Friday, February 04, 2005
Today's "links from others" entry owes much to Bloglines and my newfound love of RSS feeds. I've found all sorts of very cool websites as a result. For instance, Going Underground details the goings-on in the London tube, and Londonist details what's going on aboveground as well. The bizarre trend of happy slapping is not going to catch on over here, I think, because it would result in immediate violence. We Americans are not very patient when it comes to random smacking about.
I've also discovered Mr. Sun, whose entry on replacing the cliche "thinking outside the box" should resonate with you ad people out there.
And then there's the very strange Rocky Horror Muppet Show, which I swiped from Columbine.
Also: if you can never remember how you like your tea, just get a mug that exactly matches your perfect brew. Strange, but probably very effective.
And for saving (or destroying) the world before bedtime, check out the PowerPuff Studio. You can make your own PowerPuff figure and/or villain! (My PowerPuff girl looked like a very geeky Buttercup, for the most part.)
Have a spiffy weekend, everyone. See you Monday.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
If you live in Chicago, New York City or San Francisco, you might be able to find a copy of The Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life lying around somewhere. Literally. If you do, you can check in with others who have found copies. And if you live in a city that's been mapped out by a9's new Yellow Pages search engine, you may find yourself walking down a street, or otherwise find that they've not quite got the hang of this whole thing yet (my favorite so far: Rockefeller Center is a bus. Who knew?).
Some random links to finish today up: designing a library is, not surprisingly, very difficult these days. Meanwhile, in the wacky world of UK academia, weblogs are skyrocketing as a way to communicate.
Tomorrow: links from others!
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
If Tuesdays end up as links for Bunny, Wednesdays are often links for Bell and the Graveworm. For those of you not interested in freaky happenstances and possible conspiracies, check out Escape Route. It's an amazing, beautiful, fascinating, incredible use of online technology that takes you around the world, and makes me want to drop everything and just travel for a few years. Go explore!
Also, we watched Punxsutawney Phil predict six more weeks of winter this morning. I guess that's why we haven't seen our own groundhog (affectionately known as Galumph) yet. We also haven't seen the kittens for two days, which is unnerving and sad and, um, I don't want to talk about it right now, and I am moving on to the oddity links.
Okay. If you're still around, that means you're ready for the weirdness. I will ease you into them via an article about H.P. Lovecraft which calls him "the Copernicus of the horror story." Well, then. One wonders what H.P. would have made of the Bureau of Sasquatch Affairs. Or if he would have had a Cthulhu-esque theory on why forty microbiologists have met mysterious ends over the past four years. Coincidence or conspiracy?
The list of famous unsolved codes and ciphers is probably not connected to this collection of UFO-related ancient maps...but it would be cool if it was. And in a combination worthy of a Nick Bantock book, cryptozoology and philately merge to create some truly wondrous stamps.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
The biology of B-movie monsters analyzes, in great scientific detail, just how possible it would be to grow to fifty feet or to shrink to six inches or to be a giant dinosaur creature in today's world. On a slightly related note, a gallery of women in spacesuits should entertain all you geeky boys who fantasized about the world of tomorrow. Hee.
A weblog dedicated to weird Japanese food is something I can totally support. Even if some of the food studied looks gag-worthy. No word yet on whether anything there causes the dread "winter vomiting disease," which apparently attacks UK denizens. I think this is a completely made-up disease, but that's just me.
The Dark Side of the Cell studies sounds made by cells. Yes, really. Maybe they make weird vomiting noises. Ew.
For the insane artist in your life: Hiëronymus Bosch action figures. Folderol is not responsible for any hallucinations, visual or auditory, that these figures may cause in individuals.
Nowadays, screen captures are so simple no one even thinks twice about them. But it was not always that way! Go back in time and see how Atari screen shots were painstakingly compiled!
Monday, January 31, 2005
Art
- The "Do Break" Vase encourages you to throw it at someone or something, because it cracks rather than breaks. The cracks then make an artistic statement, you see.
- Color Fields is a cool idea; it organizes Flickr photos by dominant color. (Now that I have a digital camera, I may make use of Flickr.)
- Brendan Monroe is the fascinating artist of the week!
Music
- Fischerspooner's new album is on the way (hooray!), and the tracks are already being examined and reviewed.
- Meanwhile, the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) has convened, and you can see the weird and bizarre instrument innovations in a handy listing.
- Today's pop music reaches out to teens by invoking the broken home. And it's working, even though the parents don't quite get it.
Literature
- Hans Christian Andersen: son of a pauper, or son of a king?
- PennSound is an online archive of poetry mp3 files. It's starting small, but adding new poets all the time.
