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Site: eggwatchers

Boiling an egg has never been easy, there are so many factors to take into account…. size, temperature, gravity…. luckily for us we have “eggwatchers“! An egg timer that sources decent YouTube videos of exactly the right length you need to cook your egg.

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Level 2 Gallery: Michael Rakowitz @ Tate Modern – London

[ 01/05/2010 to 02/05/2010. ] [tweetmeme] What do Saddam Hussein & Star wars have in common?

This is more or less the question Michael Rakowitz asks himself in his latest exhibition at Tate Modern taking some parts of the dictator’s famous sculptures like the “Swords of Qādisiyyah”.

Michael Rakowitz is what some people call “a cultural archaeologist”, uncovering an unexpected network of [...]

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Image: Chrome ads invade the UK

You’ve already seen Google’s Chrome ads haven’t you? But Google’s biggest ad campaign for one of their products is getting maybe (just maybe) a bit too aggressive & even ridiculous. We took this photo yesterday (with our Nexus 1 btw) @ Oxford Circus Tube in London (Bakerloo Line)…. the whole platform covered by Google….
Nothing new [...]

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Less & More, The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams @ DesignMuseum – London

[ 20/02/2010 to 21/02/2010. ] Personally I love Braun’s razors, their design has always been one of the best  electronic gadgets of all time, slim, minimalistic but undoubtedly a great razor. For over 40 years (1955 – 1995) Dieter Rams designed or oversaw the design of over 500 products for the German electronics manufacturer Braun, as well as furniture for [...]

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    • Music: I feel better
      19/03/2010 | 5:53 pm

      At the purest Basement Jaxx & Gorillaz style, Hot Chip have released this very funky-alike video directed by Peter Serafinowicz for their single “I feel better”… a boyz band, loads of hyper-excited girls, a guy with bad breath & a funky head, what else do you need?

    • Video: Second Wind
      17/03/2010 | 8:23 pm

      Ian Worrel just posted this work a week ago, and we’re too positively impressed… straight pencil and paper for the man and cat line animation then coloured in photoshop, composited in after effects onto backgrounds constructed in photoshop out of various pieces of media..

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    • Whim: Hangselm
      17/03/2010 | 8:13 pm

      An Hangselm is made to hang on to something or someone and hang out at all kind of places…. the latest idea from NeverCrew collective (Pablo Togni and Christian Rebecchi) which has no particular objective but to amuse your boring daily life…

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    • Campaign: Green Dot Norway
      16/03/2010 | 5:52 pm

      “Rinse, fold and stack….” your paper, bottles & packs. But a time will come when doing so with your candidates will be possible, wait and see! Great campaign by Bates United.

    • Image: Do Not Touch The Artwork
      16/03/2010 | 5:35 pm

      Poor Mickey, if Disney only knew what Jiri Geller wants to do with their beloved famous character…. (and others like Donald…). This Finnish visual artist is quite an important figure in contemporary art in his home country …

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