Steam Punk Avengers by Macedonian artist Mihajlo Dimitrovski
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photo by Scott Beale
MC Frontalot has just released the new single “Diseases of Yore” from his album “Final Boss”. The song features vocals and guitar by Jonathan Coulton. Here are the lyrics in case you have trouble keeping up with Front’s rapid fire delivery.
You are sitting in an emergency room. The rapper sitting next to you is in pretty terrible shape. Also, he is seemingly dressed for RenFaire.
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photos by Scott Beale
A couple of weeks ago Shel Israel had a book release party for his new book “Twitterville” which took place at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos. The museum was open during the party, so I took a quick tour and shot a few photos.
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The Echo Park Time Travel Mart has just announced their new poster series for The Federation for the Advancement of Time designed by LA artist Amy Martin, a follow-up to last year’s series of time travel posters. Proceeds help support 826LA, part of 826 National, a family of regional non-profit organizations, each with a unique theme, that helps students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills.
This year’s collection is in collaboration with the The Federation for the Advancement of Time—because no matter when you live, it’s always the right time for good temporal citizenship! Each poster promotes a civic message for good citizenship in the far past or distant future, transforming the predictable aesthetic of the WPA poster with ironic sloganeering such as “Fire Good…But Also Bad” and “Robots! Clean Your Drives Daily,” coupled with clean, retro graphic design.
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Wonderful animated music videos of “Walk Don’t Run” and “Diamond Head” performed by the Japanese ukulele duo U900 from their album “Ukulele Ventures”.
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People of Walmart is a blog featuring photos of “interesting” people found at Walmart stores around the country. They are actively seeking submissions of Wal-Creatures.
CNN takes a look at the people behind the blog and how it came about.
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image via Star Trek Inspirational Posters
Back in 2007 Matt Bailey of SiteLogic took look a the analytics behind the “Red-Shirt Phenomenon” in the original Star Trek series, where the guy in the red shirt who is beamed down to the planet with Captain Kirk is the one who always dies.
It was found that red-shirted crewmembers tended to die in groups. In 17 red-shirt fatality episodes, 8 were multiple incidents, 9 were single incidents. In a little less than 50% of the fatal red-shirt situations, multiple crewmen were vaporized.
via The Presurfer
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photo by Neil Girling
Pranksters at Burning Man have changed the sign on top of the infamous Thunderdome to read “Hot Topic”. Bravo!
Thunderdome, where epic Mad Max style battles take place between bungee suspended warriors, is run by the San Francisco goth/industrial group Death Guild and of course Hot Topic is where suburban goth kids buy their clothes at the mall.
Here’s a video by marclar of the Thunderdome in 2007.
See Previously: Burning Man 2009 Photos by Neil Girling
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photo by Scott Beale
Back in 2007 when Chicken John Rinaldi was running for Mayor of San Francisco, Loid of Mongoloid painted a wonderful mural on the side of Chicken’s warehouse “Chez Poulet” on Cesar Chavez in The Mission. The mural has gone through a few changes over the years as Chicken decided which public office he wanted to take on next. Based on the latest incarnation, his current aspiration is that of city Dog Catcher.
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A gang of thieves broke into the Sagemore Apple store in Marlton, New Jersey, stealing 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones and 9 iPod Touches in 31 seconds.
via TUAW
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photos by Neil Girling
Neil Girling has been shooting some amazing photos of Burning Man 2009. He does a great job of capturing the atmosphere out there. Here’s the full set on Flickr.
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Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee have made their first statement regarding their capture by North Korea while covering human trafficking between North Korea and China. Originally sentenced to 12 years hard labor, they were released 140 days later after a visit by Bill Clinton.
When we set out, we had no intention of leaving China, but when our guide beckoned for us to follow him beyond the middle of the river, we did, eventually arriving at the riverbank on the North Korean side. He pointed out a small village in the distance where he told us that North Koreans waited in safe houses to be smuggled into China via a well-established network that has escorted tens of thousands across the porous border.
