Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
doodleBug’s “oodles of doodles” offer a Web 2.0 style sneak peak/behind the scenes look at the creation of some very beautiful pieces of art. The site features a myriad of black and white drawings, and when you click on them, you can watch the creation of each piece, line by line. There’s even a rating system so that you can view only the best. A neat concept indeed.
[Via: bookofjoe]
If you’ve been dying to get your blog/social network on, but MySpace and Facebook just don’t do it for you, Vox may be your savior. A new and simple blogging platform from Six Apart, Vox is a new site that’s aiming to give you an outlet to the world (or something like that). Interesting features include the ability to share video, pictures, and anything you can grab from YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket, Amazon, etc., 150 stock designs so you can’t clutter everything up MySpace style (king of Web 1.0), privacy controls so you can only stalk those you know (ala Facebook), and easy following of what your friends and family are saying (ala anything Web 2.0). Having just come out of beta, Vox is sure to be the social networking bandwagon of choice for the next few weeks, so jump on it soon, you never know when one of these things is going to take off.
[Vox]
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People do crazy things in the name of beauty. A “plug and sew” technique for transplanting eyelashes is catching on as the new cosmetic surgery of choice, giving those who can afford to pay the $3000 per eye a new set of longer eyelashes that grow just like normal hair (because it is normal hair, taken from the patient’s own head). The procedure was pioneered by the hair loss industry, and soon spread from burn victims to cosmetic surgery aficionados. According to one doctor who is doing the surgeries, “Eyelash transplantation does for the eyes what breast augmentation does for the figure”. So if you’ve been looking for longer, fuller, and slightly more painful eyelashes, your day has come.
[Via: Luxist]
[Via: Reuters]
One thing that makes Firefox so great is its customizability. Lifehacker has put together a nice little tutorial for changing values and tweaking the little known and littler used about:config settings. It looks daunting at first, but by following the guide, you can’t stray too far off course, and soon you’ll find yourself tweaking with ease (doesn’t that just sound illegal). Give it a try, you’ll be glad you did.
[Via: Lifehacker]
[Via: Digg]
Here’s an interesting idea for interactive sushi: put the instructions right on the nori. Using a laser etcher, the guys over at MAKE printed the rice recipe and rolling instructions on the sea vegetable, making it unnecessary to have your recipe book lying around. It’s a cool concept, and one that I feel could find a home in high priced (posh) sushi houses who want to print their logo right on the food they serve. Ads on entrées anyone?
Seven Days In A Sentra is, as far as I can tell, Nissan’s attempt to go viral with their advertising (since anything with a MySpace page attached is probably an attempt at viral marketing). The premise is that Marc Horowitz, comedian extraordinaire, lived for seven days in a Nissan Sentra (hence the title). It wouldn’t be much of a project if Marc didn’t have some rules established, so he set up the following:
It pretty much goes as you’d expect, with “random” comedic occurrences and a string of successes leading Marc towards his goal (does seven days even count as a goal? I call that a vacation), but there are some entertaining moments along the way, so it’s definitely worth a look. Plus, if it’s supposed to be viral, I’ve just passed it on, so it looks like it’s working. You want an eggroll?
My Dream App, the Apple software revolution, is over. After calculating nearly 14,000 votes, three winners have been announced. Though they weren’t my top choices, Cookbook, Portal, and Atmosphere will soon see production as full-fledged Mac Apps, and the world should be a better place for it. My only hope is that some other app development teams jump all over the loosing apps, as there were a few ideas buried in there that I was really looking forward to seeing come to life. Congrats to those that made it, and condolences to those that didn’t.
[Via: Digg]
LionsGate has found a way to capitalize on YouTube viewership with their new viral ad for Saw III. Can you figure out what the code means?
[Via: Digg]
Dominos are cool. Rube Goldberg machines are cool. Anything that manages to combine these two must be some sort of as yet undefined uber cool. Tim Fort created this Kinetic Art piece, and it’s 6:10 of non-stop action. If anyone’s interested, he’s still looking for volunteers to clean up and sort what remains (not really, but it must have been quite a task).
[Via: Digg]
