Pennsylvania bypass@Everything2.com: "But enough of my ramblings and back to the topic at hand. What I propose is simple. A large bridge over Pennsylvania that allows you to just bypass the state entirely. Want to go from Maryland to New York? Just hop on the bypass and be spared the pain and anguish of driving through Pennsylvania. There'd also be an east-west connector between Ohio and New York."
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søndag den 31. oktober 2010
God hates figs
God hates figs : pics: "I've been studying the bible recently in an english class, and this is how I imagine most other parts of the bible too. There's a scene where Abraham, age 90ish, runs around his house circumcising slaves and sons. When I think of my 90 year old grandma, I know she is completely out of her mind. She thinks the vietcong are stealing her money at night. It's just an amazing scene."
Unpopular Science
Unpopular Science - NYTimes.com: "Whether we like it or not, human life is subject to the universal laws of physics."
Bring Me The Head Of Boba Fett
Bring Me The Head Of Boba Fett: "I like my Star Wars. I've got a ton of Star Wars games, even some Star Wars toys lying around. But this? This goes a little beyond a 'toy'."
fredag den 29. oktober 2010
Unwanted penis tattooed on man's back
Unwanted penis tattooed on man's back: "A Queensland man faces criminal charges after allegedly tattooing a 40cm-long penis onto his mate’s back."
Machine of Death - CULTURE OF DEATH
Machine of Death - CULTURE OF DEATH: "In the hours since that program was first broadcast into the ears of legions nationwide, Mr. Beck has gotten his wish and captured the #1 spot. We’re just sad we couldn’t have given him his special day on Tuesday! If you’re reading this, Mr. Beck, we’re sorry about that. We just didn’t even know you were there."
Ultra Monster Series | CollectionDX
Ultra Monster Series | CollectionDX: "Literally Ultra Monster Series) are small affordable vinyl renditions of Ultraman monsters from the various Ultraman Series."
The Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map
The Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map: "More than any time in the history of the Web, incumbents in the network economy are consolidating their power and staking new claims to key points of control.
Welcome to the second iteration of the Web 2.0 Summit's theme, Points of Control! We've added your suggestions to the map, and created the Acquisition mode, which will let you suggest the next moves for the web's biggest players as they try to expand their territories.
Contribute to the Points of Control map and you could win a pass to Web 2.0 Summit! Visit the #w2s Blog for more contest details."
Points of control = Rents - O'Reilly Radar
Points of control = Rents - O'Reilly Radar: "Innovation was once the sole rent source in the computer industry, but things have changed"
Amazon.com: The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force [Vault Edition] (9781603800969): Daniel Wallace: Books: Reviews, Prices & more
Amazon.com: The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force [Vault Edition] (9781603800969): Daniel Wallace: Books: Reviews, Prices & more: "even the exterior packaging is very high quality. It came in a nice black cardboard box within another box, and within that had a wrapper that held the doors shut (which was hard to remove without damaging)."
søndag den 24. oktober 2010
Building The Next Big Thing: 25 Years of MIT’s Media Lab | Epicenter�| Wired.com
Building The Next Big Thing: 25 Years of MIT’s Media Lab | Epicenter| Wired.com: "It may be a functioning electric car prototype, but to MIT it’s media."
LPCover Lover | Just back from the International Fringe Festival
Ligner Brüno på en prik!
LPCover Lover | Where the wild things are
LPCover Lover | Where the wild things are: "“… Case Histories of Sex Starved Women”"
14 Most Epic Movie Battle Scenes
14 Most Epic Movie Battle Scenes: "Epic is overused. Heavily, heavily overused. The internet has corrupted a perfectly good word, and now it’s used almost as badly as lol. Anything that’s vaguely humorous gets slapped with the label without any appreciation for what it truly is. You know what’s epic? Hundreds of armed and trained men, slaughtering each other ruthlessly on the field of battle. Blood and death up to your knees, under the chaos of war. That is epic, and these 14 scenes all exemplify the word, as the 14 most epic battles in cinema history."
