Frank Zappa plays a couple of bicycles on a 1963 episode of The Steve Allen Show.
via Boing Boing
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photo by Inhae Lee
My Milk Toof is a photo blog where each post tells a story over 1 to 10 images of two Milk Toofs that happen to reside at Inhae Lee’s home.
When I was young, I placed my baby teeth under my pillow and when i woke up I’d find a shiny new quarter. But whatever happened to those little teeth? Where did they go? Would I ever see them again?
Many years later, a little tooth was standing at my door. It looked familiar. It’s name was ickle. Welcome home, my milk toof!
The stories are exceedingly cute, simple and elegantly illustrated through the photos. As one commenter noted, “it’s like a ticklish photo haiku.”
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GOOD Magazine takes a look at the Largest Bankruptcies in History (full size).
Last week, General Motors began the fourth largest bankruptcy proceedings in history, joining the many other large and venerable companies that have sunk to the bottom during this economic crisis. In fact, eight of the 20 largest bankruptcies have happened during the last two years of crisis.
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“Break In”, directed David Fincher, is the first television commercial for the new Apple iPhone 3G S.
via /Film
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Corey McKenna has used stop motion animation to make one of the most charming wedding invitations that I have ever seen. It is light, whimsical, compelling to watch, and really makes me want to attend their wedding (even though I have never met them). Congratulations, and good luck on the big day, Corey and Rachel!
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PES is back with a nifty stop-motion animated ad for Orange Telecom.
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Last Wednesday Serious Lunch pointed out that Conan O’Brien’s new art deco set on The Tonight Show looks like looks like it came out of Super Mario Bros.
On Friday’s show Conan responded, denying that there was any resemblance at all.
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Here are the major announcements Apple made at this morning’s WWDC 2009 keynote:
- Snow Leopard, the refined version of the Mac OS Leopard, is scheduled to be released in September for $29 ($49 for a family license). Here what’s new in Snow Leopard.
- iPhone 3G S, the 3rd generation iPhone, is faster than ever and includes support for shooting video. It will be available June 19th for $199 (16GB) or $299 (32GB). They also dropped the price of the original iPhone 3G to $99.
- iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update, which introduces many new features and includes the long awaited cut-and-paste, will be released on June 17th.
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My First Dictionary by Ross Horsley, makes learning to read both fun and educational.
via Coudal Partners
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guest post by RICK!
Scotty Iseri posts likely the last episode of Scotty Got an Office Job, his hilarious video series that we’ve covered in the past. As it turns out, his boss reads this blog.
Thanks for the Laughing Squid shout-out, Scotty. Let us know if you need a reference.
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photo by Petula Yeyé
Dispatchwork is a project by German artist Jan Vormann that puts toy bricks into holes in real world buildings. His first installations were in Bocchignano in Italy and Tel Aviv, Israel. His latest is in Berlin where he is specifically targeting damage from World War 2.
From an interview with the artist in Wired:
“The idea for the Dispatchwork project came about while I was strolling through the medieval village of Bocchignano. I found that the buildings there are put together using all kinds of materials. It’s a case of necessity and design is secondary.
“If you have a hole in a wall, and a variety of different kinds of stones, it doesn’t matter to the builders there what kind of shape, colour or composition these stones are as long as they fill the hole and assure the wall’s stability. The stones leftover from one house will not be thrown away and wasted, but be used for fixing another building or adding to the original one.
Vormann has several other projects up on his site, a solo show coming up in Berlin, and he will be participating in a group show at Platform 21 in Amsterdam called “Repair Project”.
See the Repair Project manifesto below. It’s a nice corollary to The Maker’s Bill of Rights from Make: Magazine.
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Nathan Mazur designed a really great “I Love Teuthology” t-shirt for our friends over at Neatorama that celebrates Teuthology, the scientific study of cephalopods.
