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United States of America. Selk'bag 4G Lite by Musuc: Sports & Outdoors. Pocket Chainsaw. New Right Brain Left Brain Bo Burnham. Bo Burnham Part 1 5/18/13 Best Buy Theater. Bo Burnham - We Think We Know You. Drawn the Road Again - An illustrated travel blog by Chandler O'Leary. Paul Rogers - On The Road, Illustrated Scroll 3. Click Millionaires: Work Less, Live More with an Internet Business You Love: Scott Fox: 9780814431917: Amazon.com.

Best of 2012: Illustration. Studio Muti We’re wrapping up 2012 with a ‘Best of’ series to take a look back at some of the inspiring creative work showcased this year.

Best of 2012: Illustration

The work chosen for the series was based on what we’ve been most excited to stumble upon online, find in our inbox or share with you, throughout 2012. The posts we couldn’t wait to make live. Shapes of Global Cities Defined by Colorful Silhouettes. London-based designer and art director Yoni Alter developed this colorful series of posters entitled Shapes of Cities.

Shapes of Global Cities Defined by Colorful Silhouettes

Each unique creation features a particular city's key buildings and landmarks, clustered together and depicted in an accurate comparative scale. To develop the rainbow palette, Alter combined simple vector shapes with basic color theory. The artist overlapped the transparent layers to successfully achieve a colorful and vibrant display—a series of posters that will add a great deal of style to any wall. The collection includes 14 cities around the world, including places like Shanghai, New York, London, Paris, Sydney, and Tokyo. 2013-02-05-leary.jpg (980×6633) Kateoplis. David Fullarton. Sumo Paint 5.0.4. Guide on how to craft a book. Will 3D Printing Change the World? How To Rewire Your Brain for Positivity and Happiness The Buffer blog. 5.7K Flares Filament.io 5.7K Flares ×

How To Rewire Your Brain for Positivity and Happiness The Buffer blog

Wikunia - Wikipedia in a different way. Ninjawords - a really fast dictionary. Learn Web Development with Ruby on Rails Tutorial & Example app. Long-distance relationship pillows. Photos of vacation destinations, adventures, and local gems - Trover. A Defense of Comic Sans. Monologue: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole. [Originally published June 15, 2010.]

Monologue: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.

Daily Inspiration on WhereCoolThingsHappen. SHOW OFF HOME. Dailydoodlegram on Instagram. My fake college syllabus. The following syllabus is for my new class, English 401: The Short Novel, meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:10-2:50pm.

My fake college syllabus

Course Description In this class, we will analyze some of World Literature’s greatest short novels in an attempt to interrogate the essence of plot and character while reading as few words as possible. Each class session will begin with a student presentation of 15 to 20 minutes, so we’re looking at an effective class time of about an hour. Uncanny valley. In an experiment involving the human lookalike robot Repliee Q2 (pictured above), the uncovered robotic structure underneath Repliee, and the actual human who was the model for Repliee, the human lookalike triggered the highest level of mirror neuron activity.[1] Etymology[edit] The concept was identified by the robotics professor Masahiro Mori as Bukimi no Tani Genshō (不気味の谷現象) in 1970.[5][6] The term "uncanny valley" first appeared in the 1978 book Robots: Fact, Fiction, and Prediction, written by Jasia Reichardt.[7] The hypothesis has been linked to Ernst Jentsch's concept of the "uncanny" identified in a 1906 essay "On the Psychology of the Uncanny".[8][9][10] Jentsch's conception was elaborated by Sigmund Freud in a 1919 essay entitled "The Uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche").[11]

Uncanny valley

Scott H Young. What are the Intellectual Ideas Everybody Should Know? David R. Dow: Lessons from death row inmates. Michael Shermer: What Is Skepticism, Anyway? TED and The Huffington Post are excited to bring you TEDWeekends, a curated weekend program that introduces a powerful "idea worth spreading" every Friday, anchored in an exceptional TEDTalk.

Michael Shermer: What Is Skepticism, Anyway?

This week's TEDTalk is accompanied by an original blog post from the featured speaker, along with new op-eds, thoughts and responses from the HuffPost community. Watch the talk above, read the blog post and tell us your thoughts below. Become part of the conversation! As the publisher of Skeptic magazine I am often asked what I mean by skepticism, and if I'm skeptical of everything or if I actually believe anything. Want To Be A Morning Person? Take A Few Tips From Campers : Shots - Health News. Hide captionAll in the name of science: Volunteers hike in Colorado during their one-week hiatus from electrical lighting.

Want To Be A Morning Person? Take A Few Tips From Campers : Shots - Health News

Sean Mort’s “United Prints of America” at Galerie F Chicago Tomorrow. Galerie F will host a new print show by Sean Mort tomorrow.

Sean Mort’s “United Prints of America” at Galerie F Chicago Tomorrow

The body of work (there are more pieces than this, so be sure to keep an eye on the site after the show) is inspired by the places he’s traveled to while in the United States this summer. Galleries Nineteen Eighty Eight. WATCH: The Surprising Reason We Find Babies Cute. Almost everybody loves sweet things -- though some people seem to outgrow their taste for sweets in later life.

