16 foot ball of jeans
Reminiscent of a weird Katamari Ball, this 16 foot ball of jeans looks like it’s supposed to be saying less about the fun game, and perhaps more about being chained to American culture.
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Grid Wars 2
What happens when you take the retro classic like Asteroids and pump it up on adrenaline and fast computers? Geometry Wars for XBox. Don’t have an XBox? No problem, Mark Incitti has made Grid Wars 2, a superb clone of the game in Blitz Basic and it is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. The gameplay is fast-paced and addictive - it’s been a while since I’ve been so enthralled by such a simple game. The premise is the same as Asteroids - destroy everything. get powerups for better weapons. The really cool thing is the Grid. I won’t claim to completely understand how the game works, but there seems to be a grid that represents gravity, and it is warped by any object on the game field. The controls are unusual - you set your direction of fire independent of your movement direction. An in-depth review is here Hard to explain - just download and check it out (before the XBox peeps get the clone taken offline)
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Cursor Kite
While on the topic of arrow shaped things, this Cursor Kite is super cool.
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Arrow Coat Hooks
These arrow coat hooks look really sweet. They’re limited edition, so I’m tempted to try to make some myself. 
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Hello Hilton
This is perhaps the only Hello Kitty thing that I am quite repulsed by. Available only in Japan (thank god!), the Sanrio Paris Hilton HK doll is a strange cross-branding of cultures. Bling and cute just don’t go together.
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Edible Memo Pads
When I saw that a company was selling Edible Memo Pads, I immediately thought of Douglas Coupland’s novel jPod. In this book, one of the main characters has a office cubicle where almost everything is edible. Oddly enough, Coupland’s precursor to jPod, Microserfs, also has an ‘odd food’ thread where one character ends up eating only flat food.
[via notcot]
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There and Back Again
Progressive breaks perfect for blasting in your car on your way to a party and on the way home afterwards.
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There and Back Again - mixed by DJ Spyhunter
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ELT - Deatta Koro No You Ni (Hybrid Remix)
BT - Simply Being Loved
Bakony Scamp - Ivett (Julez Breaks mix)
Absolom - Stars (Rain’s Waveform Mix)
Lucky 7 - Greece
Hoffman - Destiny
Dj Mutiny - Organik
Goldenscan - Of Our Times (Burufunk Remix)
Quasar - Road to Network
Christian Rusch ft. Ozgur Can - Signed, Sealed & Delivered
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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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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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