1. Alexa  permalink

Alexa
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Miss_Cristal saved 13 hours ago at 10:08 PM PST on Nov 20, 2009 hummingbee originally saved 5 months ago at 09:28 PM PDT on Jun 6, 2009 Tag: alexa » see more details

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Alexa Carvela Allow Red Courts Classic-shoe   —  theshoefairy saved 25 minutes ago at 10:47 AM PST on Nov 21, 2009 Ylorah originally saved 14 months ago at 11:35 PM PDT on Sep 2, 2008 Tag: designer footwear » see more details

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Alexa So Hot For Him Graphic T-Shirt - Graphic T-Shirts - tops & basics - Vanity   —  Lynaldine saved 2 hours ago at 08:17 AM PST on Nov 21, 2009 AshleyAnn originally saved 13 hours ago at 09:55 PM PST on Nov 20, 2009 Description: So Hot For Him Graphic T-Shirt Price: 9.80 USD Tag: tshirts » see more details

2. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year: "Admonish"  permalink

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year:
Www.visualthesaurus.com

The latest selection for 2009 Word of the Year comes from the good people at Merriam-Webster. Unlike other dictionary publishers that anoint an annual word, Merriam-Webster bases its winner and runners-up on actual user lookups to its online dictionary and thesaurus. So instead of the novelties selected by its competitors (distracted driving from ...

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3. 20 Stationery Standards - Unique and Inventive Paper Revivals  permalink

20 Stationery Standards - Unique and Inventive Paper Revivals
TREND HUNTER

(TrendHunter.com) Check out these examples of cute, unique, interesting and sometimes just weird stationery. Handwritten notes make an even bigger statement nowadays, and these stationery standards help make that statement…

4. Would You Wear Your Dead Pet as Jewelry?  permalink

Would You Wear Your Dead Pet as Jewelry?
Yuka Yoneda / Inhabitat

When a beloved pet passes away, it’s only natural to want to keep their memory close – but how close?!! A few very, er, enterprising companies are giving mourning animal lovers the opportunity to wear the remains of their dearly beloved furry friends as pearls or even diamonds . Technically, this faddish practice has some basis in eco-

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Would You Wear Your Dead Pet as Jewelry? Ashes to Diamonds: Would You Wear Your Dead Pet As Jewelry?   —  You can memorialize a dearly departed pet in several different ways, but few allow you to keep Mr. Fluffypants as close to your heart as these wearable gems, which are created using the carbon captured from his remains. Not one but several companies are offering grieving pet owners the opportunity to immortalize their animal companions as jewelry.

5. Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Microwave Lava  permalink

Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Microwave Lava
Maggie Koerth-Baker / Boing Boing

Parents, romantic partners and roommates of America: I am not encouraging your child, partner or person you share living space with to do this. At least, not in your good microwave. They should buy their own for this sort of thing. And for the love of Pete, they should wear protective eye covering. I am so very serious about the protective eye ...

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Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Microwave Lava Make Lava at Home: Don't try this with your good microwave   —  Do not try this at home unless you are a certified physics teacher. Try not to think about what all the crap is in this guy's microwave. And do wear goggles. The really interesting part is after five minutes. That's where the science starts.

6. Food As It Comes  permalink

Food As It Comes
PSFK

Is this a sign of food producers reintroducing us to a more simple and basic way of presenting food?

7. Deformscape Uses 3D Modeling To Create a Unique Outdoor Space  permalink

Deformscape Uses 3D Modeling To Create a Unique Outdoor Space
PSFK

Architect Tom Faulder has built a backyard landscape that appears to funnel towards a maple tree centerpiece, using 3D modeling software and flat plywood tiles to create what he calls Deformscape.

8. Maria cristina bellucci: pencil crayon jewelry  permalink

Maria cristina bellucci: pencil crayon jewelry
Designboom

maria cristina bellucci worked for many years as a theatre costume designer and now creates her own jewelrymade from coloured pencils. the pieces are made using fragments of pencils that have been attached together and formed into a variety of shapes. the forming process reveal the interiors of the pencils, showcasing the wood and the coloured ...

9. Beaver Recipes  permalink

Beaver Recipes
Miss Cellania / Neatorama

Mmmm, beaver! Bug Girl posted these beaver recipes from a 1960 pamphlet entitled Good Eating from Woods and Fields, which also includes instructions for cooking muskrat. Link -Thanks, ersatz soubriquet! See more from the booklet in her Flickr stream.

10. Addicted To Being Good? The Psychopathology of Heroism  permalink

Addicted To Being Good? The Psychopathology of Heroism
Ieet.org

We look at heroes and do-gooders as a special sort of breed: people who possess extraordinary traits of altruism or self-less concern for the well-being of others, even at the expense of their own existence. On the other end, sociopaths also have an extraordinary set of traits, such as extreme selfishness, lack of impulse control, no respect for ...

