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PAUSE: Is Tim Tebow is changing the way we view quarterbacks?
There might not be a more fascinating contemporary NFL player than Tim Tebow, an ostensibly bad quarterback who somehow seems to spend entire games trying to lose, only to not screw up at the last second and have some miracle happen. That Tebow is a staunch member of the evangelical Moral Majority o
What happens when the designer elevates the user to their level?
You’re looking at the ingredients for the UXUS LIGHT_NESS lamp, which is a lamp that places its ultimate design in the hands of the user. Design Milk reports: The lamps are made of a frame, neon orange tape and a cord. The final product is created by wrapping the tape around the frame to create the
Here’s the first level of Super Mario Bros., handmade pixel by pixel, in Minecraft.
Minecrafters craft the darnedest things. Above is a replaying of the first level of Super Mario Land in Minecraft, and just, like. Holy jeez. The venerable Engadget reports: The movie, made by carpenter James Wright, Joe Ciappa and a gamer known as Tempusmori, had the guys running the classic monoch
The Revolution Will Be Open-Sourced: Designers and Programmers on Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street has captivated media attention, arrested the political and economic debates of countries worldwide, and sparked often violent tensions with police and local communities since its rag-tag beginnings in Zuccotti Park less than three months ago. One area of inquiry that has remained
PAUSE: MIT student wears a tesla coil hat that plays the Mortal Kombat theme
I do not know what a Dual Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil is, but I do know that it can play the Mortal Kombat theme. Tyler Christensen goes to MIT and, like most MIT students, doesn’t care about his personal appearance enough to mind wearing this musical tesla coil around. You can read more about T
PAUSE: A paper 7-foot Gundam comes together frame by frame
Have you ever found yourself wanting for a 7-foot papercraft of an imposing anime robot? Probably not, but graphic designer Taras Lesko did, and he built one to scale from a Gundam model. He has posted a plethora of images of it while it was under construction, as well as a fast-motion video of the
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