Gold painted shopping carts were made available to customers at the grand opening of a new gourmet grocery store, Okko in Istanbul.
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Italian artist Fabio Viale's tromp l'oeil sculptures are created from marble, including this white balloon.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6PSbUl_68k] The view from this arm chair is out of this world in this viral ad video to promote a Toshiba LCD TV. Ad agency Grey London attached a helium balloon to a red armchair and sent it soaring 98,268 feet high. More details here.
Balloon chair 1, balloon boy 0.
Clémentine Henrion's shiny helium balloons are in fact made entirely from fabric and can be hung from a ceiling hook or rod to give the illusion that they are floating.
Australian jewellery designer Polly van der Glas uses (sterilized) human teeth in her latest jewelry collection. Ladies, don't wear these on a first date.
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Toki Woki's mesmerizing "scroll clock." [Thanks Ro!]
Whimsical spin on these leathers for the women folk. Available here.
Sydney-based artist Nathan Thomas designed this silver necklace (available here) in the shape of the iconic (and consistently crappy) headphones that come with iPods.
The statement "I've only had one glass of wine" has never been more true and dangerous than with this giant wine glass that holds an entire bottle's worth of wine.
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Larry Granillo has an interesting blog entry that analyzes the New York Times' front page coverage of the Yankees' World Series championships from their first victory over the Giants in 1923 to this year's post-season success.
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Let your visitors know how you really feel with these rugs from Supreme. It's perfect for the hater's club crib. Also, these will perfectly match these snow globes.
This toy combines two of my all time favorite things: strippers and meth doodling and 3D glasses. Kit comes with a 3D drawing pen and glasses.
Talented Brooklyn designerJesse Hirschberg put together this invoice to submit to that inept and annoying client who simply ruined your day.

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Neat visualization of YouTube videos, such as this classic. [Via]
Eric Rice is the grand prize winner (a custom Xbox) of the Where The Wild Things Are fort contest. His fort was built without any nails or screws, just a lot string. This is certainly a more impressive effort than my fort I built in my parents' backyard in my younger days. My fort, if you can call it that was a single plank nailed to a branch which could only be accessed by climbing a rope.
Owner Bernie Henry, 92, is selling his "Pepto-Bismol" painted four-story brownstone, which is located in my neighborhood of Park Slope, for $2.3 million. Henry explained to The New York Daily News that the pink color was an accident: "They sent me the wrong paint," he said. "It was painted this color accidentally."
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I don't know what took the Internet so long to finally come out with this variation of the Three Wolf Man t-shirt meme which even made a cameo on a recent episode of The Office.

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Some appropriate cufflinks in the spirit of