Spanish photographer Chema Madoz doesn't like digital photography, but he loves to warp reality in impossible ways. Like this spoon with a fork shadow, which is a straight photo, with no Photoshop or laboratory manipulation whatsoever. More »
Photography - Business - Arts and Entertainment - Photographers - art
Pity the poor baker who had to ice USB logos, smiley-emoticons, power symbols, @ signs and all that syntax. Guess it was easier than icing that dead AT-AT, mind. [Wedinator - Thanks, Kate!] More »
Wedding cake - Cake - Shopping - Home - Cooking
Curb Your Enthusiasm, True Blood, Entourage, Big Love, Flight of the Conchords—these are just some of the TV shows that PS3 owners will be able to download after Sony and HBO-owners Time Warner join forces. More »
PlayStation Network - PlayStation 3 - Curb Your Enthusiasm - Sony - Big Love
The WSJ solidifies an intriguing post by Mary Jo Foley last week that J. Allard, the guy behind the Xbox, Zune and Courier—or more formally, the Chief Experience Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft's E&D division—is leaving after Steve Ballmer killed the Courier tablet project. More »
Microsoft - Xbox - J Allard - Mary Jo Foley - Steve Ballmer
Rough sketches like this are one of the first steps in creating animated movies like Pixar's Toy Story 3. Wired took a look at how 49,516 such rough, vague sketches were used to create detailed scenes like this: More »
Toy Story 3 - Animation - Movies - Arts - Toy Story Series
Several industrial art groups are collaborating on a project called Syzygryd. It's basically a 2.5 ton musical instrument with a 20-foot fire tornado in the center. Crazy? Yes. But they've got a plan and most of the funds already. More »
Tornado - Earth Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences - Meteorology - Weather Phenomena
Last week, the Google logo was turned into a game of Pac-Man and we all took breaks to play. In theory, we wasted a combined 4,819,352 hours and many, many dollars. Here's the math. More »
Google - Searching - Search Engines - Companies - Tools
See that trail? That's what a big-as-a-house boulder does while falling into a 60-meter-wide crater on the Moon. Why? NASA said that maybe it was an earthquake. Or micro-asteroids impacts. I'm going to blame the the Moon Nazis. [NASA] More »
NASA - Moon - Space - Earth - Technology
A desk lamp? Everyone has one of those. A floor lamp is a step up, sure, but just barely. Now wall-mounted lighting, that's the true mark of thoughtful interior decoration, and this poster lamp makes installing it easier than ever. More »
Looks like the 16GB iPhone 3GS is headed to the discount bin at Walmart. The retailer will be offering the device for $97—assuming you sign a 2-year service agreement—starting May 25. More »
IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - Walmart
Oil Reporter isn't a public shaming campaign for BP—no, that'll take care of itself just fine, thanks. This iPhone app, which lets Gulf Coast residents record every oily bird and patch of ruined swampland, is about fixing things. More »
Apps - Gulf Coast - Business and Economy - Google - IPhone
Scientific American put together an interactive piece on 12 events that could drastically change the world, from nuclear exchange to cold fusion to the discovery of other dimensions. Pretty much all the stuff Lost totally prepared us for. More »
The newest addition to the Android Marketplace is a free Adobe Reader app. It looks good, but keep in mind that it requires Android 2.1 or above and is currently only supported on some Android devices: More »
So today we saw some tests that suggest that having Flash running on your smartphone will almost definitely hurt performance. But hey, it's up to you whether or not it's worth it. So...is it? More »
After successfully following these instructions to make a paper classic Macintosh trashcan, please don't use the resulting paper classic Macintosh trashcan to trash any failed paper classic Macintosh trashcans. The paradox can destroy the Universe. Thank you. [Codeco via Designboom] More »
Cosmic 140 is the star chart of the Twitter universe, its 140 most influential people. At its center, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey. In the outer systems, much less important people, like Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, and Conan O'Brien. More »
