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A pocketful of Doom.
Kkreiger is a first-person shooter that fits in 96k. K. It does this by generating all textures procedurally. In other words, if there's a brick wall, they didn't save a picture of a brick, they described a mathematical procedure for rendering the brick. Maybe this is a good metaphor for the work done by our relatively small genome?
This is not your grandma's lightbulb.
Fastcompany.com gushes over the rise of the Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb, poised -- with the help of Wal-Mart -- to take over the industry. I love these things, although I've gone through a lot of trial and error trying to fit one of our more decent lamps with one -- sometimes, the swirl just don't fit.
The Tao of Sluggo
The greatest Nancy panel ever drawn. Now, my beef with the designation of this as taoist is that he seems to be pretty defiant. If he's really one with the tao, should he really be so anti-gravity? I'd like to see it in context.
Here it is in tattoo form. In video form. Thanks, boingboing! As your obsessions go, this is much better than cryptozoology, the internet is tubes guy, and sars zen combined.
But where do you put the foyer table?
Roger Dean is the premier architect for Yes fans with money. And it's all made out of sprayed concrete, so you can apparently put one of these puppies up in like a day (though it takes a while to cure). His artwork is pretty cool too.
Creepy pics of Alfred E. Bush
They continue to make new Bushes... when will this dynasty go the way of Falcon Crest?
Penlight animations.
How long before we see this technique in a soft drink ad? Or just faked? But for the time being it's very original, and cool.
Google Spreadsheets
Why doesn't anyone notify me about these things? Via gettingfinancesdone.com, which is a good find in and of itself.
A fistful of GUI
A trip down memory lane from Xerox to Leopard. Bottom line: your desktop was uglier than you remember.
Post-Hegelian synthetics.
First it was Raul in a foam cap. Now we see Fidel's Adidas. Wow, Communism really does suck.
In case anyone is wondering...
Since the general Threat Level hasn't gone up, mine won't. The red and orange alerts are for the aviation industry only.
You've Got Murder, She wrote...
Hannah Arendt, eat your heart out. The banality of evil reaches a new low in the story of AOL user 17556639, who searched for "how to kill your wife", some pictures of dead people, then steak and cheese. The web story of the week, I'm sure.
The Man Who Wasn't There
Hitchcock mosaics, placed in the Leytonstone tube station for the Hitchcock centennial in 1999, and sporting the occasional Hitch cameo. Not always the best portraits (Janet Leigh here is an exception), but that's to be expected in such a low-res medium... and they really demonstrate how distinctive his visuals could be. Via Mefi.
Show us your Black Oily Soul!!!
Turns out the guy behind Girls Gone Wild is kind of a dick. Go figure.
Top BO adjusted for inflation
Think Phantom Menace and Titanic beat Gone WIth the Wind? Don't believe the hype.
A Boss Key for the Internet
WorkFriendly makes any website look like a word document, in case your monitor faces the hall.
Hey kids, let's put on a show!
Tron Guy, Sweater Girl (I missed this meme somehow), Peter Pan guy, and those two lip-syncers sing to save the internet. How did they get them all in one room? A sweet gesture, but somehow this reeks of doom. And as waxy.org puts it, where's Mahir?
Mommy, what's a Master Blaster?
The Poor Man Institute answers all your Mel Gibson questions:
One person could tolerate a blood alcohol level of 0.10, while thismsame concentration would make another person violently ill. It is entirely dependent on the individual. Additionally, breathalizers are notoriously inaccurate.
However, it is possible to determine a person???s blood alcohol level very precisely by noting who they believe to be the source of all the world???s problems...Link
The Cuban Foam Hat Crisis
Castro's brother Raul: Is he Marxism's answer to Billy Carter? Or is something more sinister afoot? Consider the headwear. Several questions arise:
- Is there a matching foam beer cooler?
- If a country is embargoed from the American South, where does it get foam hats? CafePress only sells them in white.
- Is the hat ironic?
Is it possible that Cuba, backed by the Chinese, are in the early stages of a gentrification program? One remembers the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, in which Shanghai residents were forced to wear those foam paddy hats with "Confucius is my Homeboy" on them. And this satellite photo shows clear signs of activity.
A blockade must be established immediately. If it can obtain hipster-grade Alf Tee-shirts within the next 6 months, Cuba could be 5 years away from its first Gap.
