Found Mecca: Brooklyn Home Brew Store

Brooklyn Home Brew Store just opened up in Brooklyn. Now one has no excuse not to make new brilliant beer in the comfort of their own home.

Check out their store page here.
And their Blog here.


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Something New: Obama Speaks to the Republican

We all had just a single day after the 'State of the Union' to sober up and really digest the President's speech. We all wanted more from the speech and yesterday, we got more. In a Q & A session between the President and Republicans, the President, finally, cleared up some very misleading information. The, not so formal, session went so well that the President has suggested doing it all the time. The Republicans agree, although, they are not big fans of the TV cameras, one assumes because they can't mislead their constituents when the President is directly clarify issues presented by the Republicans. It wasn't the ass-kickin' that we all still want, but it's a pretty awesome none the less. These types of discussion Televised (and even not Televised) could actually help with real progress in a government that seems to be frozen in time. It also might help "you lie" supporters see that the President is doing his best to keep the truth out there. One can only hope.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Norway by Beach House

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Reflections of the 'State of the Union'

In the President's 'State of the Union' there was talk about job growth and continued recovery of the economy; discussion of what remains of the healthcare bill and changes to the war in Afghanistan. These are all great things, but the People didn't want the normal politician speech, they wanted a potent message that shows the President is just as angry about Wall Street hacks and deviant lobbyist. The People wanted fist shaking and ass kicking. All they got was a speech that some People fell asleep halfway through either because of the boredom from the same old political jargon or because they were playing the 'State of the Union' drinking game. Should the President have offered such a speech, maybe one similar to old school wrestling with Hulk Hogan and Audre the Giant? That remains to be seen. It is hard to say that the President's agenda of bringing both republican and Democrats together is really worth anything. There is an obvious fundamental difference that keeps the conservatives screaming out "you lie" when the truth is being told. There are so many out there still focused on the Presidents race and not the loss of their own hometowns job market. Would it be good to stand up in a gun battle and say "can't we work this out"? The answer is "no". The President may not want to see the battle that is waging yet, but the People, on both sides, do. If progress is to be made then we have to stop allowing stupidity to reign. It is for he greater good.


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Time-Lapse of US Airways Flight 1549 submerged in the Hudson

This is a great timelapse piece of how they got the plane that can magically landed on Hudson out of the freezing water.

Posted on Kontain.com - [Flight 1549] from David Martin on Vimeo.

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I just Geek'd myself: The Apple Tablet is here

Engadet Live Leaks the Apple Tablet now know as the iPad. See the images here




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Dear Mr. President...

Dear Mr. President,

the country is broken. Please try and fix it.

Sincerly,
Concerned Citzen



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Touch Screen Guitar by Misa Digital Guitar

This this is freakin' insane. Who is like: "man, I can't stand strings to make music, just so much effort. How can I make the beloved Guitar turn into a Frankenstein Monster weird than the keytar." Well here is the answer...




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Born to Kill-Lego Scorpian

The robots will take over the planet, but they will build themselves out of Legos so they can be better than transformers...



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Lego Pool

Marciol Castro has a design for billiards that fits together nicely.





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Stars Flower in your Mocha

This kickass flothy milk design is brought to you by some nice lady of the Tea Lounge in Brooklyn. It's given to those that are "special".




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Birds on a Wire...er Guitar

Check out the other work by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.


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Al Gore at ALA on Population

Al Gore, some dude that won/lost an election and then one the Nobel Peace Prize, in January promoted his new book at the American Library Association Conference in Boston.
He had a lot of interesting points, but one point in particular seemed to stick out more than others; his thoughts on populations...

Al Gore at ALA Jan 2010 from Ben's Chronicle on Vimeo.

(like the pony tail in the shot? Pretty great to be second row and think: "it's Al Gore he is just gonna stand there and talk...no movement at all." Turns out he's like super animated and moves around everywhere.)