WATCH: The Surprising Reason We Find Babies Cute

Almost everybody responds to sexy bodies, sexy clothes, sexy dances with twinges of lust, though some people develop eccentric tastes in sexiness. Almost everybody responds with tenderness and delight to cute babies and toddlers, even childless people who say they can't stand children. And of course most people have a funny bone, a sense of humor, though once again, tastes differ. How we change what others think, believe, feel and do. Moleskine Journals, Notebooks and Date Books , MoleskineUS. How to Improve Your Memory: Tips and Exercises to Boost Brainpower. Harnessing the power of your brain They say that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but when it comes to the brain, scientists have discovered that this old adage simply isn’t true. The human brain has an astonishing ability to adapt and change—even into old age. This ability is known as neuroplasticity.

With the right stimulation, your brain can form new neural pathways, alter existing connections, and adapt and react in ever-changing ways. Dear Daughter: I Hope You Have Awesome Sex. Poorly Drawn Lines. Most Famous Pop Culture Dance Routines. Maurice Ravel-Bolero [FULL] What would the designer say? Suffering from designer's block? Well, The Designer Says might be the answer – it's a small book packed full of musings from some of the industry's finest...

The Designer Says is a compendium of design wisdom, culled from a range of practitioners from El Lissitzky to Frank Chimero, with pointers from the likes of Peter Saville, Paula Scher, Irma Boom and many others in between. Cleverly, the quotes are paired up thematically, thus providing two opinions on a similar subject, be it designing for mundane objects (as above), colour choices, or the minutiae of the design process itself. Thousands Under 90. Smeared Skies Made from Hundreds of Stacked Photographs by Matt Molloy. Living on the shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto, photographer Matt Molloy has daily encounters with brilliant sunsets and cloudscapes that he’s been photographing for over three years.

One day he began experimenting with time-lapse sequences by taking hundreds of images as the sun set and the clouds moved through the sky. Molloy then digitally stacked the numerous photos to reveal shifts in color and shape reminiscent of painterly brush strokes that smeared the sky. You can learn more about his “timestack” technique over at Digital Photo Magazine and prints are available here. The Real Life Models: Photos by Flora Borsi. The Real Life Models: Photos by Flora Borsi Photo manipulations assuming abstract models used in paintings as real people. Nowadays almost every photographer use graphics software to complete the picture, like many painters used ‘original version’ in the past. Some artists use pure imagination to paint their artworks, others may prefer to create art by using a real life model as reference for the anatomy. How Secure Is My Password?

Why Do We Play Games? George Carlin’s “I’m A Modern Man” – EvolutionBlog. Tag: mural — Friends of Type. U.S. Pet Poll: Most Prefer Dogs, 18 Percent Want Dinosaur. Socialable - A Leading Global Social Media Marketing Agency. 39.2K Flares Twitter 3K Facebook 109 Google+ 140 StumbleUpon 35.6K Pin It Share 38 38 LinkedIn 191 inShare191 Email -- Email to a friend Buffer 83 39.2K Flares × Binaural beats. IBM's Smarter Cities Billboard Campaign. 3 Biggest Mistakes People Make When Negotiating Pay.

Many people find that one of the most difficult parts of any job search is talking about money. When the conversation turns to compensation, many job applicants get nervous or uncomfortable and are reluctant to talk about the kind of salary and benefits they expect for a position. The Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words. 29 Dogs Who Forgot How To Dog. 25 Creative Newsletter Designs for Inspiration. Posted Amit Tripathi in Inspiration on June 10th, 2013 / No Comment. 101 Most Beautiful Places To Visit Before You Die! (Part II)

Whitehaven Beach, Australia. The 10 nerdiest jokes of all time. 11 Commandments of Improv. Top 5 Mistakes People Make When Looking for a New Job. Congratulations Graduate! Eleven Reasons Why I Will Never Hire You. The 150 Things the World's Smartest People Are Afraid Of. 23 Ways To Turn A Woman On. The 50 Most Romantic Things That Ever Happened. Heading Out on Your Own: 31 Life Skills in 31 Days — Series Wrap-Up. 50 Skills Every Real Geek Should Have - Page 2. 47 Ways to Fine Tune Your Brain.

8 Studies That Debunk Male Gender Stereotypes. 13 Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Infographics [HTML 5] 15 Insane Performance Art GIFs That'll Destroy Your Mind - CollegeHumor Picture Gallery. 27 Problems Only Introverts Will Understand. 100 Books that SHOULD be written. 8 Great Jobs for Outdoor Lovers. 64 Interview Questions. 31 Steps to a Financial Tuneup - Interactive Feature. All Date Ideas. 15 Colorful Entries From Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words.

7 Common Words With Little-Known Relatives. 12 Enjoyable Names for Relatively Common Things. Top 20 World Most Beautiful Living Spaces. 5 Ways You're Accidentally Making Everyone Hate You. 38 Maps You Never Knew You Needed. 10 Words That Ruin a Resume. 13 Career Tips for Aspiring Entrepreneurs. Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0: How to Stand Out from the Crowd and Tap Into the Hidden Job Market using Social Media and 999 other Tactics Today: Jay Conrad Levinson, David E. Perry: 9781118019092: Amazon.com. Unique Handcrafted Wooden Bow Ties. Top 5 regrets of the dying. Wayne White : Word Paintings. Information Is Beautiful. Joan Cornellà. Depressed Alien.