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Jan. 31, 2011

Toothbrush Redesign of the Day: The “Miswak,” a teeth cleaning twig used throughout the Muslim world in lieu of modern toothbrush models, gets updated packaging for Western markets courtesy of School of Visual Arts student Leen Sadder.

Traditionally, the Miswak’s bark is chewed off to expose the brush-like fibers underneath, but for commercial purposes, Sadder opted to include a lid that doubles as a tip-trimmer.

Sadder promotes “THIS” as a “biodegradable alternative to the Western teeth cleansing routine.”

[core77 / gizmodo.]

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Jan. 31, 2011

Snow Sculptures of the Day: Calvin and Hobbes-inspired snowmen meet their snowmaker on the Ellifritt Structure at Indiana Tech.

[reddit.]

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Jan. 30, 2011

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Jan. 30, 2011

True Story of the Day: Award-winning comic book artist Paul Maybury once worked at Whole Foods, where he would exercise his budding talents on store signage. Occasionally, his signs would offend patrons, but the one above of Mr. T apparently went too far, and got him “pushed out”:

I apparently offended a lot of people with it. Once older white lady didn’t like the angry black man yelling at her. And a Vegan didn’t like that Mr. T. pitied her because she wouldn’t eat meat.

That’s a true story.

Whole Foods’ loss is the comic book world’s gain.

[paulmaybury / sp / bb.]

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Jan. 30, 2011

Spider-Man Set Shot of the Day: Bleeding Cool just posted a ton of new photos from the set of Spider-Man, currently filming in downtown LA.

Stupid sexy Spider-Man.

[oln / bleedingcool.]

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Jan. 30, 2011

Yearbook Photo of the Day: Redditor chaggy spotted an odd-looking student named Barney Dickson in his brother’s yearbook.

And you thought your yearbook photo was bad.

(Alt: He doesn’t even go here!)

[reddit.]

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Egyptian Unrest News Round-Up:

Jan. 30, 2011

[photo: @arabist.]

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Jan. 30, 2011

This Looks Shopped of the Day: Henry Cavill as Clark Kent / Superman, courtesy of the SuperHeroHype forums, where they’re having a bit of fun with today’s big casting news.

[shh.]

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Jan. 30, 2011

Superman of the Day: Relatively-unknown British actor Henry Cavill, who is perhaps best known for his role as 1st Duke of Suffolk Charles Brandon on Showtime’s The Tudors, has reportedly been cast as the Man of Steel in Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot, currently scheduled for release in late 2012.

According to LAT’s Hero Complex, Cavill was top choice to play Supe in 2006’s Superman Returns before McG was replaced by Bryan Singer a Brandon Routh was cast instead.

[herocomplex.]

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Jan. 30, 2011

SMBC.

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