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Main Stream Movie Montage 2009

2009 is slowly leaving our minds do to all the liquor and beer drinking damage we did in it's honor. But before it leaves us forever let's take a look back at the mainstream movies that were apart of such a retarded here. These movies helped us cope and we should try our best to reminisce them one last time.
(for half of these films one might wonder if they didn't come out before 2009)


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Conan vs Leno: Late Night Wars

A little late, but so awesome...



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Free Fall to the Speed of Sound

Red Bull, that "gives you wings", will not be providing wings to Felix Baumgartner. Felix or "balls of steel" as he is better known, will go up in a balloon 23 miles above the earth, just before the edge of he world, and jump out for a free fall test to the earth. The goal for Felix(the badass) is to break the Speed of Sound in free falling and the other goal is to open his parachute in time and live to say: "let's do it again" or "I just crapped my pressure suit." Go Speed Felix, Go Speed Felix, Go!



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Goldman under investigation

Goldman under investigation for its securities dealings | McClatchy
The impervious Goldman Sachs may finally be running into trouble, even with former employees being in the White House administration. What makes this whole situation so crazy is that the bad practices of financial institution by Goldman Sachs has been know about for years and even joke about by the business field. 'People' let good American folks loose there home to shotty business and ethical practices and did nothing so long as they themselves made the big bucks. Years from now we will look back and wonder how we could be all so stupid to allow such deceit with our hard earned cash (401k anyone?).



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"Lolita" a song by Throw Me the Statue

Throw Me The Statue, "Lolita" from Thinklab on Vimeo.

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Augmenting your shirt

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Lego an Anatomy

A brilliant illustrator, Jason Freeny, has created what could only be imagined, but never was. Lego's will never be the same.

Go to his site and blog and see some crazy amazing stuff, including the anatomy of a balloon animal. Crazy!



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Wicked Retarded

So, a republican got another seat to "fight against Obamacare". So republicans are pushing this as an epic win. Well Brown's no Babe Ruth trade. "We" are not cursed to live in the shadow of the clean cut conservatives. Take a deep breath liberal "we" still have less republicans around then the Bush era and a better tomorrow can still happen. Let's go out and do what we do best besides drink, go yell and scream and let those conservatives stike out.




Proudly...
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New Vibrator..er New PS3 Controller

The people over at Play Station have finally decided to get on the Wii band wagon and created this phallic looking bad boy. Supposedly it's gonna be called the "Arc". You can expect to see this by EOY.




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Covers from a Decade of Magazines

This is a great look back at what could, for some, be the craziest decade of their lives. Each cover takes you back like the day you heard about the subject matter 5 million times from the news.



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CL!CK: A LEGO Short Film

CL!CK: A LEGO Short Film from Lego Click on Vimeo.

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Your Luv by Ben's Chronicle

Your Luv by Ben's Chronicle from Ben's Chronicle on Vimeo.

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Letter from God...

Dan Le Sac VS Scroobious Pip - Letter From God - Dir Steve Glashier 2008 from Steve Glashier on Vimeo.

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Power to the People

Demos a creative agencies and Airside a production company came together to describe the "Power Gap" and what can be done to fix it.

The Power Gap from Demos on Vimeo.

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Draw with your Mac Trackpad

Those of you who are graphic designers totally need this software. It turns your Mac trackpad into something you can draw one. Super sweet!

Get it here


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Trailer for the new film "Kick-Ass"

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Light Lane...Light the Way

It's Wednesday night...you just finished a double shift at your tough job. You go outside, get on your bike, and roll out into the dim lit street. It's dark and your little bikelight only shows where you are, it doesn't indicated the bike lane that blocks you from the automobiles on the street. This is a huge problem for bikers every time they ride at night. Well this issue is being rectified by the team over at Light Lane. They creating this little bad boy to go with your bike light and reflective clothing.
It's not a forcefield, but we are pretty sure they are working on that problem too.
Check out the video demo...

check more out at lightlanebike.com


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Mono Lisa with a cup of Morning Joe

Cups of Coffee make the iconic Mono Lisa...



