Anonymous: "'Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.'"

(Via Motivational Quotes of the Day.)

Monday, February 28, 2005
10:08 PM
and I used to covet them too

Vintage PC magazine ads: "Cory Doctorow:


1000bit has a jaw-dropping gallery of scanned in vintage magazine ads for old computer systems.

Link

(Thanks, Olli!)

"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Monday, February 28, 2005
10:08 PM
and I used to covet them too

Vintage PC magazine ads: "Cory Doctorow:


1000bit has a jaw-dropping gallery of scanned in vintage magazine ads for old computer systems.

Link

(Thanks, Olli!)

"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Monday, February 28, 2005
10:05 PM
I've sensed this at times

Python in a toilet: "David Pescovitz:
A man in St. Petersburg, Florida lassoed a snake that was poking its head out from his toilet. It turned out that the snake was a six-foot-long African rock python.
Link (via Fortean Times)
"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Monday, February 28, 2005
10:02 PM
in memory of Lenny Bruce, my fave swearologist

HOWTO curse in Yiddish -- WARNING: "Cory Doctorow:
Swearasaurus is a directory of curses in languages other than English. The Yiddish curse section is stupendous. I'm taking notes.

He should give it all away to doctors...

He should crap blood and pus...

He should have a large store, and whatever people ask for he shouldn’t have, and what he does have shouldn’t be requested...

All his teeth should fall out except one to make him suffer...

I should outlive him long enough to bury him.

Link

(via MeFi)

Update: Some readers report that this site trips their anti-spyware software. I use Firefox and OS X, so I am immune. You may not be so lucky. On the other hand, the anti-spyware could just be overzealous. Who knows?

Update 2: Ed Bott sez, 'I am the author of the best-selling books Windows XP Inside Out and Windows Security Inside Out. I can tell you for a fact that this site offers to install a known piece of deceptive software (aka spyware) on the computer of anyone who visits. It uses social engineering techniques to trick the visitor into accepting the installation. In my opinion, you should remove this link as a service to your readers.' Forewarned is forearmed."

(Via Boing Boing.)

Sunday, February 27, 2005
09:49 PM

Our Godless Constitution: "It is hard to believe that George Bush has ever read the works of George Orwell, but he seems, somehow, to have grasped a few Orwellian precepts."

(Via Daypop Top News Stories.)

Sunday, February 27, 2005
09:45 PM
try this if you like Safari

Safari Buttons - 0.2.7: "puts print & new tab buttons in the Safari toolbar"

(Via VersionTracker: Mac OS X.)

Sunday, February 27, 2005
09:36 PM
yeah

Anti-astrology discrimination: "Aaron Swartz has some fun with David-Horowitz-worshippers:

A shocking recent study has discovered that only 13% of Stanford professors are Republicans. The authors compare this to the 51% of 2004 voters who selected a Republican for President and argue this is ‘evidence of discrimination’ and that ‘academic Republicans are being eradicated by academic Democrats’.

Scary as this is, my preliminary research has discovered some even more shocking facts. I have found that only 1% of Stanford professors believe in telepathy (defined as ‘communication between minds without using the traditional five senses’), compared with 36% of the general population. And less than half a percent believe ‘people on this earth are sometimes possessed by the devil’, compared with 49% of those outside the ivory tower. And while 25% of Americans believe in astrology (‘the position of the stars and planets can affect people’s lives’), I could only find one Stanford professor who would agree. (All numbers are from mainstream polls, as reported by Sokal.)

This dreadful lack of intellectual diversity is a serious threat to our nation’s youth, who are quietly being propagandized by anti-astrology radicals instead of educated with different points of view. Were I to discover that there were no blacks on the Stanford faculty, the Politically Correct community would be all up in arms. But they have no problem squeezing out prospective faculty members whose views they disagree with....

In related news, Aaron went to a David Horowitz lecture at Stanford and wrote it up, so the rest of us don't have to suffer as he did."

(Via Geekable.com.)

