January 2011
43 posts
— Vetusware: the self-proclaimed “biggest free abandonware downloads collection in the universe” http://bit.ly/zFfUd
— My 9-month-old son’s selection of books to yank off the shelf runs to the technohippie: http://amzn.to/g1ddd1& http://amzn.to/dY61nC
- 19-year-old builds solar death ray http://bit.ly/eZS8OX #kidsthesedays
— Moses coming down the mountain with a pair of iPads.
— Thomas Edison: by 2011, books “will all be printed leaves of nickel” http://bit.ly/7a0W9i
— 1901 prediction that Montreal would be part of the USA (and home of the President) by 2001 http://bit.ly/dUPNa2
— Vanity Fair on Picabia in 1915: “not subject to the usual taunt of being unable to paint” http://bit.ly/h61nM8
— 1946: the first telephone with a built-in answering machine http://bit.ly/hjZA7r
— Axe Cop: the Movie. Perfect with Sunday morning coffee. http://bit.ly/hPeUUv
— long exposure photos of cleaning robots at work http://bit.ly/aJGgA7
— The “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry” (PDF) http://bit.ly/hLJUv0 = the ghost of Tristan Tzara laughing his ass off.
— Quake III Arena has been reincarnated on XBox Live. Fixes ALL of the annoyance of Halo multiplayer (i.e. mutes homophobe 15-year-olds).
— drug catapult at Mexico-US border: http://fxn.ws/hS7ZfG
— my son’s general lack of hair on everywhere except the top of his head is resulting in a Misfits/Samhain-style devil lock haircut.
— “If I Should Fall From Grace with God” is now the theme for a Subaru commercial. We are living in the End Times.
— The Word Robot is 90 Years Old Today http://bit.ly/egVpT0
— goodbye Charlie Louvin. Listening to hurtin’ songs.
— from @lemonhound: kids trying to figure out yesterday’s technologies (SLYT) http://youtu.be/gdSHeKfZG7c
— Doug TenNapel’s Ratfist http://bit.ly/ejOoMt
— and sometimes, someone builds these things: http://bit.ly/eixYGw (their architecture is more posthuman than yours)
— houses designed by spam: http://bit.ly/2v7Koi (post-Arakawa architecture)
— the world of Soviet groceries: an image set http://bit.ly/g10elV
— “The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine.” (Abraham Lincoln) http://bit.ly/ftnYjv
— Project Iceworm: the US Army’s under-ice city in Greenland, powered by a portable nuke: http://bit.ly/h8zYup
— understatement: “Apple’s Apps system is fantastic for software or games, but not necessarily for content” http://bit.ly/fVudJM
— Taco Bell sued for calling meat “beef” http://bit.ly/enHBCl
— Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else http://bit.ly/gGm4Xa
— MailSteward rocks my world. Full-day email backups with AppleScript reduced to minutes.
— melodic death metal Lego: http://bit.ly/7Bt3nu and http://flic.kr/p/8TVJj4
—melodic death metal Lego: http://bit.ly/eLYDi1 and http://flic.kr/p/8TVJj4
— smear a car with fingerpaint, then wrap a sheet around it: Sarah Illenberger’s car prints http://bit.ly/e5GOoA
— forgot how long mail backup takes. Time to read a (gasp) paper book.
— “Graceful degradation”: when you blow a hole in powered military body armor and most of it still keeps functioning. #21cvocabulary
— Your Mom Hates Dead Space 2 http://bit.ly/dZkq5V
— Let the villains of Bad Guy Earth tremble. Axe Cop and Dinosaur Soldier are here in quantity. http://bit.ly/fwks0o
— Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” as a 1950s -style children’s book (a Flickr set) http://j.mp/eQQsAi RT @brainpicker
— Read along with Tron: http://bit.ly/e4R6aH
— Chad McCail: if Brecht drew pictograms http://bit.ly/fWVeQ0
— “If there’s one photo that captures the urban otherness of brutalism, it might be this”: http://bit.ly/fIjdZJ
— Man tunnels into GameStop, cleans out inventory http://bit.ly/dVfqRc … and they say cartoons don’t teach you anything.
— chili cooking music http://youtu.be/EgaxYEsEVVY
— The Museum of Idolatry: “the world’s largest collection of artifacts of apostasy.” http://bit.ly/4yqf3n
— Drawing with Code: an exhibition of computer art from the 1950s to the present http://bit.ly/flyzje