the weirdly strange
Thomas Crapper would be proud…
“The box pops up from its convenient 14” flat pack to a rigid reusable box, you pop in a degradable poo bag, do your business, seal and then dispose.”
Ah to be the designer tasked with creating the happy little poo peeking out at us on the cover… from the Creative Review blog.
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DNA Art
Josh Spear lays the Genepak x DNA-11 on us, artwork based on your own DNA from DNA-11.
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Radiohead’s Nude, Remixed
The Radiohead version, on Youtube.
A remix made, through the influence of some dark conjurer’s sorcery no doubt, from antiquated computer hardware.
Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.
via Engadget, and all the more amazing if you have some experience with the “instruments” - who knew a hard drive could sing?
Video by James Houston
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ManBabies - Creepy and Captivating
First lolcats, now this. Lo, the Internet has seen fit to bestow another …. dare I even dignify it as a “trend”? The premise is all too simple - (1) take a photograph of a man and child (2) swap the heads in photoshop (3) publish.
Horrifying, isn’t it. Somehow the most disturbing aspect of this […]
Charlie Rose Interviews Charlie Rose, My Head Explodes
Via Boing Boing, Andrew Filippone Jr.’s video “‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett”. If you’re a Charlie Rose junkie like I am this is funny on an existential level.
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Oliver Sacks, Music and Amnesia
Oliver Sacks, the famous neurologist who authored Awakenings, about a group of patients he treated in the late 60’s, has continued to produce some of the most fascinating and intelligible books on the mysteries of the human mind. His most recent book is Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
Sacks previews his work in The […]
Cow Chip Bingo
Jefferson County West Virginia: 4th Annual Cow Chip Bingo. The event is, I presume, self-explanatory, but the picture is worth a thousand words. God Bless America.
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Bees
Featured in a recent New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert’s Stung is about just that, bees. She begins:
Not long ago, I found myself sitting at the edge of a field with a bear and thirty or forty thousand very angry bees. The bear was there because of the bees. The bees were there because of me, and […]
BBC Radio 4, The 1933 U.S. Coup
Fascinating. Nothing I’d ever heard of before. Visit the BBC site and listen to the entire radio segment. Realplayer required.
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. […]
LOLcats are in your internets, making u….um, LOL
Since I spend the better part of my life staring at the internet - for work, actually, lest you think I’m even more pathetic than I actually am - I’m not always aware of what is and is not commonly knowledge among normals. I was reminded of this when I started talking about LOLcats the […]