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Within those hours upon hours of playing around with Super Mario Bros. we figured there must have been some sort of life lesson. We convinced our parents that the game was teaching us indispensable hand-eye coordination skills. But there was another hidden message that, unbeknown to us, would teach us all we needed to know for our adult years. The ...

“Walnut and Paper Drum Machine.” It sounds like the subject header from some shitty spam e-mail. But thankfully, this DIY project is both faux-meat product-free and very real. So, here’s what you have to do. Steal a bunch of walnuts from your squirrely forest friends, grab a sheet a paper and a webcam, and head over to download the free ...

Designer Vadim Kibardin’s Black & White Clock concept is a series of four OLED numerals, each with independent sources of power. The really neat part about this concept, other than looking really cool, is that the clock will automatically sense the lighting in the room, switching to white digits in dark conditions and black digits when it’s bright. Not only ...

The Twitter Fail Whale, now clearly a cultural phenomenon, has earned itself quite a fan base. Pieces of art, clothing and gadgets are popping up around the web, dedicated to the most famous internet whale that never lived. “What is Fail Whale?” is a site devoted to everything Fail Whale. Fail Whale products, Fail Whale DIYs, Fail Whale appreciation. It’s ...

Just how much can a little crafty paper folding and light trickery do? The answer to this question can be found above. The photo is simply a cleverly folded piece of paper which happens to strikingly resemble an attractive pair of mammaries. If it’s wrong to be aroused, I don’t want to be right, baby. Link

An early draft of Aaron Sorkin’s script for the upcoming Facebook movie has leaked and, big shocker, it doesn’t totally suck! The script mixes in a healthy dose of comedy, with the antagonist being Sean Parker, co-founder of both Napster and Facebook, which we guess makes the protagonist Mark Zuckerberg himself. Parker is said to come off as sort of ...

Some books have a way of pulling you in, grabbing your attention and never letting go. Apparently mini-people have a harder time resisting the urge to be physically sucked in to the book. The Help! Bookmark is a fun bookmark design which simulates the demise of the world’s tiniest man, stuck between the pages and begging for his way out. ...

Thomas Kinkade might be a little too grandma-ish for you, but I thought this mug was pretty neat, despite the hokey winter scene design. When the mug is filled with warm liquid, such as urine, the windows of the home illuminate. My Grandma is extremely aroused. Hot cocoa has that effect on her. Link [via]

We thought that the wristwatch piercing was pretty damn intense, but anything implanted completely under your skin has got to win in the extreme category. The Subdermal Implant Watch Tattoo, also called an “electric tattoo” is a special LED screen which is implanted under your skin. Powered by your own kinetic energy, the electric tattoo watch illuminates when you turn ...

It’s not everyday you see a mustached Hello Kitty figure, but something about the way the stars have aligned at this moment has set the mood for the totally unneeded, but gratefully accepted, Hello Kitty Super Mario Bros. papercraft dolls. Apparently a Hello Kitty – Star Wars mash-up wasn’t quite enough. These Mario and Luigi kitties feature removable hats and ...