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Cigarette advertising is banned; can you advertise books that look like cigarette cartons? Tank Books publish “tales to take your breath away”; authors … gulfstream/2527
Stewart Butterfield’s resignation letter from Flickr: “As you know, tin is in my blood. For generations my family has worked with this most useful … gulfstream/2454
Culled from Flickr: “here and there I found some photographs which were quite good.” See also 12 Tips for Improving Camera Phone Photos. gulfstream/2444
“Placeholder names are words that can refer to objects or people whose names are either irrelevant or unknown in the context in which it is being discussed.” … gulfstream/2441
Artist reckons he sent a suitcase filled with GPS equipment around the world in a route tracing out the shape of a head—very very unlikely I say. gulfstream/2440
Bracelets made from the focus and zoom rings of old SLR lenses. gulfstream/2434
Famous photographs (e.g. Capa’s “Death of a Loyalist Soldier”), rendered in Lego. (Interesting details on how they were made as well.) gulfstream/2421
Impressive new UK coins. (One problem with the unified design is that it doesn’t deal very well with coins being added or removed from circulation, … gulfstream/2422
Odd hand-drawn stop-motion ad for the Russian Gmail apparently created by Saatchi Moscow demonstrating the various features. gulfstream/2416
Video of Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog robot, moving like something made out of flesh and blood over rubble and snow. The slow-motion recovery from a slip … gulfstream/2413
Weirdly long, eloquent, and informative Craiglist post about friends and the Australian concept of “mateship” that I somewhat endorse. gulfstream/2312
“Beleaguered bear in bridge rescue.” gulfstream/2336
New Zealand tax department slights Dave Henderson, so he buys their building, evicts them, and turns it into a boutique hotel. gulfstream/2353
Very NYC: young Guyanese and Trinidadian who kit their bicycles out with thousand-dollar stereos. The slide show is also nice. gulfstream/2357
New Batman looks pretty fine! (Surprisingly deep, helpful analysis of the trailer.) gulfstream/2370
Super-adorable cupcakes—the Super Mario sets (1, 2) are wonderful. gulfstream/2381
Head tracking via the Wii Remote to simulate 3D—relatively straightforward, and seems to work pretty well (skip to 2:40 for the demo). gulfstream/2399
Run-down auto repair shop converted into architects’ offices (pictures; associated story). gulfstream/2404
The NOW watch: “The most accurate time piece ever invented!” gulfstream/2307
Bikini-clad doll falls into spheres … mesmerising. gulfstream/1781
Ah, excellent: people are seriously researching vat-grown meat. Producing meat by running sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, etc. through a cow … gulfstream/1794
Octopus takes a shark! gulfstream/1823
Physically possible (i.e. gravitationally possible) arrangements of planets. gulfstream/1838
Planned Parenthood Southeast Pennsylvania is asking people to pledge them some amount of money for each protestor that turns up outside their clinic … gulfstream/1841
“Everything I have ever”: poster containing “over 400 highly detailed silhouettes [um],” printed in bright orange, then overprinted in … gulfstream/1905
Pictures of Volkswagen’s extremely pretty “Glass Factory,” which contains the production line for the Phaeton. It has wooden floors. (Or … gulfstream/1926
“Live Pelt, by Kelly Heaton, is a multimedia installation based on the transformation of 64 previously owned Tickle Me Elmo dolls, the popular consumer … gulfstream/2023
Sweet-as military-styled mobile phone. gulfstream/2039
Even Homer’s brain knows that “Money can be exchanged for good and services.” Looks like he’s gonna be able to avoid having to declare this as … gulfstream/2057
The Apple II-style website of The Raconteurs, Jack White’s solo project. All Flash, and using the keyboard is mandatory! (“H for Home,” etc.) gulfstream/2082
The ad-stripping, Cory-rant filtering version of Boing Boing has gone away. And because they sent a lot of traffic to one of his sites? Pussy. gulfstream/2092
Milk crate Tetris. gulfstream/2110
Three Japanese guys domino a whole apartment-worth of stuff. gulfstream/2121
Some really fun Japanese Rube Goldberg devices. gulfstream/2125
The surprising advantages of rubber sidewalks: they last longer than concrete (in areas with lots of tree roots and/or snow clearing), they’re environmentally … gulfstream/2126
Live geographic traffic stats for the BBC news. This is pretty sweet, despite not being very usable. (The colours that represent different traffic levels … gulfstream/2137
Captivating: art made from cut up pieces of A4 paper. gulfstream/2152
The Suspicious Looking Device: “The only function of the Suspicious Looking device is to appear as suspicious as possible, whether carried in hand or … gulfstream/2166
Great story: Steven Levitt, playing in a poker tournament to celebrate his 10 year wedding anniversary, plays like a crazy man in order to either lose … gulfstream/2170
Photographs of iconic scenes, with street-vendor postcards and trinkets substituted for the real thing. (Makes more sense when you see it.) gulfstream/2183
Domestic cats, bred to look like tigers! gulfstream/2190
5195 pieces in this Lego Millennium Falcon! gulfstream/2237
Perfect for internet dating! Computer scientists developer an image enhancement program that turn portraits into portraits that look like the original, … gulfstream/2246
Impressive continuously-shot fight sequence. gulfstream/2262
Hard hat in the shape of a cowboy hat! gulfstream/2280
African wildlife do their thing: herd of buffalo come across some lions and get set upon, baby buffalo gets knocked into a water-hole and gets fought over … gulfstream/2281
Pretty morph through a few dozen famous portraits of women. gulfstream/2289
