So it’s been in the offing for a little bit now, but the big Tower of Toys on Avenue B is coming down and it’s parts will be given to the volunteers at the garden as mementos. It was created by a local artist Eddie Boros (who died last year) and has sat in that [...]

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Somehow I totally missed this. Ok, not really somehow, I missed it by not being in Union Square the other day, but that’s pretty nearby me - anyhewz, Cash Tomato thought it’d be a great promotion to give out a bunch of tomatoes with $29 attached to each one in the middle of Union Sq. [...]

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Ok, this is cool. Check out Make3d a Stanford project that takes your crappy picture and turns it into a 3d thing with virtual fly through. Yeah, unlike all those other fancy projects like Photosynth that are taking tons and tons of pictures of the same thing and figuring out perspective and what not, this [...]

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Well, we already covered the Darwin Awards for 2008, but we’ve got lots more stupid stuff to talk about!
Take for example the case of Marie Lupe Cooley. She’s reading the newspaper one day and notices a job position that looks suspiciously like hers and her boss’ name and number right there! Obviously the only thing [...]

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Wow. Long title today.
This is crazy. Crazy awesome! Olafur Eliasson, a Danish-Icelandic (!!) artist is getting ready to install his new art project in New York, in the East River to be specific. He’s going to build 60-70 feet high waterfalls there… waterfalls. Hopefully, they won’t be too close to land cause, y’know… you [...]

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Monday? Art? Snow??
Well we warned you it was coming but Improv Everywhere’s No Pants Day 2008 has come and gone. Gothamist has the 411 and sgoralnick has the photos. Anyone here happen to stumble upon it?
A real man, though, wouldn’t have a no pants subway ride… they’d do a no pants Parkour run! Such a [...]

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Macworld 2008 is just around the corner and while I already thought it was going to be a big one. But when they quietly launched those completely whupass new MacPro’s and Xserves it really got the brain cells a tremblin’ - what could they have that was so unbelievable that new 8-core machines weren’t even [...]

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The Telegraph has published the secrets - discovered by scientists (of course! you see why I love scientists now?) - of rock, paper scissors. Personally, my secret was always the last tip they give - throw the move that would have beaten your opponent’s previous move and it’s stood me in good stead over these [...]

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I ran across this super awesome site, the Asian Traditional Archery Research Network. It could use a little designerly love, sure, but it’s pretty badass anyway. Where else will you learn about the Multiple-shot “Zhuge” Crossbow? Who even knew that crossbows got to have “nicknames”? And you’ll learn the difference between arrow whistles and whistling [...]

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Still trying to catch up, so some more quick links…
Remember trying to get into college? That wasn’t that fun and your high school councilor was, most likely, less than useless to your efforts. Fortunately, for the low cost of $40,000 you can hire a real consultant to tell you how to get in! She won’t [...]

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