Don’t know what pizza to order?
If you can’t decide which pizza to get, perhaps this random pizza generator might be of help. Random image of a pizza (homemade mushroom pizza by mouser) Note: The site generates a random pizza by...
View ArticleFunny Shaped Japanese Watermelons and Cucumbers
Have you ever found some oddly shaped vegetable in the supermarket? Sometimes fruits and vegetables come in funny shapes naturally, sometimes they’re specifically grown that way. Funny Watermelon faces...
View ArticleRice paddy paintings
Pink Tentacle reports about amazing works of art created from rice fields. 36 Views of Mount Fuji From the article: Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop...
View ArticlePC EZ-Bake – a personal mini-oven for your computer
Think of something that doesn’t have anything to do with computers, and you’ll probably find there’s some gadget for it anyway. Take this PC EZ-Bake oven. It’s a mini-oven that fits in a 5 1/4 inch...
View ArticleOptimus Prime Cake
Some lady wanted to do something special for her husband’s 30th, so she ordered a huge Optimus Prime cake from a local Nashville cake shop. Optimus Prime cake by The French Confection She writes: The...
View ArticleSalad, Alien made out of vegetables
Till Nowak’s Salad is a digital rendition of Alien made out of vegetables. (currently Till’s site won’t load…) It was shown at the Emerging Technologies of Siggraph 2007. Salad by Till Nowak (click for...
View ArticleShort links for August 20th, 2007
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 20th, 2007: How to Use Chopsticks in Seven Easy Steps – I usually give up after three bites and grab a fork instead. Free Air Conditioning...
View ArticleRecommended read: The Little Food Book – You Are What You Eat
I spent the last 2 weeks on a beach resort in beautiful Tunisia, doing pretty much nothing, just like I had planned. Taking it easy on the beach in Tunisia Tunisia is a perfect place to relax, as long...
View ArticleThe life of a vending machine
Trends in Japan reports about Ryuuichi Terada of Sapporo, Hokkaido, who has been taking a picture of the same Coca-Cola vending machine nearly every day for over two years, and intensely documenting...
View ArticleShort links for September 30th, 2007
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on September 30th, 2007: Tornado Potato! – A spiral-cut potato, deep fried and dusted with tangy cheezy powder. Ultimate Collector’s Millennium...
View ArticleShort links for October 4th, 2007
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 4th, 2007: Chilli-based anaesthetic won’t leave you drooling – Clifford Woolf and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School have discovered...
View ArticleShort links for October 22nd, 2007
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 22nd, 2007: Ultimate Guitar Hero case mod – Rocker/Case Modder Kneivel put together this ingenious home arcade cabinet by taking a stack...
View ArticleShort links for November 12th, 2007
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 12th, 2007: Spam One-liners – Linzie Hunter paints illustrations that incorporate the subject lines of the spam she finds in her inbox....
View ArticleShort links for November 15th, 2007
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 15th, 2007: ASCII Rave in Haskell – Using words to control the articulation of a physical modelling synthesiser based on the elegant...
View ArticleShort links for November 18th, 2007
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 18th, 2007: Piracy isn’t that bad and they know it – Eric D. Wilkinson, producer of the independent film Jerome Bixby’s The Man From...
View ArticleShort links for November 19th, 2007
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 19th, 2007: Anton Corbijn Talks Ian Curtis – Interview with Anton Corbijn, director of Joy Division biopic Control. Anton Corbijn (photo...
View ArticleShort links for November 29th, 2007
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 29th, 2007: Digital Music, Universal, and Why Water is Thicker Than Coke – Peter Kirn reflects on Doug Morris (Universal’s CEO) saying in...
View ArticleShort links for January 16th, 2008
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on January 16th, 2008: Mark Richards – Core Memory – An unprecedented combination of computer history and striking images, Core Memory reveals modern...
View ArticleShort links for January 23rd, 2008
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on January 23rd, 2008: the SiimpleSynth – Wiimote synthesizer from the Wii Loop Machine guy Comparison of upcoming digital audio recorders – Brad...
View ArticleShort links for February 4th, 2008
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on February 4th, 2008: Pocket Electronic – An universal electronics DIY kit to build your own MIDI control box. Up to 16 controlling elements can be...
View ArticleShort links for March 9th, 2008
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on March 9th, 2008: Tunguska released at K.M.Krebs \ 833-45 – new free full-length 833-45 album released on the Russian netlabel Musica Excentrica...
