pieces around New York City. Some of them have already…

Sarita’s Mac & Cheese (S’MAC), a great little restaurant in the East Village that only serves macaroni and cheese. photos by Scott Beale

Foodspotting, which launched in March at SXSW, is a cool new visual location guide where people can share food they discover around the world while…