the adventures of teapot the cat

Hello Kitty gets Plastic

I have the feeling that my better half will give in to her addiction to all things ‘neko’ and ‘kawaii’ and sign up for this Hello Kitty credit card. Things will inevitably go downhill from there…

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DIY Messenger Bag

DIY messenger bag made from recycled materials.

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movements in wood and foam

Ben Hopson created some really elegant interactive demos that are so eleborate and smooth that the wood and foam takes on an air of beauty usually reserved for refined artworks.

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Bump Keying

Bump Keying is a method of lockpicking that requires no picks (or skills really!) With a specially cut key and a sharp rap on the end of the key, almost any lock can be opened. This video is of European origin, so perhaps this won’t work elsewhere - but that would require me to do research. As if!

[via Future Feeder ]

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Minimal Site Portraits

There is something quite spooky about the Internet Soul Portraits. Popular sites such as cnn.com are screen captured and all imagery and content is removed - leaving only the empty shell of layout. The web is such an intrinsically content / data driven medium, that it becomes very strange to find a site that looks absolutely devoid of content - yet still implying the presence of it. Imagery of the abandoned mall in the original Dawn of the Dead springs to mind.

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Gravitram Kinetic Sculptures

Gravitrams are ultra-intricate kinetic sculptures built by Shab Levy between 1973 and 1999. Most of them are basically rolling balls travelling on metal rails, in a very Rube Goldberg fashion. The movie clip is quite retro, but very hypnotic. I’d love to see one of these in person.

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The Evolution of Desktops

The Evolution of Desktops is a fascinating look at how desktop interfaces have changed over the years. I was a little disappointed to see that other OSes such as Amiga and Atari were omitted, but it’s still quite nostalgic to see the ancient Mac screens!

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Russell’s teapot

Wikipedia’s entry about Russell’s teapot, which discusses belief in religion in an analogy about an orbiting teapot. So I thought it would be apropos on Teapot the Cat.

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