The Carnival of Squid highlights the best lenses on a specific topic for the day. I'm looking for your best submissions and for you to vote for your favorites. The top vote getters will be featured on the Carnival blog each week, along with a Barker's Best. Good luck!! How it works: Have a lens for a day's topic? Add it to the list. Like the topic but don't have a lens? Make one (a great one!) and add it. Check out the lenses for the day's topic and vote for the ones you like (or don't). Vis... Read Full Story

How to Train Your Dragon and How to Be a Pirate - First two books about the heroic misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, a viking in training of the Hooligan tribe. Picked them up because there's an animated movie coming out next year and I wanted to catch the story. (And make a lens on it, yes.) Really enjoyed them. The art looks like something a kid (or me!) would draw and the stories are just plain fun. There's humor that might go over the head of a kid but gave me quite a few ch... Read Full Story

Not going to do it.Don’t care how bad you make their situation. Don’t care about soulmates. Don’t care how much romantic music you swell up in the background.I’m not cheering for infidelity.It’s a common theme in movies and books. People trapped in a loveless/abusive/neglectful (pick one) marriage discover love with someone not their spouse. And now we’re supposed root for them to abandon their vows, seek happiness without regard for consequences and run off into the sunset with each other.Ge... Read Full Story

Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel, Belle and Jasmin - the Disney princesses have delighted little girls for generations. Now your little princess can have the room of her dreams with Disney princess bedding and accessories. Read Full Story

Middlington Middle School is full of ordinary kids with ordinary problems - and Creepie Creecher. Creepie looks a little differently, thinks a little differently and walks a little differently. All of which would still be perfectly normal except for one thing. Creepie was raised by bugs. Yes, bugs. Creepie's family includes her praying mantis mother, mosquito father and brothers of the gnat and pillbug persuasions. It's the kind of thing that makes being a goth pre-teen just that much tough... Read Full Story

So, our friend Anthony over at k9cuisine sent Paisley a new frisbee* recently. Chasing frisbees is her main source of exercise since she hates walks (weird dog) and she had finally broken her last one. This is a blue and orange disc from PlanetDog with the orange part a hard plastic like a regular frisbee and the blue part a softer rubber-like material.She loves it. She will choose it every time over the regular frisbee. (Although, if they're both out there, she'll try to pick them up togethe... Read Full Story

I'm not going to tell you every little detail of the event. Although maybe I should. I was one of the few people I saw taking any kind of notes, much less copious ones.All in all, TEDxSMU was a well-run event, very consistent in tone and style with the main event held in Long Beach and all the more impressive for having been pulled off so quickly. (Six months from idea to execution!) Well spent day, although I'm not entirely sure just how the people at the big deal manage to make it through f... Read Full Story

If you have a dinosaur lover in your family, he's going to love these dinosaur bedding sets and accessories to make his room a dinosaur-land! Read Full Story

Video post!! I really should do more of these. Showing off my new glasses from Zenni Optical, which arrived Monday. (That was one fast boat from China!) I got four pair, including a pair of sunglasses for the whopping price of $167 - about $50 less than what I paid for my last pair of glasses from the doctor.I screwed up with one pair - ordered too narrow a frame, although I'm adapting - and the brilliant green pair that I've been talking about on Twitter turned out to not be quite so brillia... Read Full Story

Whether a birthday, anniversary or holiday, personalized wine bottles allow you to commemorate the day in a unique way. They also make wonderful and very personal gifts for any occasion. I'm always on the hunt for good corporate holiday gift ideas and have found wine makes for a good all-purpose gift. Adding a custom label with your company logo makes it extra special. You could also consider purchasing personalized wine bottles as gifts for a wedding anniversary or special birthday. How ab... Read Full Story