End Of An Era: Sony Stops Manufacturing Cassette Walkmans
End Of An Era: Sony Stops Manufacturing Cassette Walkmans: "Truth be told, I wasn’t aware Sony was still producing cassette Walkmans. But the company today announced it will stop manufacturing and selling these devices in Japan – after 30 years. Sony says the final lot was shipped to retailers in April this year, and once the last units are sold, there will be no cassette Walkmans from big S anymore."
8 Tragic Ghost Towns of the 20th Century | NileGuide
8 Tragic Ghost Towns of the 20th Century | NileGuide: "Desolate, ruined, hollow: ghost towns are the remnants of urban catastrophe. Whether it’s a shift in local industry or a particularly nasty disaster that sparks a mass exodus, it means the death knell for a town. Eerie and tragic, yet brimming with history, the following ghost towns are monuments to hardship, good intentions with bad�repercussions, and human folly"
lørdag den 23. oktober 2010
The Japanese RPG formula - Boing Boing
The Japanese RPG formula - Boing Boing: "Joe Juba's flowchart of the classic Japanese RPG formula (via Simon Parkin) is a delight, from the first attack on the village to our final showdown with the androgynous baddie.
After the jump, please enjoy 'It Is With Great Regret,' my very brief contribution to this genre of JRPG tribute. It's a flash-fic about the tragedy of rebellion."
fredag den 22. oktober 2010
Retro Room Mural (RRM)
Retro Room Mural (RRM): "Not long ago I decided I really needed to up the cool factor to my son's bedroom. It had always just been a plain old blue. He has always loved Mario so we decided that would be a good theme to go on."
Make: Online : 2001 monolith "action" figure
To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes | Wired Science | Wired.com
To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes | Wired Science | Wired.com: "Before the Nikes, before the breathable, antimicrobial running shorts, before the personal fitness coaches, heart rate monitors, wrist-mounted GPS and subscriptions to Runner’s World, you were a runner.
And, like all children, you ran barefoot."
Byggepladen - Danmarks LEGO� Entusiast Forening
Byggepladen - Danmarks LEGO - Entusiast Forening: "– en forening af voksne LEGO entusiaster. Byggepladen er en LEGOklub, hvor vi mødes primært på internettet i vores forum, men ogsåarrangerer møder i privat regi.
Byggepladens medlemmer kan vælge op til tre sæt som deres favoritter. Du kan se en statistik over hvilke sæt de har valgt."
Games That Defined The Dreamcast - RetroGaming with Racketboy
Games That Defined The Dreamcast - RetroGaming with Racketboy: "The Sega Dreamcast obviously was not a strong commerical success. However, that was not because of a lack of quality games. Sega excelled at having games that were unique, addictive, and just plain fun."
torsdag den 21. oktober 2010
DIY AI - Artificial intelligence has been solved
DIY AI - Artificial intelligence has been solved: "Since AI evolution requires a teeming, rioting diversity, whether you code in Ada -
APL - C - C - COBOL - Forth - Java - JavaScript - Labview - Lisp - Oberon -
Perl - Prolog - Python - Ruby - Scheme - Smalltalk - Tcl - Visual Basic - XML
or whatever, do not worry if your artificial Mind is different from the most popular,
ostensibly standard AI Mind. Would you like your own human child to be identical
to every other human child? Of course not, so carve out your place in AI history
by coding your best implementation of any AI algorithm listed or not listed below.
Put the open-source AI on the Web; stand back; and may the best Mind win."
tirsdag den 19. oktober 2010
Joystick Division - Five Insanely Scary Games That Will Ruin Your Psyche
Joystick Division - Five Insanely Scary Games That Will Ruin Your Psyche: "Psychological horror can be powerfully conveyed in video games. The games usually don't involve a lot of shocks and jumps -- instead they have a twisted, pervasive creepiness that keeps us on a terrified edge for their duration. We've picked five that have given us great fright over the years; the kind of fright that keeps us up at night. Click for the picks, in no particular order."
