May the Force Be with You, Dude!
Han Solo’s Axe is a Gibson 335 with covered humbuckers. Jar Jar on Banjo, of course. Perhaps you’d rather have Yoda on your beast instead of in your band. Maybe when you rock out you just need a little extra force in your pick, knob, or guitar case . Just remember, Darth Maul throws the horns 24/7.
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Along came a spider …
"… straight out of Down-Under, explosive stuntman-editor-producer-writer-actor-director Nash Edgerton delivers his latest effort, "Spider", a 9-minute action-thriller that gives an all-new meaning to old Peugeots, stunning blondes and love-jokes."
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Scrambler ride as drawing machine
Artist Rosemarie Fiore converted an amusement park ride called The Scrambler into a giant drawing machine. The specially-outfitted Good-Time Mix Machine produces huge geometric paintings that resemble the output of a Spirograph.
From the project description:
I connected a gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured them into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride was in motion, paint sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath. The result is a series of enormous hypocycloid designs which recorded the hidden patterns created by the ride as it turned.
Link to project page, Link to video.
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City fights illegal gig posters with CANCELLED stickers
The city council of Glasgow is fighting illegal handbills with science: they’re paying city workers to go around and stick “canceled” stickers on all the illegal gig posters put up around town.
Staff who patrol the city every working day spotting new posters and marking them are now a central part of the council’s �100,000 a year war on flyposting.And other workers have been issued with “canceled” stickers which make it clear the ad has been banned by the council.
And they have already had an impact on some rogue promoters who have been inundated with complaints from music fans.
People who have bought tickets to some of this summers big gigs have complained, thinking that an event, rather than the advert, had been canceled.
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Bloggin’ ’bout my generation
XKCD, the great nerdy comic strip, is in fine form today, with a danceable twist on “Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation.”
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Super-easy baggie ice-cream
Here’s a pretty damned simple ice-cream recipe: combine ingredients in a baggie. Fill a bigger baggie with ice, salt and the baggie of ingredients. Shake for five minutes. Ice cream. Who knew?
1. Fill the large bag half full of ice, and add the rock salt. Seal the bag.
2. Put milk, vanilla, and sugar into the small bag, and seal it.
3. Place the small bag inside the large one and seal again carefully.
4. Shake until mixture is ice cream, about 5 minutes.
5. Wipe off top of small bag, then open carefully and enjoy!
An even cooler way to make ice cream – especially on a hot day with a pack of kids – is to put the baggie with the ice cream ingredients inside a small can, and then put that can and the ice and salt in a coffee can. Tape the lid on securely and ask the kids to kick it around the back yard.
Here’s a soccer-ball-shaped thing: put all the ingredients in, kids kick it around for a 15-20 mins.
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Calling All Meatbeards
Scientists are testing a new diet pill that expands to the size of a tennis ball in your stomach. When taken with two glasses of water, the slow-growing ‘gelatinous blob’ gives one the feeling of having eaten a plate of food. Although it’s no replacement for diet and exercise, it could help some people control their urges.
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Swearing Encouraged
Can I Borrow Your Fucking Pen? A fucking single link fucking YouTube post about some motherfucking viral ad for some really shitty beer. Swearing encouraged – let’s get fucking drunk today.
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Waste your employer’s time
Submachine (Future Loop Foundation) You are trapped in your cube a padded cell, and you need to escape. Another fine Submachine game from Mateusz Skutnik. You can probably escape well before lunch and still have time to push some of that paper out of your cell cube.
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MySpace MP3 Downloader
MySpaceMP3.org allows anyone to download any MP3 on MySpace for free. In many cases, these are the same MP3s bands are trying to sell via MySpace’s relatively new Snocap service. Trouble for MySpace?
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Fish Condo 2.0
If you wanted a fish condo but couldn’t afford to drop hundreds of dollars on your beta buddy, I have good news for you: Fish Bowl 2.0 is here to revolutionize the lives of your fish.
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If The Simpsons Were Real
The Real Life Simpsons — A creepy depiction of how The Simpsons would look if they were real.
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That’s Hot
TV actress and hotel heiress Paris Hilton, infamous for her inadvertent comedic stylings on reality show "The Simple Life", was ordered to return to serve her incarceration sentence today. The order comes fast on the heels of an evacuation from her correctional facility in Lynwood due to supposed health problems(nsfw).
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More Alike Than We Thought?
Similar Diversity is a data visualization of a textual analysis of various religious books spanning several religions, showing the overlap in words, ideas, and meaning. Other infovis religion goodness includes a 90 second geographic history of the world’s major religions, a a map gallery of USAian religious adherance, and a timeline mashup of Jewish and Christian histories.
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Jump back, wanna kiss myself!
If you could kiss yourself, would you?
These photos make it happen, and the results are … disturbing.
Site is in French.
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Strange Little Wars
Strange, small wars throughout history. Some were border clashes named after the item that sparked the confrontation, like the British-American Pig War or the Missouri-Iowa Honey War. Some were bloodless, such as the Maine-New Brunswick Pork and Beans War and the Texas-Oklahoma Red River Bridge War. North Carolina’s War of Regulation resulted in eighteen deaths and six later executions.
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Flash Tactics
Tactics 100 Live A flash game similar to Final Fantasy Tactics or Ogre Tactics. Spend 100 points to create an 8 unit army and battle it out on a 7×7 grid. Practice against an AI opponent, or face off in multiplayer combat.
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Embryo-free Embryonic Stem-Cells
Simple switch turns cells embryonic. "Researchers have finally hit the jackpot: Embryo-free embryonic stem-cells!"
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You are boring the $#!* out of me!
A new video by Jed Davis’ Hanslick Rebellion. A meanspirited, though easy to identify with, piece about office small-talk. A feel good summer song for those of us tied to desks. Warning: Loud swearing.
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Japanese historical photographs ca. 1910
A nice set of photographic glass-plate transparencies depicting life in Japan ca. 1910. These "Yokohama photographs" were sold to foreign tourists between about 1868 and 1912. I found the Crafts and Trades section most interesting.
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Hi, I’m a Marvel…and I’m a DC
Hi, I’m a Marvel…and I’m a DC. A collection of videos on youtube targeting both the Mac/PC ads and comic book based movies. Ten videos so far, with more coming.
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