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Recreate D-Day Landing in 4 Days

This is amazing to look at. 4 Graphic Designers set out to recreate a D-Day landing with spectacular results.



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Superman Vaca

For some reason the red caped man of steel took a plane instead of his usual manner of transport...


Turns out he just needed his instructions:
photo via That Girl

Your Own Obama Book

The Obama Time Capsule, only $34.95...



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Bootypop

Why?





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Visual aid for the rumors of the Apple islate

The Apple islate/tablet will one day come out and we will all laugh about how this first version was nothing compared to the second version. Especially, since the second version is going to more like a triquarter.
Here is the breakdown of the rumor mill...
(fed from tgrblog.com)

Second version of the islate...
(image from treknostalgia.blogspot.com)


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The Seventh Movement presents Paris Vol. 4

A great silowette look that the city of love, Paris.

Paris Vol. 4 from The Seventh Movement on Vimeo.

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Bed Bug Stab with their penis?

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The Faint-Agenda Suicide

The Faint - Agenda Suicide from Saddle Creek on Vimeo.

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The Guiter (The Lion Sleeps) by TMBG

The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - They Might Be Giants from They Might Be Giants on Vimeo.

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Super Mario Jesus

Showest us the way Super Mario Lord!



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Benji and some attempt at Aliens

Not sure what this is, but it is tragic. It's super odd cause Benji was so kickass.




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International No Pants Day!

People all over the world today took off their pants and some did it in public.



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How Fast you think ur going vs. Actual Speed

From GraphJam.com

Your F'ing Weather

It's winter and that means it's cold as balls. The weather sux and you should treat it as such.

Get your F'ing weather at: http://fuckthisweather.kerplow.com/


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Play the Piano on youtube

Push the keys to actually play.


What a weird interactive thing? One could get a piano, but why bother when the internet just gives me one.



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Easy, Lucky, Free by Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes - Easy / Lucky / Free from Saddle Creek on Vimeo.

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Almost Apple Tablet (Slate) $75 for kids

The world waits for the Apple to get off its' ass and release the most talked about thing since, well the last product Apple released. But the elusive Tablet may or may not come out in mid 2010 (even though it was suppose to be here in Dec 09). In the mean time while the rest of us wait to pay $500 (?) for what suppose to be the latest and greatest of technologies on the planet, some little kids are going to get the technology for next to nothing.
OLPC (one laptop per child) plans on having this bad boy available to the "world's poorest children" in 2012 (hopefully sooner) for $75. So you, early to late 30's hipster won't have the most kickass, most advance touchscreen thing ever, but some kid in the middle of nowhere will be typing, youtubing, blogging, and learning on something that only aliens could dream of. Which is actually pretty awesome!




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Watch Tv on a Cloud

It's 10am...
You flip on Judge Judy, take a hit from your pong, lay down on your ikea futon, and pass out. It seems like a perfect day, but it's not. You wake up 20 minutes later and your arm is totally asleep cause your crap ikea futon has no support. If only you could have a sofa that was like that space memory foam, but better. Like something that would feel as soft as a cloud.
Don't take another hit from your bong...cause that cloud it real...

This is the "Cloud Sofa" designed by D.K. & Wei. The "cloud" part of the sofa actual levitates by the use of magnetic force emanating from the bottom (metal thingy) base.
You may have to sell that Ikea Futon to afford it.



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Got an Iphone? Are you a stalker?

If you live your life like Jeff Jefferies from Rear Window, but you stay modern and trending than you'll need this attachment for your iphone...


available on Amazon.



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Lightworks-Acid Girls

Acid Girls - Lightworks OFFICIAL VIDEO dir. Steven Ilous from Steven Ilous on Vimeo.

Why are they not eating the cake! It looks so good.


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Buzz confirms we are not alone

Buzz Aldrin confirms that they "saw something" on the way to the moon (with spooky music).