Sunday, February 27, 2005
09:35 PM
I knrw he was going to ...

Time Travel: Take half a critical mass of plutonium back to meet itself.: "A Guide to Science Fiction Chronophysics , a serious look at some of the hard questions ignored in soft-science fiction and fantasy. While we wish some time lines had never come to pass, or would go back in time and shake hands with themselves, there are circumstances that can lend themselves to great deal of fun."

(Via metafilter.com.)

Sunday, February 27, 2005
09:28 PM
boy this film really rang for me, something about that Clint unwilling father figure maybe...

Clint's the auteur: "Eastwood wins. Clint Eastwood got the double dipper tonight with Best Pic and Director. Not that Scorsese isn't badly due one, but the fact is, The Aviator is not one of Marty's top five films, while Million Dollar Babies is top five among Eastwood's pics. It's that simple.

My thought: I think this film and Mystic River proves, once and for all and without argument, that Eastwood is among the top American directors ever, up there with Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, and the others. (He's actually better than Allen). I think all of the critics like Pauline Kael who dissed Clint without thinking over the years have to eat it and eat it hard."

(Via metafilter.com.)

Sunday, February 27, 2005
09:25 PM
bad s bad
good is good
--thumbwars

A Berry for Berry: "The 25th annual Razzies were held this weekend, honoring the worst films of 2004. Without a doubt, the highlight of the event was the nomination (and subsequent winning) of Halle Berry for her abysmal participation in Catwoman. Why? Berry actually attended the ceremony to recieve her award, saying among other things 'I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit.'"

(Via metafilter.com.)

Saturday, February 26, 2005
05:44 PM

I have no idea what this means

Mac Download: Eclipse plug-in creates partitions XML files: "A multi-platform Eclipse-based technology that enables users to create partitions xml files that can be used to define a WASXD applications partitions and partition expressions. This tool enables...


[[ Visit http://www.macmegasite.com for full article ]]"

(Via MacMegasite.)

Saturday, February 26, 2005
05:39 PM
philosophical computerisms

Computer existentialism: "Sometimes I’m surprised by method names.





Okay—it’s not filled in. How could you possibly answer such an existential question?



Well, luckily, we’re talking about computers, not people. And it’s just one line of code.



Here’s the answer:

(Via Inessential.com.)

Saturday, February 26, 2005
05:36 PM
Jedi-world

George Lucas and Jedi Mickey in Disney World: "Cory Doctorow:


When George Lucas holidays in Disney World, he gets to hang with Jedi Mickey.

Link

"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Saturday, February 26, 2005
12:05 AM

John Witherspoon: "'Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.'"

(Via Motivational Quotes of the Day.)

Saturday, February 26, 2005
12:05 AM

John Witherspoon: "'Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.'"

(Via Motivational Quotes of the Day.)

Friday, February 25, 2005
11:56 PM

Leeches Reconsidered: "Modern medicine sucks it up"

(Via Interesting Thing of the Day.)

Friday, February 25, 2005
11:15 PM

LaunchBar 4 Lifts Off: ""

(Via TidBITS.)

Friday, February 25, 2005
11:14 PM

Sleek Mac Mini Plays Well with Others: "Opinion: Useful software, adequate performance, and PC keyboard compatibility make the new mini a good option for Windows users who would rather add than switch."

(Via eWEEK Macintosh.)

Friday, February 25, 2005
10:05 PM
I wonder if there are other colors

Voodoo knife rack in shape of a person: "Cory Doctorow:


This 'voodoo' knife rack, which depicts a human form pierced by your knife collection in many strategic locations, is the best kitchen thinggy I've ever seen. They should make custom head-shaped ones with the face of your choice, so you can start your day by stabbing your least favorite person in the world in the face repeatedly as you make breakfast.

Link

(via JWZ)

"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 25, 2005
10:02 PM
might be good for those of us with peripheral neuropathy
holding a pen can be a bitch

Radical pen redesign: "Cory Doctorow:


I have no idea if this 'ergonimic' pen design is any better than plain old stick-pens, but it sure looks cool and intuitively useful.


