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bookshelfporn: Library Kiss #2…happy Valentine’s Day book...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:29:38 -0500

Library Kiss #2…happy Valentine’s Day book lovers :)

seenontabletop: 8-player Tsuro of the Seas (played without...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:28:59 -0500

8-player Tsuro of the Seas (played without Daikaiju). Filled almost the whole board before even one elimination. Epic game.

laughingsquid: Surprise Classical Concert on the Copenhagen...

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:44:38 -0400

laughingsquid:

Surprise Classical Concert on the Copenhagen Metro

laughingsquid: Scrabble Drink Coasters I might just get one of...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:23:22 -0400

laughingsquid:

Scrabble Drink Coasters

I might just get one of these!

laughingsquid: Sword Handle Umbrellas These would be badass.

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:02:21 -0400

laughingsquid:

Sword Handle Umbrellas

These would be badass.

thisisnotbruce: “Grilled cheese. Grill me a cheese.” “I’m not...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:19:19 -0400

thisisnotbruce:

“Grilled cheese. Grill me a cheese.”
“I’m not grilling you a cheese!”

laughingsquid: Map of the Dead, A Zombie Survival Map

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:11:43 -0400

laughingsquid:

Map of the Dead, A Zombie Survival Map

experimentsinmotion: Architecture in motion… forever

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:13:27 -0400

experimentsinmotion:

Architecture in motion… forever

experimentsinmotion: Jewelry in motion: Kinetic architecture...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:07:21 -0400

experimentsinmotion:

Jewelry in motion: Kinetic architecture for your hands

by Dukno Yoon

nevver: What we’re reading

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:05:33 -0400

nevver:

What we’re reading

rtnyp: A knock-off version of Hooters recently opened in my neighborhood. I found out about it...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:13:39 -0400

rtnyp:

A knock-off version of Hooters recently opened in my neighborhood. I found out about it when I ran smack into a giant pair of 15’ tall boobs, prominently splayed on the billboard atop the Broadway N/Q elevated subway station (for reference see the grainy photo of this really tasteful ad that I borrowed from 4-Square).

Rather than getting pissed off about another unoriginal company using boobs to sell mediocre beer and wings, I started thinking: Ladies, why haven’t we gotten in on this?

Here’s my pitch: I’d like to open a restaurant called ‘The Bulge’ (I thought about ‘Boners,’ but it apparently already exists as a BBQ chain).

Concept is simple:

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Partners?

countingdown: oxane: “Le Borgne et le Papillon” by stricher...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:49:05 -0400

countingdown:

oxane:

“Le Borgne et le Papillon” by stricher gerard

Oil on canvas
146x114 cm
April 2012

“worst painting ever”

I like it.

wnycradiolab: Astonishingly beautiful real-time visualization...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:54:37 -0400

wnycradiolab:

Astonishingly beautiful real-time visualization of wind in the US. Have you seen it? If not, you really need to click through and see this baby in action.

(Thanks to the lovely Posey Gruener for the heads-up.)

laughingsquid: SIM Cards Must Die

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:58:33 -0400

laughingsquid:

SIM Cards Must Die

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your..."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:56:15 -0400

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

- Ernest Hemingway (via asterisk-)

theatlantic: The Best Thing to Happen to Toast Since Sliced...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:33:54 -0400

theatlantic:

The Best Thing to Happen to Toast Since Sliced Bread

Do you make toast in the morning? Do you look at the weather forecast? IMAGINE a world in which you could accomplish both of these onerous tasks in one easy step.

Yes, that is the dream of someone going by the username of “Uroemer” who has entered this bold “idea” in the Ideabird M2M Innovation Contest, a competition put together by “an amazing group of companies including Deloitte, Deutsche Telecom, HYVE and The RWTH-TIM Research Group … with prizes worth over $10,000, [for the] wildest and best ideas for tracking anything - people, animals or objects of any size.”

Uroemer’s plan is to build a toaster that “receives the updated weather information for its current location via m2m or WLAN and burns ‘today’s weather forecast’ via template as an icon on your slice of toast.”

Let the naysayers of progress chew on this! The future is finally, finally here.

(And yes, that is the photoshopped toast that they submitted to the contest.)

I’d buy that toaster!

climateadaptation: Why science? Adam Savage, co-host of...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:27:59 -0400

climateadaptation:

Why science? Adam Savage, co-host of Mythbusters, speaks at the Reason Rally on March 24th, 2012.

laughingsquid: Chi-Noceros by Octophant

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:27:25 -0400

laughingsquid:

Chi-Noceros by Octophant

hypna: Paper Note turns sound into a 3D tangible paper waveform...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:54:22 -0400

hypna:

Paper Note turns sound into a 3D tangible paper waveform sculpture

The user records a message or sound which is then analyzed by the program and mapped into a waveform of 450 sample points. Each sample point is transformed into a paper disk with the size of the disk representing the volume of the recording at a specific point - the louder the volume, the bigger the disk.

Video:

"Colonies of cheaters lose to colonies of cooperators."

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:46:45 -0400

“Colonies of cheaters lose to colonies of cooperators.”

- E.O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth (via wwnorton)