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Sniffing out the stuff that kids really get best

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Ivan’s Cool Contraption

Bowlers know we have a nose for Goldbergian complexity.  THE WAY THINGS WORK will forever remain our our list of Required Viewing.  We also endorse “home-made” and “swede-ing” amongst all nose-wearers.  We gave a Golden Honker today to Ivan in Austin for his embrace of all this goodness on 11/9/08.  

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Pixar’s UP


Where were we?  How’d we miss that this was Pixar’s next?  And no robot?  No cute creature?  A grumpy old man?!  I guess it’s clear we didn’t go to ComicCon.  Still it looks pretty neat.

Here’s the description we found:

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life. UP takes audiences on a journey where the unlikely pair encounter wild terrain, unexpected villains and jungle creatures.

Watch the trailer here.
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Cool Buildings #5: Cool Homes

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Styles Of Animation #5: Cut Out 3D

Gnarls Barkley is known in our Bowl for his songs “Crazy” and his “Kung Fu Fighting” cover.  He’s also always sure to have some one good to do his videos.  We enjoyed sniffing out “Mystery Man” this morning, and not just for its caped crusader.  The home made look is something we really dig.  Dig and sniff for yourself here.

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Crazy Animals #4: Baby Pygmy Hippo

I wish we could go to Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia today.  We’d love to visit Monifa.  Cute little funny looking thing it is!


Thanks BoingBoing!

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Lightning Strikes

It may be powerful stuff, and a tad scary, but you have to admit it’s pretty cool.  Still, we are pretty happy to only observe it on YouTube…  There are lots of videos up, but very few that really do this aspect of nature justice.

Still, even seeing this video, I know I never have to see real lightning up close, thank you very much.  

 

Where are all the great ones?  They must exist somewhere. Although this one is pretty beautiful…

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What Our Country REALLY Looks Like

By now you might have seen those maps that are done to show how people voted.  You know, the red and blue ones where blue represents Obama and the Democrats, and red represents McCain and the Republicans.  Never mind that in most other countries red usually represents what is called the left and blue usually represents the right, but these maps are confusing for other reasons too.  

Mostly the political maps are confusing because they are drawn for geographical purposes and not based on population (how many people there are).  Geography works for when you have to get from place to place (like walk or ride your bike) but it doesn’t represent people (and how they live or work or vote).  
This is what it looks like when you change the map and draw the states in terms of how many people live where (i.e. make the more popular regions larger).  It shows you how much Americans wanted Obama — a whole lot! (Unless maybe if you live in Texas).

And just to remind you, this is what the map looks like when you forget about what matters most in this world: people.   

If you want to learn more about these maps, you can click here.