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Lotte Time-Lapse: Birth to 12 years in 2 minutes 45 seconds

Wrote Netherlands-based filmmaker/artist Frans Hofmeester, "I filmed my daughter Lotte every week, from birth up until she turned 12 years old, and then made this time-lapse edit in Final Cut Pro."

[via LikeCool and Emma Olivera]

Strapless Sun Visor

What took so long?

From websites:

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Strapless sun visor won't give you hat hair or headaches!

Slim fabric visor slips right over the temples of your sunglasses, so there's no tight back strap to create that annoying hair "bump" or head pain.

One size fits most types of sunglasses (not for extremely close-fitting, wrap-around frames or frameless, ultra-thin wire glasses).

Spot clean cotton/polyester.

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$9.95.

"Enter"

You can find this instructive adhesive tape add-on on each of the ten (10) pumps at the BP station down the street from me.

I guess I wasn't the only one confounded by the on-screen instruction to "Press Enter."

It's hard not to conclude that the people responsible for this abomination of a touch pad aren't also the ones who design TV remote controls.

A Bizarro World Apple design team would produce this sort of thing.

Batter Finger Spatula

Who's #1?

Silicone.

9" x 1" x 0.25".

$7.15.

Expert's Expert: How to test the freshness of peas

Wrote Elaine Sciolino in an April 25, 2012 New York Times Dining section story, "I learned... that one way to test the freshness of peas is to press down on a pod and gently move around the peas inside. (Fresh peas will squeak when they are rubbed together)."

Her tutor: Chef Sylvester Wahid of L'Oustau de Baumanière, the Michelin two-star restaurant at the foot of the medieval hill town of Les Baux in Provence.

Other lessons from Wahid: "The smaller the peas, the sweeter and more tender they are; fat, stuffed pods can mean that the peas have become tough and mealy and past their prime."

Canada Felt Backpack Badge

In many parts of the world, being Canadian offers an increased chance of survival should you find yourself interacting with individuals who might not be on your party invite list back home.

2.5" x 2.5"; embroidered and felt-backed; to be applied with needle and thread.

$8 could end up being cheap at thousands of times the price, in the event....

[via Paul Biba]

Introducing the David 8 — Prometheus Project

Launching June 8 from Weyland Industries.

What a coincidence: that's my incept date.

[via a crack Los Angeles correspondent]

ToFU Table Lamp

Designed by Tokujin Yoshioka.

In the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Monolithic block of crystal clear methacrylate.

Small (8.25"H) or Large (11.62"H).

$680–$780.