Food Buzz Step 1: Crack open a beer. Step 2: Watch this video infographic about the history of beer in America. Step 3: Impress your friends with all of your fancy knowledge about the decline and return of microbreweries and where to find the most craft beers. Optional Step 4: Plan a road trip to visit all of the craft breweries from Portland, ME to Portland, OR.
Culture Buzz Here's a great trick to perform at your next party. Irony: You might have to be sober to do it.
Culture Buzz At seven months old, this drool monster has already shown more talent than I have in my entire lifetime. But it's impossible to hate on the boy.
Techie Drew Stearne takes us through the annals of Steve Jobs' revolutionary smart phone. (via thehighdefinite.com)
This is a story about a guy who likes a girl, and how he wants her to stop dating those other guys, because they have phalluses that come out of their mouths and shoot HPV gas, amongst other deficiencies. Needless to say but NSFW.
Can’t get to a fireworks show tonight? Watch this collection of Chicago fireworks shows, courtesy of Vimeo artist Chris Pritchard.
Besides doing what Rube Goldberg machines do best - performing a simple task as inefficiently as possible, often in the form of a chain reaction - this one has an identity. Actually, the only purpose of this machine is promoting its own identity.
This short film is a great idea, beautifully executed. Impressively shot entirely on the Nokia N8 mobile phone. (via vimeo.com)
Pardon the fact that I'm posting this on a Thursday afternoon. I think that mixing Jack Kerouac's words with DJ Shadow's music and Sean McClintock's beautiful imagery is something appropriate for any day of the week.
This animated spoof on 1920s black and white movie villainy by Aidan McAteer (Peppa Pug, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Secret Show) is hilariously spot-on. Turns out the trick to successful villainy is persistence. [Via]
What if Twitter…came to life…again? In March, we asked some of our pals to film their favorite tweets in 30 seconds or less. We had so much fun, we asked them to return for an encore. We hope you enjoy our second smorgasbord of Twitter in action.
Blake and Jack from Vimeo discuss some of the minutiae related to the homepage of their site. If you've ever chatted with a web designer about something they're passionate about, you'll know it can get a little intense. This is no different.
Why not? Guessing what the future is going to be like has gone really well so far. I'm looking at you, Robert Zemeckis. It's almost 2015—where's my goddamn hoverboard?
What it might look like if an information designer — Edward Tufte, say — were to direct a music video. Giving you a slice of London life from water usage to mass transit, all with a kind of catchy tune.