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11. Studio Lindfors’ Haunting Visual Prediction of Our Flooded Future World  permalink

Studio Lindfors’ Haunting Visual Prediction of Our Flooded Future World
Moe Beitiks / Inhabitat

The phrases “melting polar ice caps” and “rising water lines” are so ubiquitous now that they’ve almost lost their meaning. It’s all too easy to think “it will happen to that city, not mine.” Well to give us a bit more perspective,  Studio Lindfors has presented us with these hauntingly realistic ...

12. Chrome OS  permalink

Chrome OS
Designboom

google recently debuted chrome OS, their first operating system based linux. the new software is based on the premise that most people really use their computer for the internet and not much else. the system is completely web-based and runs off google’s chrome browser. applications are all run through the browser and can be accessed through the ...

13. Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag  permalink

Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing

[Click for larger image.] I was lucky enough to see Black Flag play live a number of times in the '80s, around the time Glen E. Friedman shot the photo that graces this book's cover. I was an underage teen sneaking into grownup punk clubs, high on moshpit fumes (and, truth be told, lots else). The band, and that subculture that surrounded them, ...

14. Melted Clock  permalink

Melted Clock
Fubiz / Fubiz™

Un concept intéressant et pensé par le designer Florian Schaerfer, avec ce radio-réveil futuriste intégré directement dans le matelas du lit. Les boutons apparaissent en relief grâce au silicone. Un objet non commercialisé pour le moment. Plus d’images dans la suite. Previously on Fubiz Wall Clock Energy Aware Clock Alarm by Mesai

15. British sailing woman swam ashore with puppies on head  permalink

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A British sailing woman stranded in a storm off the Turkish coast abandoned ship and swam 75 metres to the shore carrying a milk crate containing her nine puppies on her head.

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Miss Cellania / Neatorama :   She Saved the Puppies!

16. Upper First – Showreel 09  permalink

Upper First – Showreel 09
Mr K (boss) / TrendsNow

Petit coup de projecteur sur l’impressionnant showreel 2009 du jeune studio Upper First spécialisé dans le motion design et basé à Malmö en Suède. Superbement rythmé par une bande son de Kungen & Hertigen, découvrez la vidéo dans la suite ! Découverte du showreel intégral en vidéo Cliquer ici pour voir la vidéo. More about ...

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Upper First – Showreel 09 HPP Daytona Challenger   —  Véritable Hot Rod des temps modernes présenté par le préparateur américain Heide Performance Products à l’occasion du SEMA Show 09, un petit coup de projecteur sur la furieuse HPP Daytona Challenger, une impressionnante machine dotée de plus de 600 chevaux au style néo-rétro résolument agressif. Toutes les images dans la suite ! Dé

Mr K (boss) / TrendsNow
Upper First – Showreel 09 Escape From Tomorrow   —  Gros coup de coeur pour la très belle vidéo intitulée « Escape From Tomorrow » réalisée par l’agence 13thWhitness qui retrace le résumé d’une journée de la vie de Nigel Sylverster, un BMX pro rider célèbre né dans le Queens à New York qui possède un magasin streetwear, skate et BMX. Découverte de la vidéo, plutôt ...

17. Flat Lighting  permalink

Flat Lighting
Mr K (boss) / TrendsNow

Sobre et épuré, Flat Lighting est un superbe concept de lampe à LEDs imaginé par les créatifs coréens de DMO Design Studio. Déclinée en version haute et basse, elles s’adossent au mur pour créer un léger halo lumineux la nuit ou tout simplement reprendre la forme signalétique d’une lampe la journée. Toutes les images dans [.

18. Mint tin electronics dev kit packs the essentials  permalink

Mint tin electronics dev kit packs the essentials
MAKE

From the MAKE Flickr pool Once you've caught the 'electronics bug', spending time away from the workbench/lab can seem an unpleasant prospect. Luckily, one can carry on learning and experimenting with a minimal amount of hardware. Nick shares his own recipe for ultra-compact electronics prototyping - the Altoids Tin Electronics Lab This is a ...

19. JR x BKRW “La Casa Amarela” Exhibition  permalink

JR x BKRW “La Casa Amarela” Exhibition
Eugene Kan / Hypebeast

Our friend’s over in France BKRW recently took their online gig to the offline world with the creation of a brand new creative space. To help christened the new opportunity and venture, they enlisted the help of fellow French creative JR to present some of his work at the space. For more details, check the [...]

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JR x BKRW “La Casa Amarela” Exhibition Mick Haggerty “been here, did this.” Exhibition   —  Having been one part of a collaboration earlier this year with Freshjive, Mick Haggerty. Having been a mentor and art school professor to FJ’s Rick Klotz, Haggerty has played a seminal role in the graphic design movement. The exhibition which opens with an exhibition tonight will run until December 6th at WAL*ART in Los Angeles. Mick [...]

20. Olympus BioScapes competition winners  permalink

Olympus BioScapes competition winners
MAKE

Olympus BioScapes competition winners , amazing photos! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Imaging | Digg this!

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Olympus BioScapes competition winners Olympus BioScapes Competition Winners   —  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease) motor neurons. The stem cells used to generate these motor neurons were induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells made from the skin cells of an 83-year-old ALS patient.