"This beautiful 35m tall steel sculpture, showing two cars racing into the sky, was commissioned by Audi for their 100th anniversary."
- sdfx
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"[...] earlier today Kottke posted Richard Feyman’s explanation for why trains stay on tracks (it ain’t what you think!), and I started clicking around watching all the other Feyman videos on YouTube, until I stumbled across one where the interviewer asks Feyman why magnets attract each other, sending him into a prodigious rant about why we don’t answer questions that begind with the word ‘why’!:"
- sdfx
"These photographs show extreme makeovers of actual fast food items purchased at popular fast food restaurants. No additional ingredients have been added except for an occasional simple garnish."
- sdfx
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The last pic on the small plates was made from two white castle snack pack meals.
- Jason Toney
and it's called "Tapas de Castillo Blanco". The meals on the second page are great too: Chicken sushi and Tacobellinis. Visually stunning results that probably taste the same as before.
- sdfx
"All the time people say to me, “Oh you don’t need to worry about what you eat,” and generally snicker at my biking to work and 6 day-a-week workout program as wasted energy by a perpetually lean person. The general idea I think is that I’m a skinny guy and therefore I don’t need to think about any of these things."
- sdfx
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"Weight sets, flags, partition walls, sofas, basketball hoops, and even posters of bikini'd women have been imported to fill Saddam's spatial residuum. The effect is oddly decorative, as if someone has simply moved in for a long weekend, unpacking an assortment of mundane possessions. The effect is like an ironic form of camouflage, making the perilously foreign seem all the more familiar and habitable—a kind of military twist on postmodern interior design."
- sdfx
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"This is a stool with a moving seating surface from a project where we had to create a 3-dimensional movement with a 2-dimensional material. I wanted to work with the qualities of the material and see what function I could get from it. There is a holding construction in the middle with an axis on the top which creates the movement on the surface. All the parts of the construction is put together without any screws or glue, it’s all held together by the elastic band around it and by the weight of the person using it."
- sdfx
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Downloading SP2 for Vista - Didn't see that one comming. What's new?
"We love cool gadgets as much as anybody else. We just want to be thoughtful about the stuff we've bought. Even the most cutting-edge, tech-savvy geeks in the world are choosing to hang on to their phones or their iPods that still work just fine."
- sdfx
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