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If you got a lot of Halloween loot you’ll be happy to know that nobody can stop you from eating as much as you want today: it’s National Candy Day! Somebody was thinking synergistically when they scheduled these two days so near each other. We’re going to take this opportunity to think about candy in [...]

You know, it’s not just people that wear costumes on Halloween–you filthy humanist!–cars, vans, buses and motorcycles gotta get their “trick or treat” on too. And we’re not just talking about the dog-mobile from Dumb & Dumber, there are innumerable real-world examples of vehicles dressing up as other things (no, not Transformers). Cool Material has [...]

True story: one of our best friends’ mothers growing up was one of Canada’s leading quilters. She would travel around the world (though never into space) attending quilting conferences and the like. She used the family’s garage as her workshop, and had the largest Canadian flag in the world stored there in several boxes. Why [...]

The Internet’s silly fascination with Lego re-enactments of, well, anything, doesn’t have to involve exclusively tacky and artless creations. For instance, the Daily Beast has a listicle of images created by British photographer Mike Stimpson to replicate some of the most iconic images of modern culture with Lego. Our favorite of his Lego Versions of [...]

As kids, we definitely went through a phase when we were into military mission patches and medals. It kind of made sense: they’re basically the army equivalent of trading cards in sports. Of course, we got over our brief bout of militarism, but we still dig us some retro NASA mission patches.
They tend to be [...]

We just spent all night playing around with and printing the various signs, posters, magazine covers, tombstones, LOLCats, seals, stamps, etc. that can be generated using the great web apps covered in Mashable’s listicle of 13 Fantastic and Fun Image Generators. If we had to pick a favorite (we’d rather not) it would have to [...]

Remember astronaut food? You know, those weird dried-out vacuum-packed foods they sell at science museums that are supposedly like the stuff astronauts in orbit have to eat? We always suspected these were actually designed as an early tactic for weeding out children with space travel aspirations who clearly weren’t up to the challenge. As in: [...]

The 42nd President of the United States of America celebrates his 63rd birthday today, perhaps you’ve heard of him? William Jefferson Clinton managed to remain one of the most popular Presidents during his time in office despite certain unmentionable scandals, and has only become more beloved since. After leaving office he single-handedly gentrified Harlem, and [...]

Summer is kind of already almost over (we know, we know, tragic right?) and so this weekend we’re hitting the beach with a whole team of friends and we’re going to make the most amazing sand sculptures you’ve ever seen. No, really, there are going to be dragons, dinosaurs, elephants, lions, bugs, squid and a [...]

Today is International Left-Handers Day, which means that all around the world people will be joining hands (only their left hands, somehow) and celebrating the rich lives and momentous accomplishments of left-handed folk everywhere. And with only 7 to 10 percent of the world’s population being left-handed, it’s kind of amazing to see how much [...]