Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
I’ve shown you plenty of papercraft before, but with Paper Critters, you can create and share your own digital paper toys thanks to their easy to use Toy Creator.
Just choose your tool, pick a color, and create your masterpiece.
You can even upload your own image if you want to give it a personal touch, and then print your final creation and bring it to life.
[Via: Zoomdoggle]
Mac Heads take note: Mac Mix could be your chance to save some serious cash on a bundle of the best Mac applications (Maclications?).
Unlike other shareware bundle events, which offer a discount bundle of pre-selected apps, Mac Mix lets you choose your own bundle. The end result is a bundle that has no fillers, and contains only the applications that you want and/or need.
Obviously there’s got to be a catch, so the discounts increase as you buy more apps. Any single app starts at 10% off, but if you buy three apps, that quickly climbs to 30%, and by 12 apps, you’re saving a full 75% off of the retail price. With 28 apps to choose from, picking out 12 good ones shouldn’t be too hard.
So what’s available?
Highlights include Parallels, MacGourmet, Forklift, HoudahGeo, TextExpander, Comic Book Lover, and much, much more.
Each app is categorized into one of five groups (productivity, web tools, image and video, system enhancements, and entertainment) and you can read up on each app before buying, including a star based rating system, and a bullet point feature list.
And if that’s not enough, part of the proceeds go towards planting trees to help out the environment, so you can probably get a write-off from the purchase of a Mac Mix if your tax guy is willing to be creative.
[Mac Mix]
Pixish wants to connect image makers with image buyers to form a collaborative smorgasbord of creativity. It’s “a way to engage creative people online to submit, judge, and source amazing images”.
Here’s how it works:
For artists, “Pixish is a great place to find fun projects, ideas to fuel your creativity, and great prizes to win!”
For publishers, “Pixish connects you with a vibrant community of creative people, gives you tools to engage, and helps you find brilliant original work.”
[Pixish]
Here are two pictures that tell quite a tale:
The first is Gibson and Boo Boo, the world’s tallest and the world’s smallest dog, meeting for the first time in Sacramento, California for Guinness World Records Day, 2007. On his hind legs, Gibson stands at over 7 feet tall, while Boo Boo checks in at just 4.9 inches.
The second is the shoreline of two Dutch North Sea islands after six containers of bananas fell off of a cargo ship during a storm and washed ashore. After the spill, the shoreline was bananas, B.A.N.A.N.A.S.
[Dogs Via: Spluch]
[Bananas Via: Yahoo!]
Joshua Budich’s Star Wars Collection is a work of art.
Each figure has its own GIF image, and each GIF image links to a corresponding picture of the actual figure, as well as a full rundown of the specific series.
If looking at every figure is too much to handle, then you can sort by series, assortment, movie and year.
Why the madness?
So there.
Believe it or not, the horizontal lines on the left of this picture actually hide the skyline on the right.
Simply view the histogram of the horizontal lines, and the skyline appears. (A histogram is a bar graph representing all the tones in an image.)
Creative.
[Ironic Sans - The Histogram As The Image]
[Via: uneasySILENCE]
The New York Times wrote a great article about the changes that tea is going through lately in response to its surging popularity.
[New York Times - Tea's Got A Brand New Bag]
Designers Laura and Paulina make these Bibi iPod covers that turn your little guy into a little monster.
[E-Mail For Information: laurenandpaulina@hotmail.fr]
[Via: Gizmodiva]
Netdisaster lets you unleash some fury on the web. Try it out on DYH.
[Via: Mobile Whack]
ParkAtMyHouse.com lets users let and rent parking spaces that would otherwise go unused.
[Via: Autoblog]
A few brave and lucky hackers made a homemade flamethrower out of a toy water gun and some wiper fluid (and some stupidity).
[Via: Clip A Day]
Urban Monarch and Modern Drunkard put together two great guides about how to score free drinks when you go out. Put down the credit card, and slowly step away.
[Urban Monarch - Drink For Free]
[Modern Drunkard - The Fine Art Of The Free Drink]
[Photo Via: marc_l'esperance's]
Gawker put together a great map that documents the smells of the New York City subway system. Care for a tour?
[Gawker - New York City Subway Smell Map]
The ThrustPac straps to your back and “converts horsepower to thrust to push you on any of your favorite devices”.
[Via: Sci Fi Tech]
Funny Cool Stuff created 10 different finger themes that you can use when you want to decorate your digits.
[Funny Cool Stuff - Finger Artwork]
Popular Science has a ‘hands on’ with the Dyson Airblade, a 400 mph hand dryer.
[Popular Science - Dyson Airblade]
Alang, India is famous for one thing: Recycling cruise ships. Peter Knego got a chance to visit the ship graveyard, and the pictures are breathtaking.
[Peter Knego - On The Road To Alang]
[Via: Neatorama]
MapOfSpringfield.com has created a huge map of the town where The Simpsons live. Google Maps, eat your heart out.
PingPongPixel is an interactive art experiment that uses colored ping pong balls to create giant images.
[Via: Josh Spear]
WhirlyBall “combines lacrosse, hockey and basketball with bumper cars”. Can sports get any better than that?
[Via: Dethroner]
Lifehacker put together a great guide on “How To Beat A Speeding Ticket (Or At Least Better Your Chances)”.
[Lifehacker - How To Beat A Speading Ticket]
Meet People Drink Identifiers from ATYPYK make the task of keeping an eye on your drink a clever conversation starter.
[Meet People Drink Identifiers]
[Via: Better Living Through Design]
Toyota wants to know how personal your car is with their Human Touch ad. It’s kind of creepy though.
[Via: Autoblog]
Tampon Crafts turn that time of the month into an excuse to craft.
[Via: Dethroner]
Artist Felix Beck created a non-visual graffiti project called Soundbombs, “innocuous-looking 6-inch plastic shells that broadcast short clips (lines from Shakespeare, flatulence, or anything else you record) to unwitting passersby”. He doesn’t sell them, but instead takes applications, and prospective users must tell him where they will use it and how much they’re willing to pay. Get loud.
[Via: bookofjoe]
Pepsi created an ad for the new Black Cherry French Vanilla flavor that included three senses: “sight, sound and scent”.
[Via: MIT Advertising Lab]
Sodium Laurel Sulfate, and ingredient in toothpaste, blocks sweet sensors on your tongue, which explains why orange juice tastes so bad after you brush.
[ABC - Why Does Orange Juice Taste So Bad After Brushing Your Teeth?]
[Photo Via: Strelitzia]
Information Architects put together a great read about interface, with a focus on the McDonald’s Cheesburger, the iPod, the Nintendo DS, and Google.
[Information Architects - The Interface Of A Cheeseburger]
Stuart Haygarth created the Tide Chandelier out of man made debris that washed up along a stretch of the Kent coastline. “The sphere is an analogy for the moon which effects the tides which in turn wash up the debris”.
[Stuart Haygarth - Tide Chandelier]
[Via: MoCo Loco]