Link

(Thanks, Ronny!)

Update: Modesty sez, 'I makes no sense at all, until the moment you figure out how to hold it, at which point it feels like the most natural thing in the world, it just kinda sits there being useful. I write with it all the time now (well when I write and not type anyway).'"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Tuesday, February 22, 2005
10:34 PM

Sci-Fi Eye for the Geek Guy: "Quick, think of your favorite sci-fi television or movie franchise or writer (i.e. Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Dune, HHG2TG, Asimov, Babylon 5, Blade Runner, Lexx, BattleStar Galactica, Flash Gordon, Arthur C. Clarke, William Gibson, Philip Jose Farmer, or Planet of the Apes, Buckaroo Banzai, The Matrix.) Don't think about it too much. I just want you to remember the first one that popped into your mind. Ok, got it? Great. Read on to see if I peg your personality type at all. (Participants receive a handy home version of the game.)"

(Via Kuro5hin.org.)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
09:34 PM

and I know people who would buy them...

Own a Disneyland ride vehicle!: "Cory Doctorow:


Disney is auctioning off Space Mountain and Sky Bucket ride-vehicles from Disneyland!

Link

(Thanks, Amanda!)


"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
09:33 PM
alive, its alive

Microbial life on Mars?: "Xeni Jardin:
BB reader Matt Hamrick sez:

Looks like Space.Com has an exclusive story that two scientists are briefing NASA bigwigs that they've discovered the best evidence yet that there might be microbial life on mars. w00t!

Link (via linkfilter, thanks also, John Parres!)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
09:27 PM
I have found my gravestone

Cute characters at a Japanese gravestone shop: "Mark Frauenfelder:



Steve Portigal says: 'Some sample gravestone carvings in Japan, including Doraemon, Godzilla, and Hello Kitty. By sample, I mean on display at a store, not in a graveyard (not yet, at least).' Link
"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
09:16 PM
now this is americana
mutants on parade

Barnum's American Museum digitized: "David Pescovitz:
The Lost Museum is my favorite museum right now, even though it doesn't really exist. It's an amazing Flash-based recreation of PT Barnum's American Museum, lost to fire in 1865. Barnum's Museum was a tour-de-force of oddities, curiosities, and humbuggery:

P.T. Barnum's American Museum, located from 1841 to 1865 at the corner of Broadway and Ann Street in lower Manhattan, has been long recognized by historians as a pivotal institution in the development of nineteenth-century urban culture. For a twenty-five cent admission, visitors viewed an ever-revolving series of 'attractions,' from the patchwork Fejee Mermaid to the diminutive and articulate Tom Thumb. But the Museum also promoted educational ends, including natural history in its menageries, aquaria, and taxidermy exhibits; history in its paintings, wax figures, and memorabilia; and temperance reform and Shakespearean dramas in its 'Lecture Room' or theater. Foreshadowing trends in American commercial amusement, the Museum was the first institution to combine sensational entertainment and gaudy display with instruction and moral uplift.

The virtual reconstruction contains such gems as a complete scan of an 1850 guidebook to the American Museum, articles from the period about attractions like the FeJee Mermaid, and background on the eccentric characters in Barnum's living 'collection.'
Link (Thanks, Kirby Bartlett-Sloan!)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
09:16 PM
now this is americana
mutants on parade

Barnum's American Museum digitized: "David Pescovitz:
The Lost Museum is my favorite museum right now, even though it doesn't really exist. It's an amazing Flash-based recreation of PT Barnum's American Museum, lost to fire in 1865. Barnum's Museum was a tour-de-force of oddities, curiosities, and humbuggery:

P.T. Barnum's American Museum, located from 1841 to 1865 at the corner of Broadway and Ann Street in lower Manhattan, has been long recognized by historians as a pivotal institution in the development of nineteenth-century urban culture. For a twenty-five cent admission, visitors viewed an ever-revolving series of 'attractions,' from the patchwork Fejee Mermaid to the diminutive and articulate Tom Thumb. But the Museum also promoted educational ends, including natural history in its menageries, aquaria, and taxidermy exhibits; history in its paintings, wax figures, and memorabilia; and temperance reform and Shakespearean dramas in its 'Lecture Room' or theater. Foreshadowing trends in American commercial amusement, the Museum was the first institution to combine sensational entertainment and gaudy display with instruction and moral uplift.

