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I’m a fan of aviator sunglasses. And it’s not because I’m trying to fit in with a particular douche bag clique. I’m beyond that. I just like the way they fit my face. I admire their style. The Celebrity Lamp by Deeply Madly Living is a light source with a twist. The lamp shade is made out of 40 pairs ...

“The Persistance of Memory” is probably the most iconic surrealistic painting of all time, instantly recognizable as the product of the the equally recognizable Salvador Dali. Flickr user Zeitan created this awesome ode to modern culture with the molding of The Simpsons into Dali’s famous pocket watch melting canvas. More than 20 years since The Simpsons first entered the limelight ...

With war, scandal, reform and economics at the forefront of The White House’s list of priorities, net neutrality has taken sort of a backseat to other issues. Whether this is justified or not is debatable, especially with the recent news of a possible agreement between Verizon and Google proposing a “private” internet for sites willing to pay a premium. The ...

For some people, a full-sized flask is just too much bulk to heft around. If you’re out and about all day and nary have a chance to stop by your place and drop off unneeded pocket fodder, showing up to your court ordered AA meeting with a flask-sized bulge in your pocket isn’t the smartest thing you can do. The ...

NMAP.org took the favicons of the top 1,000,000 sites on the web and threw them into a single collage, with each favicon sized to represent their overall popularity, We retrieved each site’s icon by first parsing the HTML for a link tag and then falling back to /favicon.ico if that failed. 328,427 unique icons were collected, of which 288,945 were ...

Don’t get me wrong. The new 5 megapixels sensor of the iPhone 4 is a vast improvement over other iPhone models, but it just doesn’t do the trick for taking some of the detailed, intricate photos some of us enjoy taking. Japanese stargazer Jurilog decided that instead of using a DSLR camera, he wanted to use the iPhone 4 to ...

The best part of any birthday party is the moment they whip out the cake. It’s the reason people still show up to birthdays. At least, that’s why they show up to mine. And who can blame them? Cake is a staple of the birthday party experience. The Cake Mail chocolate cake postcard is an ultra-realistic mailable piece of confectionery ...

Fallout 3 replica maker Ryan Palser continues his past work with his A3-21 Plasma Rifle creation, beautifully recreating the iconic weapon from the modern post-apocalyptic RPG classic. In Fallout lore, the A3-21 is one of the only weapons still produced after the Great War. Despite its massive power, the gun can be acquired relatively early in the game. But really, ...

Despite being wild animals, mallards are surprisingly trusting. Just offer them some bread and you’ll have an army of ducks following you for hours. Which got me thinking, maybe ducks think we’re the ones being deceived. If you take a look, it’s clear that ducks have genetically adapted the ability to make us trust them by donning a built-in dog ...

Living on the East Coast, I don’t hear too much about Portland, Oregon. In fact, the most I know about Portland is that it’s located somewhere between Seattle and Los Angeles, and that it has some of the coolest gaming fans in the world. How do I know it has great gaming fans? This local news story reporting from North ...