Gein Influence
This is for all you serial-killing fashionistas… SkinBag, made out of synthetic human skin. I want the laptop bag!
Jet Powered
How about a turbine powered personal hovercraft? I am dying to see a video of this, if you find it send it ASAP!!!
Rolling Stones
Do you remember Marble Madness the classic game from the 80′s? I would play it for hours at my friends Pablo’s house in his Amiga 64… Anyway, the object of Ballance is the same; get a marble from point A to point B while avoiding obstacles and falling. The graphics are superb, hell, even the music is good. Download the demo at the website and keep on rolling!
Mix and Match
Lookalike
Dodge’s female reproductive system logo.
WTF?
Ever wanted to know what font your favorite publication or website uses? What The Font will tell you! Just upload an image, or give it a URL…
Chord Heaven
Learning a new song chord structure on a guitar is usually a hassle, it involves going back and forth between sheet music and the chord books. ChordGuide has a cool interface where you build lists of your guitar chords to print or save. Nice…
Phone Home
Aboard the Pioneer10 is a plaque that explains to would-be aliens who we are, were we are, etc… This is an explanation to Carl Sagan’s design.
Green Peace
Ahhhh… Zen Gardens. Need one. Now.
Silencio!
Part of the allure of a David Lynch film is trying to figure out what he is trying to tell us. I’ve seen Mulholland Dr. twice and both times have had hours of conversation with my wife… Now we can get a better understanding of what is going on: Lost on Mulholland Dr. is an in-depth study on this most fabulous film complete with a timeline!
The Eagle Has Landed
The Project Apollo has an excellent photo gallery of the day man first set foot on the moon…
The gallery includes that mission’s film magazine “S” in its entirety, representing all photographs taken during the historic first moonwalk on July 20, 1969. Images identified with the prefix AS11-40 are now seen for the first time in their clearest and most accurate presentation to date, and are a result of recent work by Johnson Space Center to digitally scan original Apollo film. The process involves removing each original film roll from a double-freezer, allowing it to thaw, then digitally scanning each frame using an Oxberry adapted HR-500 long roll film scanner. The Apollo magazine “S” raw digital scans were supplied on DVD-R to the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal and Project Apollo Archive, for which Kipp Teague processed the images for web presentation. It is with pleasure that Eric Jones and Kipp present to you the EVA photographs of Apollo 11 as never seen before, and coinciding with the 35th anniversary of man’s first voyage to the surface of the Moon.
What a trip!
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, is Lewis Carroll’s precursor to Alice In Wonderland. This is Carroll’s original (1862-1864) manuscript for the story, which he personally illustrated. Click here for The Making Of.
Word Status
What are the most popular words in the English language? WordCount arranges them in descending order giving you a structure of word usage… I should definitely go to the bottom of the list to try and fish new words for this blog.
Answer
I’ve tried this 20 Questions bot before with little success… Now, its getting better and better. I was thinking Sticky Notes and it guessed it by question 17! Try to stump it!
Dot Scale
A dot for every second in the day.
A dot for each day.
Clothing Optional
It’s quite obvious that the Internet is a great medium for self-exposure…but who would’ve thought that a simple Ebay auction could hide the body of a very naked man?…Ohh, by the way, I am writing this with no pants on.
Chew and Blow
While most of us are busy sticking gum under the table, Jason Kronenwald has been making Gum Blondes out of that same chewed gum.
Box Cutting Insane
See this wonderful collection of BoxDoodles…you can even send your own!
N
Mix parkour, Lode Runner, and Stair Dismount and you get N. A fabulous physics engine and very addictive game play… Download it and go waste some time!
4 Dimensions
Audi’s new Escheresque commercial is quite stunning. Shot in S?o Paulo, my wife’s hometown!
You Can’t
Gallery of the Forbidden features album covers that have been censored for one reason or another.
Y
Ever wondered what takes place during an autopsy? “Ed, the pathology guy” has put together an explanation of the whole process with cute little drawings…
Branding Letters
Each letter of Capitalis Pirata (a PC/MAC font) is made with the letter-logo of a different company…You might notice that theres no M though, because McD’s threatened them with legal action.
Transparent Canvas
Step by step of how a painting is done from concept to finished.
Number 9
For more than 30 years the worlds intelligence agencies have used numbers stations transmit coded messages through shortwave radio. The code can be retrived by anyone having a common shortwave radio, then it is deciphered using a one time pad. A product of the cold-war these stations keep on transmitting as I write. Irdial~Discs has put together a collection of these recordings called The Conet Project. You can download the CD’s here. I’ve listened to CD1 already and it is very, very interesting. You hear voices reciting numbers in different languages on top of simple musical patterns…avant-garde if you will, John Cage would be proud. Salon did an article on it.
Euphoric Vapors
AWOL is a machine that vaporizes any alcoholic beverage and mixes it with oxygen providing the drunkness with no hangover and no carbs. It is probably a great companion to LoveChess…(see next post)
Check Mate
Woooo Hoooo!!!
Enter the world of the Greek and Trojan gods, and let the game take you to a beautiful place where the gods make love on the chessboard. Get that geeky fetish mojo rolling with LoveChess! The other player probably takes advantage of your “lost” concentration…
Make Love Not War
Nice little research of where the peace sign comes from by Designboom.
P2P Will Only Get Bigger
This week Apple was celebrating it’s 100 millionth download. And they took almost a year…
Each day, the equivalent of roughly three billion songs or five million movies zips between computers, according to the study by Cambridge, England-based technology firm CacheLogic.
So there you go… filesharing moves 30 times more songs on any given day! Wow! Original article.
Money Transfer
Steve Albini, great musician, producer for the Pixies, Helmet, and Nirvana, etc… Wrote one of the few texts that sums up the workings behind the music business: The Problem With Music.
