Posts Written by Paul Strauss

Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Small Town Murder Songs is a modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about a police officer from a small Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder occurs.

The talent collective at Blue Q offers a funny series of packaged teas to clear up everyday problems, like erasing your past, getting good karma and being a better parent. Yes, but does it really work?

Tekken Blood Vengeance, the first full CG animation in the TEKKEN series, has a dream team behind it: Digital Frontier production, writer Dai Sato and director Youichi Mouri. (Thanks Jon!)

Fossil is producing a watch for developers that syncs with your phone over Bluetooth; it will allow weather, text messages, etc. from the phone to be viewed right on your wrist. (Thanks Doug!)

Dogs are wonderful creatures. At times, they’re incredibly smart, other times, not so much. And sometimes they’re just “creative”, like this boxer and his “special” way of getting down stairs.

Who here among us created this rather hilarious and (somewhat accurate) infographic that explains the difficulties of the modern-day internet lifestyle? Whoever you are, we love that belly full of vitriol.

GothamSmith’s gorgeous steel Bicycle Cufflinks are available in 3 finishes, but remember – just because the pedals are on your wrists doesn’t mean you should let go of the handlebars.

At once both whimsical and practical, this concept gadget fires single shots of espresso into your cup thanks to a unique reusable coffee cartridge design. See il Tiro in action here.

Artist Nikki Rosato makes intricate portraits by cutting maps along the street and river lines, forming a vein-like structure for her art. These 3D human forms are her most dramatic works.

A fridge full of leftovers contends with encroaching frost, doing what they need to do to survive in this offbeat short film by Dave Green, with a special appearance by David Cross as Ham Sandwich.

Feeling all played out with Crysis 2? Grab 4 new maps for more multiplayer mayhem starting on 5/17. Check out Park Avenue, Transit, Shipyard and Compound in this sneak preview.

Instructables’ BAKON alarm clock is an immersive porcine experience: set your preferred cooking time and wake up to the intoxicating scent of bacon and sweet piggy sounds. (Thanks Dave!)

Jonas Damon has created a cool collection of wood-framed modern gadgets offered through Areaware. We especially like his latest, an old cathode-ray tube TV set that he built for the iPad.

Google beats Apple to the punch with their cloud music service, letting you upload your tunes to the Internet, playing them from all your computers and Android-based gadgets. Request a beta invite here.

YouTube musical phenoms Pomplamoose take on the song that’s been droning in our minds for the last year and a half, the Angry Birds theme song, putting their own unique spin on the track.

Colin Furze, who built the world’s fastest mobility scooter, has pitted it against an airplane in this video. We recommend wearing a helmet if you’re going to fly down a runway at 70+ mph, though.

In response to all the football, basketball and hockey trick shot videos out there, Brodie Smith responds with his flying disc. He just needs to cut the finger-pistol bit – and the porn soundtrack.

Patkau Architects created this group of temporary skating shelters huddled together by a skating trail along a frozen river in Winnipeg, which include a timber frame, plywood floor and seating inside.

We like our food spicy. We also like bacon. So what’s not to like about a spicy hot sauce, flavored with delicious bacon-y goodness? Absolutely nothing. We’ll have a side of bacon with ours.

Created by professor Sheila Kennedy and a team of MIT students, these rockers capture solar and kinetic energy, passing it along to USB gadgets and a cool electroluminescent lighting system at night.

We’ve all seen Roger Federer do this before, but that doesn’t detract from the hot-shot style of this between-the-legs winner from Spain’s Rafael Nadal at the Madrid Masters. (Thanks Kuang!)

Olivier Megaton’s Colombiana stars Zoe Saldana as a woman who witnesses her parents’ murder as a child, and grows up to be a stone-cold assassin, determined to get to the mobster who killed them.

Located at the corner of clever and smart: we are enjoying the simple tongue-in-cheek pun action going on here on David Schwen’s fun Broken Seal tee. It’s available over at Threadless.