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Link roundup

1. A Gizmodo writer went on two dates with a guy she met on OK Cupid and then wrote a post about how he was a loser for being a world class Magic The Gathering player and not mentioning it in his profile (or maybe she had a different motivation for going on the dates). He participated in an interesting q&a at Reddit. Also funny: Top Signs You’re on a Date With a Gizmodo Writer, including "refers to post-dinner plans as 'occurring after the jump'."

2. Hotel elevator with separate buttons for staff and guests.

3. How to report scraper sites to Google. Via.

4. Lime green couch wallpaper. Via.

Homemade Portal room; Wedding proposal by custom Portal level

Homemade Portal room.

Supposedly a series of three custom Portal levels made to propose marriage (seems more like an advertisement for the customizer). The proposal starts at 5:50 and is quite clever. Via.

*Buy Companion Cubes at eBay.

Image roundup

Cardboard bedroom set.

Future home of James T. Kirk.

Seaman returns home.

Carpet.

Daft Punk shoes available at Etsy.

Arkham Asylum wallpaper.

Full moon pillow

Full Moon Odyssey floor mattress pillow by Lily Suh and Zoono of i3lab. Via these sites.

A technicolor fairy tale hut

"If I Had A Heart I Could Love You" by Malene Hartmann Rasmussen:

In this project I work with how we perceive the world, twisting and changing the perception of the space to create an eerie surreal and otherworldly feeling. The setting is a wooden hut as we know it from the folk talesof Brothers Grimm. The viewer is intruding this reality shifting dark place. It is a fake wooden hut, a piece of theater-like scenery made from drawn wood planks, the “Flintstones” aesthetic and Technicolor quality of the ceramics underlines the hyper real dreamlike feeling.

In the hut there is a fireplace, the burning logs look like hearts, but the hearts look like real hearts and the branches sticking out of them resembles blood filled arteries and veins. The hut is in a forest or maybe the hut is the forest; the wooden planks are sprouting and coming to life, or maybe they were alive and someone is cutting them down?This uncanny and dark fairytale is fragmented, like in a crime story the clues are scattered around, the viewer is the detective trying to make sense of it all.