Archive: June 3, 2012

A beautifully filmed short by Jay Cheel on what happens when a group of friends get too comfortable with each other while playing Settlers of Catan. [via]

Bevan Walsh wrote and directed this amusing short called “Love Does Grow On Trees” about a young boy who discovers porn and is completely taken over by it. Then one day, he meets a lovely girl and his addiction begins to scare him into recycling his entire collection. This short has a long list of [...]

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A little less than $75 USD will nab you this hand-made crocheted pizza rug. Pepperoni flavored. If you prefer a blanket version, you can pay $250 for a special order of the same pattern. [via]

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If you’re using iCloud, let this be a bit of warning to you: Don’t rely on it. You never know when it’s going to crap out or when you’re accidentally going to push the wrong button and have everything erase. The safest thing to do if you’re going to use iCloud to sync between iOS [...]

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I wish I could own Alex Randall’s $13,000+ USD Rat Swarm Lamp so that when I move out of NYC, I can always be reminded of home with just one glance. Taxidermy never seemed so appealing to me until now.

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Photo: Trevor Tondro for The New York Times Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger.com, owns two apartments on Sullivan Street (both in the same building). His latest apartment, a 420-square-foot space, the first to be completed under his LifeEdited project, was recently featured on The New York Times as an effective example of how a small [...]