The virtual reconstruction contains such gems as a complete scan of an 1850 guidebook to the American Museum, articles from the period about attractions like the FeJee Mermaid, and background on the eccentric characters in Barnum's living 'collection.'
Link (Thanks, Kirby Bartlett-Sloan!)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
09:11 PM
good for you stan

Gerard Jones, author of Men...: "

Gerard Jones, author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book comments on the ruling that Marvel Comics owes Stan Lee millions of dollars for the movies based on the characters Lee (co-)created.

Lee's lawsuit had sent a modest shock wave through the comics community — not because a comic book publisher scammed one of its creators — that's what those publishers have always done — but because Lee, of all the creators in the business, seemed to be the one immune to scammery.

"

(Via blog.)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
09:11 PM
good for you stan

Gerard Jones, author of Men...: "

Gerard Jones, author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book comments on the ruling that Marvel Comics owes Stan Lee millions of dollars for the movies based on the characters Lee (co-)created.

Lee's lawsuit had sent a modest shock wave through the comics community — not because a comic book publisher scammed one of its creators — that's what those publishers have always done — but because Lee, of all the creators in the business, seemed to be the one immune to scammery.

"

(Via blog.)

Monday, February 14, 2005
10:21 PM

Miss Army Knife with perfume bottle, needle and thread, etc: "Cory Doctorow:


These 'Miss Army Knives' sell for $20 and contain: flashlight, screwdriver, keychain, needle & thread, perfume bottle, mirror, pill box, knife, safety pin, pen, tweezers and bottle opener.


Link

(via Red Ferret Review)

"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Monday, February 14, 2005
10:15 PM
won't admit how many I've read

Every single MAD Magazine cover: "Cory Doctorow:


This obsessive MAD Magazine fan has scanned in what appears to be every single MAD cover since October, 1952's issue number one and posted them, along with the table of contents for each issue. Pictured here, the cover of the MAD from July, 1971: the month of my birth.

Link

(Thanks, Greg!)


"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Monday, February 14, 2005
10:10 PM
sorry muldur

Chupacabra? Unfortunately not.: "David Pescovitz:
Unfortunately, this strange dead animal discovered on Albuquerque's West Mesa isn't a chupacabra as some suspected. The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish report that it's an ocean skate. From KOBTV Eyewitness News 4:

(Albuquerque Aquarium manager Holly) Camain said the creature looks so different because a fisherman cut most of the meat off.



It’s not clear why the creature ended up on the West Mesa, but one theory says someone either caught it or bought it and dumped it on the mesa.

Link

"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Monday, February 14, 2005
10:04 PM

"From the greatest of horrors irony is...: "

'From the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent,' reads the first line of the H.P. Lovecraft story 'The Shunned House,' but chances are Lovecraft, who died in 1937, wouldn't have appreciated the irony of his present position as American literature's greatest bad writer.

Laura Miller is writing about H.P. Lovecraft: Tales.

"

(Via blog.)

Web Zen: Recipe Zen: "Xeni Jardin:


collard patch


copykat recipes


utterly outrageous recipes


insect recipes


recipes of the damned


lunch at noon


cooking for engineers






Image: Cover of a WWII-era cookbook containing a number of recipes worthy of appearance on Fear Factor. web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank)."

(Via Boing Boing.)

