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Lifesize Lego

DoorFrame — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:06:25 +0000

For a mere $60,000, Neiman Marcus and a master LEGO builder will build a lifesize replica of you out of LEGOs. Via Neatorama and J-Walk Blog,

The Chinatown Bus Economy

DoorFrame — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:41:40 +0000

The bizarre local economy created by the Chinatown bus. Via Neatorama.

The Sylvia Plath Effect

DoorFrame — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:12:51 +0000

The Sylvia Plath Effect “refers to the phenomenon that creative writers are more susceptible to mental illness [and] that female poets were more likely to suffer from mental illness than any other class of writers.” Via Neatorama.

Song Charts

DoorFrame — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:10:48 +0000

Songs depicted graphically. Many more.

Movie Posters and Pictures

DoorFrame — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:50:20 +0000

Scenes from Hitchcock films recreated with modern actors (Seth Rogan’s is fantastic) and movie posters from every Academy Award Best Picture winner. Via Neatorama and Neatorama.

Crazy Nokia Fish

DoorFrame — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:52:52 +0000

The original, 1868 Nokia logo is fantastic:

That totally makes me want to buy a cell phone.

Via Neatorama.

Los Angeles’s Original Name

DoorFrame — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:21:02 +0000

Los Angeles was originally known as “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula” (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the river Porciúncula).

Via Neatorama and Wikipedia.

City Placement

DoorFrame — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:23:55 +0000

Place world cities on a world map. It starts easy and gets harder. I got to level 9 with a score of 323,801 and a “Traveler IQ” of 107. Damn you Africa!

Via Neatorama and Militant Platypus.

Tufts Stinkymeat Project

DoorFrame — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:06:14 +0000

Tufts students are always out for a good time, I tell you.

Two enterprising Tufts students have undertaken an homage to the Stinkymeat Project, a twenty day experiment to determine what would happen if you left a plate full of unrefrigerated meat in an unsuspecting neighbor’s backyard. The results, while tantalizing, were fairly predictable. The two anonymous Tufts students have undertaken a slightly different challenge:

we will be conducting our experiment above a shower stall in a Tufts dorm. This particular shower is located in a building adjacent to our own, in a suite populated by our arch-enemies. In this way, we will not only be examining the rate of decay of various meats. We will also be testing the amount of time it takes before a group of unwitting residents try to seek out the source of an unbearable odor in their bathroom.

They’re currently up to ~~day 5~~ day 6 and the meat is just starting to turn fragrant.

Man, this is great, it feels just like the RumorsDaily of yore. Can anyone figure out from the pictures which dorm it is?

Via Neatorama and Joel’s Blog.

Baseball Fight

DoorFrame — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:05:18 +0000

To complete my recent baseball trifecta, here’s a clip of a recent baseball fight in South Korea. Sort of.

Via Neatorama.