It is known by many names. Lugburz. Barad-dür. the Dark Tower. Some disgruntled Uruk-hai call it the worst apartment in all of Mordor. And henceforth it shall also be known as: CAKE.
Unfortunately we don’t know anything about this awesome cake except that it was forged by Cake Central member solociachef21. So for all we know it could be made of pure hatred.
[via That’s Nerdalicious!]
For the generation schooled by Wikipedia, babysat by YouTube and bred by bloggers… Ours is a university where everyone knows everyone (despite never having seen each other), where we major in everything and master nothing.
Fourth Floor Print Shop sells the Internet Sweatshirt on Etsy for $44(USD). The design is also available as a T-shirt.
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Minecraft is an adventure game. Minecraft is a horror game. Minecraft is an engineering game. Minecraft is a chemistry game. All of it is made possible by mixing and stacking it’s most basic parts, its elements.
Minecraft: where the oven and TNT are elements. Head to egeres’ deviantART page to see a larger version of his table.
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I’m always amazed how LEGO builders can come up with accurate representations of items using just a handful of bricks. It’s sort of like low-res pixel art – if you stand back far enough, it makes sense. One of my recent favorite minimal LEGO builds has to be this tiny tape deck by customBRICKS (who also has an awesome LEGO Battleship game on their home page.)
This miniature reel-to-reel tape deck is too small to actually record anything, and I can’t tell you if it’s a 2-track or a 4-track, but that doesn’t make it any less perfect. I’d love to see a whole miniature recording studio done the same way. In the mean time, I’m enjoying they’re other recent creation – a little LEGO movie projector…
Check out more of customBRICKS’ LEGO builds over on their Flickr stream.
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Sometimes you can’t just pick one favorite character from the Star Wars movies. Who says you have to? At least that’s the idea that one baker had when creating what could be the most awesome Star Wars cake ever. Ok, it’s not as incredibly crafted as the full-size Stormtrooper and Darth Vader cakes, but it’s still pretty great.
This single cake combines Darth Vader, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and Yoda into a single, epic cake masterpiece. Nobody seems to know who made this amazing cake, but whoever you are, I bend the knee to you. The only thing missing are Boba Fett and Stormtrooper layers but I suppose you could always pick those up here.
[via BTP via That’s Nerdalicious]
While much of the world knows the game with a round black and white ball as “football,” here in the U.S., we call the game “soccer.” So this picture of multiple Spocks dressed up in soccer uniforms probably only makes sense here, in Canada and maybe Australia. Er, actually, it doesn’t make sense at all.
But that doesn’t mean the image doesn’t make me giggle like a little schoolgirl. There’s just something so silly about this image by artist Tommervik that I want to make it the wallpaper on my computer now.
But if your ambitions are greater than desktop wallpaper, you can pick up an 11×14 canvas print of this goofy image over on Etsy for $140(USD). It’ll look great alongside that Mona Lisa you picked up a couple of years back.
This is how the New England office (blue) of Dealer.com is connected to the company’s California office (orange). Either that, or this is actually a shot of Aperture Science Laboratories, with webcams included as props to throw us off.
If you think about it, webcams already accomplish 50% of a portal’s job. They let two parties peer into each other’s space as if they were in front of each other regardless of the actual distance between them. The other half is mostly just lighting, and that bit about actually being able to walk through the portal.
[via Reddit]
You don’t usually see much creativity in the design of rain gutters and downspouts. They all pretty much look the same to me (when the bums in the alley aren’t stealing them for scrap metal). But here’s a cool design that adds a touch of whimsy to the bottom of a downspout, taking the deluge of water that pours out and turning it into a little storm of its own.
I don’t really know much about it, other than that it’s awesome, was designed by Russian industrial designer Дмитрий Куляев, and probably isn’t going to be a product you can buy time soon – unless we can convince Art Lebedev studio to produce them. It seems like the type of thing that would be right up their alley, and they’re practically neighbors with the Russian designer anyhow. Here, I’ll even give them a Lebedev-esque name for it: Nimbostratus.
[via Meninos]
We here at Technabob often feature cakes in the shape of geeky stuff, but more savory baked goods rarely seem to get their fair shake. Here’s one of the few times that a loaf of bread rises to such heights of perfection.
Tumblr contributor spacekat267 is a Zelda fan, and decided to bake himself a loaf of bread in the shape of Link’s sword – complete with TriForce markings on the hilt. He goes on to say that it “’twas delicious and most powerful with a side of Lon Lon Ranch.” Very funny, spacekat. Very funny, indeed.
Apparently, the breadstick sword was so well received that he decided that the next time he has time to bake a loaf, he’s going to crank out a Hylian bread shield to go with.
[via Kotaku]
Gamers run on energy drinks and soda nowadays, but graphic designer Joe Grady remembers a time when he and his fellow imaginative adventurers relied on Dunkin’ Donuts’ coffee and fried rings of dough and sugar to keep them up during marathon sessions of Dungeons & Dragons. Hence the mashup.
You can order the graphic on a T-shirt on Grady’s Redbubble store for about $25 (USD), but you can also get it for just $15 at FSC Tees until September 2. Imagine if there was actually a store where you could order a dozen dragons.
[via Laughing Squid]
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