September 2009
1 post
Locke and Demosthenes →
August 2009
1 post
Bank Lets Customers Deposit Checks by Taking Pics... →
iPhone only: As irrelevant as online banking and ATMs makes the physical bank for a lot of your banking needs, most of us still need to head to our local bank whenever it’s time to cash a…
March 2009
5 posts
Giant Worm Not Actually Making Spice in Cornwall... →
Researchers at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall made a discovery worthy of a Frank Herbert novel: A massive, 4-foot-long reef worm that was chomping through their local corals. According to…
Students →
Four Experimental Firefox Extensions We're Into... →
Every so often, Lifehacker rounds up Firefox add-ons that are too new for official approval, but seriously neat-looking. This batch can automate download management and image uploading, queue up…
PooH & Ice →
Eric says: “I just took this photo on the corner of Broad and Beaver Streets in FiDi, NYC. I am alarmed to consider what might be on the bill-of-fare if this is a delivery vehicle.”
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Trompe l'oeil ski-toilet mural →
This Japanese ski resort toilet has everything: a vertiginous, trompe l’oeil mural, a pink toilet that washes your bum, AND an incomprehensible slogan for a brand of tinned coffee!
Georgia Max…
January 2009
2 posts
Tour the ISS →
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Makes my spine tingle when he opens the window for the first time… wow.
Regular readers know I’m not a huge fan of the International Space Station. With an unclear purpose and a…
Electric Bath Duckie →
I’m not really sure what it means that the two people I showed this Electric Bath Duckie to both said it was a good gift idea, but I really like that on the back of the package it…
September 2008
1 post
Ghost Skyscraper [Architecture] →
Earlier this week, the New York Times’ David W. Dunlap took this eerie photograph of 7 World Trade Center, which seemed to be turning invisible as the light caught it at just the right…
August 2008
1 post
No more purple dinosaurs! →
The creators of “Yo Gabba Gabba” tell the story behind the coolest (and least annoying) kids show on television.
June 2008
9 posts
Basics: Synteny →
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This is a very, very cool way of demonstrating evolution using a simple analogy. Long-ish but well worth a read!
Let’s play the most boring card game in the universe! Here are…
Twelve Books You Should Read at the Beach This... →
It’s boiling hot up here in the Earth’s northern hemisphere, so hopefully at some point you’ll find yourself vacationing at a beach — or at least lounging near a large body of water. And…
Some Fathers’ Day Skepticism →
Happy Fathers’ Day to all you skeptical daddies. Today is a special super awesome kick ass fun Fathers’ Days because it also happens to be my birthday! (Best Fathers’ Day gift EVER = me)
It’s…
MMORPG Tycoon: a video game about running a video... →
MMORPG Tycoon sounds like a delightfully recursive video game — you’re in charge of tweaking the rules for a multiplayer online game like World of Warcraft, and you win or lose based on how many…
Eat Better with the 125 Healthiest Supermarket... →
We’ve already shown you which drinks you should stick with to stay healthier, and now Men’s Health has rounded up 125 of the healthiest supermarket foods in America by category. That means…
Google News from a better world →
Duncan sez, “A brilliantly done spoof of GoogleNews from a parallel universe where all the world’s problems have been solved, from the petty: ‘Apple announces unlocked iPhone, built-in VOIP’ To…
Worst drinks in America →
Men’s Health Magazine’s roundup of the five worst beverages in America is pretty amazingly disgusting. I love this fake juice with 84g of sugar in it. Worst Juice Imposter
Arizona Kiwi Strawberry…
WTF?!, a Flash-based World of Warcraft parody →
Over on Play This Thing, game designer/writer Greg Costikyan has word of a sweet and funny World of Warcraft parody:
It’s a World of Warcraft screenshot, right? Well, no — it’s a screenshot…
Are you on this list? →
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I could fall into about 11 or 12 of these at one time or another. And I’m not even a sports fan!
It’s certainly inclusive. Wait…sports fans? Read the comments on this…
May 2008
28 posts
A Developer Looks to ‘Blade Runner’ When Designing... →
Tiny Bullfrog Power making a mark →
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These guys are in the same building as my company in Toronto, a floor or two down. Kind of cool.
Bullfrog buys electricity from wind-powered or small hydro generating stations and…
Unofficial Homebrew Channel For the Wii →
marcan writes “The Homebrew Channel is a tool that can be installed on any Wii (no hardware mods required) that lets you run unsigned homebrew software from an SD card, or upload executables via WiFi…
Is America Ready for a Cylon President? →
The 7 Types Of Bad Bosses According To Star Trek... →
They yell at you and fire you twice a day. They insist that a five-day job should only take five hours. They flip-flop and then blame you for their mistakes. Star Trek’s captains model all…
Social Networking map of the world →
A visualization of the purported marketshare of various online social networking services. It’s super interesting, but incomplete: I wonder where the data on China is? Click for larger size….
Cubeecraft →
The CubeeCraft website features printable patterns for making paper figures built from cubes. The website’s tag line is “Download. Print, Cut, Fold” and it’s really that easy. The website…
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle →
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Google Now Maps Real Estate Listings [Real Estate... →
Google Maps now makes it easy to check out real estate listings in a certain area: click on the “Show search options” link next to the Search Maps button, and choose “Real Estate” from the…
Swapping heads with dad and kid photos →
Man Babies is a bizarre blog that has nothing but photos of dads whose heads have been swapped with their kids’ . Link
1939 marital rating scale for wives →
George W. Crane, MD, was a marriage counselor and wrote a syndicated national newspaper column called “The Worry Clinic.” He developed a test in the late 1930s called the Marital Rating…
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times →
The giant 6ft cow that is as big as a small... →
This has to be fake? Doesn’t it?
Swapping heads with dad and kid photos →
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Uhh… wow.
Man Babies is a bizarre blog that has nothing but photos of dads whose heads have been swapped with their kids’ . Link
Blow Your Friends Up as You Surf with PMOG [Web... →
Web surfing game PMOG (The Passively Multiplayer Online Game) just opened up user registrations to the public. PMOG, a social surfing game, lets you rack up points and leave gifts and traps…
The Best Tapas In Toronto →
Ah Tapas. Is there any single more over-heated trend on Toronto’s dining landscape than the small plate? It attracts more buzz than molecular gastronomy and I think I understand the rationale…
Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666... →
Dude, did you know a decapitated head makes an... →
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You’d think they could have just gone out to their local… well, you know.
I wonder what would have been worse if this happened in England: digging up the head, bongafying it or…
Decent themes?
I’m actually having a real problem finding a decent theme that displays articles the way I’d like? I’m generally going to be posting links to interesting sites, or copies of RSS feed items. Any suggestions? Should I be attempting to design my own?
NOW Magazine // Food & Drink // Food & Drink //... →
Hmm… decent Mexican food in Toronto? Might be worth a trek up to Kensington for lunch some day before the weather gets too hot. Who’s in?
It's Now Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay →
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British Jews: "We're not celebrating Israel's... →
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Online Music Festival Takes Interactive Leap →
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I signed up for a seat at the Disturbed concert, just ‘cause it was the only band I’ve heard of. Will report back if I actually end up “going” to this.
It still isn’t just like…
Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes... →
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Seriously, what are the odds that McDonalds, KFC, and the like don’t already add something like this that their labs discovered years ago…
When you ingest a stomach…
[Interesting] The September 11 television archive.... →
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World Sunlight Map →
This is very cool - came up when I was bored and Stumbling. Wonder when the pics were taken?
Let's see what this Tumblr thing is all about...