The other day I was watching a show about strange and unique world records people had achieved, and there was a segment featuring Takeru Kobayashi, the renowned competitive eater who won the World…
I don’t know anything about this PSA advising young people to stay away from chat rooms lest the cute boy on the other end turn out to be Cthulhu, waiting to take their sanity, but I certainly…
This amazing image shows the apocalyptic look of Sydney, Australia this morning due to a massive storm of red dust. (Click image to see Hooper’s full photo.) From ABC News Australia:
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Calling Cory Doctorow! Calling Cory Doctorow! Mister Doctorow, please proceed to a brass courtesy bathysphere.
In “What If Star Wars Was Made By Environmentalists?” the movie is reimagined as “Star Non-Violent Resistance” and eco-tourism is used to establish independence from the empire; Vader is…
If your scanner doesn’t really go with your office décor, why not camouflage it to look like something else? Here’s a great example of spending very little to give your workspace a unique look.
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What makes yawning so contagious? Empathy, as it turns out, causes us to respond to a friend’s boredom. Children as young as two can display the basic capacity to understand how others…
This is the incredible true story of a physicist who believed he could project himself to another solar system and live as a swashbuckling interplanetary adventurer. When he was a teenager and living…
German hacker Ray has shown that he can print working Dutch police handcuff keys from plastic on his 3D printers, and has released the 3D files so you can print your own:
He used a 3D printer…
London design firm Berg (formerly Schulz and Webb) is working on a series of provocative videos exploring “designerly applications for RFID.” The first one is this lovely Rube Goldberg…
Hyperforeignism is the mispronunciation of words borrowed from foreign languages…but it’s actually a sort of an over-pronunciation, so correct that’s it circle back around to incorrect again.
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I got a kick out of this short video clip about writer Charles Bukowski’s loathing of Mickey Mouse, that “three-fingered son-of-a-bitch who has no soul, for Christ’s sake.” The fact that…
