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We've all been there before; After a few holiday eggnoggs, Uncle Tim is hearing what you really think of him... or after a few too many at the office party you think to yourself "I could dance the Carlton... it's easy and ALWAYS gets a big laugh!"


Wouldn't it be nice if drinks came with a warning! (and I don't mean from the surgeon general)
Well WateSomeCache.com has gotcha covered! Pick up a 6 pack of these 4"X 4" coasters and warn people of the affects of alcohol abuse (or just remind yourself) and save the holidays this year! Pick them up here!


 
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So it's that time of year again where everyone is shopping for someone else and you undoubtedly have someone on your list that a little...uhh...different. He or she is a little more, let's say, advanced in the technical cognitive functions and buying them a sweater will probably just piss them off (though if you must, sweater vests are still in amongst geek kind, FYI). So what do you get the geek on your list? Simple; just choose from any of the gifts below (remember, if you don't get it, you should probably get it, 'cause it's probably hilarious!)

First on the list of Ho-Ho-Holy crap this is awesome!:

Nuclear Soap! (Well not really...but check it out!)


Yup that's Uranium Soap! (It's not actual uranium, we're trying to kill BO, not sterilize the population...not that a sterile geek has any more or less of a chance or procreation, but still...)

The glow-in-the-dark soap comes to you from PerpetualKid.com and is a Vegan friendly, Human tested phosphorescent and ocean scented bar of awesome! Pick it up now for only 7 bucks! (US, plus S+H and taxes where applicable...)



 
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Another random post for you today. Put together this video after having a discussion with a friend, Amanda, about how math is taught in schools and how if we would teach alternative methods we might be able to get kids more interested in math.
This video explains the use of basic (Power 2) binary code can help kids with simple math problems. 


Watch until the very end to see a special trick for multiplying 2 double digit numbers using a simple graphical trick. 

Cheers to doing things just a little differently and making sense of things by trying another angle,
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Sometimes it's hard to wrap your mind around 500 million people, all accessing a single website. These people all interacting through buried cables and invisible channels in the air; luckily Paul Butler, an intern at Facebook's data infrastructure engineering team, thought he would help us imagine these paths. Using the interactions of Facebook users he's managed to plot shapes that, for the most part, outline the continents of the world. This image is just beautiful and really shows us just how influential this site has become.


Paul Butler was quoted, looking at this image, to say :


"‎"What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn’t represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships."
The story Here.
Full Res. image here.


Cheers to realizing the impossible, and seeing the incredible appear.


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A fair amount of you are math-hating types. I'm sure there's more than a few of my readers that either hated math in highschool, or are currently still in the process of hating their highschool maths... For you I have spent countless hours (The exact amount of hours can be derived by dividing my lack of a girlfriend by the amount of hours in a day and adding that to the sum total of the internet over the period of sleep I'm losing by allowing myself to post on this blog... somehow the answer is always Pi...) Long story short this video makes at least some math fun... and I liked it (which is a great bonus to editing your own blog... if you don't enjoy this, you're reading the wrong blog!)
Cheers to ViHart for putting this vid and many others together for our enjoyment, and cheers to make the mundane slightly more enjoyable through art and awesome,


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How are you enjoying the new Facebook layout? Still avoiding clicking on the button for fear of change? Well here's an idea that was had by French artist Alexandre Oudin. The profile page allowed him to flex his artistic muscles (Far as I can tell they are located just behind your eyes) and he came up with this Magritte-inspired collage. 


Anyone who wants to try this is free to upload pictures that are the exact pixel resolution as they display on the page, block the photos you are tagged in, and upload your own set. (Or, you can just enjoy this image and pass this article along... it's the lazy choice, but it's the right choice!)


Cheers to thinking outside the box, and into multiple cleverly designed boxes adjacent...


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A short while back one of my favorite companies put together an initiative to help the world suck a little less. This company has always been a leader in innovation both in their product, and in society. The idea of the initiative was that we might be able to make people do better things, if we made those things more fun to do. Simple, I know.


The company, Volkswagen; The initiative, The Fun Theory.


Here's a taste: