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Preschool tribute to Beastie Boy’s Sabatage

devondevereaux — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:07:00 +0000

James Winters and his preschool aged sons created a loving tribute to Adam “MCA” Yauch.

Math Girls Comic Kickstarter

Tony — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:06:56 +0000

Publisher Bento Books has launched a Kickstarter to fund a translation of a manga adaption of the novel Math Girls. Advanced Mathematics + Manga + Teen Romance = Worth supporting!

View Link [kickstarter.com]

The scary days of human testing

frycook — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:06:55 +0000

Rocket Sled Pioneers — critical condition, but 5 days later he was back to work.

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Russian Winnie the Pooh or “Winnie Pooh”

Rusalka — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:20:51 +0000

A interesting Russian take on Winnie the Pooh, not much whimsicalness, very straight to the point. Well worth a watch.

View Link [youtube.com]

Nyan BART

Parker — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:20:49 +0000

I took this picture of a nyan cat sticker on the map of the San Francisco bay area public transit system, BART. The cat’s right where all four colored lines go over the Bay Bridge, so it takes advantage of the map’s implied rainbow. I love it.

View Link [imgur.com]

Etsy Punk Occupy Jacket

foslforever — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:20:24 +0000

Etsy user creates Punk/Biker themes Occupy jacket

View Link [etsy.com]

messagesto.me

soquequal — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:20:22 +0000

A site based on anonymous submissions of thoughts, secrets, letters, etc. ‘Letters’ are displayed every five minutes on the minimalist front page, for the whole internet to see. A social experiment, outlet, and generally a fun site.

I made a very similar website when I was learning MySQL. This is a great starter project! – Dean

View Link [messagesto.me]

Silent videos of Japanese trains and their bathrooms

goldensloth — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:58:07 +0000

This is a large collection of unnarrated video of different trains in Japan and of the toilet of the train being flushed. Sometime the trains switch tracks. The poster has also transcribed the announcements from the train loudspeaker. It’s a sort of visual review of trains, and their toilets’ flushing mechanism and cleanliness.There is poetry in its simplicity. (Linked again in case I did it wrong in the other field.)

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Things of Unusual Size

jaysonelliot — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:58:05 +0000

Hanae Ko’s oddly captivating Tumblr only contains objects that are unusually small or unusually large. An overflowing plate with a full English breakfast, small enough to barely cover a fingertip is my favorite.

View Link [thingsofunusualsize.tumblr.com]

HOWTO make Disneyland’s Matterhorn glisten like real snow

Aaron — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:57:06 +0000

In another fabulous behind-the-scenes video, a Disneyland Imagineer shows how they made the Matterhorn’s new paint job glisten like real snow: glass beads embedded in the snow.

Also, 20 levels of scaffolding.

View Link [youtube.com]

Number of bullets used in 2011 by german police? 85.

itwilllbeok — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:57:03 +0000

According to the German Police University police officers used exactly 85 bullets in 2011 – 49 warning shots, 36 shots on suspects. 15 persons were injured, 6 were killed.
Germany has a population of about 80 million.kB upon

(This does only take into account shots in connection with crimes. There were an additional 9000 shots on dangerous, sick and injured animals)

View Link [spiegel.de]

Portal theme song on a Treadmill

jennybean42 — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:33:05 +0000

Student modifies gym machine CPU to play the portal theme.

View Link [youtu.be]

Water in the Window

pineapplecharm — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:33:03 +0000

Rainwater (I assume) trapped between the double glazing in this bus window sloshes back and forth as the bus accelerates and brakes. It’s curiously soothing to watch and kept me amused for the whole two hour journey from Helsinki to Turku. Disclaimer: I was on the wrong end of a stag party and not at my mental peak.

View Link [youtube.com]

FlyRights App lets travelers make formal TSA complaints from their phones

rbrammer — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:33:01 +0000

The Sikh Coalition just released the FlyRights app. It’s a smart phone app that gives travelers who believe they’ve been the victim of discrimination by the TSA the ability to submit formal complaints directly from their smart phones.

You should have this on your phone the next time you fly!

View Link [fly-rights.org]

Best 70s Booze, Babes and Burt Reynolds montage EVER.

jammyjam2012 — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:32:52 +0000

This video takes everything that was awesome about 70s beer commercials, Trans-Ams, girls, hot tubs, and white wine and rolls it all into one delicious video.

View Link [youtu.be]

The striking Ford typewriter of 1895.

Antique typewriter Collector — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:32:51 +0000

Hi Cory,

Thank you for your past interest in my collection of antiques typewriters.

Are you ready for another killer 19th century typewriter?
Have a look, it is quite unique.

The Ford typewriter is a striking machine with its beautiful ornate grill and gracefully integrated keyboard. It was a machine to grace the eyes but would not have endeared itself to the typist, as the keys are rather springy and wobbly when typing and the platen surprisingly does not have a line-by-line clicking action.

From the Martin Howard Collection – http://www.antiquetypewriters.com

Thank you for considering the sharing of this typewriter with your readers.

Best Regards,
Martin Howard
arlyle: legialin

View Link [antiquetypewriters.com]

Star Castle for the 2600 (30 years later)

starcastle2600 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:18:40 +0000

In 1981 a young Howard Scott Warshaw, left his first programming job at HP for a more interesting job at Atari. His first assignment was to create an Atari 2600 conversion of the vector coin op game Star Castle. After evaluating the arcade game and the console hardware he came to the conclusion “that a decent version couldn’t be done” (http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/378/on_game_design_the_.php?page=2), and “that this conversion would suck on the VCS system” (http://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_howard_scott_warshaw.html). So he reorganized the core game-play elements into a new game designed specifically for the 2600. That game became Yars’ Revenge, the most successful original Atari game ever for the Atari 2600. I used to work at Atari on the 2600 and I thought “surely it can be done”, and after a lot of hard work, some humbling failures, 30 years later – I DID IT! I created an 8K Star Castle cartridge that works in the 2600, a version that could have shipped in 1981, AND I went on to create my own circuitry, logic chip and designed and machined a clear lexan case (on a CNC machine that I designed and built myself but that’s another story) made labels and a box ~ basically the whole package. I’ve been making video games for 25 years, have worked on nearly every game console ever made and this is quite possibly the coolest thing I have ever done.

View Link [kickstarter.com]

Talking Heads cover on traditional Chinese instruments

fairmariner — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:18:38 +0000

Our band has been invited to go to China for 6 weeks as musicians-in-residence at Sichuan University! We still can’t quite believe this is happening to us. We’re going to record an EP while we’re there, and we have a Kickstarter for that project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/768271187/china-meets-matteo

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1930s streamlined car

frycook — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:18:28 +0000

called the Turtle.

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nyan waits

AndyBooth — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:18:23 +0000

its ok, we can all go back to bed now, everything else today is worthless

View Link [nyanwaits.com]

AAPL vs Your Wedding

bengarvey — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:18:21 +0000

Take what you spent on your wedding and instead spend it on Apple stock.
What would it be worth today?

View Link [applevsyourwedding.com]

From Lunch to Landfill

maeryan — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:18:19 +0000

Track your trash from start to finish as it moves through the sprawling streets of LA

View Link [vimeo.com]

“Cat Attempts High Five Record”

trainrider — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:18:16 +0000

This is a video my friend Kurt posted of his cat – Curt with a C – going for the high five record (as indicated in the video, “the record number of high fives between a cat and a man is 153″).

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I just finished a 143 hour freehand ink pen drawing

mikiverevikim — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:18:14 +0000

70x100cm. 4 pens lost their ink. My hands hurt.

View Link [behance.net]

The Chatroulette of GIFs

williamw — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:18:02 +0000

Endless random fullscreen gifs, all user submitted.

View Link [maxgif.com]