Tuesday 21 May 2013

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Video: what it’s like to ride a 15-foot-tall bike

Get a Terrifying, First-Hand Look at What It’s Like to Ride a 15-Foot-Tall Bike When’s the last time you really felt like a badass on a bicycle? Probably when your training wheels came off around the age of six. Well, fortunately for you, bike and oversized object enthusiast Richie Tremble …

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the 12 types of people who use social networks

  Social media banking. UK bank first direct conducted a 1-month social media experiment with 40 self-confessed social media addicts (twitter and facebook). This social media experiment by first direct revealed that

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letters of the alphabet carved in crayons

Crayon carving extraordinaire Diem Chau has just completed a new set of work that's as charming as can be. The ABC's (and accompanying imagery) have been carved into the tops

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the legend grows – Eric Koston, Nike skateboarding.com

The Legend Grows On top of the game for 20 years now, Eric Koston is without a doubt one of skateboarding's most influential and well known names. To coincide

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Yahoo buys coolness from teenager for $30M

There’s no logical explanation for Yahoo’s reported $30 million acquisition of Summly, an app created by a 17-year-old Brit that launched five months ago. The team and technology are unexceptional and the app itself will

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“toy stories” – photos of children from around the world with their most prized possessions

Shot over a period of 18 months, Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s project Toy Stories compiles photos of children from around the world with their prized possesions—their toys. Galimberti explores the universality

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Ribbon wants you to skip Craigslist and sell your stuff on Facebook

Payments startup Ribbon is taking on marketplaces like Craigslist, Etsy, and eBay by making it simple to flog your latest needlepoint masterpiece, used couch or life coach services from a

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how smart is your dog? test your pet’s brain power for science

Is your dog a genius or a dolt? Probably both, according to biological anthropologist Brian Hare of Duke University. Dogs are astoundingly good at reading our gestures and learning

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people are awesome 2013

Check out this video compilation of great stunts and let us know what you think. The song is 'Levitate' by Hadouken and it's available on iTunes.   The stunts in order

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word as image by Ji Lee

When we last posted Korean artist Ji Lee's work, we showed some of the individual images that he created as part of a newly published book. The image above is a compilation