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False Alarm of the Day

Bud Caddell — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 03:40:06 +0000

In light of an explosion of news stories about cannibalism over the past week, the Centers for Disease Control have issued a statement reassuring us that zombies are not real, and we can go about our business without fear of a zombie apocalypse. People eating each other’s body parts due to

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The Effect of Sun On A Face

Bud Caddell — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:00:06 +0000

This man was a trucker for 28 years. During that time, the left side of his face routinely received more sunlight than the right, leaving it looking very different.

via, gizmodo

The Rich Get Sillier of the Day

Bud Caddell — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:40:27 +0000

Brooklyn Nets guard DeShawn Stevenson recently shared a pic of himself posing with his personal ATM, which he had installed in his kitchen because “I like doing things that aren’t normal and it’s cool to have.”

The machine set him back $3,500; holds $20,000; needs refilling up to six times a year; and charges

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Inside the mind of the Letterpress Monster

Bud Caddell — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:40:24 +0000

Designer and printer Ian Gabb’s new website, letterpressmonster.com, not only showcases his work, but also some of the printed ephemera he’s been collecting for a number of years, including matchbox labels, postcards, posters and records….

Gabb has been the letterpress technician at the Royal College of Art for over a decade, where he has become known affectionately as the Letterpress Monster, hence the name of the new

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In Brazil, Hellmann’s prints customized recipes on grocery shoppers’ receipts

Bud Caddell — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:40:06 +0000

Last year we wrote about Spanish food brand Gallina Blanca and its initiative to send consumers personalized recipes via Twitter, but recently we came across a like-minded effort that takes the concept even further. Specifically, through a recent ad campaign for Hellmann’s mayonnaise in Brazil, recipes tailored to the ingredients the shopper had just purchased were printed out on the store receipt.

Reportedly the work of Ogilvy Brazil,

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Turn a Pencil Drawing Into a Capacitive Sensor

Bud Caddell — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:20:09 +0000

Alan Chatham of Unojoy wrote an Instructable on using pencil drawings as capacitive sensors:

Did you know? You can make pencil drawings reactive to touch for use with your projects! It’s really easy, and gives you a lot of flexibility in making interfaces for whatever microcontroller project you’re making.

Making a capacitive touch sensor from a drawing via Arduino

Florida As A Zombie State

Bud Caddell — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:40:06 +0000

Click here for the links

via, @meigs

Junar Launches With $1.2M in Funding to Make Open Data Easy

Bud Caddell — Tue, 29 May 2012 23:00:05 +0000

Junar, a Chile-founded startup which made the move to Palo Alto last year, today announced a $1.2 million round of initial funding led by Aurus, Austral Capital and a collection of angel investors, along with the official launch of their Open Data Platform, an online tool designed to help companies, government bodies and other agencies participate in the trend

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Meevl Rewards Employees for Sharing Company News Online

Bud Caddell — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:30:14 +0000

Generally speaking, at larger companies there’s often a small team, department or single individual responsible for sharing approved content on social media streams and devising strategy around what gets promoted on social channels and what doesn’t. But Slovakian startup meevl is hoping to change that with a new web-based platform launching in private beta to help encourage all of a company’s employees to take part – and to reward them when they

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Thingiverse

Bud Caddell — Tue, 29 May 2012 02:51:26 +0000

Assume you’d own a Makerbot 3D Printer, then Thingiverse would be your playground: It’s an online community sharing digital designs for real, physical objects: A universe of things!