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Heineken recently turned 140 years old. And, to help celebrate, they constructed a giant LED screen, with their iconic beer bottles acting as individual pixels. The seven day construction in Amsterdam saw the installation of about 5,000 Heineken bottles that displayed videos and images submitted to Facebook.
Fans were encouraged to visit Heineken’s fan page and submit pictures and celebration messages — with the best ones eventually displayed on the bottle wall.
[via Taxi Design]
If you enjoy cooking, Facebook, and showing your appreciation for things via the “Like” button — then the “I Like Your Kitchen Glove” is for you. Designed to look like that little pixelated thumbs-up of approval — the oven mitt will show your “friends” that you like cooking and baking even more than pictures of their kids.
Or, you can use a Pot Holder, and show your love of brownies and late night munchies.
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Oreo, in support of gay pride, recently posted a rainbow version of their cookie on Facebook. It unsurprisingly polarized the cookie-eating community, while also creating demand for a six-layer Oreo. It was only a matter of time until the Photoshop version just wouldn’t do — so Instructables member Carleyy broke out the food coloring and dental floss, and made it happen.
Although Nabisco has not yet mentioned plans to make a Rainbow Oreo available to the masses — this one-off is a step in the right direction. Now we wait.
[full instructions can be found here]
Anyone who follows Foodiggity on a regular basis, knows that when we’re not supplying the best in food culture on our blog, we’re wasting time on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.
At the time of this writing, our number of followers on both platforms has become the same — 1854. So, we thought it would be a good opportunity for a little social media throwdown. Now that it’s all knotted up, we’re racing to get to 2000 followers on Twitter and Facebook. And people are going to win stuff.
So, fans of Foodiggity, it’s simple… The first platform to hit 2000 will host a monster giveaway. Suggest us to your friends and followers, and fans who mention this giveaway (hashtag #foodiggity2k on Twitter, like or share our Facebook post) will be entered to win stuff from The Foodiggity Shop. And if you’re not already following us, do so.
MyFarm is kind of like FarmVille, but for reals. A real life farm — Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire, U.K. — will give wannabe farmers the opportunity to vote on everything from what crops to grow to what livestock to nourish, all online. But that sense of realism comes at a price — about $48.
Now if you decide to annoy your Facebook friends with life on the ‘farm’, perhaps they’ll be more tolerant knowing that there is an actual flesh and blood cow or real corn involved. But then again, they usually don’t care about pictures of your real kids either. Happy farming!
[MyFarm, via Fast Company]