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<i>Top Gear</i> Crew Puts the Tesla Roadster Through Its Paces [Cars]Gizmodo

If there's a more entertaining show about cars in the world than the BBC's Top Gear, I've never seen it. Which is why we're psyched to see them take on the Tesla Electric Roadster.

The gang finds that, while the Tesla is amazingly fast out of the gate and cheap to …

Cannondale Stealth - Concept bikeComputerlove(TM) - Connecting Creative Talents / Latest Blog Posts

Cannondale launched a concept bike showcasing innovative design solutions that will inspire future production models. More>>

Look, I'm A Magician!: Levitating WaterGeekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome

Levitating water isn't actually levitating at all. In fact, the shit's just falling. Like rocks. Rocks of water. Did that just blow your mind? It only LOOKS like it's levitating due to sorcery and, quite possibly, a little witchcraft as well. Fine, strobe …

RubitoneComputerlove(TM) - Connecting Creative Talents / Latest Blog Posts

A new creative way to organize your colour palette. Please, no stress to find it!

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Theophile Lego Technic "Walking Machine" Slowly, Inevitably Invades My Nightmares [Lego Terror]Gizmodo

If I didn't really, really love Lego and Technic, like many of the staff here at Gizmodo, I might very well be running in terror at the sight of this eight-legged, Theo Jansen-inspired monstrosity. It barely makes a sound as it claws its way across the floor, aside from …

morphed furniture by nina saundersDesignboom - Weblog

'ever onwards', 2001

artist nina saunders is a furniture designer of a different sort. here pieces of art take traditional furniture

pieces and morph them into odd shapes, contorting them beyond practicality. originally born in denmark,

she is now based in …

Oktapodi - beautiful CG animated shortDrawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

How great is this short animated film about an octopus love affair / car chase by a group of Gobelins animation students?

Warning: It's 60mb but worth every byte.

And here's a short behind-the-scenes film which you must watch.

Jack Nicholson Solves Oil Crisis 30 Years Ago, Drives Hydrogen Car in 1978 [Retromodo]Gizmodo

If you think hydrogen cars are the future, you are wrong. They are the past. You just have to look at this amazing video with Jack Nicholson showing his hydrogen Chevy, smashing the traditional car industry with his usual finesse, and extolling its virtues on network …

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From Zero to Zero Emissions in 2.9 SecondsWired Top Stories

An eco-conscious motorcycle fanatic hopes to bring a touch of green to the Isle of Man TT next year with what he calls the world's first high-speed zero-emissions grand prix.

Improv Everywhere: mass twins on subwayBoing Boing

The wonderful Improv Everywhere's latest prank involved a bunch of identical twins riding the same subway in New York City. Human Mirror (Laughing Squid), Human Mirror project page (Improv Everywhere)


Previously on BB:

o Food Court Musical by Improv Everywhere

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Lost scenes from Metropolis foundBoing Boing

The original version of Fritz Lang's fantastic science fiction film Metropolis was first seen in Berlin in 1927. Shortly after, Paramount recut the film to (over)simplify the plot. From then on, it was thought that at least 1/4 of the whole film ended up on the editing …

George Carlin Dies at 71Wired Top Stories

George Carlin, who pushed the boundaries of language and culture in five decades as a stand-up comic, dies of a heart attack. He was 71

Flight of the Conchords "Ladies of the world" Director: Nima Nourizadehvideos.antville.org

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Biggest Drawing in the WorldComputerlove | Connecting Creative Talents

Extremely cool project by artist Erik Nordenankar. Check out the website for some more information including the travel instructions given to DHL, and a great little video documenting the piece. This strikes me as a brilliant ad campaign by DHL, which would explain …

Double-Lidded Jar Took Way Too Long To Exist [Design]Gizmodo

Why do jars only have one lid? How many mothers have--upon discovering they were running low on peanut butter while readying her three kids from school--smashed the jar against the counter and filled their children's lunches with a deadly mixture of creamed legumes and …

Brew Your Own Coca-Cola [Weekend Project]Lifehacker

The Unusual Food Handler weblog has whipped together a home-made method for making Coca-Cola that by their admission is slightly sweeter, slightly less acidic, but remarkably delicious. If you're a Lifehacker with a tinkerer's streak in the kitchen, then brewing your …

Laser-cut book is a scale model of artist's houseBoing Boing

Your House is a beautiful, laser-cut book sculpture by Olafur Eliasson, a rendering of his house in 1:85 scale. As Eric Gjerde notes on Origami Tessellations, this is beautiful in and of itself, but more interesting in terms of what it portends for a future of …