Sharpen your scissors and behold! via Open Culture
The Global Cardboard Challenge
The folks from the Imagination Foundation are cooking up some awesomeness. On Oct 6th they celebrate the one year anniversary of their global sensation Caine’s Arcade with a Global Cardboard Challenge! Grab some cardboard and join folks in over 25 countries as they create, inspire and play.
Picplz
Lately I’ve been enjoying Picplz a simple photo sharing app for the android. Similar to Instagram, Picplz allows for simple photo manipulation and then offers some cool sharing options. There’s twitter, facebook, flickr, tumblr, posterous and the best dropbox. I love that I can backup the photos easily to the cloud.
Crows love shiny objects
New board game from Tyler Sigman the creator of the PlayStation Network game entitled Hoard. Checkout a demo vid for the game. For a review of play click here.
hat tip ars technica
The Universal Record Database
URDB is an awesome site that enables anyone to set world records. “The definitive site for human achievement.” We had the honor of working with Dan and Corey the co-founders of URDB for an episode of RADAR back during season One. If you have a world record in you itching to get out head over to URDB.org and join in the fun.
Cinematic Games
Clever way to celebrate a 20th anniversary! Empire Magazine has created this fun cryptic canvas game. Which no doubt has folks spending a heck of a lot of time on the empire site. Can you id the 50 hidden movie titles in this painting? Wanna play?
@AWESOMEBANDNAME
Every thought that you had an awesome name for a band? I stumbled upon @awesomebandname on twitter. There are some entertaining names BUT the real find is this link to a visual mapping of metal band names. The visualization includes categories such as deadly things, pleas for help, foreign sounding and badass spellings.