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There’s something about seeing and being near beauty that inspires awesomeness.  Have you ever checked out some of the amazing handcrafted instruments to be found on Etsy?  They make my eyes happy and my fingers itch to tickle some strings. Just looking at this Ganesh mandolin above is like music.  It’s delicate, original, a touch playful [...]

After watching my shortie play with her shiny new SpongeBob LEGO set on Christmas morning, it seems like LEGO-related imagery is popping up all over the place in my little Web world.  And this makes me happy, but that shouldn’t surprise you. The Guardian has an interesting collection of 2011 news headlines in LEGO (see [...]

The last couple of months have been an exploration of and in awesomeness.  What it is, how to obtain it, how to maintain it, how to maximize it.  I have the Awesomeness Fest to thank for that.  Four days of growing, dancing, laughing and camaraderie in a tropical island paradise.  I’m still glowing from it. [...]

From the FinerMinds blog – watch and get goose bumps from this gorgeous video of two Irish girls in a canoe caught in a dance of a thousand starlings.  Gorgeous.

It’s just me, saying hello.  I think you’re pretty great and hope you have a super fantastical weekend. We’re celebrating Adam’s birthday (The Big 3-0) this weekend, which means we’ll be eating vegan avocado chocolate cake and chocolate peanut butter pie: Then opening up gifts and watching celebratory kung fu movies. How about you?  Muppet’s [...]

Right round baby right round with hooping goddess Lisa Lottie – girls that go to circus school are pretty rad, yeah? Listen to:  Bombay Bicycle Club’s How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep  

If you’re a fan of lovely concert poster design, move quickly on the latest Fab.com deal featuring Jeffrey Everett of El Jefe Design‘s great rock posters and art prints. Have you visited Fab.com before?  You must sign up for a free ‘membership’, which involves giving them your email.  From there, you get alerted about cool [...]

Adam has been hugely gung ho about finally getting his own longboard – I showed him this fab ‘Carving the Mountains’ video of the Longboard Girls Crew because it makes me feel happy, girlie and like putting on some kneepads. They’re a cool crew, you can check out this cool trailer about a Spain roadtrip called [...]

Pinch me, my music geeker self is swooning with data set magic.  The Hip-Hop Word Count: Searchable Rap Almanac is one of the greatest ideas I’ve seen in ages. A database housing over 40,000 hip hop songs recorded since 1979, what delicious cultural memes and shifts there are to be found in those lyrical battles [...]

CUPCAKE AGAINST TERRORISM, UNITE!! Tell me this is not the most hilariously ingenious way to fight global extremists: Hack into an upcoming issue of a glossy ‘how to be a terror 101′ magazine and instead of a glossy article on ‘How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom’, wannabe terrorists get to [...]