The Book of Cool” is a simple and edgy looking 320 page book with 3 DVD’s packed full of 35 of the worlds most talented sportsmen and performers showing and teaching you over 250 of their coolest tricks, skills, and moves. The tricks range from soccer tricks, baton twirling, freestyle frisbee, golf tricks, skateboarding, streetball, card tricks, bar tricks, pool, footbag, pen spinning, and much more. You can watch a preview of their DVD’s here though the breakdancers were one of the cooler clips. I’d love to get my hands on this set and just might for a sweet $40.
This is what happens when you take 200 liters of DietCoke, 500 mentos, and have some serious free time to have fun. Watch 
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If your in the Boston/Cambridge area this memorial weekend, swing by 
If you missed Jennifer Lin rockin out her beautiful and inspiring piano skills at 
This is an old fun material, but I just saw a demo of it again which reminded me how freakin cooooool it is. Ya add some powder to a cup of water, and va va voooom….it bubbles up into instant snow, or moreso some expanded pellets that look like snow. Check out the 
I recently had a discussion with some friends about contagious, infectious, or viral designs, products that get sneezed around. Anyhow, it reminded me of this video I ran into. Nothing about design, but a sure viral video.
Vectorial Elevations is one of these rare projects that gets users to interact online as well as react off-line in a large public space. Users anywhere in the world could participate. 18 robotic spotlights were networked to a server in a large public square in Mexico city. On-line participants created animated sequences of patterns using all 18 spotlights. Throughout the night, these on-line sequences would become reality in the space where thousands of people would view, react, and awe in an amazing projected atmosphere. On-line users could view their creations via webcams. How cool is that!