Sunday, February 13, 2005
10:57 PM

Turing machine built from model railroad: "Cory Doctorow:
The first computer hackers started out as railway hackers, members of the MIT 'Tech Model Railway Club,' monkeying around with model trains and the gates that controlled them (this is wonderfully documented in Steven Levy's classic Hackers: Heros fo the Computer Revolution, in passages like this: 'The other faction centered on the Signals and Power Subcommittee of the club, and it cared far more about what went on under the layout. This was The System, which worked something like a collaboration between Rube Goldberg and Wemher von Braun, and it was constantly being improved, revamped, perfected, and sometimes 'gronked' in club jargon, screwed up. S&P people were obsessed with the way The System worked, its increasing complexities, how any change you made would affect other parts, and how you could put those relationships between the parts to optimal use.').

So it is only fitting that a group of art-hackers in Vienna's Museumsquartier should build a functional Turing machine out of model railway tracks -- a calculating engine whose motive force is a scaled-down locomotive.

Scale trains have existed for almost as long as their archetypes, which were developed for the purposes of traffic, transportation and trade. Economy and commerce have also been the underlying motivations for the invention of computers, calculators and artificial brains.

Allowing ourselves to fleetingly believe in an earlier historical miscalculation that '... Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons.' (Popular Mechanics, March 1949), we decided to put some hundred tons of scaled steel together in order to build these calculating protozoa. The operating system of this reckoning worm is the ultimate universal calculator, the Turingmachine, and is able to calculate whatever is capable of being calculated. One just would have to continue building to see where this may lead...

Link

(via MemeMachineGo)

"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Sunday, February 13, 2005
10:53 PM
they're not that bad...well. yes they are

Laughably poor sci-fi movie costume: "Mark Frauenfelder:

I don't know where One Man Safari gets his incredible photos, but this one, of a wistful elderly gentleman wearing silver makeup and a roller derby helmet with pieces of a toy radio glued to it, is typical of the treasures you'll find here.


Link"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Sunday, February 13, 2005
10:51 PM
of course I love him
yog-sothoth

HP Lovecraft: love him or hate him: "Cory Doctorow:
Salon today features an excellent feature on HP Lovecraft, the florid, love-him-or-hate-him cult horror writer. The article does a great job of explaining why Lovecraft fans adore him, and how those same traits repulse his detractors.

Perhaps the most curious thing about Lovecraft is that much of what aficionados love about his work is exactly those things his detractors list as faults. Take, for example, the fact that while Lovecraft is usually described as a forefather of modern horror fiction, his stories are, to put it bluntly, not very scary. Wilson complained, with perfect justification, that Lovecraft ladled on the frightful adjectives and adverbs when describing -- or even just hinting at -- the nightmarish realizations that typically confront his protagonist at a tale's climax. In 'The Lurking Fear,' the narrator, recounting his sensations as he is about to discover something awful, explains, 'I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that broods beyond time.'

Lovecraft's narrators routinely rave about the 'hideous,' 'monstrous' and 'blasphemous' nature of their revelations. Wilson went on, again quite reasonably, to observe, 'Surely one of the primary rules for writing an effective tale of horror is never to use any of these words -- especially if you are going, at the end, to produce an invisible whistling octopus.' That octopus crack is a particularly low blow, since the most celebrated of Lovecraft's stories and novels partake of what has been dubbed the Cthulhu Mythos, an alternative mythology involving an enormous and malevolent being whose tentacled head resembles a cephalopod.

Link (requires reg or that you sit through an ad)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Sunday, February 13, 2005
10:44 PM

"New beauty" mag: cosmetic surgery, c'est chic: "Xeni Jardin:




Hack your face -- or your butt, your breasts, your wrinkles, or any other part that might feel inferior. 'New Beauty' is a glossy publication devoted to the glories of cosmetic sugery, with articles on lipo, lasers, injectables, and new boob job technologies in the the premier issue.


Link to 'New Beauty' website, link to Gawker's ripsnortin' pre-launch deconstruction from January, link to an Aspen Times review of the magazine, which is now on newsstands."

(Via Boing Boing.)

Thursday, February 10, 2005
10:01 PM
don't miss a step

How To Start Your Very Own Blog In Fifty-One Easy Steps!: "Interested in the blogging scene? Confused how to go about setting up your very own blog? Follow these fifty-one easy steps and you'll be a l33t blogger in no time!"

