These YSL cigs would go well with my YSL velvet blazer. You know what else would go well with it? CANCER.
1. Disinfecting and Deodorizing Sponges Don’t throw out the kitchen sponge that smells like last night’s salmon. Soak it in water spiked with white vinegar or lemon juice, then heat it on high for 1 minute. (Use an oven mitt to remove it.) This will also disinfect any sponges you used to wipe up the juices from a raw chicken.
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Anna Jermolaewa captured a neat sequence in this digital print, "Good times, bad Times."
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIBvUvT6sVU&feature=player_embedded] Baby + Internet wins again. Pbad's Aya and Mun's baby duo need to step up their cuteness game.
I'm also reminded of this Sneezing Panda video by Nick Miller.
I don't have too much information, but artists Geoffrey Cottenceau and Romain Rousset collaborate to create some really funky art using everyday items and clothing, then transforming them into something surprising.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCjHV63MQ4w&feature=player_embedded] Recently I tweeted wondering what happens to all those Christmas trees that go unsold. Well, these guys offer one possible suggestion: use some differential calculus, then strap 32 rockets to one and then see what happens. The launch is glorious.
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The "gummi bears" (2,000 of them) in this chandelier are actually made from acrylic. 2,000 oh-so-delicious acrylic. Mmm.
As a chronic doodler with a fetish for grid paper, I really dig this storyboard notebook. Unfortunately it's sold out.
Stunning poem by Sharon Olds published in The New Yorker:
Q belonged to Q.&A., to questions, and to foursomes, and fractions, it belonged to the Queen, to Quakers, to quintets— within its compound in the dictionary dwelt the quill pig, and quince beetle, and quetzal, and quail. Quailing was part of Q’s quiddity—the Q quaked and quivered, it quarrelled and quashed. No one was quite sure where it had come from, but it had travelled with the K, they were the two voiceless velar Semitic consonants, they went back to the desert, to caph and koph. And K has done a lot better— 29 pages in Webster’s Third to Q’s 13. And though Q has much to be proud of, from Q.& I. detector through quinoa, sometimes these days the letter looks like what medical students called the Q face—its tongue lolling out. And sometimes when you pass a folded newspaper you can hear from within it a keening, from all the Q’s who are being set in type, warboarded, made to tell and tell of the quick and the Iraq dead.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc20vMz0V7Q&feature=player_embedded] Watch this funny segment on Sesame Street where comedy genius Ricky Gervais sings a lullaby to help Elmo fall asleep. Too bad it isn't quite the sort of lullaby Elmo was expecting. It's old but Ricky Gervais' "No one recognizes me as a celebrity but I actually am not only a celebrity, but if you listen between the lines of what I'm passive aggressively saying, I'm a mega-celebrity who is also quite filthy rich" shtick never fails to make me laugh.
On the heels of the recent Wall Street Journal article about the rumored upcoming Apple tablet, John Martellaro wrote an interesting piece on how that Journal article "had all the earmarks of a controlled leak." He then goes on to explain how Apple does this. Martellaro is writing from some position of insight as he was once a Senior Marketing Manager at Apple. [Via]
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, died on Monday as a result of stomach cancer. He was the only official survivor of both atomic bombs dropped during World War II. He was visiting on a business trip as a then 29-year-old engineer when the first bomb detonated over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. He returned the next day to his home in Nagasaki with ruptured eardrums and a burned upper torso. A few days later on Aug. 9, the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
It is believed there were about 165 twice-bombed persons in Japan, known as “nijyuu hibakusha,” although municipal officials in both cities have said Mr. Yamaguchi was the only person to be officially acknowledged as such.
Over 150,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of both atomic bombs. As Andrew Sullivan wrote, "Tsutomu Yamaguchi was either the luckiest or unluckiest guy ever."
Neat helmet concept by Sebastian Erazzuriz. You could wear it while riding around in that stretch Vespa (see previous entry).
Vespa South Africa built this unique four person "family" scooter as a marketing promotion.
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And it looks like she's nearly finished with Ulysses! [Citation needed]
Zac Efron, you double down only at the blackjack table. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-r02-oZAW4&feature=player_embedded] Step aside Christopher Walken, there's a new cow bell star, although by the look on her expression she doesn't seem to be too happy about it. Watch as this band girl sourly performs at this year's Fiesta Bowl between Boise State and Texas Christian University (TCU). It's hilarious. I think she prefers less cowbells.