Seriously awesome Lego replicas of M.C. Escher’s gravity defying drawings. The above is a Lego depiction of his 1953 work “Relativity”. A few more are on the Daily Mail article linked below.  How cool is this?!?

via the Daily Mail

Crush the competition in your next water balloon fight with this Water Balloon Filler. Put the gadget on the end of your hose and quickly fill the balloon and tie its knot up to 10x faster than the “analog” method.

Via Likecool

For all of you hobbyists out there in the mood to build the Death Star or a life sized replica of R2-D2, the Star Wars: The Blueprints book.

Now, its going to take a hell of a lot of man power to build yourself a Death Star. Something to think about.

Mindrelic – Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.

Amazing time-lapse video of NYC from various vantage points. Apparently, the author took the videos from several different hotels around and across Manhattan. Worth a view!

Via Buzzfeed

Awesome cupcakes decorated as the main characters from The Muppets show.

Beaker and Statler & Waldorf are awesommme!!

From, Kratkocasnik, a 2D and 3D visual floor plan of Mad Men’s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Office Floor Plan.  In the original post, the author stated that Bert Cooper didn’t have his own office, which is not something I can verify.  Also, Ken Cosgrove is not represented in the plan and I’d have to figure he is somewhere near the “whiskey closet” represented in the above plan.  A cool way to close out another great season of MM.  I won’t give any spoilers but I think Don was using his wrong head to make the big decision in the finale.

A list of several home decorating items for absolute geeks including the above Han Solo frozen in carbon desk (not sure if I’d want him staring up at me every day).  Some other neat items include ASCII decorated shades, pixelated sofas and rugs, and another personal favorite, the waffle iron that makes keyboard shaped waffles.

A great collection of super heroes and villains drawn as Mr. Men. I was always partial to Mr. Happy, although Mr. Persnickity was always a good read.

There is a great visual of the price variance of MLB tickets (with the Yankees leading the way), the types of MLB stadiums, and my personal favorite, the monetary value of MLB’s stolen bases if they were actually stolen.

And yesterday, a piece on the program just re-inforced why its just such a great program. The story led in talking about how toymaker Hasbro had a bad quarter, highlighting one cause being the influx of “non plastic” products into the market. The story then shifted to how people are willing to spend more on products made of metals and woods since such materials give the product extra cashé. They then profiled Motorola who is manufacturing a platinum phone, highlighting its hefty price, and ironically noting that you could buy a “metallic” ringtone for all of $1.50. And the “metallic” ringtone? None other than “Enter Sandman” by Metallica. They sampled the ringtone, and then faded into the actual song by Metallica! It was just a fantastic transition.

Now I am hardly a fan of Metallica (However “Enter Sandman” is one song of theirs that I actually do like), however my point is that Marketplace has always had a fun, irreverant, “toungue in cheek” perspective to its business reporting which makes the show so unique. And only Marketplace would be able to get away with fading out from a story into “Enter Sandman” by Metallica.