Superman's Fortress of Solitude in Mexico
Make: Online : Superman's Fortress of Solitude in Mexico:
This is certainly old news to the geologists in our midst, but I couldn't believe my eyes watching this BBC video clip of Professor Iain Stewart exploring the amazing Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals) in Naica, Mexico. The cave is home to crystal beams as long as 36 feet long. Looks an awful lot like Superman's Fortress of Solitude!"
Ligne claire
Ligne claire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Ligne claire (French for 'clear line') is a style of drawing pioneered by Herge, the Belgian creator of The Adventures of Tintin. It is a style of drawing that uses clear strong lines of uniform importance. Artists working in the style do not use hatching, while contrast is downplayed as well. Cast shadows are often illuminated while a uniformity of line is used throughout, paying equal attention to every element depicted. Additionally, the style often features strong colours and a combination of cartoonish characters against a realistic background. All these elements together can result in giving strips drawn this way a flat aspect. The name was coined by Joost Swarte in 1977."
Sparebøsser
webbyen.dk: "Det er egentlig ikke nogen ny interesse at samle på sparebøsser ... Jeg har, så længe jeg husker, haft mindst en sparebøsse, men da jeg startede indenfor bankvæsenet, blev det lidt af en hobby, at samle på sparebøsser, og jeg har gennem årene fået samlet nogle forskellige, som blot har ligget gemt væk, men efter indkøbet af de nye vitrineskabe til soveværelset, er de kommet frem fra gemmerne og igen til ære og værdighed."
mandag den 18. oktober 2010
søndag den 17. oktober 2010
5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accident
5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accident: "This is how NORAD learned not to run computer simulations of Soviet nuclear attacks on the systems used to respond to actual Soviet nuclear attacks. The missile defense agency received alarming indications that a full scale battery of Russian nukes were heading toward the U.S. Planes were scrambled with fully armed nuclear weapons. The president's shielded emergency plane was put into the air too (although they couldn't get the president on it in time)."
Interwebben er det nye TV
Why the web mustn't become the new TV - Shadowlocked: "'Current worries among publishing houses that magazines and newspapers will succumb to the digital written word on the internet are perhaps analogous to Victorian fears about mechanical horses taking over from real horses in the drawing of carriages. The point is being missed, the wrong fear being indulged.'"
PIRACY: Jesus Did It - Boing Boing
tirsdag den 12. oktober 2010
I don't care if you're my boss, I refuse to attend your naked lawyer vision quest dildo party
I don't care if you're my boss, I refuse to attend your naked lawyer vision quest dildo party - Boing Boing: "Attorney Steven Eggleston is suing his employer, saying the top partner at the law firm pressured him to participate in a weekend all-male retreat that amounted to a New Age self-discovery/male bonding sausage-fest—or a naked lawyer dildo party, depending on your point of view. Participants were sworn to secrecy, says Eggleston, and that was what he saw as the first sign something hinky was afoot at the 'The New Warrior Training Adventure.'"
Carl Mar Møller gå hjem!
søndag den 10. oktober 2010
BEST PARENTS EVER!!! (Chainsaw Wakeup) Is it Cute/Win/Fail?
Make: Online : Woods of the world indexed as "library" of "books"
A Tale of Two Couplands
Wired 14.05: Posts: "There's a rumor going around the Internet that Douglas Coupland collects meteorites. Nobody knows how it began, least of all Coupland. But the story started to circulate shortly after his first novel, Generation X, became an On the Road for the '90s. Every effort he's made to set the record straight has been ignored by his many fan sites. So he recently decided to purchase a few choice specimens."
The Collapse of Complex Business Models
The Collapse of Complex Business Models - Clay Shirky: "When ecosystems change and inflexible institutions collapse, their members disperse, abandoning old beliefs, trying new things, making their living in different ways than they used to. It’s easy to see the ways in which collapse to simplicity wrecks the glories of old. But there is one compensating advantage for the people who escape the old system: when the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future."
