Andy Baio and Andy McMillan have announced XOXO, a SXSW-like "disruptive creativity" conference in Portland. They're pre-selling the tickets on Kickstarter, and if they don't sell enough, they're not going… Read the rest of the article: XOXO: a Kickstartered "disruptive creativity" conference in Portland

There's something weirdly atemporal about this isometric Masonite ad, like a secret society of time-travelling Sims players. Masonite

NTK was once the greatest weekly tech newsletter in the universe — snarky and funny and informative and just great. It's been dead for a good long while now, and… Read the rest of the article: Anno NTK: get a fifteen-year-old tech newsletter delivered fresh each week

On Deviant Art, BAwesome-BAcon has crafted a pork-product pony to die for: "I have recently taken my love of My Little Pony and combined it with my love of bacon.… Read the rest of the article: Skinless My Little Pony made from bacon

Isaac wanted to propose to his girlfriend, so he enlisted over 60 friends to stage a Busby Berkeley street-show lip-dub extravaganza ambush. What follows is five minutes of heart-stoppingly sweet… Read the rest of the article: Greatest wedding proposal ever: the lip-dub

Confectioner Alexandre Dubosc made this Tim Burton themed zoetrope cake, which animates to display iconic imagery from many of Burton's best-loved films. There's even a sneaky Jack Skellington up top.… Read the rest of the article: Zoetrope cake pays tribute to Tim Burton

Chris writes, "The Anthromod Mk2 hand is a robotic hand where everything, apart from the tendons, are 3D printed. Unlike other printed hands the Mk2 requires minimal assembly, and is… Read the rest of the article: 3D printed, pre-assembled robot hand

An enterprising young fellow named Eric Simons secretly lived at AOL headquarter for two months. He was given a badge while working a short stint at AOL's Imagine K12 incubator… Read the rest of the article: Tech entrepreneur secretly lives at AOL HQ for two months

CMGW Photography snapped this beautiful shot, "First Contact," in which a young girl and a manatee share a moment through a pane of glass. First Contact

James sez, "The Bowler Press is taking on printing a letterpress, three-volume edition of Pride & Prejudice, and they are trying to fund the costs of getting the materials to… Read the rest of the article: Letterpress edition of Pride and Prejudice seeks funding

Hugh sez, "San Francisco muralista Mona Caron has created a stunning to poster to mark the 20th anniversary of Critical Mass in San Francisco this September." Critical Mass 20th Anniversary… Read the rest of the article: Critical Mass 20th anniversary poster

The latest from Roger Wood of Klockwerks: "I was asked to make a kinetic Steampunk sculpture for a show in New York; here it is."

Warialasky's trailer for a big-budg apocalyptic science fiction movie based on Tetris is all too plausible in the era of Battleship: the Movie: "Official Tetris Teaser Trailer. The invasion is… Read the rest of the article: If Tetris was a (stupid, Battleship-style) movie

For many years, Google has published a "Transparency Report" with the number of non-copyright-related takedown notices it receives from governments, police, courts, individuals and corporations. Now, the company have added… Read the rest of the article: Google publishing data on all copyright takedowns it receives

Stewart Brand sums up Susan Freinkel's Long Now talk: "What Common Objects Used to Be Made Of," a history of the world before plastic: "Bakelite was invented in 1907 to… Read the rest of the article: Life before plastic

(Photo by Philip Miresco) Quebec is in the throes of mass protests. A prolonged student strike over tuition hikes triggered a law placing broad restrictions on the freedom to protest,… Read the rest of the article: What the hell is going on in Quebec?

The Modern Poland Foundation held a future of copyright contest, which invited short stories about copyright's future. They've published the winners in a free ebook.

The Cussing Channel has produced a Dark Knight Joker supercut, featuring all the on-camera Heath Ledger scenes. It rather stopped me in my tracks — Ledger really put in an… Read the rest of the article: Every Heath Ledger scene in Dark Knight

Here's an undated ad from "Sugar Information, Inc" (our old friends), warning mothers that if they include their kids in their sugar-free, dieting lifestyles, they will be depriving the poor… Read the rest of the article: Sugar ad: your diet is depriving your kids of vital sugar!

Robert sez, "Azerbaijan is hosting the final of this Saturday's Eurovision song contest. Amidst the absurdity and kitsch, human rights groups are worried that Azerbaijan's autocratic government will use the… Read the rest of the article: Sign a petition for a "guilt-free Eurovision" — keep the pressure up on Azerbaijan