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Ants holding 100x bodyweight upside down

22/02/10 | Comments

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Jersey Shore – Re-Enacted By Children

14/02/10 | Comments

http://www.babelgum.com/4022027/kids-reenact-mtvs-hit-series-jersey-shore.html
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This will match my “Brittany Murphy” commemorative jeans nicely

2/02/10 | Comments

Out Of Print sells t-shirts with classic book cover prints. Strut for fashion sense, and love of the modern classic, with Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", Orwell's "1984" or Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".

- tk
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SkiReport iPhone App – User Generated Snow Reports

30/01/10 | Comments

New iPhone app called Ski Report lets users write first-hand snow reports and upload photos right from the resort.

Users can determine resorts with the most recent snowfall, shortest lift queues in North America (let's hope for Asia-Pac and South American resorts next).
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Making of Pirelli 2010 Calendar (Video)

30/01/10 | Comments

Terry Richardson, you magnificent bastard.
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GyroBike training wheels

20/12/09 | Comments

Gyrobike's patented Gyrowheel replaces a bicycle's standard front wheel and uses battery-powered gyroscopic technology to keep kids from falling over. Specifically, it can sense unbalanced riding and re-center the bike underneath the rider's weight when the bike starts to wobble.
http://www.thegyrobike.com/howitworks-s/37.htm
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911 is a Joke?

17/12/09 | Comments

Oh NO YOU DIDN'T. You did? You did.  You actually did print that. 

http://www.regrettheerror.com/2009/12/13/wash-posts-911-is-a-joke-correction-exposes-problem-with-papers-correction-policy/
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Information Design & Menus – Using Type & Layout To Take Your Money

17/12/09 | Comments

http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/62498/

Cool little excerpt in the New Yorker about how restaurateurs design menus to drive profits:
"… it’s a big mistake to list prices in a straight column. “Customers will go down and choose from the cheapest items,” he says. At least the Balthazar menu doesn’t use leader dots to connect the dish to the price; [...]

It’s a frap!

16/12/09 | Comments

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Blackberry users have many, many girlfriends

8/12/09 | Comments

I only want TXTs to my BB from my very best girlfriends. Those other skanks can just hit me on my pager, dawg.
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