A Crap Shoot

sobering images.  we should be grateful this holiday season.  our life, after all, is not necessarily a result of our choices...

Sometimes it takes powerful imagery like this to make us appreciate our lot in life. Called Lottery of Life, the side-by-side comparisons are for Save the Children, an independent organization about creating lasting change in the lives of children in need. When disaster strikes around the world, Save the Children is there to save lives with food, medical care and education and remains to help communities rebuild through long-term recovery programs.

None for You!

just in case you thought you were going to enjoy spending this christmas...  you have something ELSE coming!




Worried about over-spending this holiday season? If you’re the kind of person who easily gets sucked into all the sales – whether online or out in the real world – then this Proverbial Wallet just might be the solution to curbing your shopaholic ways. Designed by a team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab, these high-tech billfolds are digitally tied to your bank account levels, reacting to any fluctuations in your current balance by shrinking in size, refusing to open, or vibrating whenever a transaction is processed.

I am a Genius

are you?

A Better Idea

instead of writing AS+GG in the trunk of the nearest tree, i think this is a waaaaay cooler idea.  Love Locks.  gives a new meaning to love lockdown.  nice....



 

 
           
 

 

 

According to Wikipedia, Love padlocks are a custom by which sweethearts affix padlocks to a fence or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Most common place of Love padlocks are railings of the bridges. It is suggested that the custom of ‘locking a padlock and throwing away the key’ probably originated in China.

Fb Update!

Everyone Has a Cause

Letter Of Note of the Day: Courtesy of TMZ, a letter penned by Mr. Tommy Lee — in Papyrus, so you know it’s serious — on behalf of his friends at PETA, calling out SeaWorld for their inhumane whale masturbation methods.

[dlisted.]

UPDATE: FWIW, SeaWorld denies the use of cow vaginas in whale sperm collection.

People + Nature = Amazing

i am always always amazed by the ways that human work with our environment.  it is so magical.





It's the traditional movie snack, served in jumbo portions and smothered in butter. But in the Sonora desert in northern Mexico, the Yaqui people still make popcorn traditionally, by covering the grains of maize with hot sand. According to food historian Rachel Laudan, as the kernels pop, they fly up into the air. In the intense darkness of the desert night, she writes, the white hot grains resemble shooting stars and "the children dance around, trying to catch them as they fall, como estrellas del cielo."


via good.

Wired.

such character.  i love the way we think.  art is all around us.










Found on: etoday.ru

I Want One (2)

 

I Love This Man

Sign of the Times?

Calling All Believers!

a Bible to bring all the displaced back to the church.  Amen!!

These few passages from the Hipster Bible need to be expanded into an entire volume! It would be easily the best Bible translation since the LOLcats Bible and The Brick Testament.

Who Run It??

Recycling?

putting corporations into perspective.  this is really what is happening to our eco system....  damn it all to hell.

Marry Me.

Big Willie Style??

role reversal is getting sooooo out of control these days. look at all this man has to go through for some snatch. shame.  and she looks like she doesn't even care...

Moms + Technology = No Good.

A Few Good Men

Bed-Stuy Guys Will Walk You Home (Safely)

via Gothamist

(Via Wikipedia)

Well, file this under stories we'd like to see more of: After seeing a 10% increase in robberies in Bed-Stuy (there have already been over 300 in the 81st Precinct this year!) a group of 20 local black men have taken matters into their own hands—but not in the style of Death Wish. Instead they have started walking subway riders home from the Utica Avenue station on random weekday evenings.

The men, who work under the banner "We Make Us Better," aren't proselytizing and they aren't selling anything. Instead they're "about encouraging males to be involved, because you don't see men in their 20s, 30s and 40s involved in the community anymore, so we're trying to bridge that gap." As one member explained to the Daily News, "we can't have these people terrorizing our young women and children, and we're not speaking up and making our presence felt." And while the random walks home will continue indefinitly, the group also hopes in the future to start a mentoring program for local youths.

Dummies.

Police Spend All Day Investigating "Murder Scene" That Was Really a Movie Set [Oops]

via Gizmodo by Brian Barrett on 12/2/10

Washington, PA Police Chief J.R. Blyth described it as "the most grisly murder scene in his 35 years in law enforcement." Blood splattered everywhere, a bit of scalp. It took his team hours to realize it was all fake. More »

Can't Get Enough.

Power to the People!

UK charity will give away 1,000,000 books, and you can hand them out!  

(America never has the best ideas....  who do i call to make this happen!!)



BillT sez, "A UK-based charity plans to give away a million books - 40,000 copies each of twenty-five selected titles - on March 5 next year. The list of authors includes Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney, Mark Haddon, Margaret Atwood and Erich Maria Remarque... If you live in the UK and Ireland you can sign up as a book-giver - 20,000 will be selected and each will receive a box of books to hand out." WorldBookNight (Thanks, Bill!)

Nerds Be Wiling.

photoshop + too much free time = smh.



This Looks Shopped of the Day: If you weren’t wide awake yet, you are now.

Uhhhh Hello Kitty?

Biofictional Sculpture of the Day: “Fetal Hello Kitty” by Jason Freeny.

Support Our Soldiers!

Melted Toy Soldier Bowl!!!

Heat your oven to 300 degrees. Arrange a layer of army men on the bottom and along the sides of a bowl. Use a Pyrex bowl, any size you want, or something similar that can go in the oven. Carefully put the bowl of soldiers into the over so that you don't knock any of the soldiers off the side of the bowl. 

Watch the army men melt in the oven. The ones around the top will get deformed quickly so do not panic when you see this. Once these ones have melted enough that they no longer resemble army men, take the bowl out of the oven. The army men near the bottom will not be very melted and most likely won't even be stuck together.

To melt the army men on the bottom, hold the bowl over a low flame, letting them melt until they are just a green mass. I do this on a gas stove, but it might work on an electric range as well.

Buy bowl from Dominic Wilcox
Bowl made from melted little green army men

It's Not for Everybody

how's this for an elevator that's educational!  some people would never make it past the first floor on these bad boys...  but i mean, serves them right!!