Kids love to help out in the kitchen when the end product is cakes, pies, or cookies. Though even the simplest of assigned tasks can turn into a kitchen disaster in the blink of an eye, cutting cookies has always been a pretty reliable assignment. Now, it’s even easier for young’ns with this adorable rocking horse cutter.
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Is there anything more uninspired and unappetizing than a boring round cookie? Outside of known carcinogens, probably not. So if you’re looking for a way to spice up a glass of milk’s best friend, MakerBot has just released a custom software tool called the Cookie Cutter Customizer that allows you to turn freehand sketches into plastic cookie cutters.
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Ok, just four words are required to describe this object:
BEST. SERVING. DISH. EVER.
It was made by Gretchen of Three Little Monkeys Studio using a cheap kid’s dinosaur toy, a melamine plate, some glue and paint. Best thing is, you can easily make your own for less that $10. While it’s shown here serving up some OREOs, I think it would also work well with chunks of raw meat for fondue.
[via ThinkGeek on Facebook]
In a blog post today, Twitter announced that they’re "experimenting with new ways of targeting ads," which is their way of saying they’re planning to track you around the web—even when you leave Twitter—and relay that information to advertisers to craft better ads. Here’s how to opt out.
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People are becoming more vigilant when it comes to online privacy, so Stanford University’s new initiative couldn’t have come at a better time. The project, called Cookie Clearinghouse, will curate catalogues of websites whose cookies browsers should or shouldn’t allow. As designed, it works along with a Safari-like patch Mozilla is testing for Firefox that allows cookies from sites you’ve visited but blocks third-party cookies from sites you haven’t. Theoretically, that’ll prevent advertisers or other entities from tracking you around the web, but the method isn’t foolproof — having a centralized list will prevent your browser from saving the cookies of an ad or a spam website you’ve accidentally clicked on.
To establish which sites are kosher and which aren’t, the folks at Stanford are slated to meet up with an advisory board. It will be comprised of privacy researchers, law pundits, small business experts, as well as reps from Mozilla and Opera. Unlike Do Not Track — another Stanford initiative from which this one later evolved — advertisers don’t have to opt in for inclusion on either list. It’s just up to developers (other than Mozilla) to integrate this more thorough solution into their browsers’ privacy options.
[Image credit: Brian Richardson]
Via: Ars Technica
Source: Brendan Eich, Stanford
A few months ago Joerg (I feel like we’re on a first name basis with him at this point, right?) got the idea to try and shoot Oreos out of a pump-action
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If you are what you eat, then these adorable Jabba The Hutt cookies will make you look just like Jabba if you eat enough. But who cares? It’s not as if you can control yourself when faced with a Star Wars cookie. You see a Star Wars cookie, you eat it! End of story. End of cookie.
These cookies from Semi Sweet Designs make even Jabba look super cute. The baker has even created a template and written very specific instructions so you can make these Jabba cookies on your own.
You’ll need sugar cookie dough, icing, and a desire to eat them as they come out of the oven, leaving none for the rest of your family and friends.
[via That’s Nerdalicious]
With all of the away missions that the Star Trek captains have been on, I’m surprised that none of them have been bitten by zombies. Well, that may not have happened on the shows, but now you can see what each captain would have looked like as the undead, thanks to these cookies.
Here we have Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway and Archer cookies all zombified and craving the brains of their crew. One can only imagine the panic that would take place on a Federation starship under siege by a zombie horde.
These awesomely horrifying cookies were made by the blogger behind Food Replicator, a Star Trek cuisine blog, last Halloween. I also love that they look kind of like South Park characters – and how Picard is holding his own head – it’s the zombie equivalent of the Facepalm.
[via Neatorama]
I think we’ve all had that moment sitting in front of a package of Oreos, fighting—or not fighting—the urge to try and get them all in your mouth with all due speed. Slingshot master Joerg Sprave has come up with a patently ridiculous way of upping that speed variable. So much so that you probably wouldn’t want your mouth to be the target. More »
In what is turning out to be one of the most entertaining marketing stunts of the past few years, Nabisco’s Cookie vs. Creme challenge is attracting all kinds of talented minds from across the country. Including robotic researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who’ve even drafted their advanced bot HERB into Oreo separating service. More »
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