Archive: July 5, 2012

Jeremiah McDonald had the insight at 12-years-old to record a video of himself talking to his future self in hopes that his future self will one day remember and talk back. Well, his future self remembered. And at age 32, Jeremiah records a video response back to himself, 12 years earlier. Confusing? Watch the video.

Excuse my ignorance here, but…why can’t you just pour cold water into your absinthe cup and mix in the sugar with a spoon? Why the drip machine? Seems overly complicated just for the hell of it. [via]

The Swap-O-Matic 9-15-2010 from Lina Fenequito on Vimeo. New York is home to a couple of these Swap-o-Matic machines that become middle men in your efforts to reduce waste. Place something in, receive a credit, and maybe get something back. [via]

An artist named Daniel Wurtzel created this fire tornado with an overhead fan and some lighter fluid on the floor. Equally as impressive as the previous video I posted on fire tornados.

This is pretty amazing. I hear this phenomenon happens naturally in forest fires a lot, but being able to contain it in such a controlled space is pretty neat to see. [via]

mega-run

I try a lot of games in my line of work (what else is there to do really?) and very often the games I try are pretty crap. But this one called Mega Run is pretty darn entertaining. Replay value is way high on this one and the learning curve, well, there isn’t one. If [...]