Yearning to travel?

Go by cargo ship.

72 and sunny

72 and Sunny makes some of my favorite ads, including those for Bugaboo, Callaway, and, of course, Discovery Channel.

Patton Oswalt's Commencement Speech

This is a great speech.

Rattlesnake!

My brother Jeff, his girlfriend Danielle, my friend Joe and I went camping up at Lake George this past weekend. After two days of roughing it and camping in the wilderness, we decided to give ourselves a break and camp in a designated site. As soon as we pitched our tents, I heard my brother scream like a little girl and run towards the car. Usually I ignore my brother's screaming, but Danielle screamed too. So I took a look and here is what I saw:



The funny thing is, no one really freaked out. After the snake went along its way, we continued to pitch our tents with hardly a worry. If this had happened in 'the wilderness' (a site not designated for camping), we all would have insisted on a motel room.

Pyrrhic Victory

Pyrrhic victory \PIR-ik\, noun:
A victory achieved at great or excessive cost; a ruinous victory.

Studio DDT

DDT is the studio that creates the wonderfully bizarre special effects in Guillermo del Toro's movies Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone. I can't wait to see del Toro's latest, Hellboy II.

Seven Deadly Social Sins

1. Politics without principle
2. Wealth without work
3. Commerce without morality
4. Pleasure without conscience
5. Education without character
6. Science without humanity
7. Worship without sacrifice

Bake Sales

Resistance

Wall-E Origami

Brian Chan has designed an original origami of Wall-E for Geekologie. See more pics of Wall-E (and Iron Man) here.

Fahrenheit Roller Coaster

Hershey Park's newest ride is the steepest roller coaster ever, featuring a 97-degree slope (7 degrees beyond vertical!) that results in 4 G's worth of force. Looks like a piece of cake.

Good Magazine Presents Barack Obama and John McCain

Darwin Quote

"It's not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but most responsive to change." -Charles Darwin

DJ Fingertips visits NYC!

DNCHRD III: DJ FINGERTIPS from LVHRD on Vimeo.

Unleash the superstar inside you!

The Science Barge

How do we city folk get our food?

The answer today is grim: our food is grown far away, mass produced on giant industrial farms using harmful chemical pesticides, and transported at a great cost to our environment.

The good people at New York Sun Works are trying to change that paradigm by building a prototype urban farm called "The Science Barge."

The Science Barge grows tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuce with zero cost to the environment -- the farm is completely sustainable, wasting no energy, using no chemical pesticides, and producing no carbon dioxide.

You can visit the Science Barge at Riverside Park South throughout the summer.

Images from the Hubble Telescope

Check out Harvard Magazine's "Eye on the Universe," an interesting article accompanied by amazing photographs taken from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Crank Dat Flying Squirrel

Listen to this funny skit off of Wale's mixtape.

Jake Beckman

I checked out the website of an acquaintance from college today and was really impressed. Jake Beckman is an incredibly gifted artist. I love his artwork: well-executed, fun, and thoughtful.

NYC's Top 10 Ice Cream Sandwiches

Time for your first homework assignment of the summer: Read this article. Choose a destination. Grab a friend and get a bite. Take pics and write a food review. Publish. I want to know what's good!