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Yoga For Dogs: Gotta Keep Those Paws Strong
Is it just me or does it seem like dogs are becoming more and more like humans every day? Hmm... I can't decide how I feel about that. I don't know whether to feel happy for the dogs or sorry for the owners. Not only can you buy special dog beer for your furry best friend so he can enjoy a cold one ...
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The Ultimate WordPress Cheat Sheet [Infographic]
Messing around in WordPress is a pure knowledge thing. It really has nothing to do with skill since all you really have to do is learn what all the different tags do, mean and what their possibilities are. There is no other way to get to that information than to check the tags out and try them for y ...
The Last Supper: 17 Of The Best Parody Illustrations
Earlier this month I wrote about a Last Supper parody called The Last Breakfast. It was a very creative illustration made with breakfast cereal characters. A few days ago, a Last Supper parody illustrated with South Park characters started circulating the Internet. This one is unique in that it actu ...
3 Fabulously Geeky Flowers To Inspire Geek Love
Springtime always reminds me of flowers, and 'tis the season of new flowers blooming everywhere! If you are a geek, you probably enjoy traditional flowers like most people, but you also have a special fondness for a unique breed of flowers, the kind that only a true geek could appreciate.
Of cour ...
Photography: The Mystery Behind Covering One Eye
Sometimes I feel like such a moron when trying to understand sophisticated designers and photographers. There is nothing more humbling than reading about the existential philosophical thoughts of an artist, and at the end of it, just thinking... Huh?
Ahn Sang-Soo is one of those artists. I want t ...
Social Media Saves The Day With A Terminator Leg
We are seeing more and more stories lately about the warmth, compassion and friendships formed in social media. This time it's about a social media site that many people still haven't heard of, Reddit. Reddit is a site that is very similar to Digg. Ever since Digg started losing traffic (mainly due ...
Show Me The Money: The Dollar Bill Skull Sculpture
I didn't realize until today how many people are inspired by skulls. It's kinda strange when you think about it, I mean, what exactly is it that draws people to create things that look like skulls? I don't know the answer to this question, but I do know that some of the skull creations we've seen ar ...
Chocolate Lego Bricks: For Geeks With A Sweet Tooth
So by now I'm sure you know how much we love Lego on Bit Rebels. You also probably know that I love chocolate and write about it often. Whether it's a crazy woman getting arrested over her missing chocolate cookies, or a group of artists creating an entire room made out of chocolate, I have a lot of ...
DIY Geektastic Pac-Man Calendar (Chomp Chomp)
This little homage to everyone's favorite classic 80s video game is so precious I just want to make my own this weekend. If you weren't around in the 80s saving your quarters to play Pac-Man at the pizza joint on Friday nights like the rest of us, you could make one of these for Mario Bros. or reall ...
Be A Captain Every Night: The Pirate Ship Bedroom
What is it with geeks and home decor? Have you ever noticed that geeks are very particular with how they like to style their living and working spaces? We've featured dozens of Lego, Nintendo and geeky retro style decor on Bit Rebels. Each design seems to be more detailed, time-consuming and fantast ...
Visual Inspiration: Psychedelic Exploding Egg Photography
After an unseasonably cold winter, I'm happy to report that it is officially spring in Atlanta! Yay! Other than my iPhone getting covered in pollen the moment I walk out my house, I'm thrilled. Along with spring comes the season of marshmallow peeps, jellybeans and, of course, colored hard-boiled eg ...
Personalities: Learn A Lot By Watching Someone Eat Corn
Every now and then we find little goofy nuggets on the Internet that we share with you just to give you a giggle and break up your day. The last time I wrote an article like that was a few months ago when I published this silly video about a woman born with 3 mouths.
Today it's just a simple cart ...
Inspiration: Students Transform Mailboxes Into Art Pieces
I love it when I see schools and universities go out of their way to make learning fun and interactive for their students. Sometimes this happens in ways that involve technology. For example, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands recently created the world's largest touchscreen (for very li ...
How To: Make Marshmallow Peep Sushi
Yay! It's almost springtime again and that means it's time for an article about marshmallow peeps. Any day now those will be all over the stores here in the States as we start another season of sugar highs and tooth decay. I can't wait. According to Serious Eats, there is a contemporary peeps revol ...
Art: Your Favorite Movies Compressed Into Barcodes
Is it just me or is data compression becoming a hot topic? Just the other day, Richard wrote an article about this topic called The Importance Of Internet Real-Time Compression. Today I would like to take a look at data compression again, but from a different perspective. What about compressing d ...