The Price of Weed, Marijuana, Cannabis

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The United Plates

Artist and illustrator John Holcomb's latest project,The United Plates, interprets all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as popular food items. Think Michigan as a sunny-side up egg, D.C. as a Pop-Tart, spaghetti and meatballs piled high like Oregon, and bundled asparagus resembling Indiana.

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Larry Griswold

The world's greatest comedy diver!



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Multi Vase Lighting by Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen

I love this lighting created by Tejo Remy & René Veenhuizen from disparate pieces of glassware!

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Picasso’s Electrician

PARIS – A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros ($79.35 million), an administrator of the artist's estate said Monday.

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Crazy Cat Fight

I know two cat videos in two days is excessive but this one is really incredible so I'll risk having people assume that I'm evolving into a crazy old cat lady.

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Vintage Curt Teich Linen Postcards

Lovely vintage linen post cards produced by the Curt Teich Company using a printing technique called the Art Colortone Method.

Curt Teich linen postcards 1930s-50s on Flickr

View a large collection at the Teich Postcards Archive at the Lake County Discovery Museum or you can learn how to make your own using photoshop at this site if you're so inclined.

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Monk with Nina Conti

It's quite a sweet voice on a little monkey but with breasts it's bloody sinister. Hilarious!

Thanks again Bruce!

Out My Window

Do you ever wonder who lives behind the walls of those ubiquitous monolithic highrises. Out My Window is an interactive 360 degree documentary that takes you inside apartments in 13 cities around the world. There are all sorts of things to explore on the website, good music to listen to and interesting people to meet.

Fabulous Food Fashion

Korean artist Sung Yeon Ju creates beautiful garments from food. The yummy outfits below are made of chives, red cabbage and tomato.

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Talking Cats Play Pattycake

Some Sunday silliness.


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Play With Your Food!

It might be enjoying cool status currently but food art is nothing new. people have long been carving fruit and veg to resemble objects, especially in Asia. In some instances chefs are taught the basics of food carving during their training and others pick it up as a form of stress relief.

design-aerobics 2011 wants you to play with your food. Create a food sculpture and post a photo on their blog.

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Street Tests

street tests from Najork on Vimeo.


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A Wave of Reason

"A Wave of Reason" is the seventh installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It is intended to promote scientific reasoning and skepticism in the face of growing amounts of pseudoscientific pursuits, such as Astrology and Homeopathy, and also to promote the scientific worldview as equally enlightening as religion. It features Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell, Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Lawrence Krauss, Carolyn Porco, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Phil Plait, and James Randi.

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Listen, Sister!

A warning to the ladies.

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Departure of Love

Departure of Love from Jenna Bors on Vimeo.

Inspired by the silent film comedy of Buster Keaton and the 1920's.

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The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy

Click here to view individual mourners

I find myself drawn to the peacefulness of medieval settings. When I travel my favourite resting place after a long day of walking is in an ancient church or castle. The tombs of Phillip the Bold and John the Fearless are installed in the Musee des Beaux Arts in Dijon, France. This website features the mourners from the tomb of John the Fearless - Jean sans Peur. Each sculpture is an individualized masterpiece of medieval devotion.

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Bellamy Salute

A group of schoolchildren performing the Bellamy salute, May 1942

No, this is not the way our family greets one another. It was the original hand gesture used to accompany the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag. James B. Upham of The Youth's Companion invented it in 1882. The fascists and nazis adopted a similar salute in the 1920s. Not wanting to be confused with those groups American Congress officially amended the Flag Code on 22 December 1942 and replaced the Bellamy salute with a hand-over-the-heart gesture. 

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How Much Would You Have to Eat to Rupture Your Stomach?

AIllustration from William T. Lemmon and George W. Paschal, Jr.'s "Rupture of the Stomach Following Ingestion of Sodium Bicarbonate," published in the December 1941 issue of Annals of Surgery.

FYI my American friends although this warning may come too late for most of you.

What if you ate so much on Thanksgiving that you felt like you were going to burst—and then you actually did? How much food would it really take?
Well, as luck would have it, Mary Roach, the author of Spook, Bonk, and Packing for Mars, explored the topic in an essay for Salon in 1999 called 'Unhappy Meal' that's worth revisiting in anticipation of our most gluttonous holiday. In it, she reports that our stomachs appear to have a capacity of about a gallon and in looking at old medical literature, she finds that there are only a couple of instances when you're at risk.

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Alien Thanksgiving

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Instant French

Learn how to say "I don't speak French" in Franco Ontarian!

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Little piggies are greasy

Believe it or not I have been stopped on the street many times and once on an airplane by people who are convinced I am Edith Prickly (aka Andrea Martin). I'm not but she lived around the corner from me in Toronto many years ago and her son, Jack, was in a playgroup with my son, Jake. I'm not sure that I'm cool with being compared to Edith; after all I do not wear faux leopard.

