2) Pancakebot will print your pancakes in any shape you can draw.
3) Norway is planning to ditch FM radio.
4) Why are board game boxes so big? I assume the transport issue is the difference in weight between 10 games and 16; the fewer games stacked on a palette, the less likely the ones at the bottom will be crushed.
6) “My daughter spent this whole week preparing to GM her first D&D game.
1) The day Hank Aaron’s bodyguard didn’t shoot.
2) Onlookers mistake fallen construction crane at Dallas Museum of Art as an art installation.
3) Yelp reviews of new-born babies.
4) A person is creating 3d printing templates for every creature in the Monster Manual.
5) The simple brilliance of David Aja. This dude is half of the reason that the Hawkeye comic has been so amazing. I really love the design sense that artists bring to comics now. They’re so much more interesting than they used to be.
6) Why don’t our brains explode when we see movie cuts? (What a sensible way to phrase that question.)
7) Pictures of food that very little kids “can’t eat” and why.
1) A map of all the places mentioned in Tom Waits songs.
2) An autobiographical webcomic imagining Conan the Barbarian as a spirit guide.
3) Reader, I LOL-ed. Reaction Table: High Level Cleric of Law Asked to Raise Dead Associate(s).
4) Every Frame a Painting on film editing, video essays, and creating narrative. Video.
5) When Nerf Modding goes too far.
6) Understanding Art: The Death of Socrates. Video. Interesting to see a tool as simple as masking in Photoshop used to such good effect.
1) A Choose-Your-Own adventure game based on Twitter accounts.
2) Photographs of an iceberg that had recently flipped over to reveal the gem-like underside.
3) A very long exposure photograph of a rock climber wearing glow sticks.
4) Seattle sidewalk art that is invisible until it gets wet, aka “rain art”.
5) Amazon readers post troll reviews of anti-vaxxer’s “pro-Measles” children’s book.
1) A random comic generator. NSFW.
2) Things said by and to a two-year-old, as graphic design posters.
3) Was 2014 the Year of the Video Essay? Who knew? How to make a great video essay: Video (naturally)
4) A long run down a concrete luge in New Zealand. Video.
5) Artist adds cute illustrations to photos on Instagram. So cool.
6) Google maps for fantasy spaces. Cute.
1) Get your rage on with this complete ranking over every Star Trek episode ever.
2) 22 pictures that prove we live in the future.
3) There’s an “atmospheric river” flooding California.
4) What colour is it? The time of day expressed as a hexidecimal color.
5) Pixel art illustrations that tell a personal story.
6) The relationship between coffee and mesmerism, and the importance of morning rituals. Video.
Chris McGrath is selling prints of the art he did for The Way Into Chaos, and not only is it gorgeous, the prices are beyond reasonable.
Check it out.
Annual tradition: Here’s my favorite version of A Christmas Carol
1) Man mounts paper coffee cup on his car, tweets people’s responses.
2) How does a 150 ft oil drilling rig disappear into a lake that’s only ten feet deep? h/t @CEMurphy
3) Is everything good about Minecraft gone? This piece echoes my earlier post about buying my son an Xbox, and I agree that Minecraft has changed as third parties set up their own servers. My son plays a game that’s a lot like The Hunger Games, and doesn’t build nearly as much as he used to. He still builds, but there’s a lot of PvP, too.
4) Typeset in the Future: ALIEN edition.
5) Dutch real estate broker installs mini-rollercoaster into home to give prospective buyers a tour. Video. As stunts go, this one is terrific.
6) Ugly Christmas sweaters are the new thing, so why not turn them into men’s suits? (That’s a rhetorical question.)
7) Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School Professor, Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food. You can be very very wrong while being right.
1) World’s Worst Playgrounds h/t @cstross
2) Maps of modern cities drawn in JRR Tolkien’s style.
3) How to “gird your loins,” in illustrated form..
4) Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post cover art with DC Comics characters.
6) An internet glossary, from The Toast.
7) The Zero Stooges (aka The Three Stooges Minus Stooges). Video.