Fun doodle games (taught at high speed)

It's awfully fun watching Vi Hart draw snakes and other complicated doodles. (And somehow it's related to math.) Via.

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Link roundup

1. Cardboard and velcro robots.

2. Male giant water bug with a back covered in eggs.

3. Tremendous collection of animated gifs from movies. Via.

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Artisanal Chewing Gum Factory (and so much more)

Alas, it's too late to participate in Bompas & Parr's Artisanal Chewing Gum Factory:

Each visitor will be able to choose and combine 200 familiar and unusual flavours including iris, Hendricks Gin and tonic, curry and beer yeast. In total 40,000 flavour combinations are possible.

Truly outlandish combinations were possible. At least you can participate vicariously by watching the video below:









Coming next month is another event that sounds like great fun - - Taste O Rama at the Harley Gallery:

Coming soon to the Harley Gallery, Bompas & Parr will show Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in Welbeck Abbey's Titchfield Library. Guests will be taken on a trip through the secretive underground rooms at Welbeck before watching the film presented in Taste 'o' Rama - with spectators able to enjoy key moments of the movie with their mouths.

(Monkey brain's anyone?)



You can read about Bompas and Parr's previous culinary adventures at their site, including the Sugar Cave:



Emperor Vespasian's notorious Shield of Minerva dish:



The Ziggurat of Flavour, Occult Jam ("a small triumph over mortality"), Surreal House Dinner, and more. Via these sites.

*Buy Jelly with Bompas and Parr at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Gilbert Hernandez's Iron Man story looks great.

2. A suggestion that the reason you can't currently buy Tron on DVD or iTunes is because Disney is afraid that the movie looks so dated that letting anyone see it will make them not want to see Tron Legacy.

3. Awesome idea for a birthday treasure hunt.

*Buy Tron toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. "Did you know Michael Mann made a Nazis vs. demon bomb that never came out on DVD?"

2. Easily create a working sundial. Via.

3. Long review of the board game Arkham Horror, which is available at Amazon.

*Buy board games at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Lincoln Logs were invented in 1916 by John L. Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright. They were named for Frank (his middle name was actually Lincoln), and based on the basement of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, which Frank designed. Via these sites.

2. Cool, simple surface tension experiment.

3. Drop a Raymond Chandler plot in William Gibson's Neuromancer world, and you get Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon. I enjoyed it enough to add the next two novels in the series to my wishlist. 526 pages of hard-boiled, vatgrown ninjas for $8 Amazon.

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Lady Rocketeer

Go here to see how Allison turned a bunch of plastic bottles into a jet pack.

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Link roundup

1. Unemployment is 14.4% in Nevada. Via.

2. How to build a portable photo booth. Via.

3. I really enjoyed the first book of Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games trilogy. Imagine Stephen King's The Running Man, if the hero had been a teenage girl who didn't realize how pretty she was. $9 at Amazon.

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Like Mom Like Dad

Great gallery of photos featuring people posing like their parents. Via.

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Link roundup

1. How to make a Luke Skywalker pinata.

2. What to do if a body part falls off (like an eyeball, or tooth, or toe...).

3. Use a pen to rethread a drawstring.

*Buy The Star Wars Craft Book at Amazon.

Tiny dioramas

Tiny dioramas for the for the Tiny Tropolis installation at Burning Man.

This first one is by Mod Mischief:

















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Link roundup

1. How to turn Altoids tins and Altoids Sours tins into barbecues.

2. "Powder found in Wyoming traffic stop not drugs, but grandma's ashes (in a plastic bag)." Via.

3. The next McDonald's Happy Meal toy is miniature Star Wars skate boards.

*Buy Happy Meal toys at eBay.

Making use of the sun and moon

Clever photos of the moon and sun.

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Link roundup

1. Meet Paul Yarrow, the Fat Guy in the Background of Every Newscast.

2. How to turn a cereal box into a marble run. Also, turning a bunch of paper clips into a pickup game. Via these sites.

3. See a few pages of Paul Pope's new comic, Battling Boy.

*Buy Pope's Batman: Year One Hundred at Amazon.