Fancy Notions

Papier-Mache Roast Turkey Pinata

A candy-filled craft like this might convince this Canuck to celebrate a second Thanksgiving.

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John Martyn and fairies too

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Fighting Trousers - Professor Elemental

British rap. How civilized.

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Killing Hipsters

Their condescending glances are so infuriating. It takes a man with an unironic mustache to do something about it.

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Best Philosoraptor Musings

This dinodude meme is pseudo profound.

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Recycle That Bicycle

Here are some very stylish recycled bicycles.

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The Three Bears

Uncertain Times

The Amazing Albert Maze

Think you're a genius? Find your way out of this one, Einstein.

Print out a copy of this page, get your scientific writing instrument & give it a try.

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Amazing 3D Printed Glass

The vase below was hand painted with leaded glass enamels of the sort that traditional stained glass artist use. This is a secondary process, sort of like glazing pottery.

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Manly yes, but I like it too!

Beer is baked into the cupcake, there’s a football, a BBQ and fire. FIRE! Learn how to make every single component of this awesomeness-including the fire–HERE at Diamonds for Dessert.

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Balifilm Excerpt - Peter Mettler

Thinking of my son, Jake, who is in Bali.

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A Quaker Love Letter

Popular amongst a small section of Pennsylvania Quakers in the late-18th and early 19th century, the 'True Lover's Knot' is both an undeniably romantic form of love letter and an impressively intricate, labyrinthian work of art of which very few examples still exist. Handcrafted using quill, brush and compass, the stunning knot seen below was written in 1801 by an itinerant Quaker schoolmaster named Hugh Pugh - then aged 54, approximately - and sent to one of his pupils, 20-year-old Mary Fisher.

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Is This Cute Or What?

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Doctor Who Inspired Gift Wrap

Damn, I bought my Christmas gift wrap yesterday! But luckily the exterminate theme isn't seasonal and is appropriate for weddings, christenings and birthdays all year round.

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Stealth Hoover

I can't imagine any dog I've had being fooled by this Trojan canine, even the ones that were dumb as posts.

You want to vacuum your dog, but your dog is afraid of vacuums. What do you need? A dog-shaped vacuum! Anne Margaret Zaleski’s 1973 invention permits dog owners to clean up clipped hair and the like without alarming their pets.

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Sweet and Sour

This animation about a dog in Chinatown was a winner at the Sydney Film Festival. It's good.

The film was conceived by Eddie White  who named his animation studio the People’s Republic of Animation.  The idea quickly took root but White discovered he needed some help.  Enter the Shanghai Animation Studio.Renowned the world over for their exquisite hand-drawn work, they created the amazing effects work you see in the movie. Sweet and Sour has the claim, then, of being the very first Chinese-Australian animated co-production.The Australian team took care of the 3D animation with the Shanghai studio contributing the hand-drawn traditional work. The combination of the old and new is brought together with stunning effect. 

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Thanks again Bruce!

Facebook Becomes a Book

The Flashback Book Facebook App made an actual book out of your Facebook information. Facebook ads engaged people to participate in the creation of their books and received a printed copy of their statuses and photos. You could chose up to 10 friends to add into your book and the desired time-frame. After only two days, they received 15,000 fans and the limited edition of 1,000 books were gone in one hour.

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Cupcake Customizer

Although I know it's heresy I admit I'm not crazy about desserts.  I get all my sugar from alcohol. This is fun though.

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Lost, Lonely and Vicious

Emotionally mixed up youth...

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A Thermite Thanksgiving

Oh no, the family is arriving in five minutes and I forgot to put the turkey in the oven! Whatever shall I do? Cooking a twenty-five pound turkey in under thirty seconds with ten pounds of thermite. (Best done outdoors).

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Canadian based artist Jon Rafman posts Google Street view images on his Tumblelog.

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Sharp(ie) Miata

It took Mike Niemann 22 days and $100 in sharpies to pimp his Miata .
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Working in the design industry is like being a dirty robot whore.

Worth reading.

"'I am sick to death of dealing with you designers. Being able to draw and dressing like women doesn't make you special.'"

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Post it Notes from my Idiot Boss

This looks like it will be a good one.

I work in an office.Despite the fact that my employer makes full use of email, telephony, instant messaging and other forms of modern communication, my immediate manager seems to prefer to interact entirely via post-it note. Like many managers, he is an idiot.In some ways I’m grateful for his notes. If nothing else, they are occasionally amusing, often enigmatic and always preferable to direct conversation.3 years ago I started saving his notes in a desk drawer. I’m not sure why.This blog contains some of my favourites

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Sportswomen of the Past

World In Sport: Sportswomen of the Past - A Homage with Vintage Pictures
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