September 2008
207 posts
Vanilla bean fig cupcake →
Cupcakes Take The Cakefound via Tastespotting from Dessert First (click through for recipe) - Vanilla Bean Fig Cupcake with Orange Blossom Honey Frosting The vanilla cupcake is my…
Sep 1st
FINAL Dairy Contest Finalist Recipe: Indian... →
The Pioneer Woman Cooks! Whew—that was a mouthful! It was also…a mouthful. Yum! Brought to us by Kate Allison, I was attracted to this marinated chicken recipe because of its simplicity. Kate…
Sep 1st
Eclipse over the Great Wall →
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed Eclipse over the Great WallContrary to thefamous myth, you can’t see theGreat Wall of China … even during a totalsolar eclipse.But on August 1 you
Sep 1st
New Orleans mayor: "We really don't have the... →
Boing Boing Hurricane Gustav has hit Cuba, and is heading straight for New Orleans with great force. From mayor Ray Nagin, who was, of course, also the city’s mayor when Katrina…
Sep 1st
Photos of London From Above at Night by Jason... →
Laughing Squid The Big Picture is featuring some amazing night photos of London shot by Jason Hawkes as he was flying above the city in a helicopter. photo by Jason Hawkes Related…
Sep 1st
August 2008
429 posts
Tim’s parrot just flew at my head, and I found out that I can replay every scene from The Birds in my head in under 3 seconds.
Aug 31st
Found Kinder Bueno at the Asian market, then went insane searching for crunchie bars.
Aug 31st
awesome “CURSES” license plate - http://twitpic.com/9ogo
Aug 31st
Disaster papercraft →
Boing Boing Disaster Dioramas: a collection of free, downloadable papercraft depicting great historical disasters. The Hindenberg and the Titanic are presently available and more are to come.
Aug 30th
Mars Rover On the Road Again (Gallery) →
Universe Today Opportunity looks back at it’s climb from Victoria crater. Credit: NASA/JPL NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has successfully climbed out of the Victoria…
Aug 30th
The View from Everest →
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed The View from EverestWhat would it be like to standatopthe tallest mountain on Earth? To see a full panoramic vista from there, scroll right. Visible…
Aug 30th
I’m up on the roof, but I’m not entirely there. -... →
I’m up on the roof, but I’m not entirely there. - bjornstar
Aug 30th
30 Aug 2008 →
Sinfest: The Webcomic To End all Webcomics - Page2RSS30 Aug 2008 
Aug 30th
MIT Working On Network Vulnerability Analysis →
Slashdot: ITAn anonymous reader writes “Researchers at MIT have created a method for analyzing networks to detect exploitable vulnerabilities using attack graph analysis which can be done in near…
Aug 30th
Carrot Cake Cupcakes →
Blake Bakes | Cookie blog. Cupcake blog. Bakery Blog. I love carrot cake. That combo of moist spicy cake and creamy rich frosting…YUM! Besides it has carrots and nuts so it has to be good…
Aug 30th
Generations of Stars in W5 →
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed Generations of Stars in W5Giant star forming region W5 is over 200 light-years acrossand about 6,500 light-years away in the constellationCassiopeia…
Aug 30th
S'mores cupcakes = delicious! →
Cupcakes Take The CakeIt’s always a good time for S’mores cupcakes, I say, so here’s a selection followed by a recipe. Happy Friday and Happy Labor Day weekend everyone! Amaranth Graham Cupcake…
Aug 30th
Watching and listening to the best rainstorm we’ve gotten in a long time. Lots of lightning ^_^
Aug 29th
Oh, blister packaging, my old nemesis. We meet yet again. I /will/ extract that external hard drive from your vexatious grip.
Aug 29th
World's Geekiest Weddings →
Oddee - From one officiated by a Robot, to a Star Wars-themed wedding!
