Link Dump - All safe for work
I've been deking downstairs a bunch since my Grandparents arrived, making short forays online to look stuff up, check e-mail, or what-haveyou. This is the story of What Struck Me.
So freaking cute: Orisinal
Lotsa art games c/o "we-make-money-not-art" - the cutest site is definitely the aforementioned Orisinal... got lost there for quite a while making mice collect sugar cubes for their tea and scaring bugs. The site is just so strangely soothing. must be the music and 'nursery-book' colour/art scheme.
Table Games... imagine playing The Game on a table with this installed!
Answering Machine CooCoo Clock... I need one of these!
Evil "just out of reach" alarm clock... to go with my coocoo-phone. (c/o Engadget)
...the 10000 year clock is even cooler, though. Looks like something Olgra would've made.
And finally, a link to a really neat sound/music project via money-not-art again - Sound Map of the Lower East Side
[I had way more links I was going to stuff in here, but and apparently I fell asleep before finishing the post]
so here they are:
Makezine is a new find for me, but just recently some of my friends and I were remarking over a radio-player... and then I found this, which talks about how to increase their (well, the iTrips, anyway) range even farther.
also yanked from make:
The Coolest Waterfall Ever... imagine those silly (albeit cool looking) waterfall thingys in Chapters could create picures on their surfaces just with the water droplets. I think there should be more frivolous technology like this in the world.
and lo, there is: Lego Dice Roller. I want a card-shuffler next. The guy made it so he could have truly random numbers on 'dice-rolls' for the Games By E-mail site... Crazy. Actually, the whole games-by-corrsepondence idea is pretty cool. Anyone up for a game of Risk? Want something more exotic (or 2-player)? How about Zertz, or Dark McCooey Hex Chess?
Last odd DIY-style link - The Paper Microscope. If I did not already have a rather fancy-pants microscope, I'd be making this over the Christmas. No, for serious.
Well, actually, this is sort of a DIY article. From Wired - One Man's Mission to install a Cyclotron in his back yard. Betcha now neighbours'll think twice before complaining about that auto-mechanic working out of his home garage - they've got bigger fish to fry... three eyed ones!
Mentioned to Myk - weird worlds: return to infinite space.
aaand then I ran across Sony's attempt to market the PSP by Graffiti... yes, someone was paid to do this. Apparently they're popping up all over the US.
So freaking cute: Orisinal
Lotsa art games c/o "we-make-money-not-art" - the cutest site is definitely the aforementioned Orisinal... got lost there for quite a while making mice collect sugar cubes for their tea and scaring bugs. The site is just so strangely soothing. must be the music and 'nursery-book' colour/art scheme.
Table Games... imagine playing The Game on a table with this installed!
Answering Machine CooCoo Clock... I need one of these!
Evil "just out of reach" alarm clock... to go with my coocoo-phone. (c/o Engadget)
...the 10000 year clock is even cooler, though. Looks like something Olgra would've made.
And finally, a link to a really neat sound/music project via money-not-art again - Sound Map of the Lower East Side
[I had way more links I was going to stuff in here, but and apparently I fell asleep before finishing the post]
so here they are:
Makezine is a new find for me, but just recently some of my friends and I were remarking over a radio-player... and then I found this, which talks about how to increase their (well, the iTrips, anyway) range even farther.
also yanked from make:
The Coolest Waterfall Ever... imagine those silly (albeit cool looking) waterfall thingys in Chapters could create picures on their surfaces just with the water droplets. I think there should be more frivolous technology like this in the world.
and lo, there is: Lego Dice Roller. I want a card-shuffler next. The guy made it so he could have truly random numbers on 'dice-rolls' for the Games By E-mail site... Crazy. Actually, the whole games-by-corrsepondence idea is pretty cool. Anyone up for a game of Risk? Want something more exotic (or 2-player)? How about Zertz, or Dark McCooey Hex Chess?
Last odd DIY-style link - The Paper Microscope. If I did not already have a rather fancy-pants microscope, I'd be making this over the Christmas. No, for serious.
Well, actually, this is sort of a DIY article. From Wired - One Man's Mission to install a Cyclotron in his back yard. Betcha now neighbours'll think twice before complaining about that auto-mechanic working out of his home garage - they've got bigger fish to fry... three eyed ones!
Mentioned to Myk - weird worlds: return to infinite space.
aaand then I ran across Sony's attempt to market the PSP by Graffiti... yes, someone was paid to do this. Apparently they're popping up all over the US.