Archive for July, 2008

41 weeks pregnant

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Elephant, originally uploaded by digitalART2.

how long does an elephant pregnancy last?

Gin and Titonic Ice Cube Molds

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

still not on sale, but i think i’ll buy me a set as soon as they are.

link to product page (fred and friends always has cool stuff) via cool hunting.

rubik cube 25th anniversary

Saturday, July 12th, 2008


like cool

two of five feet found in bc matching

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

dna tests proved that right foot and left foot that have washed up on the shores of British Columbia in february 8 and june 16 are from the same person, but authorities are still a long way from solving the mystery.

according to tests, the may 22 foot is female.

link to story in cnn via boing boing

photo by luciaRM

norwegian red cross hearing test

Friday, July 11th, 2008

great online campaign via notcot

Eumicrotremus pacificus

Friday, July 11th, 2008

photographed in Tokyo by Kiyoshi Ota.

link to guardian via arbroath

phone sex operators

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Very Short List is a free daily e-mail that tells subscribers about a single recommendation that hasn’t been subject to giant media pile-ons.

today the email reffered me to New York–based photographer Phillip Toledano’s excellent series featuring the anonymus phone sex operators.

link to the morning news via vsl

songza

Friday, July 11th, 2008

i wrote before about leadbelly’s “in the pines” and now, thanks to songza, i can bring it to you!

land of the free

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Photographer Steve Schofield has an amazing gallery of British science fiction fans dressed up at home.

i tried to browse his gallery, but the site didn’t support firefox and took forever to load in ie.

via gizmodo.

pocket birthday

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

product page via gizmodo

why not take the idea a step forward and issue it in a cigarette box and add to it… oh, i don’t know…. a cigarette?