Mighty fine comic strip about Charles Babbage, with a side order of Ada Lovelace too.

(via BoingBoing)

Via Kottke (via Pete Ashton): The Royal Mint reveal the new coin designs. There was a bit of a flurry of interest and comment at the time that this came out, but when the coins started to actually appear either people had forgotten about them or had never seen the bloggery-pokery in the first place. The result was a certain amount of bafflement, ( Read more... )

Via the Guardian, I ended up browsing through some of the award winners of the Golden Bull category for most baffling bullshit - er, best gobbledygook I mean.

Having said that, some of them are obviously jokes that have misfired (uk2net) or just stupendously badly-written (Fife Council), rather than actually jargonistic (here the Australian ( Read more... )

Via BB, a Barbie doll of Tippi Hedrun from Hitchcock's The Birds - with added birds trying to peck out her eyes, yet. Nifty.

Actually very pretty. Made me think of badasstronaut though more as something she would drink out of before they were made into lights.

(Via BoingBoing.)

I read BoingBoing so you don't have to.

Via BoingBoing: measuring jugs with unusual units of measure.

"Tyrannosaurus Rex brain" is my favourite unit of measure so far - you need to follow the BB link to see that, though.

...and while the easiest way is to keep track of them via del.icio.us, it doesn't let me ramble on about why they're great.

(via cleanskies) Online electronic zine / minicomic publishing with a nifty interface? Why yes, sir or madam - using Issuu, which also (as these things do nowadays) gives you a bit of social networking on top. Some people seem to be ( Read more... )

...on the Guardian website here. He talks about mixtapes and using a little ol' cassette walkman that runs off 2 AA batteries for a week.

For cleanskies - some good links from Boingboing, to save you from wading through all the DRM posts yourself.

Eyeball pincushions

SuperMario made out of pixel squares in cake form

Famous cartoonists of 1947 draw with their eyes closed

And I'm sure you've already separately seen the Tiny people art project anyway...

...but there I was today, wearing a light pink top and a dark pink pullover and even my knickers had a delicate little pink bow on them ( Read more... )