Archive for November, 2010

Children’s Writing Centre-Slash-Monster Supply Shop of the Day: Can I interest you in a can of escalating panic? Perhaps a clump of distressed damsel’s hair is more to your liking? These items and more at Hoxton Street Monster Supplies: Bespoke and Everyday Items For the Living, Dead and Undead (est. 1818).

Inspired by Dave Eggers’s 826 literacy project, London-based graphic design studio We Made This, with help and support from the Arts Council and the JJ Charitable Trust, launched the Ministry of Stories on Hoxton Street in east London.

The Ministry follows the model of the 826 centres: a writing centre where kids aged 8-18 can get one-to-one tuition with professional writers and other volunteers; with the centres being housed behind fantastical shop fronts designed to fire the kids’ imaginations (and generate income for the writing centres).

In our case, the shop is Hoxton Street Monster Supplies – Purveyor of Quality Goods for Monsters of Every Kind.

[g-g.]

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Biofictional Sculpture of the Day: “Fetal Hello Kitty” by Jason Freeny.

inb4 abortion debate.

[moist.]

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Boundary-less Beer Bottle Opener of the Day: The boundary-less, non-orientable object known as the Klein bottle, engineered by Bathsheba Sculpture to solve the problem of beer being kept from you by “a boundaryless compact 2-manifold homeomorphic to the sphere” (AKA a “beer bottle”).

The Klein Bottle Opener disrupts the continuity of the beer-bounding manifold, “canceling the outdated paradigm of distinction between interior and exterior,” and enabling “the desired interaction between beer and self.”

Also: It looks really cool.

[nerdcore.]

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When You See It of the Day: Isn’t it somewhat counter-intuitive for this Icelandic shopping mall to suggest that you should make your Christmas gift yourself?

[reddit.]

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Did You Mean of the Day: Oh Google, you know me so well.

[reddit.]

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It’s Caturday!

[randompictures.]

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Art Project of the Day: Jack Teagle (previously) says: “Earlier in the year I drew as many Simpsons characters on a train from memory to challenge myself. I decided to get the sketchbook out, tidy them up and colour them. I didn’t use reference with the colours.”

[jackteagle.]

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• Extra-Sensory Pornception: Using pornography to predict the future.

• Another day, another girl goes through a TSA checkpoint with nothing but her bikini on.

• Bikini Friday: Jennifer Aniston and Chelsea Handler.

• Cleavage Friday: Kelly Brook.

• Pretty In Print: Mila Kunis in Nylon; Irina Shayk in GQ Spain (NSFW); El Wood in Inked.

• Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal strut their private stuff in Love and Other Drugs.

• Get To Know A Hottie: Francesa Osorio.

• International Beauty of the Day: Martha Higareda.

• Nerve: This Week in Sex.

• Holy Taco: What’s In a TV Dinner?

• Manofest: The 10 Craziest Black Friday Videos Of All Time.

• Late List: The 6 Hottest Chicks That Can Kick Your Ass.

[image: reddit.]

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Endless Origami.

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Know This:

• Sarah Palin responds to coverage of “North Korea” slip with a Thanksgiving message to all 57 states.

• Sarah Palin openly mocks Michelle Obama’s anti-childhood obesity campaign by bringing cookies to Pennsylvania Christian school.

• RIP: Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson, founding member of Throbbing Gristle, dead at 55. Also: Libertarian Party co-founder David F. Nolan, at 66.

Read This:

• Today’s Big Read: Inside the Whitehall kettle.

• Fox Nation reposts anti-Obama Onion piece, neglects to mention the fact that it’s, you know, not real.

• Hacker takes over the Twitter account of Indonesia’s Presidential disaster management adviser, posts panic-inducing hoax tsunami warning.

• Broadcasters mull screening Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding in 3-D.

• PROTIP: Gun pranks are rarely funny.

The Other:

• NewsFeed: Black Eyed Peas to Play Super Bowl.

• Techland: The Amazing, Spectacular Story Behind The Spider-Man Musical.

• Tea x Time List: The New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2010.

• Above: Kisai RPM from Tokyoflash — based on a concept submitted by a reader of the Tokyoflash Design Studio Blog.

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