This looks like a truly useless, and depressingly ugly device for cracking eggs (which this TV commercial would like you to believe is a big problem). ... More.
Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of the restaurant Paradou in trendy Park Slope Manhattan's meat-packing district, sent his employees an email in which he called them "lazy motherfuckers" because they failed to extract enough email addresses from their customers (he has a spam list and he makes it his se... More.
Britain is full of license-plate cameras, cameras used to send you tickets if you're caught speeding, or driving in the bus-lane, or entering London's "congestion-charge zone" without paying the daily fee for driving in central London. And because of Chekhov's first law of narrative ("a gun on the m... More.
In this video clip from New York University's annual talent show four years ago, Stefani Germanotta — aka Lady Gaga — performs two songs she wrote herself. She came in third place. At the end of her performance, one of the judges says: "Norah Jones, look out!" Little did she know that ... More.
Behaviorally speaking, heroes and serial do-gooders have a lot in common with sociopaths, according to this paper on psychology and neuroethics: "their personality traits are very similar, with only a few features to distinguish them."... More.
1 Vote for Wolverine.
I have been absolutely loving these. Consider my cap doffed, Apelad, sir.
These are fantastic! Each of them works great.
A tiny little Wolverine embryo! How adorable!
I like how there is a qualitative difference in the way the third one maps the original form to the bird. I have no idea how one describes this in formal terms.
As part of the Cthalloween Lovecraft-meets-Twitter event, we got this awesome mashup of Cthulhu and the Twitter logo created by John Kovalic of Dork Tower fame: www.twitter.com/cthalloween
In honor of Professor Calamity, arrested for twittering at the G20: the anarchist twitter
To me Galactus is all helmet. Start there, and go down. I vote for the Jack Kirby-style; "about to consume a world" eyes!
And, might I add, Cthalloween was loads of fun! I look forward to seeing it again next year, and maybe by then I'll figure out where all those cultists went...