Okistugu Kado is an amazing food artist and sushi chef from Japan. His blog is filled with stunning creations, including sculptures of superheroes and scenes from Star Wars. Link -via Geekosystem

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If you want a really roomy place, you can live in a 90-square foot apartment. But Luke Clark Tyler, an architect in Manhattan, figured that he could do just fine with a cozier place. His apartment, which includes furniture that he designed and built for it, is only 78 square feet in floor space. Tyler has a murphy bed, a couch, a microwave, a refrigerator, and a closet.

Did I mention that Tyler works from home? That tiny space is also his office. -via Doobybrain

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Here's a video of The Jaybirds, a bluegrass group, and Red Chamber, a Chinese string ensemble, playing bluegrass music. The members of Red Chamber are performing their contributions on several Chinese instruments: a liuqin, a pipa, a sanxian, and a ruan.

-via MetaFilter | Red Chamber | The Jaybirds (auto-sound)

Bakerella cooked peanut butter and chocolate chip chocolate pudding and poured it into completely edible chocolate bowls. To make the bowls, she dipped balloons in chocolate and refrigerated them. Once they solidified, she just popped the balloons and removed the rubber. Link -via Craft

It was 20 years ago today that Tim Berners-Lee (left) of CERN built the world's first website. Here's how Berners-Lee described the project at the time of its launch:

The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.

The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.

The web grew rapidly and transformed cultures around it. And it's just getting started. Imagine what the web -- or whatever grows out of it -- will be like twenty years from now. One possibility is a concept called the Semantic Web:

The Semantic Web will see metadata, designed to be read by machines rather than humans, become a more important part of the online experience. Tim Berners-Lee coined this term, describing it as “A web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines,” – a ‘giant global graph’ of linked data which will allow apps to automatically create new meaning from all the information out there.

The future is going to be awesome.

Link -via Gizmodo | Photo by Flickr user campuspartymexico used under Creative Commons license

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Peter Simon's friend Tom Offer-Westort had a full beard and head of hair and wanted to shave them off. So they made a stop motion video of the process and then reversed it. Now it looks like Tom is applying his hair like makeup. -via Blame It on the Voices

To celebrate the passage of the State of New York's Marriage Equality Act, an architecture website named Architizer and a wedding website called The Knot held a design competition for mobile wedding chapels. Submitted designs had to be assembled in under two hours and not have a footprint greater than 2.4 meters square. Judges selected two winners, including this one by Guy Zucker called "The Kiss". It's made of two pieces of recycled honeycombed cardboard that must rely upon each other for structural support. You can see more pictures of this chapel, as well as the other winner, and happy couples who got married in them at the link.

Link -via Dude Craft | Photo by Melissa Murphy, used with permission

Etsy seller Elizabeth Kohn made a set of earrings that look like the piranha plants from Super Mario Bros. Ouch! Hopefully these don't spit fireballs. Link -via reddit

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Allie Goertz wrote and performed a touching song about how gamers escape from their mundane lives into worlds of their own creation. "Tonight" captures the role-playing experience so very well. -via Nerd Bastards

Previously:
Dungeons & Dragons Song: Roll a D6
A Song about the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual

Geeky Tattoos has a roundup of some of the cleverest knuckle tattoos that geeks have acquired. Chris M. got this one in response to the common "Game Over" knuckle tattoo, writing "when it comes to video games, quitting is never an option, unless you’ve got work, a kid, or some other crap to do." Link | Photo: Knuckle Tattoos

Although it's not made of carbon fiber, this toilet seat is made to take the most brutal torture tests that a human body can offer. It has hinged wings, too, for, uh, added stability. Perfect! I've just ordered one for my cubicle here at the office. Link -via Gizmodo | Photo: Adjustable Advantage

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Journey back into the distant past -- all the way to the 1990s -- with this corny interactive Saved by the Bell game from The Fine Brothers. It's presented in the graphic style of that era and shows all the plot sophistication and riveting narrative of the original program. -via Uniblog | The Fine Brothers

Previously by The Fine Brothers:
Harry Potter in 7 Minutes
50 Comedy Spoilers in 3 Minutes
2010 Shooting Range Game

From a distance, this sculpture makes for a convincing cactus. Brian Jewett made it out of zip ties, a garden hose, and water faucets. He provides instructions at the link on how you can make your own. Link -via Make

Samuel K. Sia, a biomedical engineer at Columbia University, has developed a cheap test for HIV infection that can return accurate results almost instantly:

"We have engineered a disposable credit card-sized device that can produce blood-based diagnostic results in minutes," said Sia. "The idea is to make a large class of diagnostic tests accessible to patients in any setting in the world, rather than forcing them to go to a clinic to draw blood and then wait days for their results."[...]

Sia hopes to use the mChip to help pregnant women in Rwanda who, while they may be suffering from AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, cannot be diagnosed with any certainty because they live too far away from a clinic or hospital with a lab. "Diagnosis of infectious diseases is very important in the developing world," said Sia. "When you're in these villages, you may have the drugs for many STDs, but you don't know who to give treatments to, so the challenge really comes down to diagnostics." A version of the mChip that tests for prostate cancer has also been developed by Claros Diagnostics and was approved in 2010 for use in Europe.

Link -via DVICE | Photo: mChip

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Garnet Hertz, the man behind the cockroach-controlled robot, has developed a small car that lets you navigate the open road through the imagery of a 1980s-era car racing video game. The project, titled OutRun, "explores the consequences of using only a computer model of the world as a navigation tool for driving." There's no mention of how many points you lose (or win) for hitting pedestrians.

Link -via Geekologie