Hit-Or-Miss

This Clever Mug Vanishes Coffee Ring Stains Once & For All

June 7, 2013 // 12:22 pm

Coffee can be a huge pain in the butt. See, a lot of us need it to kickstart our days, but a cup of Joe can be annoyingly messy when those coffee rings suddenly appear on your desk or stack of papers. As our luck would have it, designer…

Combining Sports and Cheese is Witty, Smelly

June 7, 2013 // 6:00 am

There are some things that just go together. Milk and cookies. Peanut butter and jelly. Athletic brands and fine cheeses. What, you didn’t know that last one was a thing? Go find yourself some culture (cheese puns!) and come back. Or just read this, because…

High-End Designer Purses Transformed into Grisly Sculptures of Meat

June 6, 2013 // 2:54 pm

Look out, Lady Gaga — we found some accessories to go with that meat dress.

OK, so they’re not made of real meat, but the red lumpy wax used in artist Andrea Hasler’s new collection sure looks cold, sticky and raw. “Burdens of Excess” is a…

Ingenious Ways to Reuse a Penis Cake Pan

June 4, 2013 // 5:41 pm

Other than your grandma’s birthday or a the occasional bachelorette party, penis cake pans don’t get out much, sadly. It’s a shame, since the opportunity to flash your friends with a boner decked out in icing is always a good time. Luckily, PenisPans is, ahem, handling the situation.

The…

Pair of Melons Auctioned for $15,730 in Japan

June 3, 2013 // 2:31 pm

A pair of perfectly round melons, at a staggering 8.1 pounds each, sold for a total of $15,730 (about 1.6 million yen) in a town market in Japan.

Yubari melons, or cantaloupe, are considered prestigious gifts in Japan. Japanese markets already charge what we’d consider “top dollar” for most fruit,…

Here’s a Cookbook You Literally Have to Slice Open to Read

June 1, 2013 // 8:00 am

Because knife skills are the first thing you learn in culinary school, Escuela de Cocina Carulla cooking school in Bogota, Columbia created this unique introductory cookbook to test their students’ knowledge, cut by cut.

Designed by Ogilvy & Mather Bogota, the cookbook makes students work for their recipes by requiring…

What Your Style of Eggs Reveals About You

June 1, 2013 // 6:00 am

I guess eggs do more than just satisfy your hunger on a Sunday morning . . . they basically define your life.  Actually, after reading this, I may need to re-evaluate who I am.

Basically, the only people who don’t have personal problems of some kind are the…

Go Home Health Food Advocates – DIY High Fructose Corn Syrup Now Exists

May 31, 2013 // 2:43 pm

Every so often, the world likes to remind us that yes, we do still live in ‘MURICA.

A graduate student at Parsons The New School for Design has just developed an artisanal kit for small-batch DIY high-fructose corn syrup.

The student, artist and designer Maya Weinstein, told Bon Appetit…