It’s Fourth of July here in the states. While most Americans are celebrating with non-stop food, beer and fireworks , Barry Ritholtz took a break from the festivities to create this ingenious ASCII art. Amazingly, this creation only uses 100 characters so it’s Twitter-safe and perfect for some re-Tweet love this holiday afternoon.

When’s the last time you gawked a room built from wood and obsolete computer parts that was set inside a Polish castle? Yesterday? BS

Where would we be without the world’s graduate art projects? In the case of Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter, we might never have seen the day when a solar-powered 3D printer would turn Saharan sand into a perfectly suitable glass bowl.

I’m not saying this chair—complete with its 11 fully functioning music boxes—isn’t cool (because it definitely is). But it’s tough to argue this thing isn’t the definition of random (because it definitely is). More??

NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has a fancy new air-filtration system which is miles ahead of anything we’ll ever seen in our homes; built to actually preserve the paintings and statues that make up the Cloisters section. More??