This about sums it up…
Monday, August 9, 2010
This about sums it up…

I love cats, I really do. But lets face it, most of them don’t love us back. These disgusting, yet true to life, nesting dolls really illustrate the most “endearing” things about living with cats. [...]

Solar Flare Snapshot
Monday, August 9, 2010
Solar Flare Snapshot

This false-color photo captures by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a solar flare accompanied by a coronal mass ejection. The ejection reached Earth’s magnetosphere within two days (93 million miles away), creating a geomagnetic storm, [...]

Perseid Meteor Shower Aug 11-13
Monday, August 9, 2010
Perseid Meteor Shower Aug 11-13

The annual Perseid Meteor Shower, which is viewable every year in August, will be viewable from the 11th through the 13th. According to space.com, In 2010 the Earth is predicted to cut through the densest [...]

WTF of the day: Giant Fries
Monday, August 9, 2010
WTF of the day: Giant Fries

McDonald’s fries the size of a bus: that’s all the world needs…. Wonder how much they paid for that ad space. The advertisement, placed for viewing during Switzerland’s Zurifest, is fortunately not a permanent feature [...]

Sharpie Graphite Pencil Ink
Monday, August 9, 2010
Sharpie Graphite Pencil Ink

Not sure how useful this will be in a world dominated by keyboards, but Sharpie has come out with a pen that has “liquid graphite” ink, as in pencil graphite. It writes like a pen, [...]

Triceratops and Torosaurus a Single Species
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Triceratops and Torosaurus a Single Species

One of the most well-known dinosaurs, the Triceratops, has been re-classed as a member of the lesser known species, Torosaurus. John Scannella and Jack Horner, researchers at the Museum of the Rockies, suggest that Triceratops [...]

Memory Pen
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Memory Pen

Wang Xuelei has designed the Memory Pen USB Flash Drive. Essentially, it is a pen that does not require paper. You can jot down memos and little bits of info on almost any surface, and [...]

Gear Ring by Kinekt Design
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Gear Ring by Kinekt Design

The Gear Ring by Kinekt Design is the perfect item for the engineer in all of us. Made for mean and women in sizes 5-14, the Gear Ring is not only intriguing looking, but features [...]

Topographical Carpet
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Topographical Carpet

Made from a zillion multi-colored foam nubs of different heights, the topographical carpet depicts a beautiful landscape in 3D, much to the delightment of your feet. The rug was designed by Laurens van Wieringren, and [...]

Fab Fernandez Photography
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Fab Fernandez Photography

Fab Fernandez is a freelance photographer in the Los Angeles area. His work is varied, from portrait to free style. I find his work thought provoking and realistic. He has a way of capturing the [...]

Colored Bones of Transparent Animals
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Colored Bones of Transparent Animals

“Japanese researchers have discovered a way to render a dead animal’s flesh and muscles completely transparent, and somehow dyed their skeletal systems a variety of cyan and magenta colors, all presumably in the name of [...]

Metro-Envelope Ipad Bag
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Metro-Envelope Ipad Bag

Here’s a super neat iPad carrying bag. Messenger style, with adjustable shoulder strap, magnetic closure and internal organizer pockets, this is a nifty and functional carrier. Leather exterior, with soft men’s dress shirt lining. $59.00, [...]

Beautiful Art Deco Motorcycle
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Beautiful Art Deco Motorcycle

Found at Knucklebuster, via Make, this gorgeous 1936 Art Deco Henderson-replica Motorcycle is simply breathtaking. Art Deco says it all. Artistic, functional and incredibly unique. From Knucklebuster: I took these photos at the Rhinebeck Grand [...]

Cyglo LED Bike Tires
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Cyglo LED Bike Tires

Based in the UK, with patents in the US and UK, Cyglo Tyre offers unique cycling tires (or tyres as they call them), that contain embedded LED lights for added nighttime exposure. As an added [...]

RACER: Low-Tech Wipeout
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
RACER: Low-Tech Wipeout

Remember the arcade game Wipeout, where you’d use a steering wheel, shifter, and accelerator pedal to careen recklessly down a highway full of obstacles, such as motorists, billboards, people? Well, Malte Jehmlich and Matthes Mikysec [...]

The Disappearing Spoon
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The Disappearing Spoon

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the Elements. Whew, that’s a mouthful. The Disappearing Spoon is a new book by Sam Kean, that details interesting, little known, and [...]

Jenn Aniston As Barbra Streisand
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Jenn Aniston As Barbra Streisand

The lovely Jennifer Aniston is featured in this issue of Harper’s Bazaar, seen below conjuring the essence of none other than Barbra Streisand. What a lovely photo shoot. And Jennifer Aniston is flawless and gorgeous, [...]

Matrix Pita
Monday, August 2, 2010
Matrix Pita

Being a huge Matrix fan, I found this quite humorous :) It’s from www.captchart.com, which makes funny little illustrated anecdotes to random CAPTCHA phrases. If you’re unfamiliar with CAPTCHA, it’s the wobbly looking security-codes that [...]