Coraline Mystery Boxes! (1)
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The crew of Coraline has been sending out special boxes as gifts to the bloggers they follow. We opened our own mysterious Coraline box tonight! Archive volunteers Michael and Brittany Woodside, Glenn Han and Danny Young (all wearing Coraline t-shirts they got as swag at Siggraph) were on hand to witness the event and capture it on video. Did we stay up till all hours preparing the photographs and unboxing video for you folks? Heck ...
A Story of Leaving Something Behind (15)
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If you're a parent (and especially if you're a mom), you know how annoying it is to get home from an outing with the kids to find out someone left something behind. A sweater, a toy, a library book that's due tomorrow. Then you have to weigh the time and expense of going right back to retrieve it against the inconvenience of doing without the object in question until the next time you're in the ...
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Andy Kaplan-Myrth said:
I am going to watch for this and tell my kids about it. An interesting way to teach a valuable life lesson!
Experience the Wii Theremin (4)
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While Nintendo's newest console has been labeled decidedly non-hardcore by most of the gaming public, the technology afforded within the system's wireless controller opens up a wealth of DIY possibilities. Inspired by noted Wii hacker Johnny Lee, blogger Ken Moore has used the Wiimote to create his own Theremin. To be precise, I've built a Theremin simulator using a computer, a Roland JV-1080 synthesizer, and a Wiimote (remote controller from the Wii game console). At ...
Postcards From the Sixth Dimension (2)
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My nephew Tom Crawford has spent two winters in Antarctica putting up balloons to study cosmic rays. Now it looks like this and other similar experiments have detected something strange. A concatenation of puzzling results from an alphabet soup of satellites and experiments has led a growing number of astronomers and physicists to suspect that they are getting signals from a shadow universe of dark matter that makes up a quarter of creation but has ...
In reply to a reply by J.H. Huebert and Walter Block (1)
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J.H. Huebert and Walter Block have recently published an essay which claims to be a reply to Roderick Long’s essay on left-libertarianism for Cato Unbound. Huebert and Block insist that they are going to set the record straight on the correct libertarian view of these matters. But it’s not clear that they have succeeded in even setting the record straight on Roderick’s view of these matters. For example, I think they have clearly and grossly ...
Win a Free Brobee Sock Monkey from Mostly Monkeys (2)
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No matter how early you arrive at your local mall, how many unbelievable deals you score, or how much disposable income you have to blow, Black Friday shopping sucks. There's simply no getting around it. What doesn't suck is free stuff, and there's no better freebie than a hand-made masterpiece. Fellow Yo Gabba Gabba! fans, feel free to genuflect at the utter grandeur of this unique Brobee sock monkey from Etsy user mostlymonkeys. The only ...
Myanmar Sentences Comedian To 45-Year Sentence For Helping Cyclone Victims (2)
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A secret court run by Myanmar's military leadership on Friday sentenced a prominent Burmese comedian and activist to 45 years in prison, continuing a recent crackdown on dissidents. The comedian, U Maung Thura, 47, better known by his stage name Zarganar, or the Tweezers, was detained in June after he organized a private assistance effort to help victims of the May cyclone, which killed more than 130,000 Burmese. With aid organizations and Western governments, he ...
Cool police dashboard cam shot of meteor of western Canada (4)
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Digital Pictures augmenting your reality with Papervision (3)
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Oh! What a time to have a busted web cam and a printer packed firmly away: while we wait patiently to see just how lovable Sony's curiously Monchichi-esque EyePet will be, Digital Pictures Interactive have released the first stirrings of their own bespoke version which you can interact with now by printing a reference spot and training your webcam to your desk. The studio is the same one behind their earlier Save Your Sensible campaign ...
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Corvus said:
This is what VR glasses will be used for--mapping artificial realities over our own. Brilliant stuff.
Time Life Archive Online (7)
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Google, in cooperation with Time Life, has posted a ton of photographs from the Time Life archive online, most of which have never been published before. The photographs are categorized by decade, and if you take a look at the 1950s section, you will find pictures of Walt Disney Studios, many featuring the man himself, but also others featuring the brilliant folks behind the scenes (such as Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas, and who I think ...
You’re pulling heaven down and raising up a whore! (2)
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Of all the comments made in the last few days about the case of ‘Baby P’, I think Mike Power, who’s married to a social worker, has come closest to hitting the nail squarely on the head: The real point here, as I have stated before, is that there simply is no story. This case is a little more horrific than usual (although there have been plenty of nasty deaths since Climbie that have never ...
"It's time to put on makeup, it's time to dress up right" (3)
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This is too cool, and may end up being part of the geeklet's Christmas. FAO Schwarz's Build Your Own site now features the Muppet Whatnot Workshop, where you can create your own customized Muppet. Start by picking from one of three body styles and colors. Add one of several choices of eyes/glasses, a nose, and hair (or fur, as your taste dictates). Then pick an outfit -- options range from a Hawaiian shirt to a ...
Place setting by a five-year-old girl (27)
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My five-year-old daughter asked to set the table a couple of night ago. Here's how she set her place.
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Patrick said:
Hehehe.
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yooper1019 said:
OK, its so cute i puked a rainbow
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katie said:
CUTE.
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Kelly O said:
This totally looks like how my kids would set their table, except the fruit would be replaced with a cupcake.
What the fuck have these cunts been drinking? (1)
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Seriously, have our lords and masters absolutely no fucking self-knowledge at all? Have they no idea what fucking hypocrites they are, or is it that they simply don't care?Because this is, quite simply, beyond the fucking pale.Pub happy hours should be banned and supermarkets stopped from selling alcohol at a loss in order to combat drink-fuelled disorder, MPs have said.The Home Affairs select committee said reckless drinking was placing a heavy burden on police resources.One ...
This breaking news just in: George W. Bush is still a big fat fucking liar (1)
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More startling are Suskind’s revelations about the Iraq war and the handling of prewar intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction. In one instance, Suskind says that denials by the foreign minister of Iraq, Naji Sabri, that his country possessed W.M.D. were simply rewritten — almost certainly altered under pressure from Washington, Suskind writes — into a false assertion that Sabri had substantiated suspicions about active Iraqi biological and nuclear programs. Even more disturbing is the ...
Recreation of Laurel and Hardy's Culver City (8)
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Pop culture historian Piet Schreuders consulted historical records to design a digital version of Culver City as it looked in 1920s-era Laurel and Hardy films and other motion pictures from the Hal Roach studio. The Shortest Main Street In The World (Thanks, COOP!)
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Stuart Maxwell said:
I am just completely captivated by old images of cities. This takes that to a whole 'nother level.
Tiny horse runs amok (24)
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Papercraft heart made of rotating gears & Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog (12)
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Islamic militants stone to death a 13 year-old rape victim for "adultery" in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators (4)
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said. Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of ...
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth (8) permalink
It seems like there's a lot of non-political cool news today, such as this meteor that landed in western Canada last night: Here's another look:
