From the Near Future Laboratory comes this hilarious (and completely on-the-mark) list. The Near Future Laboratory Top-15 Criteria for New or Interactive Media Art It doesn’t work It doesn’t work because you couldn’t get a hold of a 220-to-110 volt converter/110-to-220 volt converter/PAL-to-NTSC/NTSC-to-PAL scan converter/serial-to-usb adapter/”dongle” of any sort..and the town you’re in is simply […]
Tag Archives: Random Cool Stuff
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Quadrophenic
I got a scooter today! My buddy Mike sold it to me, though he’s deferring payment until I’m a little less broke. (Yay!) It’s a black 49cc Schwinn (I didn’t know they made scooters either) and it’s surprisingly cool-looking. I mean, it’s not a Vespa, but it’s not total crap, either. I rode it from […]
It'll make you a sexual fuckin' Tyrannosaurus
The Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster is precisely what I need to exact my vengeance on an uncaring and unloving world. Check out the catalog description: Guns & Ammo would be proud. Load the blaster with fresh batteries and fire at a rate of up to three darts per second! Watch as the belt feeds […]
Karen Palmer, parkour student
I would really love to be in shape to do parkour. I’d probably have to drop another 50-75 pounds and really work out to do it, though.
My del.icio.us tags, wordlized
Made with Jonathan Feinberg’s Wordle. Awesomely cool. I’d like to make a poster of this.
Hipster Futurephone
I finally figured out how to get my futurephone to pick up my GMail via IMAP. So it’s “pull” email for me. Accordingly, I set the “new email” tone to be the little repeating piano motif from Brian Eno’s Music For Airports. And my ringtone got changed from “Ace Of Spades” by Motorhead to “Sister […]
Fuck Yeah
You want some of this, copper?
[via BoingBoing]
Woman Wakes Up After Family Says Goodbye, Tubes Pulled – Health News Story – WEWS Cleveland
Woman Wakes Up After Family Says Goodbye, Tubes Pulled – Health News Story – WEWS Cleveland Doctors are calling Val Thomas a medical miracle. They said they can’t explain how she is alive. They said Thomas suffered two heart attacks and had no brain waves for more than 17 hours. At about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, […]