Toy Stories

Gabriele Galimberti's pictures of kids around the world with their favourite toys.
(Via Kottke)

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How the world has changed

St. Peter's Square in 2005 and 2013 As I keep saying, our generation is more interested in documenting moments rather than living them.

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The awesome doodle that lets you know this book belonged to Einstein

Back in the day, something called an ex libris, meaning 'from the books of...' or 'from the library of...', was used to mark the ownership of books. This is what Einstein's ex libris looked like.
Also, a Pinterest board with various other ex libris.

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The Plate Project

To find out what we'll be eating in in 35 years, Food & Wine asked chefs, artists and more original thinkers to sketch out their predictions on paper plates.

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Pictures - A trip to Iran

Amos Chapple is a travel photographer who made the following pictures over the course of three visits to the Islamic Republic of Iran between December 2011 and January 2013. The New Zealand freelancer said he "was amazed by the difference in western perceptions of the country, and what I saw on the ground... I think because access for journalists is so difficult, people have a skewed image of what Iran is -- the regime actually want to portray the country as a cauldron of anti-western sentiment so they syndicate news footage of chanting nutcases which is happily picked up by overseas networks. For ordinary Iranians though, the government is a constant embarrassment.

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Pantone Pairings

A series of hand-made pantone chips using everyday foods by David Schwen.

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That’s not a droid, that's my girlfriend

On the development of companion robots in Japan.

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A 3-D mouse worn on your finger

The Mycestro, now on Kickstarter, is a Bluetooth mouse that slips on your finger to enable extremely passive gestures.
A user wearing Mycestro touches her thumb to it to engage the cursor, taps her finger to click, and slides her thumb along the device to scroll. Mycestro uses a gyroscope to track positioning in 3-D space, translating that to the 2-D screen via the integrated app, and registers other functions, like tap-to-click, via a built-in accelerometer. Data from the accelerometer also helps correct the gyroscope, improving precision control, and the whole system is coordinated by Bluetooth low energy.

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The professor, the bikini model and the suitcase full of trouble

A world-renowned physicist meets a gorgeous model online. They plan their perfect life together. But first, she asks, would he be so kind as to deliver a special package to her?
Quite a story.

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The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer

Wherry went on to create a false persona, Pete London, whose stacked resume was really based on Wherry’s own experiences. With a one-page website and a WordPress blog with a few JavaScript references, Pete London came to life on the web.

Within a two and a half year period post launch of the factious Pete London, Pete saw 530 emails from 382 recruiters, from 172 organizations. He was offered seven iPads, one Xbox, one MacBook Air, five $1,000 referral cash incentives followed by two $10,000 referral cash incentives, eight coffees, seven phone calls, and six lunch invites.

This is the story of Pete London and lessons learned in recruiting.

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We found our son in the subway

Wow.

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Dekha Ek Kwaab Toh Ye...

Aerial pictures of tulip fields in the Netherlands taken by Normann Szkop.

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The runner

Fauja Singh ran his first marathon at age 89 and became an international sensation. Now 101 years old, he will run his final race on Sunday in Hong Kong -- and try to find peace with a Guinness World Records slight.

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Don't be a jerk

Love CodePen's Terms of Service. More websites need to follow them.

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How "Golden Eagle Snatches Kid" ruled the internet

Four Canadian film students were assigned a project: Create a YouTube hoax video that gets 100,000 views. They got nearly 42 million instead. Here's the definitive behind-the-meme look at how - and why - their homework snowballed into one of the most popular and rapidly spread videos ever.

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Outbox

Outbox picks up your mail, takes it to their warehouse, opens, scans and stores it online. So you can access it anywhere. They also send any specific mail that you want delivered to your home. The rest is shred. I am not sure if this is just 'lazy', creepy or convenient.

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DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels (Pictures)

Ingenuity but to what purpose...

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Officially sanctioned North Korean hairstyles

In true North Korean fashion, women are 'encouraged' to choose from 18 officially sanctioned hairstyles (and men only get ten!).

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The extraordinary science of addictive junk food

Inside the hyperengineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for American "stomach share".
Adapted from his forthcoming book "Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us," Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Michael Moss digs into the history of how junk food makers have mixed science and marketing to make their products addictive and popular. I found the comparison with the tobacco industry unsettling.

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Google Glass

Google unveils its smart glasses in a video. This could be huge.

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