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This is a stop-motion animated video imagines baking cookies using a computer application like Photoshop. It was made by Vimeo user Stafania, a recent graduate of the European Institute of Design in Milan.

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It looks like a slab of bacon on a cutting board, but it's actually a cake. Food artist Debbie Goard has a flickr stream filled with her amazing work, including cakes that look just like a can of Spam, a steak, and a beer keg.

Link via Albotas | Artist's Website (warning: self-starting sound) | Previously on Neatorama: Hello Kitty Zombie Cake, Yoda Cake

For the opening of a new Puma shoe store in Chicago, the design firm Wilson Brothers (Oscar, Ben, and Luke) made this formula 1 race car out of Puma shoe boxes. More pictures at the link.

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Johnny Kelly, a London-based illustrator, made this video describing all the ways that we put off doing what needs to be done. It was his graduation project at the Royal College of Art in 2007.

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New York-based designer Ji Lee's Redundant Clock uses hands oriented toward the hour markings for its hour markings.

Browsing around Lee's website, I also found this interesting work of guerrilla art. Lee puts empty speech bubbles over public advertisements and then photographs what people write in them.

http://pleaseenjoy.com/project.php?cat=1&subcat=&pid=18&navpoint=16 via OhGizmo!

TopTenz.net has a list of the ten smallest accredited colleges in the U.S. The largest on the list has 260 students, and the smallest has 38. In the #3 position with 84 students is the Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire:

It is a Roman Catholic college and all students spend one semester in Italy, living in a monastery and studying at the Rome campus, just five miles away from St. Peter’s Basilica. According to the college’s website, students will have “visited over 100 baroque churches, Roman architectural sites, Renaissance palazzos, or catacombs” and “translated over 1,000 lines of Homer, Cicero, or other Classical authors” after four years of study.

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Yitta Schwartz of Kiryas Joel, New York, died last month at the age of 93. She left behind 15 children, more than 200 grandchildren, and so many great and great-great grandchildren that her family guesses that she could claim 2,000 direct descendants. In The New York Times, Joseph Berger writes:

Mrs. Schwartz was a member of the Satmar Hasidic sect, whose couples have nine children on average and whose ranks of descendants can multiply exponentially. But even among Satmars, the size of Mrs. Schwartz’s family is astonishing. A round-faced woman with a high-voltage smile, she may have generated one of the largest clans of any survivor of the Holocaust — a thumb in the eye of the Nazis.[...]

She was born in 1916 into a family of seven children in the Hungarian village of Kalev, revered as the hometown of a founder of Hungarian Hasidism. During World War II, the Nazis sent Mrs. Schwartz, her husband, Joseph, and the six children they had at the time to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.[...]

With so many children, Mrs. Schwartz had to make six loaves of challah for every Sabbath, using 12 pounds of dough — in later years, she was aided by Kitchenaid or Hobart appliances. (Mrs. Mayer said her mother had weaknesses for modern conveniences, and for elegant head scarves.) For her children’s weddings, Mrs. Schwartz starched the tablecloths and baked the chocolate babkas and napoleons.

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Stanford University students Derrick Davis and Tom McFadden made this rap video about metabolism. It's called "Oxidate It or Love It/Electron to the Next One" and is a parody of 50 Cent's "Hate It or Love It" and Jay-Z's "On to the Next One."

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Mother Nature Network has a photo gallery of ten animals with very long lifespans, including the red sea urchin:

The red sea urchin or Strongylocentrotus franciscanus is found only in the Pacific Ocean, primarily along the West Coast of North America. It lives in shallow, sometimes rocky, waters from the low-tide line down to to 90 meters, but they stay out of extremely wavy areas. They crawl along the ocean floor using their spines as stilts. If you discover one, remember to respect your elders — some specimens are more than 200 years old.

Link via Digg | Photo: Kirt L. Onthank, Wiki Commons.

It looks like a Coke machine, right? It's not. This is a picture of a woman wearing a special dress. Designer Aya Tsukioka's made this dress for women who fear being attacked in public places:

By unfolding the sheet and stepping to the side of the street, she showed how a woman walking alone could hide behind it to outfox a potential attacker.

Aya Tsukioka unveils her design in Tokyo. She hopes it will help ease women's fear of crime

At the link, you can see step-by-step photos of the dress transforming into a disguise.

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We've previously mentioned the fine work of the Scottish brewery BrewDog, which sells the world's strongest beer at 32% alcohol content. The German brewery Schorschbrau responded by releasing Schorschbock, which is 40% alcohol.

This challenge lit the patriotic fires beneath the people at BrewDog, who created a beer named "Sink the Bismark!" for the expressed purpose of taking down their German rival. It is 41% alcohol, and the name refers to enormous German battleship sunk in 1941 by the British Royal Navy.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/16/sink_the_bismark/ via Ace of Spades HQ | Official Website | Photo: US Navy

Brynn Mannino of Woman's Day has compiled pictures of and information about seventeen stunning works of art composed of LEGO blocks. Pictured above is a mosaic made by LEGO enthusiasts in Hong Kong to encourage citizens of that city to overcome economic hurdles. It was made from 64,000 pieces.

http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/17-Genius-LEGO-Artworks.html via Urlesque

Artist Doug McKee of Bellingham, Washington, makes elaborate carved skateboards. He's particularly found of animal forms, such as the above octopus, which was carved from cedar.

He has a non-embeddable video demonstrating his craft. Look in the lower-right part of the linked page.

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Tom Baynham and Ben Tyers, graduate students in mechanical engineering at Cambridge, created this enormous Rube Goldberg machine that stretches over an entire residence. They call it "The Contraption II."

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Popular Mechanics has a photo gallery of eighteen unusual airports around the world, including the above airport of Courchevel, a town in the French Alps. The runway has a hill the middle with a 18.5% grade. Landing on this airstrip is so difficult that it requires a special pilot's certification.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4346192.html?page=1 via Glenn Reynolds| Photo: Popular Mechanics