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Neat-o Toys: All Season Sled

Now that winter is fleeing, we are thinking back to all the good sledding days we didn’t take full advantage of.  How come there aren’t more night sledding runs in New York City anyway?

We haven’t solved the problem of needing to sled in darkness, but at least someone else had solved the problem of sledding in the summer. The Slicer by Ice Meister is definitely something to live in our bowl of tricks.  If we could start that summer camp, we’d put six on the shelf and have weekly races down Wipe-out Lane!  Winner gets to jump in the mud pool.

Here’s what the inventors had to say:
For snow sledding, the SLICER works like any normal sled that is placed on a slope that is covered with snow or ice. But to slide down grass covered slopes, just the opposite is done: instead of putting the SLICERTM on the snow or ice, ice is put on the bottom of the SLICERTM!

Inside the SLICER’s hollow, double-walled construction are two patent pending (in USA, Canada, and Europe) Icers that can be removed (from within the inside of the sled) and then used to freeze and form thin ice blocks that can then be easily attached to the bottom of the SLICER. When outdoor temperatures are above freezing, the melting ice provides for a very slippery surface, providing winter sledding fun in the summer!

The SLICER does not take a back seat to other sleds, either, when used in the winter on snow. Its smooth contoured shape and low profile runners enable it to work well on packed snow as well as deep powder. Owing to its double-walled, unibody design, the SLICER is able to absorb bumps while cushioning riders weighing up to 200 lbs. And its rugged polyethylene plastic design makes it less than the cost of many snow-only sleds.

Thanks Cool Hunting!
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Silly Kid Tricks: Shake Those Eyebrows!

Commercial Alert!  Commercial Alert!  We interrupt our highly educational regular programming to bring you a blatant attempt to take some money from jar.  But we had to.  These kids had something to teach us.  Not much to say, but they sure have talent.

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Extreme Shepherding

When we were drawing up our list of the top things to grow up to do, we had mad scientist, ice cream taster, lego designer, merry prankster, and archaeologist high on the list, but we hadn’t considered taking a bunch of sheep and few dogs out to the hillside.  Now we realize how much fun we were missing.

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Creepy Lego MiniFigs


Who said Halloween is just for October?  Why not have a little freaky all year round?  Or at least in March?  In our bowl we revisit this Brickshelf Gallery on a regular basis.

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Making Music: Collaboration and The Mash Up

One of the great new music art forms of recent times is the mash-up, but it is a lot harder than it first sounds.  A mash-up is essentially of what was originally two or more songs or music tracks that have been mixed together.  It is one of the many ways to make something old new again.  You could say it is the cousin of the sample, which is exactly what it sounds like: a sample of one song used in another song, say just three drum beats or one phrase from the lyrics.

We sneezed three times in excitement when this video landed in our bowl.  From what we can tell, this musician both sampled and asked different people on YouTube to provide chords and beats and then he mixed them all together.  It’s like people of all ages from all over the world got together and jammed.  Regardless, it’s a great song that will make you want to shake your socks off!
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The Ultimate Lego Star Wars Epic

We’ve been speculating here in our nose-filled bowls of what would be the great Lego mini-fig flick.  We are working out the plot for Alien Invasion, but the bar has been raised.  This will be in heavy rotation in our dish for quite some time I am sure.


Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

Thanks Cloudal!

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Soccer Stunts

This is nothing short of amazing!