Lots and lots of money.
David Horvitz will do things for money.
Though I really doubt anyone will send money for the larger things, the things he offers are pretty interesting.
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Students Rewarded for Destroying Productivity
The Winners of the 10th Annual Independent Games Festival were announced Wednesday night at this year’s GDC. Finalists in the Student Showcase included Crayon Physics Deluxe, Flip Side and Empyreal Nocturne, as well as a 2-D platformer named Polarity, developed by the same team behind Bandology and Skyrates.
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The Amber Room.. Found?
The Amber Room found? German treasure hunters using electromagnetic pulse measurements are “90% sure” the Russian “Eighth Wonder of the World” was buried by the Nazi’s in a man-made cavern 20 meters underground near the village of Deutschneudorf (map), but it will take “..until Easter to get into the chamber because it may contain booby traps and has to be secured by explosives experts.. The chamber is likely to be part of a labyrinth of storage rooms that the Nazis built.” Russia is eyeing its return, “If, hypothetically speaking, the room still exists.”
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Songs for Drella
21 years ago, Andy Warhol died of complications from gallbladder surgery. Lou Reed and John Cale, two founding members of the Velvet Underground — Warhol’s Factory house band — paid tribute to their mentor on the 1990 album Songs for Drella. Edward Lachman‘s recording of a 1991 performance is available on YouTube: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15.
New York Times review; Rolling Stone review (that curiously only credits Reed for the album); Cale-centric commentary on the album; a look back from Brooklyn Heights Blog. Bonus Reed/Cale performances from Saturday Night Live and Letterman.
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Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die.
Over 400 classical images of Death [warning: embedded music]
When I think of death The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson always pops into my head.
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Half a league half a league, ‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’ Cannon to right of them, |
Flash’d all their sabres bare, Cannon to right of them, When can their glory fade? |
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Multilingual malware writers in hot demand
Security researchers are noticing an uptick in help-wanted ads for malware programmers who can write grammatically in many languages so that they can help send out targeted, plausible spam:
Advertisements for virus authors fluent in languages from Japanese to Portuguese are increasingly showing up online. Such recruiting efforts are finding traction thanks partly to the economic conditions in nations like China and Russia. Both countries have a surplus of skilled coders who lack regular work, or possibly any work at all. Laws against cybercrime are also more lax in these and other developing nations… If you’re going to host malicious servers in another country, it only makes sense to offer its citizens the gifts of herbal enhancements and Nigerian banking deals that make the rest of us so happy–but if you’re going to bring such presents to another nation, you have to know the local language. The Russian Mafia’s interest in cybercrime is also reportedly growing–a fact that could have significant repercussions for the future of malware business on a global scale.
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The trunk monkey
Suburban Auto Group in Sandy, Oregon has a great series of “Trunk Monkey” commercials created by r-west.
More things need to come equipped with some kind of monkey activation button.
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Design and the Elastic Mind
Design and the Elastic Mind is a MOMA exhibit of cool objects, gadgets, websites and ideas. Some personal favorites are The PainStation, The Religious Helmet, Body Modification for Love, The Minutine Space and Lightweeds.
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half-baked food for thought
Sushi Science and Hamburger Science: I had always regarded science as universal and believed there are no differences in science at all between countries. But I was wrong. People with different cultures think in different ways, and therefore their science also may well be different. In this essay, I will describe differences I have observed between Western science and Eastern science. Let me start with a parable……
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Dear Dustin…
http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_black.swf
(it takes a few seconds to load, be patient!)
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Muslims upset over Doritos
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Debord’s Board Game
Playing Kreigspiel on a LAN. Guy Debord created a board game in 1977 called Kriegspiel, a war game ostensibly based on the principles of Clausewitz as articulated in On War. An online version of this game was recently created by the Radical Software Group, and released online. The rules seem slightly more complicated than chess.
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You are not yet enlightened, Inky-san.
Retro Sabotage is a collection of recreations of classic video games. Or is it?
Hint: It’s not, but to explain them would be to spoil it. If a button needs to be pressed, it’s the space bar unless it’s explained otherwise. My advice is to try the Pac-Man and Space Invaders ones first, but Pong 2.0 is a highlight.
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SurveillanceSaver: “A haunting live soap opera.”
“SurveillanceSaver is an OS X screensaver that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide.” There is also a Windows version. Or check out the camera feeds without installing a screensaver.
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Interviews with people who only wear one colour
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The Eye of Sauron
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Beer barrel R2D2 sculpture
This beer-barrel R2D2 sculpture comes from Deviant Art’s Amoebabloke, who’s hoping to find a buyer who isn’t just a rich collector.
http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf
antique d2 project 8 by ~amoebabloke on deviantART
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Paper Pilot: Battle of the Air
Design a paper airplane and then see how far you can fling it. (Sound warning).
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Recomendation!
From Spaceballs.ca:
View, comment, recommend, and email my friends post on blogTO! BookArtBookArtBook
For 2008 I aim to build up my portfolio of published work. To submit to blogto, I learned how to hyperlink and I set up a flickr account. While I generally carry around a pen and notebook, I’m going to start carrying around my camera as well, the Canon SD1000.
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StuffWhitePeopleLike.org
This is a scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff white people like. They are pretty predictable. (from the About section.)
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Around the world in 195 days, six hours – by bike
A Scottish man became the fastest to cycle around the world yesterday when he arrived in Paris after nearly seven months on the road. Mark Beaumont, 25, completed the trip in 195 days and six hours – beating the current record of 276 days.
After almost seven months of dodging drivers, sleeping rough and struggling to get enough to eat, Beaumont is expected to enter the Guinness Book of Records, once the feat is verified.
RobDurdle.com 
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