(Via Kuro5hin.org.)

Thursday, February 10, 2005
09:58 PM
I'm waiting for chalk eraser art myself

Sharpened pencil stub sculpture: "Cory Doctorow:


This bristly sculpture is constructed from 2,000 highly sharpened pencil-stubs, and is part of an exhibit of sculptures made from household objects.

Link

(via Beyond the Beyond)

"

(Via Boing Boing.)

lol

Moment of tech hed zen: "Xeni Jardin:
I know what this BBC News headline really means. But when I read it, my brain fills with visions of overly large persons hurling their bodies toward a circular form comprised of erectile dysfunction pills and canned meat product. Link (thanks Tyson)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Thursday, February 10, 2005
09:55 PM
could be worse
could be dracula dead and luvin it - the series

Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs" to become TV series: "Xeni Jardin:




Spaceballs, Mel Brooks' zany 1987 'Star Wars' spoof, will be remade into an animated television series. I'm not sure if this is a good thing, or a bad thing. Trivia note: the tagline for Spaceballs the movie? May the schwartz be with you.


Link to comingsoon.net's rehashing of this subscribers-only Variety report. Link to press release."

(Via Boing Boing.)

Thursday, February 10, 2005
09:53 PM
stojed nuns
thatz funny

Germany's 1960 sacrelicious cola ad: "Cory Doctorow:
This sacrelicious 1960 German TV ad for 'Afri-Cola' was the subject of much controversy for its depictions of stoned nuns tripping on sugarwater.

Following its TV broadcast, this commercial was the subject of great discussion: nuns lounge around in an afri-cola rush. It led to a boycott of the Bayerisch Rundfunk, and in a letter, Cardinal Frings mentions afri-cola in connection with the 'denigration of the church'.

Link

(via We Make Money Not Art)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Thursday, February 10, 2005
09:51 PM

Classic Millennium Falcon toy reissue: "Cory Doctorow:


Hasbro has reissued its classic line of Star Wars action figures with the flagship Millennium Falcon playset leading the pack -- updated with missile firing action and a blue LED thinggum just to prove that it was manufactured this season.

Link

(via Wired Magazine!)

"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:38 PM

AP: G.I. Joe Captured in Iraq!: "A little after noon on February 1, the Associated Press released a news alert saying they'd found a photo on a message board (ansarnet.ws, according to this AP article) along with a message that foreigners had captured many American soldiers. Copies of the original versions of the article are still floating around the 'net. A couple of hours after releasing it, an advisory moved across the wire, asking editors not to run AP Photo LON128, because of 'questions being raised about the image.' As of the last version of the story I've found (from around 4 p.m. EST), the AP is trying to not make a big deal out of the fact they goofed ... big time. And yet the photo is so G.I. Joe when you look at it the first time."

(Via Kuro5hin.org.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:35 PM

Being hunted: "Sometimes when I’m at work I get the strange feeling that I’m being hunted...



"

(Via Inessential.com.)

Web Zen: Hey don't eat that zen!: "Xeni Jardin:


steve don't eat it


real meat shakes


8500 calorie sandwich


food anomalies


tortilla breadboard


tortilla art


clay oranges


crazy asian drinks


bad candy




Image: tortilla motherboard. web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank)."

(Via Boing Boing.)

Web Zen: Hey don't eat that zen!: "Xeni Jardin:


steve don't eat it


real meat shakes


8500 calorie sandwich


food anomalies


tortilla breadboard


tortilla art


clay oranges


crazy asian drinks


bad candy




Image: tortilla motherboard. web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank)."

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:31 PM

Vintage Star Wars ceramic collectible kitsch for sale: "Cory Doctorow:


Check out these amazing vintage ceramic Star Wars household items for sale -- C3PO soap dishes, Yoda bud-vases, and a Taun Taun teapot!

