This is pretty neat, Polaroid is running a contest to help gather some 411 about how it should build it’s newly planned digital Polaroid camera. (via) So it’ll be a digital camera with a new larger format of Polaroid’s existing ZINK technology for digital printing - so most likely no need to shake any developing [...]

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After several harrowing months of being missing a grandmother’s garden gnome has finally been returned to her. (via) Not only that but he was accompanied by an anonymous photo album showing how he went around the world with the “bear” - 48 photos and stamped immigration permits to places like South Africa, Cambodia and New [...]

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Art monday. Monday art.
Been longing for that anime look with the big eyes? Well long no longer, now you can get a variety of contact lenses that enhance your pupils to socket busting proportions. (via) As the advertisements says, “BIG EYES DO WONDERS…” - although it is an odd choice to go all caps but [...]

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Well, happy 8/8/8! Today’s the first day of the Beijing Olympic Games. You can watch on your teevees but if you want them over the tubes, check out Wired’s wiki on where to find it. If you’re American (and also lazy, which probably go hand in hand) you’re sol and stuck with NBC’s site. But [...]

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Argh. Urgh. Aggh. Luuucaaaassss. Ok. Lucas is going on some more about Clone Wars. You know, I’ve had cold feet about this project ever since they took Genndy off and put Lucas back on. I mean… look, let’s ignore Lucas’ love of Jimmy Neutron and take his response to the question of why the animation [...]

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Huh, seems like the week of long titles.
Ok, first, I just discovered that they’re making a Cthulhu movie. They, who? Well “they”, sadly, doesn’t == Guillermo del Toro. Your second clue that something has gone horribly awry is that Tori Spelling is in the movie. And when I say horribly awry, I don’t mean in [...]

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I think this post has like the longest title ever. That must mean something…
Anyhooz, did you know that every year thousands of baby tropical fish get swept up in the Gulf Stream from their warm life in Florida and the Bahamas only to get deposited in the cold waters of Long Island? Yeah, and then [...]

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Well, I got back in last night from Mexico, which was awesome. At some point I’ll probably post some pictures and some words, but the executive summary is that vacation == great. You know what I’m saying? Also great == Oaxaca. So, you know, good times were had, pesos were spent and now I have [...]

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Couple’a interesting Whedon bits here. First, he’s planning on doing one webisode of Dollhouse per TV episode, so 13. (via) Hot damn! They may be shown between episodes. We’ll see, but that’s pretty great. Turns out Joss knows a thing or three about how to do well on the internet. Also you probably want to [...]

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Ok, so gross. Some crazy researchers are busy inventing a needle based on the the way female mosquitos suck blood. (via) Because it’s so small it should be painless. I’m all for painless needles, but still, you gotta admit it’s a bit unsavory. At least it’s made out of titanium. That’s cool.
On the also gross [...]

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