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illustration by Doctor Popular
RoboGames 2009, the world’s largest open robot competition, takes place this weekend, Friday, June 12th through Sunday, June 14th at Fort Mason Festival Pavilion in San Francisco. Here’s the full schedule and advance tickets are now on sale.
RoboGames invites the best minds from around the world to compete in over 70 different events. Combat robots, walking humanoids, soccer bots, sumo bots, and even androids that do kung-fu. Some robots are autonomous, some are remote controlled, some spew fire, some just look cool. Get your geek on and come on down!
photo by Lenore Edman
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories created this year’s awesome RoboGames awards.
photo by Scott Beale
Here are some photos and video I shot at RoboGames 2008.
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photo by Adam Jackson
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2009) takes place this week (June 8-12) at Moscone West in San Francisco. Things kick off with the keynote by Phillip Schiller at 10am on Monday, June 8th. Here are a few websites providing live updates of the keynote:
- gdgt
- Engadget
- Gizmodo
- Macworld
This year’s rumors include a new iPhone and the possibility of the long awaited Apple tablet. John Gruber has posted his WWDC 2009 predictions on Daring Fireball.
If you are in town for the conference, Adam Jackson has compiled an extensive list of WWDC 2009 parties.
UPDATE: Here are some of the announcements made during the keynote.
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Do I need to follow one of the greatest Cyberpunk writers of all time on Twitter to find out about Scottish carnivore nerdcore? Apparently.
The desperate plight of a Moray man who, unable to locate a sufficient quantity of minced beef for his evening meal, finally loses the plot and takes vengeance with his frenzied rap.
Full lyrics are on the YouTube page, and I found it, yes, via William Gibson’s twitterstream. Yes, he is on Twitter. No, I have no idea how you get that on a typewriter. Wink.
TheChielMeister is the performer. He has been previously compared to a character in Half-Life 2. He bears a passing, ginger-flecked resemblance to comic book auteur Warren Ellis, who Gibson was tweeting with just before he posted the link. Coincidence or coincidentist?
“Wir soary mister, thir’s nae baef left!” True dat?
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The Beatles on Rock Band is scheduled for release in September 2009. Pete Candeland of Passion Pictures, who does the animation work for Gorillaz, created an truly fantastic opening cinematic for the game.
Join John, Paul, George and Ringo onstage at legendary shows, behind closed doors in the recording studio, and in dreamscapes that bring their psychedelic imagery to life. The acclaimed Rock Band elements of interactive play and full-band capacity are here, but with brand-new additions. This will be the first music game to offer harmonies, challenging you to recreate The Beatles’ vocal blend. There are custom-built models of the instruments the band itself played; audio straight from the masters; and graphics that take you on a magical tour through the key moments in Beatle history.
via Offworld
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guest post by Burstein!
One of the joys that I have always found in a well constructed comic was not merely the joy of the narrative and art, but also where the story brought my imagination. As a geek with a slight familiarity with economics, I have often found myself reading comics and thinking about the challenging of composing actuarial models for things like the risk of having your car smashed by the Hulk. (Seriously, I got into a shouting match with someone once over the advantages of a publicly financed model over private-hero insurance.)
The folks at Ecocomics have actually done that and literally have a post on Supernatural Disaster Insurance, and even a follow up post on the topic!
However, they have so so many other lovely posts at that beautiful intersection between graphic art and the dismal science, such as:
- The economic impacts if super geniuses chose to produce technology rather than take over the world.
- What would happen if Magneto entered the construction industry.
- Where does the Canadian government get the money from to keep making super-soldiers?
- Unionizing New Krypton
- and, of course, Insurance for Superheros
This blog is seriously required reading for all comic-book and econ-geeks.
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DASjr Productions presents the Literal Video Version of Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version by Bonnie Tyler.
via Urlesque
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A collection of photos featuring the Happiest People Ever.
That’s what happens when photographers forget to tell people to say “cheeeeeese”.
via Neatorama
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