Author Archives
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Modern pastries
Ukraine pastry chef Dinara Kasko breaks the mold with her artistic approach to baking cakes. Using 3D printing technology she not only creates never before seen cake forms, but she then delights you with pastry surprises when you cut open… Read More ›
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Disney’s Bastards
French artist Gilen Bousquet has dispensed with all likeability in his lowbrow art series Disney’s Bastards, turning childhood favorites like Dumbo, Ariel and Mowgli into dark degenerates… More at Neatorama. I kind of like these.
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One Man’s Quest For His Vinyl and His Past
When you talk to famous people for a living, it all starts to blend together after a while. You remember meeting people like Buzz Aldrin and John Cusack and Isabella Rossellini, but you have only a vague recollection of what… Read More ›
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Red sky at night, and other mysteries solved
‘Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight – red sky in the morning, sailor’s warning.’ So the saying goes – but why? This occurs when the weather predominantly comes from the west, as it does in Britain. A red sky at… Read More ›
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Twitter to livestream Wimbledon
This time around, Twitter’s Wimbledon deal is with the The All England Club, not ESPN, which is partnering with Twitter to live stream The Wimbledon Channel during the event. This coverage will include daily content, like news and interviews, behind… Read More ›
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Everything the iPhone replaced
I have written a few of these types of article over the years and suspect that the phone of today can replace hundreds of older products, maybe thousands.
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The Nokia Vision 2018 concept phone
Can I say, before the smartphone craze, Nokia was the Apple. Their phones surpassed everything we wished and hoped for. If you didn’t have a Nokia, you didn’t have a phone worth even talking about, or talking into. Now that… Read More ›
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A map that fills a 500-million year gap in Earth’s history
Based on an article by Alan Collins (University of Adelaide) and Andrew Merdith (University of Sydney). Very very interesting.
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Famous People Who Hated Each Other
Humans can be pretty petty to each other. But you would think that, with a sudden increase of wealth and fame, some people would find that type of behavior beneath… More at Cracked. Some surprises in this list.
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Shot on iPhone, with a lot of help
Anybody who knows about the technique and gear involved in capturing great photos and video knows to look at those ‘shot on *insert smartphone here*’ ads with a bit of skepticism. Yes, they were technically shot on those phones, but… Read More ›
