Friday, July 15, 2005
So, to sum up the week...
From Daniel: "Grandma loathes doctors. Grandma hates doctors almost as much as she hates not being able to finish Fatal Frame. This is her blog; don't miss the video of Grandma playing Prince of Persia."
A roundup of great offerings from Alfred at Odd Books: Entertainment for All Occasions (we are SO using the "airplane game" at one of our parties in the near future), Einstein Doesn't Work Here Anymore (I should hope not; he's been dead a while) and Does the Earth Rotate? NO! which is pretty self-explanatory, even if the thought processes that contributed to the book aren't.
For the athletic readers, check out the BBC's Tour de France map and summary. I had no idea they went through the town I lived in (Tours). For the artistic readers, check out Lomography, the art of shooting photos from the hip. I had a dream last night that I was doing this, and was irritated when I realized this morning that it wasn't true. For everyone on the interweb, check out a new concept: Don't Click. Can you resist?
Have a great weekend, everyone! If you're near Cincinnati, check out the Vent Haven convention going on. See you Monday.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Image of the Day
More on the We're Not Afraid
site, as well as a
wonderful collection of quotes from Brits on a livejournal
page. Tea, dammit, tea!
Hey, look! Librarians in
Glasses! We are too sexy for our shelves...
The big
news in bookland is Harry Potter, of course. If you can't get to the big
crazy party in Edinburgh, there's a smaller
version going on in Ohio tomorrow. (I sent this to Bunny
yesterday with the summary "Ren Faire on crack.")
The World of
Bookmarks is a collector site, with a directory of other
bookmark lovers with whom you can correspond and exchange bookmarks. I am
forever losing bookmarks, so I'd be no good at this. I am better with
catalog cards, though, and the University of Iowa
is sponsoring an art contest with antiquated cards as the
medium!
Nice going, America: for the first time ever,
the
World Monuments Fund has put an entire country on its list of most
endangered sites, and the country is Iraq.
Cult TV
lovers, start archiving fast: the
BBC is taking down its excellent site tomorrow! Agh!
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
- Vampire witches drinking the blood of children? Check!
- Alchemy? Check!
- Zombies? Check!
- Mind games? Check!
- Creepy creepy robots? Check!
- Church bells driving people mad? Check!
There's also Alternative Archaeology, which is not so much freaky as it is interesting, and there's also a whole section of H.P. Lovecraft-related toys at Entertainment Earth. The toys are only freaky if you're easily freaked by the concept of tentacle-faced gods taking over the earth and causing us to lose your minds. Um, that's not very reassuring, is it?
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
I do get the idea of CrimethInc, though, and wish I could be at the convention this week. It's not even that far away from me.
Random design fun: jewelry made from electronics! An electronic light shower! A decal to put on your laptop so that it looks like a turntable!
And finally, a musical tribute to the power of Google. Good stuff there.
Monday, July 11, 2005
Here's a way to make literature more entertaining: have it analyzed by naked girls in bed. Yes, really! This link is safe for work; their own website, linked from the article, may not be.
How well do you know your Fantastic Four? I did surprisingly well, considering that my only real FF knowledge comes from watching the '60s cartoon version.
The line between film and videogames is getting ever blurrier, according to this British Film Institute exhibit.
Proof that there's a site for pretty much anything: Imps whispering in magicians' ears. You know, that kind of stuff happens all the time. (We have one of these posters, I think.)
And finally, art via nature, even in Metropolis: urban roof gardens. (Warning: the site has music. It's nice soothing music, but still.)
