Carefully hand-rolled and curated personal music review websites like this are one my favorite things on the ‘net. I could spend hours here. Only Solitaire: George Starostin’s Music Reviews
Apparently the cover for one of many books a Japanese author obsessed with the US police force wrote. AltJapan: Wild Mook.
Demo for the Raphaël JavaScript vector graphics library. Reload for different colors. Raphaël · Ball. [ via ]
“Unlucky” people are not more naturally inclined to have bad things happen to them, just as “lucky” people don’t just magically have more great things happen. It may seem that way, but it all boils down to social conditioning and your attitude. One major attitude people characterized as being lucky display is that they look [...]
Nice bit on emerging academic interest in regards to Poker. Anyone who is interested in gaming’s impact on culture would do well to pay attention to this dialogue. The larger—and perhaps more surprising—pedagogical fact is that while poker has gone hand in hand with pivotal aspects of our national experience for a couple of centuries [...]
Some cool generative art like this: Drone from datdatdat on Vimeo. and this: Palatine from datdatdat on Vimeo. datdatdat.org. [ via ]
It’s been a commonplace observation for decades that a principal reason access to space is so horrifically expensive is that the way NASA and other government programs go about it requires a “standing army” of tens of thousands of civil servants and contractor employees who have to be paid regardless of the flight rate. This [...]
In the late 1970s, the recording industry created the forgotten archetype: the interactive eight-track. … Rush’s foray into interactive 8-tracks is unique in that the game had nothing to do with the album. Instead of a game based on the hit songs like “Freewill” or “Jacob’s Ladder,” the band gave us “Geddy’s Lee’s Pancake Canoe,” [...]
Consumers appear to be accepting these price increases in spite of declining real disposable income and falling consumer confidence. Due to deepening anthropomorphism, pet owners are becoming even more brand loyal. Many owners hold the view that their pets can tell the difference between different products and they are therefore reluctant to switch brands in [...]
Wooster Collective: Shit We’re Diggin: Geoff Hargadon’s “Cash For Your Warhol” Prank.
I know auto-tuned stuff is played out but this is excellent. [ via ]
One sentence contained within every HTML tag in alphabetical order.
Apparently this is a common occurrence. I wouldn’t know because I only run when chased. Bloody Nipples – a gallery on Flickr.
It’s called WASHING YOUR FUCKING HANDS. With Soap and Water or Sanitizer, a Cleaning That Can Stave Off the Flu [ via ]
The Thing? is an Arizona roadside attraction hyped by signs along Interstate 10 between El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona. Teaser ads, such as The Thing? What is it? and Mystery of the Desert, entice travelers along this sparse stretch of desert highway to pull in just to find out what the mysterious Thing? might [...]
STICKi PICi — Purikura for your iPhone. [ via ]
YES! YEEEESSS! Destructoid – Derek Yu’s Spelunky coming to XBLA in 2010.
A school/pack of vicious, cross-bred Chihuahua and Piranha are unleashed upon a pristine Mtn Lake and quickly consume summer campers before a team of misfits, led by the lake’s ranger, evade and destroy the evil little critters. Chihuanhas (2009).
The backlash has, at last, arrived. AverageCats. [ via ]
The 10 worst lunch boxes ever — and what they say about the kids who carried them.
Esp. like the remix of Cash Flow. Jahdan Blakkamoore, Bazooka Shot Mixtape.
“If you angle the camera the correct way it looks like you’re in the middle of nowhere—but then you turn a little to the right and there’s a well-maintained, fully functioning factory, and to the left there’s this busy office park. Still, people love to take this shot, crop it so it’s just prairie, and [...]
SCEA Experimenting With “Laugh Detecting”, Emotional Tracking Software.