View ArticleShort links for March 26th, 2008
Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on March 26th, 2008: Beamer Arduino – Scott Hansen posts a video of his friend Beamer’s Arduino Sequencer prototype. From Beamer‘s photoset @ Flickr....
View ArticleWhat sound a does wobbling jelly make?
Ever wondered what sound a wobbling jelly makes? The Daily Telegraph reports about sound artist Douglas Murphy, who recorded the oscillations of jellies wobbled in an anechoic chamber at University...
View ArticleShort links for September 29th, 2008
Some interesting things I found recently: # Sound Wave – Melted records on wooden armature – Jean Shin's installation at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Records were melted and sculpted to form a...
View ArticleiZotope intros Food sound library for Iris – Free for a limited time
iZotope has announced the release of the Food sound library for its Iris sample-based synthesizer for Windows and Mac. Food celebrates the longstanding sound design tradition of using edible items for...
View ArticleMystery Solved: Why Gorillas Eat Rotting Wood
From LiveScience.com: After observing mountain gorillas in Uganda for nearly a year, scientists believe they have discovered why the animals eat decayed wood and lick tree stumps, behaviors that have...
View ArticleYou are what you eat
Chris Gillett took pictures of all he ate for a year. Every breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack Chris ate during the entire year of 2005 was digitally captured, totalling 2,550 images. All these images...
View ArticleWhat does 200 calories look like?
Wisegeek has some cool visualization of different types of food in 200 calorie portions. When you consider that an entire plate of broccoli contains the same number of calories as a small spoonful of...
View ArticleWhat do cows eat anyway?
I’m not terribly involved in health or environmental issues, but reading this article on Gristmill did make me think a bit more about the food I eat. I grew up in a rural area in the Netherlands so I’m...
View ArticleMake your own potato chips in a microwave!
Tokyomango reports about this microwave potato chip maker. A Microwave Potato Chip maker This is a microwave potato chip maker. Good for those who are having movie night at their house but only have a...
View ArticleChocolate Wii Controller
Flickr user Balakov has some pics of Nintendo’s Wiimote and nunchuck controllers in white chocolate. Balakov’s Chocolate Wii Controllers Wondering what to do with the packaging that your wiimote and...
View ArticleThe World’s Hottest Chile Pepper
I like my peppers hot (check my Nov. 2006 KVR contest entry), but perhaps this Bhut Jolokia (or Naga Jolokia) chili pepper is a tad too much! From this article at NMSU: Bhut Jolokia, at 1,001,304...
View ArticleEdible Chess cutters
I can’t play chess very well, so I don’t know how many opponents’ pieces I would get to eat, but this edible chess set looks pretty sweet! Edible Chess! From Biggles.com: Chess pastry cutters handmade...
View ArticleWatch out for these sugar ants!
You probably know sweet food attracts ants, but in this case the ants are the sugar! Ant Sugar by Asobi Tsuchiya I don’t know if any other languages have this saying, but in the Netherlands we call...
View ArticleDeep Fryer or Aquarium?
Is this a deep fryer or an aquarium? Goldfish in a deep fryer Check the video on this website! Okay, so the goldfish are just in there to prove a point. The guy who built this deep fryer put the fish...
View ArticleCoffee meets Milk
YouSayToo has a wonderful collection of pictures called Coffee meets Milk. Coffee meets Milk Visit YouSayToo for more beautiful images. The post Coffee meets Milk appeared first on rekkerd.org.
View ArticleFast Food: Ads vs. Reality
From the West Virginia Surf Report: Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately. Nothing was tampered with, run over by a car, or anything of the sort. It is an accurate...
View ArticleHack your toaster: Retro art toast
Instructables has instructions on how to mod your toaster so you can have retro art toast for breakfast. Yes, I’ve been caught by the art toaster rage and have made my own. Just some Aluminum foil or...
View ArticleCandyfab 4000: Solid freeform fabrication with pure sugar
Evil Mad Scientist has an article on their Candyfab 4000, a home-built three dimensional fabricator that prints large, low-resolution objects out of pure sugar. 3D Fabricator Project: a little...
View ArticleHungry Planet: fifteen different homes, fifteen different dinner tables
I read about Peter Menzel’s book Hungry Planet a few weeks ago in a newspaper and today found TIME has a collection of pictures from the book online. Spot the difference between the Revis family of...
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