Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
Learn the basics of thermodynamics with a film can cannon.
Butane from a lighter provides the fuel, the lighter’s sparker provides the ignition, and the film can provides the ammo, so all you need it some time and a few simple tools to build your very own.
Don’t you wish all science was this much fun?
[Via: MAKE: Blog]
Show off your love of classic gaming with the Icon Watch, a retro throwback to 8-Bit glory.
Featuring a pixilated look that is definitely form over function, it’s the perfect watch to remind you when it’s Mario time.
[Via: Uber-Review]
Here are a couple of quick and easy ball games to play.
In Filler, you must fill 2/3 of the screen with growing filler balls, but you must do so while avoiding the bouncing balls that will kill your filler ball, and you have a limited amount of time and number of balls to work with.
In White Dwarf, you must collect all of the green balls with your white ball. Blue balls bank your points, and red balls kill you.
Can you survive?
[Filler]
[Filler Via: Digg]
[White Dwarf Via: The Presurfer]
Despite its simplicity, Cursor*10 is actually an incredibly innovative and challenging game.
To win, you must partner with yourself.
You’re given 10 cursors, and each cursor lasts for a certain amount of time. Then, on the next round, you are put in control of a brand new cursor, but your old cursor is still there, and it does the same thing that you did with it in the last round.
If it sounds confusing, that’s just because it’s difficult to explain, but once you give it a shot, you’ll quickly get the hang of it, and then you’ll soon see the genius behind the idea.
Tip: Click on the pyramids for extra points.
[Via: Kotaku]
The Synchronicity Project is a simple yet beautiful idea to “Share the Time and Environment. Photos and Reports of the Globe at Glance.”
Created by Jun Tsuzuki, it’s supported by participants who find the project interesting, and is free to join if you fit that single criteria.
To participate, simply take a picture of where you are at and what you are up to, regardless of what that is, at a designated time.
The designated time is chosen by Jun, and has either a neat and euphonious look (Examp: 11:11:11 on 11/11) or a time during which a historical event took place (Examp: 9/11)
The designated time is also based on the GMT, so your specific time might not match up with the perfect time, but that’s actually the point. It’s supposed to be a portrait of the world at a single point in time, though not necessarily the “perfect” point in time.
If the project interests you, and you’d like to participate, then you’d better find a camera quick, because the next time is January 1st at 00:00:00 GMT (December 31st at 04:00:00PM on the West Coast, and 07:00:00PM on the East Coast if you’re in the US).
What will you be doing?
[Via: Cool Hunting]
Ever wonder why time seems to slow down during moments of danger?
According to David Eagleman, a scientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston:
“In this way, frightening events are associated with richer and denser memories,” Eagleman explained. “And the more memory you have of an event, the longer you believe it took.”
Eagleman added this illusion “is related to the phenomenon that time seems to speed up as you grow older. When you’re a child, you lay down rich memories for all your experiences; when you’re older, you’ve seen it all before and lay down fewer memories. Therefore, when a child looks back at the end of a summer, it seems to have lasted forever; adults think it zoomed by.”
How did he test this theory?
“It’s the scariest thing I have ever done,” said David. “I knew it was perfectly safe, and I also knew that it would be the perfect way to make people feel as though an event took much longer than it actually did.”
Indeed, volunteers estimated their own fall lasted about a third longer than dives they saw other volunteers take.
Now you know.
[LifeScience - Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies]
[Via: Neatorama]
[Photo Via: SoldiersMediaCenter]
Have you ever heard of mileage running?
The goal is to fly for the sake of flying so that you can earn enough airline miles to receive perks from the frequent flier program.
To do mileage running, you only need two things: a lot of time, and cheap tickets (one to two cents per mile cheap).
Then, you simply rack up the miles, going through the ticket and routing calculations, through elite status, upgrades, irregular operations, weather delays, working the system, bumping and marathon flying; all for the sake of a few extra miles.
Ready to work the system?
Then check out Gadling’s Guide to Mileage Running, and learn from the best.
[Gadling - Guide To Mileage Running]
[Photo Via: AMagill]
Rather than remixing a song, why not remix album covers?
The results are surprising, and impressively coherent, though the time it must have taken to gather up all of these covers is beyond me.
[Via: Afhakers]
Mac users are very familiar with the Marble of Doom.
Also called The Spinning Beach Ball Of Death, it’s the colorful cursor that Apple gives you when your computer needs a little time to think things through, and it’s usually a good sign of slow times to come.
The Marble of Doom site wants to know exactly how much time is spent staring at that spinning ball, so the next time you’re taking an unplanned trip to the beach, stop by and add your time to the tally.
What are you *@#% waiting for?
I can’t even imagine how long this took; though I also can’t decide if it was probably too long, or not long enough.
I do know this however: A Mario flip book that follows the super plumber through an entire level is flippin’ awesome!
