00:00/00:0000:00 PES, who showed us how to make "Western Spaghetti" in 2008, works his stop-motion magic again in his new short, "Fresh Guacamole." He chops up baseballs, dice, and tomato pin cushions to toss into a bowl of inedible-yet-tantalizing guacamole. The video, which was shot in Torrance,…

This brilliant ad for British newspaper The Guardian reimagines the tale of The Three Little Pigs as a modern day news story that unfolds via traditional and social media. The ad was created by British ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty. via io9

Ohio-based comedian Dennis Roady of Sketch Empire caused a series of awkward interactions with police officers by simulating public urination with a water bottle (video). via Viral Viral Videos

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This astonishing cut paper animated music video is for the song “Love is Making Its Way Back Home” by Josh Ritter. The animation was created from 12,000 lasercut sheets of construction paper and was photographed frame by frame, without any computer post-production trickery. The animation was created…

The 1970s saw the next wave of pronoun debates—not coincidentally, in the wake of a second women's movement. There was a volley of new pronouns, despite the fact that none of the 19th-century ones had gotten anywhere. By the end of the 1970s over eighty new gender-neutral pronouns had been coughed…

Condoms exist in that uncomfortable category of things we accept as part of everyday life, but don't spend too much thinking—much less talking—about. That's silly. To help break the ice, here's a stimulating look at how Trojan condoms are made, because you really shouldn't put anything on your (or…

Do you have a stack of books, journals, manuals, articles, API docs, and blog printouts that you think you'll get to? That you think you need to read? Now, based on past experience, what are the odds you'll get to all of it? Half of it? Any of it? (except for maybe the Wired magazine) So you let the…

I think I read too many blogs. Perhaps you do, too I know that Scoble manages to keep up on umpteen jillion blogs, but even with the aid of feedreaders, it's daunting. And there's just no payoff. In fact, I am beginning to believe that being too connected to too many blogs actually is a…

Something was killing Hmong men in their sleep, and no one could figure out what it was. There was no obvious cause of death. None of them had been sick, physically. The men weren't clustered all that tightly, geographically speaking. They were united by dislocation from Laos and a shared culture,…

In 2011 I learned that emotion is at the heart of every decision we make. From fashion to web forms, and spouses to site sign ups, emotion shapes our behavior by casting the tie-breaking vote when logic determines appropriate options for our consideration. We do what feels right, we go with our gut.…

Were you a big Gowalla fan? Did you like Dodgeball? Did you think Trunk.ly (gasp!) was better than Pinboard? Did you make a lot of contributions to Nextstop? Do you miss Aardvark and EtherPad? Did "I Want Sandy" change your life? These projects are all very different, but the dynamic is the same.…

Uploaded by SocialMediaWeek on Feb 7, 2012 www.futurehipsters.com In the year 2062, a bunch of elderly hipsters are interviewed about the good old days of social media. Created for Social Media Week 2012, this video captures interviews with octogenarian hipsters as they take a look back on what…

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At the White House Science Fair, 8th grader Joey demonstrated his homebuilt air cannon for President Obama by launching a marshmallow across the State Dining Room. As the student pumped air into the cannon, the president joked “the Secret Service isn’t happy about this.” Then the president took a…

Not a banned Super Bowl spot. Not an official Durex spot, obviously. But let's see if Durex gets it pulled. I like the general "don't procreate" message. (Yes, your legacy is much more important than the survival of the fucking planet. Go ahead, plop 'em out like there's no tomorrow.) Amateurish.…

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(click ads, via) Not that many people would know that just by looking at these ads for the Beneva Foundation in Romania. Particularly that Goatse. That's no Goatse. The inside of a man's super-stretched anus doesn't have a face. Even a child knows that. And is that a tongue, or a penis? The flies…

You’ll have to take the questionnaire one after the other and the results will be presented after the second partner finishes. You can take the test at separate computers; however, we will have to get both user’s email addresses to notify the second partner and send you the notification of…

N P Horton Published on Feb 2, 2012 In this age of multi-million dollar blockbusters and eye-watering fees paid to some actors, you may forget we’re in an age of austerity. However, for the vast majority of the film industry, there is no huge vat of money, nor has there ever been. But this hasn’t…

Here’s the full-length version of Needing/Getting, the new music video by OK Go that doubles as a Super Bowl ad for Chevy Sonic (we posted the teaser trailer last week). The ad is part of Chevy’s Let’s Do This challenge. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los…

Last week we showed you a quick preview of OK Go's new video for "Needing/Getting", and now here's the full monty, compiled from a literal drive-by of 1157 homemade instruments of melodic Rube Goldberg(ish) goodness. You can check out the full rundown of how everything was put together—including the…

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I love these cauliflower explosions done by Brock Davis...you can find them in his Food Stuff set on Flickr. Here's the Challenger explosion in cauliflower: (via @josephholmes)

“Digitals” by Chris Crutchfield is a humorous musical short film about communication overload in the digital age. The music for the video is made up of beeps and tones from an orchestra of digital devices. One day I got an email, an sms, a phone call, a Facebook message and two tweets all within…

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks to release natural gas inside. There are more than 500,000 active natural gas wells in the US. Each gas well requires an average of 400 tanker…

Catalog Cover Art, 1933 Reinterpreted For their 100 year anniversary celebration, Maine-based outdoor retailer L.L. Bean brought on commercial photographer Randal Ford to create modern-day photo reinterpretations of their classic catalog cover art from the past. For the photo of the 1933 catalog…

I'm a sucker for these multiple-track music videos. This guy is Nick McKaig, and he's extremely good at reproducing songs using just his voice. Here's the proof: the Simpsons' theme sung a capella. It's sounds so good and wacky that I like it better than the original. According to Nick, he "had to…

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For 15 years, Joseph Proietto has been helping people lose weight. When these obese patients arrive at his weight-loss clinic in Australia, they are determined to slim down. And most of the time, he says, they do just that, sticking to the clinic’s program and dropping excess pounds. But then,…

What do you do when a recipe calls for basil and you don't have any? Or if a recipe is for snapper, can you use a different fish? The Cook's Thesaurus is fantastic encyclopedia that covers these kinds of questions and more. With pictures, pronunciations, synonyms, and suggested substitutions, this…

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Mac/iOS: We've mentioned that regular writing can have big mental and emotional benefits, and even how keeping a work journal can help your career, but to really get into the habit of regular writing, you'll need a tool that encourages you to do it—one you'll enjoy using. If pen and paper doesn't…

Good news for you non-cable-having freeloaders (self-included): Yeah yeah yeah, it’s old news. But I haven’t seen this episode yet and just found this link. Watch in horror as Anthony Bourdain transforms your favorite hidden gems into perpetual shit-shows before your very eyes. See him go from “figs…

Posted by J. Kenji López-Alt, January 17, 2012 at 11:15 AM It's time for another round of The Food Lab. Got a suggestion for an upcoming topic? Email Kenji here, and he'll do his best to answer your queries in a future post. Become a fan of The Food Lab on Facebook or follow it on Twitter for…

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