The collapse of complex societies@Everything2.com
The collapse of complex societies@Everything2.com: "'The citizens of modern complex societies usually do not realize that we are an anomaly in history. Throughout the several million years that recognizable humans are known to have lived, the common unit was the small, autonomous community, acting independently and largely self-sufficient ... hierarchy and complexity are actually rare in human history, and where present require constant reinforcement. No societal leader is ever far from the need to validate position and policy, and no hierarchal society can be organized without explicit provision for this need.'
~ Joseph A. Tainter, The collapse of complex societies (NY: Cambridge, 1990)"
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail: "Something smarter than us is going to emerge"
MindGuard Home Page
MindGuard Home Page: "Welcome to the MindGuard website, your source for the award-winning MindGuard family of anti-mind-control software for Amiga and Linux computers. Developed by Lyle Zapato during the psychotronically turbulent early 1990s, MindGuard offered Amiga-using paranoids the world over a new opportunity to think free of evil influences using advanced Active Anti-Psychotronic (AAP) software, theretofore only available to mind-control agents and paranoid millionaires. At the dawn of the Third Millennium, MindGuard was made available for even the stingiest paranoids with the introduction of MindGuard X for the free Linux OS. Now no one has an excuse not to be mind-control free!"
On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study
"Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason."
Imperial Minigolf Final Exam
Imperial Minigolf Final Exam | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Når Darth Vader hygger sig.
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie: "This site is dedicated to spreading the word about the Aluminum* Foil Deflector Beanie and how it can help the average human. Here you will find a description of AFDBs, how to make and use them, and general information about related subjects. I hope that you find the AFDB Homepage to be an important source of AFDB know-how and advocacy."
onsdag den 6. oktober 2010
tirsdag den 5. oktober 2010
Hunter S. Thompson's 1958 cover letter for a newspaper job - Boing Boing
Hunter S. Thompson's 1958 cover letter for a newspaper job - Boing Boing: "By the time you get this letter, I'll have gotten hold of some of the recent issues of The Sun. Unless it looks totally worthless, I'll let my offer stand. And don't think that my arrogance is unintentional: it's just that I'd rather offend you now than after I started working for you."
mandag den 4. oktober 2010
16 Most Creative and Unique Bookshelves
16 Most Creative and Unique Bookshelves: "Bookshelves are one of the most common pieces of furniture that you can find in almost any home around the world for the simple reason that a lot people like to read. Whether you own a collection of classic novels or volumes of work-related reference books, it makes perfect sense to get yourself a good bookcase or two for storing these books.I`m sure that some of this Bookshelves you saw already in my site, but now I want to spot all of them in an article called ” 16 Most Creative and Unique Bookshelves ”"
Low Cost Design Concrete Bookshelves
Low Cost Design Concrete Bookshelves: "Bookshelves are made from expensive woods like satinwood, rosewood, mahogany and oak, and that’s why a certain amount of aesthetic credibility is always inevitable. Kamat & Rozario Architecture in Bangalore, India, has designed a low cost and unique� set of concrete bookshelves.The outside rings are made of precast concrete, similar to those usually seen in culverts"
søndag den 3. oktober 2010
Brickipedia
Brickipedia: "Welcome to Brickipedia, a free online LEGO encyclopedia written collaboratively by its readers known as Brickipedians. The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit almost any article right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears at the top of a page. This wiki is based on the MediaWiki software used to run Wikipedia, and with the help of editors like yourself, we strive to be the best LEGO reference site out there."
