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Remember those Magic Slate drawing pads from when you were a kid? You know the ones. You’d draw a little picture, or if you were like me, draw an indistinguishable blob of squiggle, lift up the page to erase and start all over. ThinkGeek has employed this technology into the Scratch & Scroll, part Magic Slate, part mousepad. A true ...

Taking a page from the book of KISS, Marky Ramone, former drummer of the primordial punk band The Ramones, has moved into uncharted ground for the punk movement with his newest product launch, Marky Ramone’s Brooklyn’s Own Pasta Sauce. Here’s Marky’s explanation: �You see, I made it with my grandpa; he was a chef at 21 Club. I watched him ...

“Letters are organisms and typefaces are the species, all classified similar to biological taxonomy.” Thus is the concept behind Andreas Scheiger’s Evolution of Type, an anatomical study of the alphabet. For the first time in medical and typographical history, fonts go under the knife for a full biological analysis. I’m very concerned whether these letters were volunteers or part of ...

Audi has taken over London’s Trafalgar Square for the next week, transforming it into “an interactive message center” called Outrace. Eight giant, industrial robots from Audi’s production line will have LED lights attached to their arms. The robots will use the LEDs to scrawl messages in the air, much to the pleasure of the onlookers. But there is so much ...

Depending on where you are, who’s watching you and how drunk you are, your options of urine excretion can change vastly. But which option do you choose? As usual, there’s a helpful flowchart made to direct you towards your peeing destination. The “Where Should I Pee?” Flowchart is the essential guide to deciding the best place to relieve your bladder, ...

Today’s The Big Picture subject is our Solar System. They’ve chronicled a beautiful collection of photos from outer space taken within the last month or so. Above is a 30-frame sequence of Cassini’s approach towards the icy plumes of Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn. After the jump you’ll see an actual Aurora Australis as seen from space, a few ...

I wonder if the the illusion only works if the the words are on separate lines? Guess not. (Read that sentence again.) The brain automatically filters out the duplicated “the”s as if they never even existed. With all of our massive brain power, is it intuitive or disruptive for our brain to censor our reading in this case? Some people ...

Have you ever wondered what life would be like if marijuana was legalized? Probably something like this. YouTube user iMakeUTubeVideos took a particularly ridiculous Judge Judy session and slowed it down to half-speed. What are the results? A bunch of people that sound like a very drunk Bill Cosby.

After nearly half a decade of meme stardom, the LOLcat internet meme finally came to an end today when a cat named Mittens successfully haz’d a cheeseburger, marking a milestone in both feline and meme history. Mittens is unavailable for comment until Caturday, though her owner, YouTube user roxy72, seemed happy enough letting her kitty nom on her cheezburger. At ...

Japan’s Kori no Suizokukan, located in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture houses a collection of 450 specimens of 80 or so different species of marine wildlife captured at a nearby port. But there’s one major difference that separates this aquarium from any other — all of the wildlife is frozen in massive blocks of ice. A flash freezing technique is used to ...