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George Harrison's memorial tree in L.A. was killed by beetles.

A nice idea from Australian startup Memobottle. The price is good too: just $5.

I love this list at Superlinguo, and wish it were ten times longer.

It's 2014, and this still happens to me every single time. [via]

They're $5.39/pair from Otaku Mode. Read the rest

Inspired by the hilarious and quirky TV show Portlandia, The Portlandia Activity Book, written by Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, and Jonathan Krisel includes all kinds of Portland-related activities, tests and advice, such as a “Build Your Own Chore Wheel,” conversation starter cards, conversation stopper cards, fashion tips, bird stencils, silly word games, and more. Read the rest

From Australia comes this clever re-think of the common butter knife. Sydney-based industrial designers Sacha Pantschenko, Norman Oliveria and Craig Andrews put their heads together and came up with the ButterUp, which adds a row of precisely-shaped holes to the blunt edge of the blade. This enables one to "grate" a cold stick of butter, creating easier-to-spread ribbons:

It's not surprising that the ButterUp quickly reached (and tripled) its Kickstarter funding target, garnering AUD $126,213 at press time over a $38,000 goal; what is surprising is how badly, and quickly, people want this design. Rather than opt for the least-expensive, $12-per-unit buy-in with a March 2015 delivery date, nearly a hundred backers opted to pay $60 to have a single unit delivered by this September! These people take their toast seriously.

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Source Outdoor Universal Tube Adapter - A smart setup to refill your hydration packs from the tap or a waterbottle without having to open your pack! And apparently it even fits with Camelbak systems says someone on Amazon.

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Goldfish bubble wrap, from Kaboomi Studio.

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DestapaBanana is a tool to customize regular bananas with amazingly cool and sweet fillings.

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We think of factories producing iPhones, IKEA flatpacks and Infinitis, and as ID'ers we have an idea of what those production lines look like. But chances are you've never been inside a factory that makes cakes and desserts. Unifiller Systems, Inc. is a company that creates cake-decorating machines and food processing equipment, and their "sizzle reel" is pretty fascinating:

Once you've seen those machines above in action, it makes sense that circular cakes would be filled and iced on a turntable. But how do they get the filling into rectangular cakes, which don't have rotational symmetry? Surprisingly, for sheet cakes they use a "split and fill" technology that slices the cake horizontally while simultaneously injecting the filling (see it in action around 0:28):

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Over a dozen tall ships and a 6-story-high Rubber Duck sailed into the Los Angeles harbor Wednesday, kicking off the Tall Ships Festival LA. Read the rest

Pop Sonnets is a tumblr that turns pop music into Shakespearean sonnets: above, YMCA ("Oh sweet and noble lad, be not aggrieved!"). Read the rest

I'm a sucker for a good multitool, and, as a barrette-wearing lady, these amazing Leatherdos mini tool hair clips from designer Yaacov Goldberg are definitely making my heart go pitter-patter!

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Ironically, Smyth's CV is turning out to not be so embellished after all.

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Hang on to that charming old fridge and hide your yarn stash in plain sight in one fell swoop.

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A new way to play with your old forgotten Legos. Make a mold and cast a Creeper. Concrete casting takes a modern spin with these 8-bit inspired sculptures.

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Apparently, you can cast chocolate into individual LEGO-shaped bricks and build some elaborate models with them!

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Everyone wins with this ingenious Mahjong Cookie recipe by Claire of The Simple, Sweet Life.

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"one of these days I'm gonna get organiz-ized"

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It was a 2013 installation called "Bruise," installed at the Seattle Center by Lisa Hein and Robert Seng (more…)

Materials: DUKTIG doll bed x 2

I bolted two Duktig wooden doll beds together to make bunk beds for Lola Mae and George Murray, the adorable pug and cat I have in my 350 square foot NYC apartment. I found the vintage ceramic letters at a flea market and was delighted to be able to spell “bad” and “dog” with them.

The critters love their new bunk bed!

The great cathedrals and palaces of medieval England were designed by people who made it up as they went along, and often discovered midway through a multigenerational project that they'd run out of space for an arch, or designed a building that couldn't hold up its own ceiling. Read the rest

A simple alarm that will tell you (and everyone else in the room) whenever someone forgets to wash their hands.

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If you've been tweeting about that novel you've been working on for the last few years, then you may have finally succeeded in getting at least some of your work published in a new book by Cory Arcangel called Working On My Novel.

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Do you like graffiti and embroidery and will be in London at the end of this month? Then you might be making a huge mistake if you don't sign up for the Graffiti Cross Stitch Workshop that the infamous Mr. X Stitch will be teaching.

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Banana peels are typically something that you should try to avoid slipping on, but if you've got a festive night out in your future, then maybe you should consider slipping on these crocheted banana shoes.

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Give your cat a perfect place to hang out with this clever macrame cat hammock tutorial from the Katia brand blog.

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