It’s the Friday Holiday Quickies! Whether you’re at home baking cookies or at work watching the clock until Scrooge lets you go, take a break with this luscious bag of treats. Thanks to all the Quickies contributors! Now click away, click away, click away, all!
- Fun facts abound in this interactive Periodic Table {via Maria}
- The nerdiest holiday cards on the net this year are beyond awesome. {thanks to Victor}
- The Adobe Remake Project originated in the UK. The Booooooom decided to sponsor a US version. Here are the Remake submissions to date. Remarkable and mind-blowing! {via Rebecca}
- The secret life of toys by Marcos Minuchin. {via Brian G}
- Girls make robots; take aim at gender bias; rule the universe. BLAM! {via Maria}
- Unimpressed Astronauts. I graduated from Earth, bitchez! {stolen from Jen M at Skepchick} And then we were reminded that Spock is not impressed. {thanks to Steve D}
- Put your tray in its upright locked position and fasten your seatbelt. This is an excruciatingly cool albeit vertigo-inducing set of Three-Dimensional Aerial Shots of Airports.
Lots more after the jump. And a proposal.
- Andy Pratt created Pricetag, a service that helps designers determine what and how to quote a job to a client. Steven Heller interviews Pratt for Quote me a quote.
- One of Philadelphia’s best kept secrets: The Wagner Free Institute of SCIENCE.
- You could call this live kinetic typography. Amandine Alessandra believes that fonts should move.
- Analyze this. Rohrschach coasters.
- If cigar-box guitars are your thing, then lookee here: Handmade Music Factory – the ultimate guide to making foot-stompin’ good instruments. A how-to DIY with photo galleries.
- Keep track of the new year with the Mütter Museum’s 2012 Calendar featuring the “unexpected art inherent in the study of medical science”.
Now for something sweet…
An animated marriage proposal {via Cloe}
And something, er, festive…
Relive your favorite moments from
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