lørdag den 2. oktober 2010
Full-scale, fetishistically detailed driveable replica 1966 Batmobiles - Boing Boing
Full-scale, fetishistically detailed driveable replica 1966 Batmobiles - Boing Boing: "Mark Racop works out of a shop in small-town Indiana, turning out incredibly accurate, driveable 1966 Batmobile replicas. The bodies are modified castings from an old Futura and all the fittings and parts are functional and styled to match the prop Batmobile from the series (you can also buy these individual fittings -- 'Bat Parts' -- for your modern car). The sell for $150,000, and you can choose between a rebuilt Ford 460 motor, or a new GM 350 crate engine."
fredag den 1. oktober 2010
Old-School Strongmen - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Old-School Strongmen - Photo Gallery - LIFE: "In an age when plastic surgery, human growth hormones, anabolic steroids, and other 'enhancers' can quickly change (occasionally for the better; often for the cringe-inducing worse) a person's appearance, there's a lot to be said for the strongmen of old, who usually altered their physiques the old-fashioned way: by, for example, frequently bending iron bars around their necks. Like the man said ... there's no school like the old school."
People Who Became Nouns - Photo Gallery - LIFE
People Who Became Nouns - Photo Gallery - LIFE: "Before there were silhouettes, there was a Silhouette. And before there was gerrymandering, there was a Gov. Gerry. It's easy to forget that some of the English language's most common words had real-life namesakes in living, breathing people. Like the Edsel, a disastrous car line that has become synonymous with failure. The line was named after Henry Ford's son Edsel (at right here with his dad in 1905 in Detroit) by the company board. Thanks, guys."
Guys on Motorcycles Looking Cool - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Guys on Motorcycles Looking Cool - Photo Gallery - LIFE: "It's not hard to look good while riding (or sitting or leaning on) a motorcycle. But these men did it better than others."
In Combat: LIFE's Great War Photos - Photo Gallery - LIFE
In Combat: LIFE's Great War Photos - Photo Gallery - LIFE: "This photo, in which three American soldiers lie dead in the sand on Buna Beach in New Guinea, was taken in February 1943, but was not published until September. It was the first time an image of dead American troops appeared in LIFE during World War II without the bodies being draped, in coffins, or otherwise covered up. George Strock's Buna Beach photo -- now acknowledged as a war classic -- and other equally gruesome and graphic pictures were finally OK'd by the Office of War Information's censors, in part because President Roosevelt feared that the American public might be growing complacent about the war and its horrific toll."
Flashback: French Grand Prix, 1954 - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Flashback: French Grand Prix, 1954 - Photo Gallery - LIFE: "In the pits with the Mercedes mechanics at the French Grand Prix in Reims, 1954, the first time in 15 years that German cars had competed in the Grand Prix."
Daytona Motorcycle Madness, 1948 - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Daytona Motorcycle Madness, 1948 - Photo Gallery - LIFE: "For years, from its inception in 1937 until the early '60s, the celebrated Daytona 200 motorcycle race wasn't merely run at Daytona Beach in Florida -- along with other high-speed, high-risk clashes, the 200 was run on the beach in Florida. In 1948, LIFE covered the 12th annual races at Daytona, and reported, in its April 19 issue, that 'for four days last month the resort city of Daytona Beach could hardly have been noisier -- or in more danger -- if it had been under bombardment.' Now, with unpublished and rarely seen photos from the meet, LIFE.com opens a window on a long, loud weekend 60 years ago -- a weekend that thrilled thousands of racing fans; scandalized one very popular weekly magazine's editors; and, as if proof was needed that the young sport was still in the hands of daredevils, rebels, and scofflaws, saw two people killed and 30 more injured."
Never-Seen: Hells Angels, 1965 - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Never-Seen: Hells Angels, 1965 - Photo Gallery - LIFE: "From Jesse James to Tony Soprano, outlaws have always held a singular if ambiguous place in America's popular imagination: we fear and loathe their appetite for violence, yet we envy and covet their freedom. In early 1965, LIFE photographer Bill Ray and writer Joe Bride spent several weeks with a gang that, to this day, serves as a living, brawling embodiment of our schizoid relationship with the rebel: the Hells Angels."
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