Feeling nervous about where we were, we quickly turned back toward China. Midway across the ice, we heard yelling. We looked back and saw two North Korean soldiers with rifles running toward us. Instinctively, we ran.
Here’s more coverage by The New York Times.
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xkcd takes a mathematical approach to help reduce Urinal Protocol Vulnerability and prevent awkwardness while peeing in public restrooms.
When a guy goes into the bathroom, which urinal does he pick? Most guys are familiar with the International Choice of Urinal Protocol. It’s discussed at length elsewhere, but the basic premise is that the first guy picks an end urinal, and every subsequent guy chooses the urinal which puts him furthest from anyone else peeing. At least one buffer urinal is required between any two guys or Awkwardness ensues.
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Balsa Man 2009, a tiny version of Burning Man complete with 3′ tall balsa sculpture, takes place this Saturday, September 5th in San Francisco (same night as the big burn in Black Rock City). Here’s more on how to participate and make sure to read the Balsa Man Survival Guide before you arrive.
The theme for this year’s event is “Big Dreams Writ Small” and several Tiny Art Grants have been awarded through the Black Pebble Arts Foundation (BPAF).
photo by Colin Fahrion
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Ikea Heights is a online video series directed by David Seger on Channel 101 that is shot entirely inside the Burbank Ikea without the store’s knowledge.
Here’s the series so far: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3 & Episode 4
See Previously:
- Scotty Got an Office Job, A Video Series Featuring Subversion At Work
- Will Crum & Band Performs Stealth Show In An IKEA Kitchen
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Andrew Hyde is organizing boco, a new conference focusing on tech, music and food, that takes place on October 2nd in at locations around Boulder, CO.
The main goal we have is to create amazing and unique experiences. We are not hosting the conference at a hotel or conference center, instead the entire town plays host, rolling out the welcome mat and showing off what we are so proud of.
The conference organizers are offering Laughing Squid readers a 20% discount on registration.
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Urlesque is proposing that on 9-9-2009 we all take a break from posting about cats on the internet. Instead they suggest that you blog about many of the other wonderful non-cat animals out there. I’m just as guilty as anyone else when it comes to gratuitous cat blogging, so we shall join them in solidarity.
Urlesque is organizing a web-wide ban on cat-related coverage on 9.9.09 — A Day Without Cats on the Internet. Why only one day? Well let’s be honest, that’s probably only as long as we’ll last before a hilarious video comes crashing into our inbox. But for one day, we will abstain… for you… for the cats.
Here is the press conference with Urlesque’s Stephen Lenz and Kelly Reeves.
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poster by Len Peralta
w00tstock, three hours of geeks and music featuring Adam Savage, Wil Wheaton and Paul and Storm, takes place October 19th and 20th at Swedish American Hall in San Francisco and October 21st at Largo in Los Angeles.
For decades, geeks were ostracized, picked on, laughed at and punished by the sun’s harmful UV rays. But there is only so long that a people can be kept down before they rise up against their oppressors; and, indeed, the dawn of the 21st century has seen the ascendancy of geeks and geek culture.
We now celebrate that rise to power–and let’s face it, nerds pretty much run everything now–with w00tstock, a special event for geeks of every stripe. Television host/special-effects artist Adam Savage (”MythBusters”), actor/author/blogger Wil Wheaton (”Star Trek: The Next Generation”, “Stand By Me”) and music-comedy duo Paul and Storm (hey; that’s us!) present a night of songs, readings, comedy, demonstrations, short films, special guests, and other clever widgets born from and dedicated to the enthusiasms, obsessions, trials and joys of geek pride.
This is the dawning of the Age of Geekdom–and its voices will ring true at w00tstock.
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The 2006 music video for My Hands Are Bananas, produced by Little Baby Films.
This dark German techno tells the tale of a young man und his appealing attributes.
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