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Hand drawn Balinese Typography

Pingmag has yet another interesting article, this time about the hand drawn typography that can be found on signage in Bali. I've always found amateur or non-designer representations of type to be quite fascinating.

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Mr. CityMen

Mr. CityMen are really cute animated characters that are composited into real life footage. Super rad.

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Starbucks Nut

Radar has an article on a crazy dude called Winter who has made it his mission to visit every Starbucks and drink coffee at each one. I think he's wasting his life away, but hey, if that floats his boat, more power to him.

The primary rule is I have to drink at least one four-ounce sample of caffeinated coffee from each store. The store has to have actually opened for business; I can't get there the day before, when they have friends-and-family day and they're giving drinks away—in many ways that's kind of arbitrary. It has to be a company-owned store, not a licensed store. I have to drink the coffee, but there is no time limit on when I have to drink the coffee. But the longer I go without drinking it, the greater the risk that I might lose it. There are two stores I need to go back to in Washington State because I didn't finish the coffee—I lost it. I took it out of the store, I had it in a cup, and in the middle of the night I forgot I hadn't drank it all and I used the cup to relieve myself.

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DaysAgo, Reminder Gadget

Can't remember how long ago you opened that bottle o' sauce? Now you can stick the nifty DaysAgo gadget on stuff and it lets you know how many days have gone by since you activated it. Useful and Re-usable, but it could do it a redesign, it's kinda ugz lookin.

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Urban Gnomes

The urban gnome may not be as colorful as your typical garden gnome, but sure does pack a more contemporary style punch. Actually, he doesn't even resemble a gnome much. More of a blob. But he looks perfect for fans of vinyl toys and such and such.

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Qrio Robots & Humans Dance

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Lost Sock Lore

In western culture one of a pair of socks is popularly understood to disappear, usually at some point during the washing and drying process, leaving the owner with many socks without mates. There are any number of humorous theories to "explain" the disappearance.

• Wormholes open in the dryer, sucking socks into a different part of the universe, a planet that closely resembles ours except that socks mysteriously appear out of nowhere, while coat hangers vanish.
• Socks are the larval form of the coathanger. This neatly explains why there are always too few socks and too many coathangers.
• Socks are by nature cannibalistic, but they only eat their mates.

Read more humurous stuff about sock lore at the Sock Wiki page

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Studying Virtual Life

I have a level 56 Night Elf Hunter on a PVP server in a fairly new, mostly raiding guild. It's my first ever character in World of Warcraft, and it's been a challenge, super fun, irritating, and fascinating. The world is so detailed and complex, and the player - player interactions never cease to astound me. So when I came across PlayOn and Terranova - projects that seek to examine the development of virtual worlds - needless to say I was quite fasincated by the accured data and analysis they had done. They cover all sorts of topics from how a new AH in Stormwind & Darnassus affect city population to discussion of avatars & Orcs. One day I need to roll characters on PVE servers and RolePlaying servers to get a feel for how different the game becomes given those fundamental changes in game structure. I've tried Second Life but it just didn't cut it IMHO. Anyone remember The Palace from back in the late 90s?

The PlayOn project at PARC is an investigation into the social dimensions of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and virtual worlds - extensive, persistent 3D environments that are populated by thousands of players at any given moment. We have explored several virtual worlds including Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest Online Adventures, Second Life, World of Warcraft, and EverQuest II. These and others represent the most successful virtual worlds to date and are laying the foundations for future environments which may be used for more than entertainment and sociability. In our studies, we are generally concerned with three basic issues: community, interaction, and culture.

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Bag Of Holding

Gizmodo puts it perfectly:

Don't be fooled by this four or five slot bag, it can hold much more than four potions or your epic fire-resist gear. This bag will conveniently hold all of your goods but disappear on your body while wandering throughout the barren lands killing Wild Boars. This Bag of Holding will set you back 27.99 gold pieces at the nearest vendor or at the auction house. Now go forth, artisan. Roll 1D0 for your chance of getting a girlfriend with this Bag of Holding.

Get the Bag Of Holding Messenger Bag at ThinkGeek

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Atonium Iron Molecule Kids Hotel

This crazy structure might seem like sci-fi fantasy, but the Atonium is a real building in Belgium shaped like an iron molecule. It was built for the 1958 world fair, and has recently been renovated and is now a hotel for kids. I want to know what there definition of kid is, because I have a mental age of about 12 (some might say less) so I think I qualify to stay a few nights ;)

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SteamPunk Lobster Tank

I first saw CrabFu's steam machines at a robot expo. He makes steam powered vehicles that are not only technically amazing, but also look totally slick. Makes me want to go watch SteamBoy again!

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Top 100 Japanese TV Moments

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Reebok Tron-style Sneakers

The Reebok Court Victory “Glow” is reminiscent of Tron, and all things totally radical. Looks like they will glow in the dark, but what will they look like in lighted conditions? Not a shoe for the faint of heart. I'm sure these kicks will be very popular when they are released!

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sizeasy - web size comparison

sizeasy is a website that allows you to visually see how big something is in relation to stuff you're familiar with. Not sure how big the Microsoft Zune is? Enter the dimensions, choose what objects you want to compare it to - say, a pack of cards or iPod - and get a quick feel for how big it is (no pun intended).

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kontrol dj: midi controller

The kontrol dj midi controller looks like a really sweet piece of kit for anyone into using digital mixing software such as Traktor, but aren't using the Finalscratch system. It's super clean, reviews indicate it's quite robust, and has a nice DJ friendly layout. Check out this user's video demo. The only downside is it seems to be only available in Europe.

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