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Boxwars: Serious Cardboard Anger Management

Forget video games. Go outside. Get some fresh air. Get out a little anger while you're at it. Play Boxwars. Boxwars isn't exactly larping, though it may fall into a similar realm. It all started in 2008 when 3 dudes witnessed a few children innocently smashing each other with cardboard boxes ...more

Acting Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/15/2009

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Guinness World Record Holder Trumps Deliverance-Style Dueling Banjos

"Dueling Banjos" - we've all heard it, we've all seen it - that famous scene from Deliverance where a young inbred banjo player outplays the guitar with incredible speed and accuracy. However, compared to Todd Taylor, that's ...more

Banjo Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/15/2009

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1,000 Part Rubik's Cube: $3,550 Petaminx

Move over Rubik's Cube, there's a new puzzle in town. The Petaminx. The beautifully designed and custom built Petaminx has almost 1,000 moving parts. Peta- actually means 1,000,000,000,000,000, although that number could refer to the endless number of solutions. Based on Andrew Cormier's design ...more

Puzzles Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/14/2009

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World's Best Survivalism HowTo's

You're alone in the wilderness. Stranded. Hungry. Cold. What do you do? Naivety could be your downfall, but you don't need to be an Army Ranger to survive. The five most basic survival skills are fire, shelter, signaling, first aid, and food and water. Learn them. Know them. Live them. Or simply… ...more

Survival Training Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/13/2009

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Write With Light

LIGHTFAKTOR is a Cologne artists collective experimenting with the "possibilities yielded by bulb (long-term) exposure and painting." The technique employed has been coined "light writing" - Wikipedia's definition: "Light writing is an emerging form of stop motion animation wherein still images ...more

Graffiti & Urban Art Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/13/2009

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Remote Controlled Beer Keg Party-Bot

Plan on throwing a keg party? There's only one thing in the world that can make your party the baddest around… Kegbot. Revision3 has updated the classic beer keg into the ultimate ale dispenser. With its remote controlled tap and motorized wheels, it's the perfect party-beer-bot. This HowTo gives ...more

Beer Wonderment

By tenebrism on 11/14/2009

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Spy With Google Street View

Need to find some directions? No problem, use Google Maps. Want to find some spy photos of yourself? No problem, use Google Street View. Beginning in 2007, hordes of Google hybrid electric vehicles have stormed the streets, each equipped with multiple cameras attached to a large pole. The cameras ...more

Photography Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/13/2009

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Why Not Swing Indoors

Who wouldn't love an indoor swing? The upcoming cold winter season is one good reason to build one, but truly, an indoor swing is just plain fun all year round. Luckily Apartment Therapy has posted a How-To on building a simple wooden plank swing. Prefer video instruction? WonderHowTo has several ...more

Construction Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/13/2009

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Garden-in-a-Jar

Terrariums. With fall quickly turning into winter, now's your chance to capture some of that remaining greenery as your very own garden-in-a-jar. I was lucky enough to catch Paula Hayes' terrarium show at Marianne Boesky Gallery in NYC this past summer. Her work is beautiful, not to mention ...more

Gardening Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/12/2009

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Walk It Out Street-Tap-Style

Hip hop music + outdoor street setting makes tap dancing supremely more cool (not that it wasn't cool already). Pretty sweet move starting around 1:17. Pick up some moves yourself. Now walk it out...walk it out.

Tap Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/12/2009

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LEGOmation

Brickfilms. Michel Gondry brought LEGOmation into the spotlight with his "Fell in Love With a Girl" music video (White Stripes). However, LEGOmation has been around since the late 80's, the first known brickfilm being Lindsay Fleay's The Magic Portal. The LEGO animation process is painstakingly ...more

Animation Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/12/2009

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Feng Shui Your Motor Home

A group of industrious, like-minded friends built this amazing DIY metal motor home from scratch, converting an old semi into luxury-style living. The Japanese-style RV is equipped with a hydraulic lift system which converts the seemingly one-story truck into a Zen two-story mobile home. The first ...more

Customization Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/12/2009

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Chia Pets...on Acid

Remember Grandma-approved eco-friendly mud graffiti? London native Helen Nodding has taken a similar approach: non-destructive moss graffiti. Helen was inspired by the cold hard steel, glass, and concrete of the city: "I’m always cheered up when I see weeds pushing through a crack in a paving ...more

Graffiti & Urban Art Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/11/2009

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100 Most Valuable Old-School DIY Blueprints (yup, all analog and all free)

Vintage Projects offers 100+ free plans for building all sorts of fun DIY projects spanning musical instruments, archery, boats, motorbikes, go carts, science experiments, telescopes, tractors, radios, and more. Instructions ...more

Customization Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/11/2009

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PANZERBIKE: Mega Monster Motorbike

The Panzerbike. A monster bike like no other. The Frankenstein of all motorcycles. This big boy has an 800-horsepower engine, and weighs in at 4.74 tons. Harzer Bike built the colossal WWII German motorbike with sidecar using a slew of materials, including the bonnet from a Soviet truck and the ...more

Customization Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/10/2009

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Amazing Davinci-esque Mini Crossbows

These are no ordinary miniature crossbows. They're a work of art much like Leonardo DaVinci's incredible inventions. Each one is intricately designed from popsicle and shish kabob sticks. And that's not all… they fold into the palm of your hand, too. Check out all three designs in the videos below.

Specialized Weapons Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/10/2009

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R-Rated School Desk Carvings

Now, that's some whittling. Awesome school-desk-art by Ben Turnbull. See how wood carver Bob Seguin makes a mini navy colt revolver out of basswood here. Previously, This Will Blow Past Airport Security.

Furniture Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/9/2009

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Make-It-Yourself Panda Bread

Perfect Pandas was kind enough to post link to an English translation of a Japanese Panda Bread How-To (made with green tea and chocolate dough). In the spirit of bento, very, very cute.... Previously, World's Greatest Bento - Plastic Japanese Meal.

Bread Wonderment

By rmansur on 11/9/2009

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Pyromaniac X-Men Flamethrower

Pyro: Evil mutant. Enemy of the X-Men. Fire lover. Everett Bradford has developed a way to harness Pyro's psionic power to control fire and flame - The Prometheus. His Prometheus device is a well-designed, hand-mounted apparatus that shoots real fire. Seriously. Super hot flames. From your hand ...more

Specialized Weapons Wonderment

By tenebrism on 11/10/2009

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Electrifying Transparent Tesla Coil (DIY!!)

At one point in time, Tesla coils were actually used for something specific, like wireless telegraphy or electrotherapy. As technology advanced, it has shifted to a slightly more enjoyable purpose: entertainment. This Mini Acrylic Tesla Coil Project is one of the best portable units out there and ...more

Science Wonderment

By tenebrism on 11/10/2009

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