Probably my most wanted cake (so far) for my birthday, except that I don’t hold parties for my birthdays; I rarely even treat my friends. I go missing. My phone becomes unavailable. It’s easier to hide than tell your friends you’re broke, you know. This lovely cake has robots from the beautifully-designed game Machinarium by Amanita Design. The details are fantastic. Those shining bulbs are made “real” by simple edible paint. This delightful cake was made by Sweet Disposition Cakes in Australia for a six-year-old’s birthday.

(via Neatorama)

RIP, Bella Flores.

You shone your light on many and they became stars.

Indeed, “Walang bida kung walang kontrabida.”

Unless you’re in the desert, you’ll have no fear drinking unsafe water from wells and springs or even mud pools if you got lost and had little water left in your bottle. Why? Because this survival straw can remove up to 99.99% of chemicals and other contaminants, and protect you against viruses and bacteria to 99.9999% in water that other filters cannot remove. In addition, it removes harmful heavy metals like mercury, lead, and aluminum. The NDūR Survival Straw contains an advanced filter designed and tested by Seychelle Research Laboratories. It’s made from BPA-free plastic. Its filter life is up to 25 gallons or more. Just stick and sip and you have instant access to safe drinking water. What’s greater? It just costs $23.90 at Amazon. 

NDUR Survival Straw OD

Take a break. Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga has a three-hectare lake where you can go kayaking, boating, and fishing.

(photos from mingming)

...will probably grow up  to be a fine young man because his mom has a great sense of humor. It’s just eyeliner, BTW; a Sharpie would have lasted the laughs for weeks.

From Finder’s Creepers (via Obvious Winner)

NASA researchers monitoring the moon for meteoroid impacts have detected the brightest explosion in the history of their program. A meteorite crashed on the moon’s surface last March 17 and if you were gazing at the moon that time (looking for the man on the moon, perhaps), you would have witnessed it because the explosion was so bright it was visible to the naked eye. The meteorite slammed into the moon’s surface at the speed of 56,000 mph creating an explosion as powerful as 5 tons of TNT. Meteors were also observed to have rained on Earth at that same time, but while our planet has an atmosphere that shields it from serious impacts, the moon has none. 

ScienceCasts: Bright Explosion on the Moon (via SPACE.com)

From the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences:

“Spring is like a perhaps hand,” wrote the poet E. E. Cummings: “carefully / moving a perhaps / fraction of flower here placing / an inch of air there… / without breaking anything.”

With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a Harvard laboratory—and not at the scale of inches, but microns.

These minuscule sculptures, curved and delicate, don’t resemble the cubic or jagged forms normally associated with crystals, though that’s what they are. Rather, fields of carnations and marigolds seem to bloom from the surface of a submerged glass slide, assembling themselves a molecule at a time.

By simply manipulating chemical gradients in a beaker of fluid, Wim L. Noorduin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and lead author of a paper appearing on the cover of the May 17 issue of Science, has found that he can control the growth behavior of these crystals to create precisely tailored structures.

Read the rest at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences: Beautiful “flowers” self-assemble in a beaker

Hail! This sign was spotted on the window of The Albion Beatnik shop in Oxford, England. It’s based on the original text by Beatrice Warde, This Is A Printing Office. 

This is a book-shop (i.imgur.com), via Neatorama

Amazing feat. When someone accuses you of being lazy, you know how to defend yourself, err, your body.

BuzzFeedVideo (via Blame It On The Voices)

Time is fast, and so is technology. Yeah, faster than you can notice that your gadget is obsolete.

From Brian @ Shoeboxblog (via Geeks Are Sexy)