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Cool Cars



Jiminee!  This would be a blast!  More photos here.

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Potter Puppet Pals

It’s nothing short of an absolute phenomenon.  45 million views!  Loved by all, but beware, it is explosive.

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Papercraft

We’ve been doing papercraft creatures in our house for probably two years now.  We highly recommend printing on card stock.  We look back on our paper days as just plain silliness now — “what were we thinking? paper?!!!”.  We call all of them Ready Mechs in honor of the first site we discovered.  Cubecraft though is a great place to start and a great solution to a rainy day — or one, like today, that’s too hot to go out.  More papercraft to come…

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Cool Buildings


The SLEEPER house is for sale!  Explore the house here.

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Robot Cupcakes

I wonder if I opened a cupcake shop in the West Village and had the Boing Boing tour bus stop by, whether we’d have the same lines that Magnolia has.  Personally, I vote for Billy’s, but I would change my allegiance if any store featured these.

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The Next Good Idea

The Girl Effect

Girl Effect is a new social action organization based around the idea that when you empower one girl  to have the opportunity to participate in her society, powerful social and economic change results.  It’s also a nice bit of text animation too, from NY animation house Curious Pictures.  I not only like this idea, but I like how well they have personalized social change and used the internet.  It’s been demonstrated how well microloans work, particularly with women in developing economies, to facilitate social change.  Here, they also bring hope.

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Marketing Pranks


I hate always being sold to.  But I love the clever ways they come up with to do it.  What can I say this is a very good idea.