Found on Wil Wheaton's Tumblr. If you don't know Wil played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek : The Next Generation. His thoughts about these cupcakes "Seriously. Resistance is delicious."
If anyone makes me some delicious borg cupcakes you can be my best friend. Even if you just make me some regular non-borg delicious cupcakes you can be a pretty good friend of mine.
<Will Wheaton via Geekologie>
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I've always liked clothes that had a life before me. Most kids hate having to wear hand-me-downs, but I was different. I thought my brothers' trousers were cool. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why I've been mending people's clothes for free for nine years now. Every 15th of the month, I set up my self-made sewing cart at a corner in San Francisco and hem trousers, patch jackets and sew on buttons.
It all started when I found an old treadle sewing machine lying on the sidewalk in a well-to-do neighbourhood. I'm a ceramics artist, but I was also into sewing. I got excited immediately, put the machine in my truck and took it to my studio - as it turned out, all it needed to work was a new belt.
In 2001, a San Francisco art college invited me to take part in an exhibition about generosity. I bought some wheels, metal frames and fabric and built a sort of ice-cream cart, except that it had the old sewing machine on it. I also added an umbrella and a neon sign with the blinking word "sew".
For a week, I pushed the cart through the city. In addition to normal clothes that people asked me to mend, I fixed a kneepad for a dancer and a sleeping bag for a homeless man. And I talked to them. Sewing, it turned out, was the perfect entry point for conversations.
Then the Luggage Store, a non-profit arts organisation, asked me to set up my sewing cart in the Tenderloin, a rough area with drugs, street crime and prostitution. Occasionally, I would watch drug deals go down. Once, a guy ran by, put something under a van in front of me and ran away. When the police came and reached under the car, they found a gun. It was a scary moment. But apart from that, I like the Tenderloin and feel safe. It's one of the liveliest areas in the city and certainly the one with the best food.
But it wasn't easy at first. People were suspicious of me - until some of those same people remembered that they had some trousers that needed fixing and ran off to get them. And Tony, a big, friendly guy who is a sort of unofficial mayor of the block, was so happy with my work that he started telling people about me. Slowly, I built trust.
I wouldn't have kept up with this project for so many years if it wasn't for the people. Mending time is story time. It's amazing how many honest conversations I have had with strangers who would normally just walk on by: a street kid with a broken backpack, a man with the jacket of his best friend who had passed away, a woman whose daughter was pregnant and who wanted a sweater altered to fit a big belly.
I started my mending as an art project, but today it's something different. My cart has created a little community. For a while, I gave sewing lessons to Antoine, a neighbourhood kid. Merlin, a musician, joined us and played the violin, and Eric made coffee. One day, a businessman, a homeless man and a minister stood in front of my cart and discussed their memories of sewing machines. It was one of these beautiful little moments that reminded me that we are all from the same thread.
My most loyal client is Veronica, a woman in her thirties. She comes every month with a big bag of clothes. Once she brought along a newspaper photo of Jackie Onassis, her fashion favourite, wearing a fur-trimmed jacket. Veronica wanted to imitate her outfit and asked me to sew fake fur on to the hood of her pink velour jacket. I did my best.
One day she said, "I really like coming here because you listen to me." I looked at her pile of clothes, and it hit me. Sure, she needed clothes mended, but more, she needed someone to talk to.
A great story about community and about people.
I love the part at the end "Sure, she needed clothes mended, but more, she needed someone to talk to. "
How many people do we see each day that just need someone to talk to?
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Its a pretty neat picture.
Sure they use this to try convince us that there is global warming, but it's still a cool picture.
I especially like how everything is still covered in snow
This is now my desktop background.
See the hi-res photo here.
I know why you didn't get me a birthday present yet; You were waiting to find the perfect gift.
Look no further.
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An original approach to road safety advertising from the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership
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I love the part when the table gets kicked up and the glitter is flying in slow motion.
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If you have been over to the Kvamme House you have practically guarantee seen this video. If you haven't you have heard us quote it.
"Can I touch it? No."
"Whoa, wow Daddy."
Just putting it up here for everyone else to see and so we can find it faster to show people when they have no idea what we are talking about.
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The first time I saw this commercial I wasn't sure if I liked it or not. I think I just dismissed it at first because of the shirtless man. As I watched it I realized how funny it was. Now every time I see it- Hilarious!
If you haven't seen the commercial on TV or watched the clip above do that now, then continue reading.
I like it even more now that I know the whole commercial was done in one shot, and that the only CGI (or as I now call it, CGT, computer generated trickery) was putting in the overflowing diamonds. There was a real wall and a real running shower. There was a real boat.He was really on a horse. I really like when people do things like the olden days and make it work in real life.
We don't need all that CGT to make a hilarious commercial.
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How do you test a GPS system that offers emergency response when you get lost? To test it somebody has to really get lost, and that is just what Wired writer Joe Brown did.
The Spot GPS Messenger is a system that records your exact latitude and longitude every 10 minutes. Your location can be put one a webpage, and you can even use it to send messages like "I'm ok."
The main feature of the Spot GPs is its emergency 911 button. Once the button is pushed a signal is sent to the GEOS International Emergency Response Center in Houston. GEOS will then find out who is the best to come to your rescue. "cops, Coast Guard, US embassy, or, in this case, Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue, a volunteer group of snow-happy badasses located in Placer County, California."
Joe Brown went and got himself lost, wandering 8 hours into the wilderness, to test just how well this would work.
Check out his video here.
I probably should have taken a picture to put on here, but they were so delicious that I ate them up before that could happen.
I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. I wasn't too sure since I just kind of made them up with what I had.
Glows in the dark after exposure to light.
Allows you to see the toilet roll clearly at night without having to turn the light on.
Suitable for anyone old enough to be using toilet paper.
What if you used Adobe Photoshop to bake cookies instead of using it to edit images?
Find out in this demonstration of Adobe Photoshop Cook.
Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo.
