Nevaeh is a hot new name for girls. Pronounced “Neh-VAY-ah”, it is “heaven” spelt backwards, and has been adopted by a whole horde of families across America ever since Christian rock star, Sonny Sandoval of P.O.D. named his daughter the heavenly name. I like the NY Times’ joke title “And if It’s a Boy, Will It Be Lleh?”
Add comment May 25th, 2006
monochrom asked a bunch of austrian people to draw some brands’ logos from memory - some were international, some were european. the resulting sketches are quite humorous. it’s interesting to see old logos that are still in the public consciousness, as well as the strength of some logos over others. I wonder what the sketches for Nike would have looked like.
Add comment May 25th, 2006
This is what happens when you can outsource your labor to web workers. The Sheep Market paid $.02 for 10,000 people to draw sheep online. The results were then posted online, along with the ability to see hoe each sheep was drawn. They were recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. This seems to be a fascinating new way of farming out work. Hmmm, I wonder what I can pay 100 people $.01 to do?
Add comment May 25th, 2006
I wouldn’t call myself a pyromaniac - but the accusation has been leveled that I enjoy playing with fire a little too much. And my love of all things LED / blinky / bright has been well documented. So the Infernoptix quite nicely fulfilled both of those interests. Take the idea of a LED scroller/display and use fire instead. The result is quite impressive - down to the mean sounds the machine makes when in operation. I’m not quite so sure about the dancing man raving to the god of fire - but it does add a humor variable. Make it bigger, make the ‘refresh rate’ faster and I’ll take one! Check out the vids past the jump.
Add comment May 25th, 2006
A stroke of genius: When yer havin trouble finding your balls, put on these peril sensitive glasses that let filter out most colors except white & yellow.
Add comment May 24th, 2006
Do you know where your towel is? I do. Remember folks, Towel Day in remembrance of Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, is May 25th. And if you saw the movie and were disappointed, I highly recommend reading the book(s) if you haven’t already done so.
Add comment May 24th, 2006
db clay makes these excellent gaffer tape wallets. I guess that trumps my duct tape wallet. In any case, they come in a variety of printed versions, as well as a plain grey edition that they encourage you to customize yourself.
What is gaffer’s tape? db clay says:
Gaffer’s tape is a vinyl-impregnated cloth tape that is waterproof, abrasion resistant, industrial grade, and has a tensile strength nearing 48 lbs. per inch. Gaffer’s tape is conventionally used by a Gaffer. This is an electrician who is responsible for the lighting & sound on a film or stage set. Every movie, every concert and every elementary school play are all held together by this material. The fundamentals of this material are also used in book binding, medical tape and other industrial applications.
Add comment May 24th, 2006
Before the dawn of radar, the military spent quite a large amount of time researching Acoustic Locators. This typically involved building odd pseudo-speaker-horn-like devices to hear enemy forces from a distance. I wonder if one day the stealth technology of today. or radar, or the use of satellites, or acoustic weapons etc etc will be looked at through the same historical lens of incredulity?
Add comment May 24th, 2006
VWvortex Forums: A photo tour of the Transparent Factory in Dresden
Add comment May 22nd, 2006
I make no excuses.
I promise nothing.
The ebb and flow waver.
Then collapse into fog.
There is no cat named Teapot.
1 comment May 14th, 2006
Good tunes. I’m behind the curve - everyone else has already liked them and decided to hate them for becoming too popular.
Add comment May 11th, 2006
Geology often seems like such a slow process, but then things happen very suddenly. Well, Mt. St. Helens has been doing something quite interesting - Shoving a huge rock slab out of itself at the rate of a meter a day. The quick time lapse is impressive.
Add comment May 11th, 2006
Tin foil birthday cube prank. Inspiration for all those dull cuboids out there!
Add comment May 10th, 2006
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