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You Won! Blow up our Stadium

Irving, Texas, a place where residence always say they live in Dallas and former home of "America's Team" the Dallas Cowboys has a national essay contest with Kraft Foods. Big deal you say! Well it is...the grand prize for writing a kickass essay will be to blow up the old Texas Stadium. (you might remember the cowboys built a new stadium bigger than the biodome used in the Truman Show that has the worlds largest TV screen.) The winning child (Cowboy hater) will get to push the ignition button, hopefully like the Acme detonators, and destroy the former Cowboys Home. One can assume that the stadium explosion will look like this.

Lactards need not apply.


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Chocolate!

You luv chocolate right? And you still have your college sense of humor. Well then you need these Chocolate bar from Bloomsberry & Co.





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Mini Cooper's Guerrilla Marketing

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Avatar / Fern Gully Trailer Mash up

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Your own New Years resolution

Did you forget to make a new years resolution or pick out a self indulging one like "go
to the gym"? Well don't worry cause theirs a sight that you can go to.

go here
http://moninavelarde.com/newyears/



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Wind Powered Beach Robot

Um...yeah the titles right. Check it out...



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Ok It's Alright with Me by Eric Hutchinson

A great use of typography in this fun Music Video

Eric Hutchinson "Ok It's Alright With Me" from Chris Marrs Piliero on Vimeo.

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Secrets of Avatar

Those of you who saw Avatar may focus on the look of the film and how cool or not cool the 3d version is or you may focus on the similarities between Aliens, Dances With Wolves, and Avatar; and that's totally fine. But more than just a deja vu feeling that presents itself in Avatar is the fact that this movie has happened before. You probably saw this movie when you were a kid and you probably thought it was the most kickass movie ever; this movie was called the Secret of Nimh.
Its main character, Mrs. Brisby(Jake Sully) needs to save her home(a planet), but needs help to do so. Mrs. Brisby(Jake Sully) gets a magic neckless(magic body)from her dead husband(brother)and finds herself on a strange journey where she has to befriend a different species of Rodents(humanoids) called Rats(the Na'vi). Mrs. Brisby(Jake Sully) falls in love with a Rat(a Na'vi) named Justin(Neytiri)who teaches her(him) the ways of their species. But Mrs. Brisby(Jake Sully) needs more help and must speak with Nicodems(Eywa) whom the bad guy Jenner (Colonel Quaritch) is focused on destroying and will stop at nothing to do so. In the end the bad guy Jenner(Colonel Quaritch) is beaten and killed with the help of magic neckless(magic body) and a very sharp object.
Same film, sorta.

Sidenote:
In addition to the borrowing content from Secrets of Nimh, a type of magical metal is discussed in Avatar. This magical metal is called Unobtainium, which was referred to in the not-so-well-known film the Core. The metal holds unbelievable energy and seems to have magic powers in both films.

Oh Hollywood, why must you use some much content from movies that have already been made.


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Thom Yorke, "Harrowdown Hill"

Thom Yorke, "Harrowdown Hill" from Bent Image Lab on Vimeo.

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Postal Service-"New Year"

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TexAnevolution

It's a cool Texas winter morning...
The local mall has been opened for about two hours. Inside the usuals have began making their way to their favorite shops to find that perfect something for themselves or others. This particular mall is like any other mall in America, sure it's gotten bigger, but the people who shopped here twenty years ago are still shopping here. But something is a bit different than before, twenty, even ten years ago this mall would not have seemed so cultured. The sight of anyone with dark skin, that didn't have a fake tan, would have been looked at as odd or even assumed to be the cleaning staff. (Generalizing) Most of the attendees to this mall ten years ago were white and "uppity" at that. They were the standard Texans that acted like our former president; They shot from the hip and were very conservative. They were unforgiving with their dislike of those who were a little different. Today amongst the sea of people: the soccer moms, the tweens, the abercromby jocks, and the oversized families, two African American men walked hand in hand as a couple. No one looked, no one stared. Nothing happened.

Something has changed. We have evolved. We are better.

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