Aug 29th
Jesus Tries to Save Your Soul But Windows Stops... →
Gizmodo And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder: One of the four beasts saying: “Come and see.” And I saw. And behold, there was the other Jesus, the Bible character, calling me from a…
Aug 29th
Android Market, Google's App Store, Will Not... →
Gizmodo The Android Dev Blog today released some shots and details on the Android Market—the Android version of the iPhone’s App Store. Stressing that it’s a “market” (free, open, etc) rather…
Aug 29th
Tips for Talking Your Way Into a Job →
Lifehacker: Top It takes a lot of work to find a great job, determine what it should pay, and make your resume stand out, but that all led up to the big moment—the one where you stop…
Aug 29th
Robots: Art & Technology →
Dark Roasted Blend From the latest news on wondrous and amazing robots and developments in robotics industry - to the cute little robot sculptures and vintage collectibles, this is one of the…
Aug 29th
Ancient Mayan underworld discovered in Mexico →
Boing Boing Archeologists in Mexico think they might have discovered Xibalba, a mythical Mayan underworld also known as the “place of fear.” After some serious scuba diving and inching…
Aug 29th
Hallucinogenic Eye Candy USB Lollies Take Your... →
Gizmodo Mmm, mind-bending USB lollipops, the “delicious new confectionary uses cutting edge Sensory Substitution Technology to transmit vivid emotive images into your mind’s eye.” Wait, what?…
Aug 29th
Photoblog devoted to century-old piccies →
Boing Boing Shorpy, a photo-blog devoted to super-high-rez images from a century (or so) ago, like this magnificent 1924 shot of “clerks calculating the ‘soldiers’ bonus’ for the War…
Aug 29th
World's Smallest Blood Glucose Meter Gets FDA... →
Gizmodo Testing your blood glucose levels if you’re a diabetes sufferer may not mean hauling around largeish devices now that the True2Go from Home Diagnostics has won FDA approval. It’s the…
Aug 28th
C Is For Cookie…and Canada? →
Blake Bakes | Cookie blog. Cupcake blog. Bakery Blog. Whenever you read or hear of someone’s claim to have the best of something, don’t you need to see it for yourself? Well, I did just that this…
Aug 28th
A Girl Scout Samoa cookie cupcake! →
Cupcakes Take The CakeRemember how when we were on Martha Stewart and Allison talked about her Samoa cupcakes? Well, check this out, from Flickr user thecupcakeheiress also known as …
Aug 28th
Sea urchin-inspired art made from pencils →
Boing Boing Sculptress Jennifer Maestre makes colorful abstract and plant-like pieces using colored pencils. She turns each colored pencil into beads by cutting them into inch-long…
Aug 28th
Small gallery of old comic book ads →
Boing Boing Datajunkie has a small galley of choice comic book ads from the days of yore. If you like these, you should get a copy of Hey Skinny! Great Advertisements from the Golden…
Aug 28th
Whole Foods duck and elephant cupcakes →
Cupcakes Take The CakeThose are ducks, right? from Flickr user michelleness
Aug 28th
Photographing the science museum →
Boing Boing Photographer Meera Sethi has written a nice essay about taking photos in science museums. Sethi is part of Utata, a collective of photographers who met via Flickr. Indeed, be…
Aug 28th
Lockdown Is an Alarm and Security Camera for Your... →
Lifehacker: Top Mac OS X only: Free application Lockdown is a security alarm for your Mac laptop, complete with remote arming and a security camera. Your Apple Remote handles the arming, and…
Aug 28th
Rebuild Your Resume with Five Simple Fixes →
Lifehacker: Top Once you’ve spotted a great job anywhere online and figured out how much moolah to ask for, you need to get your foot in the door. In most cases, your foot is your resume,…
Aug 27th
Hiltl Building. Zurich →
Tiny Buildings
Aug 27th
California classifies LED building block as human... →
Ars Technica California recently listed gallium arsenide, a common material in LEDs, as a human carcinogen. Ars looks at the studies behind that listing, and what effect California’s decision may…
Aug 27th
Dairy Contest Finalist Recipe: The Awesome-est... →
The Pioneer Woman Cooks! This is the third of five finalist recipes in the Dairy Recipe Contest, and boy are my wooden spoons tired. I’m cooking and baking up a storm, trying to get everything…
Aug 27th
South Park cupcakes! →
Cupcakes Take The Cakefrom Flickr user anna_bananna72 dark chocolate cupcakes with fudge icing & minty marshmallow fondant toppers.
Aug 27th
IC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula →
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed IC 5146: The Cocoon NebulaInside the Cocoon Nebula is a newly developing cluster of stars.Cataloged asIC 5146, the beautiful nebula is nearly…
Aug 27th
Zephyr Shatters Robot Plane Endurance Record... →
io9 The U.S. military wants to have robotic eyes in the sky constantly roving and watching what goes on below, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They might achieve that capability very soon,…
Aug 27th
Fetishes →
xkcd.com
Aug 27th
Six Ton Walking Spider Takes Passengers on Giant... →
Gizmodo Martin Montesano’s giant “Walking Beast” isn’t the first robot spider ever made, but it is the only one I can recall that is this enormous and has the ability to take on passengers….
Aug 27th
I Cannot Navigate Your Building's User Interface... →
io9 User interfaces for computers are modeled after familiar places like offices and houses (hence “folders” and “windows”). But in this design project, called Signterior, architect Nobuhiro…
Aug 27th
47 Tuc: A Great Globular Cluster of Stars →
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed 47 Tuc: A Great Globular Cluster of StarsStars come in bunches.Of the over 200 globular star clusters that orbit thecenter of our Milky Way Galaxy, 47…
Aug 27th
BLORRRP! →
Cute Overload BLOOOP! my new best friend, originally uploaded by ohleah. BLOPPP! another seal friend, originally uploaded by ohleah. BLOOOOHP! close up…
Aug 27th
Crows recognize, and remember, human faces →
Boing Boing Yoder says: “University of Washington scientists have shown that crows recognize individual human faces, and hold grudges against people who have been mean to them in the past.”
Aug 27th
Maple glazed bacon cupcakes OMG →
Cupcakes Take The CakeIn the Bakery and Confectionery community on Livejournal, by sweetkisses0530 - click through for recipe
Aug 27th
It’s one thing if a blog regularly makes editing errors before publishing. It’s another thing if they push every damn version to rss feeds.
Aug 27th