2008 Dec 29, 2:37"When the Hype Machine finds new songs in the blogosphere, Taggedhype looks up each track's tags on Last.fm and stores the result in Delicious. It's an elegant and useful mashup, that somehow has
managed to remain relatively undiscovered."
delicious music tag geek taggedhype via:thefangmonster podcast 2008 Dec 29, 2:28"Today, we've got an exclusive track featuring THE VENTURE BROS.' own Henchmen 21 & 24 singing a holiday classic..."
humor audio tv the-venture-bros christmas song via:kris.kowal 2008 Dec 29, 2:26Some interesting work in here: "On a Sunday night back in January, Jen came up with a formula: (limited editions x low prices) + the internet = art for everyone"
art gift purchase wishlist gallery online photo shop via:thefangmonster 2008 Dec 29, 2:20"But the most accurate account of the bomb's inner workings-an unnervingly detailed reconstruction, based on old photographs and documents-has been written by a sixty-one-year-old truck driver from
Waukesha, Wisconsin, named John Coster-Mullen, who was once a commercial photographer, and has never received a college degree."
via:swannman bomb atom-bomb atomic-bomb history goverment nuclear physics security research science 2008 Dec 29, 1:48"That's that sorted then. No more "alternate reality" bullshit. We can use the word "fiction" or "story" instead, so normal people can understand us."
humor fiction arg story presentation slideshow talk marketing game via:mattb 2008 Dec 29, 12:21This reminds me of the case of the iPod in the toilet which I could have sword I already posted to delicious...
via:claire npr humor phone cellphone toilet 2008 Dec 29, 12:06Too bad I missed these before Christmas: "Why buy a stupid Elmo when you can permanently disturb that young mind with a cute knitted plush rabbit killed with a giant carrot? Or a beautiful tiger
eating some human remains? I love these."
humor death macabre stuffed-animals toy gizmodo via:jen-johnston gift 2008 Dec 22, 11:05Hans Rosling gives a great presenttation on world health and economy and statistics visualization.
video ted statistics economics visualization youtube via:swannman 2008 Dec 17, 2:27"Specifically, we have noticed that there is absolutely no training in the K-6 grades that prepares students to become mad scientists. In this competitive 21st-century world, the need for mad
scientists will only increase... We are pleased to announce the release of our Young Mad Scientist's First Alphabet Blocks."
humor science geek gift via:swannman shopping wishlist toy alphabet-blocks 2008 Dec 14, 4:59
Sarah and I are back from Munich, Germany as of Thursday and I've just about recovered. The trip there via Air France we watched many movies and
it was much better than the trip back in which the entertainment system failed and I had a cold. When we arrived, Jon met us at the airport, helped us with the subway system, we played Guitar Hero,
ate at a Bavarian pub, and then later at an Australian bar.
The following day we met up with Jon and three of his friends, one of
whom was visiting from England and we all took a train to Neuschwanstein Castle. Apparently its the 'Disney' castle in that Disney's castle's are based upon it. The castle is filled with images and
statues of swans in homage to the Swan Knight. We ate in the town at a cafe with traditional Bavarian food before taking the train back and getting all you can eat fajitas for dinner.
germany personal vacation nontechnical 2008 Nov 25, 2:48Motorola viral marketing appears in forums all over the place. Wow. This link from the comments of .
via:boingboing.comments marketing advertising motoral phone cellphone viral-marketing 2008 Nov 23, 9:34The folks who made the awesome inforgraphic music video for Royksopp's 'Remind Me' has it as well as a bunch of their other videos on the site.
via:swannman visualization music video music-video art advertising design animation france 2008 Nov 22, 6:01"There is a commonly held belief that Helvetica is the signage typeface of the New York City subway system, a belief reinforced by Helvetica, Gary Hustwit's popular 2007 documentary about the
typeface. But it is not true - or rather, it is only somewhat true"
via:swannman nyc subway history font typography sign helvetica 2008 Nov 22, 5:59"Five years ago, we named 'Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,' by Gay Talese, the greatest story Esquire ever published. Here, as we close out our 75th anniversary celebration, are the top seven, with several
republished online in their entirety for the first time ever."
via:swannman esquire article essay humor 2008 Nov 21, 3:52I like the melted ice cream truck. "Our Australian friends 'The Glue Society', a group of artists, designers and projecteers, have created these amazing series of sculptures and films where they've
created chair rainbows on the frozen tundra, a curb-side wrap party, gratuitous nudie pictures for airplanes passing by, a house of crates, and a blow-up doll's vacation paradise."
streetart art prank culture nature photo sculpture ice-cream-truck via:boingboing 2008 Nov 20, 11:01Woo! "I love making films for the cinema but the production of Chicken Run and Curse of the Were-Rabbit were virtually back to back and each film took five years to complete. A Matter of Loaf and
Death will be so much quicker to make. I'm delighted to be back into production and back with BBC One with Wallace and Gromit. Over the years the BBC has been incredibly supportive of Wallace and
Gromit, this film feels like their homecoming."
wallace gromit wallace-grommit bbc animation clay claymation via:kris.kowal humor 2008 Nov 20, 10:58I, like Matt, am a bit incredulous but this is still funny. "Check, cash or money order are acceptable forms of payment when the bill collector comes knocking (or e-mailing), not a picture you
doodled of a spider."
via:swannman humor art spider money 2008 Nov 19, 4:28"A binary birthday candle. It consists of a single candle with seven wicks, where the wicks that are lit represent the birthday individual's age in binary. This single candle design works flawlessly
to represent any age from 1 to 127, never requiring anyone below the age of 127 to blow out more than a mere six candles at a time."
via:swannman birthday geek math humor howto cake birthday-cake candle binary 2008 Nov 17, 4:54"One of our unwritten rules is that, in order to work here, you had to have cleaned a grease trap at some point, and you had to have been punched in the face at least once,"
via:ethan_t_hein humor onion 2008 Nov 17, 4:20"...he said that The Roots were retiring from touring in order to become the house band for Jimmy Fallon when he takes over Conan O'Brien's late night show next year. But that video was quickly
pulled, so everyone has been scrambling to find out whether this apocalyptic... thing is actually true. NBC has no official comment, but we hear that it probably is. Essaywhuman?!!!??! This is one of
those things that proves you're getting old."
via:ethan_t_hein tv the-roots music
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