Monthly Archives: February 2011

Gallery of Sanborn Fire Insurance covers

Bibliodyssey has a post full of beautiful covers from an old Sanborn Fire Insurance manual/booklet. The book that these were taken from helped give a detail and very specialized view of important maps specific to the fire insurance industry in … Continue reading

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Felt Pocky iPhone case

If you’re content with spending $28 for an iPhone sleeve/case, I highly suggest going with the Pocky type. So what if it doesn’t come with actual Pocky sticks, what’s held inside is probably just as good (but probably not as … Continue reading

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Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham: BMX tricks in a wheelchair

Allan Hardy and Unit Clothing put together this 7-minute documentary on Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham, one of the world’s premiere athletes in the BMX arena who just so happens to do all his tricks while in a wheelchair. Aaron was born … Continue reading

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Fallen iceberg due to the recent New Zealand earthquake

AP Photo/NZPA, Denis Callesen The Atlantic’s In Focus blog is posting large images coming straight out of New Zealand after yesterday’s 6.3-magnitude earthquake. While there are certainly many sad images of buildings crumbled, people hurt, and people deceased, one of … Continue reading

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How to make your own real-life playable Angry Birds cake

Talk about an exciting birthday! Mike Cooper of ElectricPig made his son a real-life playable Angry Birds birthday cake. It came with a slingshot, lots of poorly laid out cake pieces, and of course pigs and angry birds! Oh, and … Continue reading

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Loser Ribbon

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