Link

(via Wonderland)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:29 PM

Religious picture book remixed into twisted alien-invader primer: "Cory Doctorow:


The Cuddly Menace is a remix of a saccharine picture-book called 'My Little Golden Book About God.' The author has replaced the revoltingly sweet captions with his own twisted, angry ones, to very very good effect.

Link

(via Waxy)


"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:26 PM

Life-size Candyland game staged by Nebraska college students: "Cory Doctorow:


75+ students at Hastings College in Nebraska are building a life-sized version of the Candyland game (pictured here: three students posing as the 'Gloppy Chocolate Swamp') next week. This looks like a very ambitious project, and the site claims the inspiration came from 'a philosophy paper about Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.'

Link

(Thanks, Chris!)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:25 PM

Kinetic junk-sculptures straight out of a Road Runner toon: "Cory Doctorow:


Gina Kamentsky builds gorgeous kinetic sculptures out of found objects -- they look like something out of a Road Runner cartoon or a Rube Goldberg illustration. The videos are fantastic.

Link

(Thanks, Madeline!)

"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:24 PM

iPod Stereoscope: "David Pescovitz:
Paul Bourke's iPod-Photo Stereoscope is an exquisite retro tech/new media mash-up:

For those wondering what 'stereoscopic' is all about, viewing stereoscopic images give an enhanced depth perception. This is similar to the depth perception we get in real life, the same effect IMAX 3D and many computer games now provide. Stereoscopic viewing of any sort involves independent presentation of a different image, called a stereopair, to each eye. These stereopairs are essentially two different views of the world corresponding to the slightly different views our eyes see because they are separated horizontally....


Images can be downloaded to the IPOD-Photo, the images can subsequently be recalled and presented on the colour display. A series of images can also be presented manually or as a self running slide show with some user selected delay between each image. So to use this as a stereoscopic storage and presentation device one simply labels two IPOD-Photos as 'left' and 'right', the images corresponding to each eye are installed on the appropriate IPOD-Photo.

Link (via Leander Kahney's The Cult of Mac)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:23 PM

Flamethrowing hearse: "Cory Doctorow:


This heavily modded hearse has working flamethrowers on the bonnet and a badazz control panel inside.

Link

(Thanks, Michael!)


"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:21 PM

Artist draws objects based on submitters' descriptions: "Mark Frauenfelder:
Artist Benedict Carpenter asks people to email him descriptions of everyday objects without disclosing what the objects are. Then he draws them based on the description. Then the person who submitted the description tells Carpenter what the object is. Shown here, Carpenter's drawing based on a description of a spoon.

'My body is framed by one long smooth line,

An axis of symmetry down my spine,

My stalk is long, with a quick swell and bend,

And four small birth marks cut into the end.

My body is smooth like a fresh-laid egg,

I look like an octopus with one leg.

My surface was bright like the sun at noon,

Now marked and scarred like the face of the moon.'

Link (Thanks, Mary!)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:14 PM

Artist draws objects based on submitters' descriptions: "Mark Frauenfelder:
Artist Benedict Carpenter asks people to email him descriptions of everyday objects without disclosing what the objects are. Then he draws them based on the description. Then the person who submitted the description tells Carpenter what the object is. Shown here, Carpenter's drawing based on a description of a spoon.

'My body is framed by one long smooth line,

An axis of symmetry down my spine,

My stalk is long, with a quick swell and bend,

And four small birth marks cut into the end.

My body is smooth like a fresh-laid egg,

I look like an octopus with one leg.

My surface was bright like the sun at noon,

Now marked and scarred like the face of the moon.'

Link (Thanks, Mary!)"

(Via Boing Boing.)

Friday, February 04, 2005
10:12 PM
that's right, pick on the 9 fingered actor

Emma Garman, blogging over at Maud Newton's...: "

Emma Garman, blogging over at Maud Newton's site today, offers a rundown of upcoming book-to-film adaptations. Elijah Wood will star in the film version of Everything Is Illuminated, and will be paid upwards of $500,000 per eyelash.

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(Via blog.)