Nov 03
Today I found out Ben Franklin’s proposal of something like daylight saving time was written as a joke.
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Oct 01
Even though your schedule is constantly at your fingertips via smartphone, everyone gets a little off track every once in a while. So the creative studio Vitamins dreamt up a solution that bridges real-life and online schedules: A giant Lego calendar that syncs up with smartphones.
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Sep 10
Perfecting a method of foretelling and predicting the passage of time preoccupied our ancestors from the earliest recorded history. The unending journey of the Sun, Moon and stars across the great expanse of the sky provides clues for numerous methods of marking time, the most obvious to primitive man being the passage of a day (light/dark) and that of a month (based on phases of the Moon).
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Jul 26
The discovery of a near 10,000-year-old lunar calendar in Scotland has archaeologists scrambling to rethink the beginnings of history. The implications are huge, too. It turns out that the men of the Stone Age weren’t as primitive as we’d previously thought.
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Dec 03
An Iron and Steel Mill Company Decided to Make a Calendar Filled with Naked Girls and Melted Metal
Posted in: Today's Chili
For some reason, a Belarusian iron and steel mill made a calendar using its naked women workers. That’s sort of normal, I guess. But the iron and steel mill wanted to make sure anyone who saw this calendar knew it was theirs by superimposing images of melting metal, wire looms, burning steel, cables, fences and anything else you would never associate with a beautiful woman on their naked skin. It’s hilariously weird. More »
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Oct 24
Turn Your Instagram Stream Into a Calendar and Relive a Year’s Worth Of Meals
Posted in: Today's Chili
Remember that amazing lemon shrimp scampi pasta you had eight months ago? No? Well if you’re like most people and use Instagram to document your daily dining, you can order a 365 day calendar from Prinstagram and relive every meal you had over the past year. More »
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