- So a Swedish man survived two months in his car. With no food. In -22F weather.

- Carved book landscapes exist. Who said books are only for reading?

- [Video] Edible balloons? I’ve seen it all.

- How to reduce the visual clutter in Microsoft Word.

- Speaking of changes in America. According to this study most Americans wouldn’t use less toilet paper to save trees. But instead give up books? Odd.

- The world’s largest dodgeball tournament took place in Canada recently. On a related note; I love America, I promise.

- Where have I been that I’m just now hearing about drive-thru (and bullet-proof) funeral homes?!?

- Amazing animal drawings with a Bic pen.

- [Video] This is what happens when you ask 500 people to retrace a line.

- [Video] A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (cooler than it sounds)

- Running in Silence

- Good news everyone, if ever you’ve wanted to watch every single Simpsons episode in a row, now you can.

- Adding the Tough Guy competition to my bucket list.

- [Video] Realtree | The Making of a Tradition (Hammerpress Letterpress in Kansas City) (via wvpv)

- REM’s Everybody Hurts voted most depressing song of all time. Number 2? Candle in the Wind by Elton John.

Currently reading: Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg
Listening to: Bon Iver on SNL

- I cannot tell if soloist Lukas Kmit is angry or not over the ringing cell phone in the audience. Either way he plays it cool.

- For everyone who hates having their picture taken; How to Look Your Best In Photos.

- Foldable cars? Now I’ve seen it all.

- Newt Schrute

- Good news everyone! You can now relive the days of ol’ with the Geocities-izer.

Listening to: In Reverence by David Tolk

- Hacked record player that translates a tree’s rings into music.

- “Research consistently shows that humans are more comfortable when they sit so that their backs are not exposed to passersby.” (Make your cubicle a better place to work)

- I don’t buy it; but apparently because of Social Media our attention spans have shrunk from 12 minutes to 5 seconds.

- [video] Every Presentation Ever: Communication Fail

- How to Set Up Your Rabbit Ears for Maximum Reception (Lifehacker)

- The best billboard you’ll see today; The Joy of Not Being Sold Anything.

- Remember the Texans fan that got his Super Bowl tattoo?

-  [Video] The Sh*t Nobody Says parody sure blew up last week. Congrats Tripp and Tyler!

- Great news for Cut the Rope fans, you can now waste time online.

- 3 words: Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop.

- How to Sort Googlers According to Myers Briggs

Listening to: Google Music on shuffle via the Alfred Google Music extensions I created.
Recently read: The Road to Missional by Michael Frost

- Enriched, Fortified, Gluten Free, Heart Healthy? What the common grocery store product labels mean and why they matter. [Lifehacker]

- xkcd nails it again: Wisdom of the Ancients

- I can tell a lot about how you drive just be looking at your tires.

- [video] The best Crash the Super Bowl 2012 entry: Doritos – Make Your Own

- [video] What is the single best thing we can do for our health? 23 and 1/2 hours.

- [video] 60-Second Adventures in Thought

- Amazon released some goofy facts about their holiday sales. For instance; Amazon customers purchased enough copies of Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” book to create a stack taller than Mt. Everest. [Source: Business Insider]

- What do you call a story too long to be a short story but too short for a novel? A Novella. And with that 20 Brilliant Novellas You Should Read.

- Post-PC era, indeed. Perhaps for the casual/mild-business user I could see this being the case. But I cannot see myself building websites on an iPad. Though I have heard of at least one developer who does.

- There are fans of books & movies. And then there’s this guy with a giant Eye of Sauron back tattoo.

- And here I thought I had mastered Mac OS X: Press the Escape key to generate spelling suggestions. [Source: Lifehacker]

- [Video] Behind-the-scenes: Your Bag’s Journey on Delta

Listening to: Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye

- Could you give up Facebook for 5 months? Try it.

- [Video] I get a kick out of watching this bear wave hello.

- [Video] Speaking of kicks. What happens when we run out of things to kickflip?

- Kraft and Intel create age-checking vending machine. No more cigarettes you kids!

- [Video] Another world record broken: Fasted Lightbulb Eating. Yes…really.

This MMR brought to you by my daughter sitting in my lap. I apologize for any typos.

- Not really anonymous, but cool guy pays off Kmart layaway accounts.

- Harry Potter inspired gingerbread house!

- Twitter’s Year in review is out.

- It’s snowing at Google.

- Some people started freaking out when Matisyahu shaved his beard this past week. It seems nothing has changed, he just wanted to be clean shaven.

- Have you ever seen a gear in the shape of a cube?

- [Video] Pogo GoPro: making the pogo stick cool again.