Benzin

2006-02-28

It flows through my veins
It sleeps in my tears
It leaks from my ears
Heart and kidneys are motors

Petrol

Benzin (Rammstein, 2005) . Industrial metal.

Translation © Jeremy Williams. Extract from Herzeleid, the number one source for Rammstein.
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Categories : music, video

Unemployment burger

2006-02-25

“The unemployment burger is something that just happened when I was unemployed.
It’s a cheap and tasty version of a hamburger when to make ends meat.”. (Jakob for Instructables)

Hamburger, anyone?

Categories : online culture

The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less

2006-02-24

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”. (Ray Bradbury)

The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less, by Eric Schulman.

Categories : language

Vectorman, the soundtrack

2006-02-23

The Videogame Music Archive has over 20.000 MIDI files of video games
(Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Atari, and more).

Among these, the Vectorman soundtrack (Sega Genesis, 1995):
Ocean Level (XG Remix), Port Level, Title Screen and Disco.

A delight in 50Kb.

Categories : music

Baby Orangutan

2006-02-22
Baby Orangutan Build a robot, made easy.
“The Baby Orangutan is a complete control solution for small robots, even smaller than the original Orangutan.
“Orangutan is based on the ATmega8 microcontroller. The WinAVR package allows you to write C programs for the ATmega8.”. Price: $24.95.
“You will still need two important items to get up and running:
A programmer for the AVR microcontrollers:
Atmel’s AVR ISP is a low-cost programmer that connects to a computer serial port.
A power source: rechargeable batteries are generally the most practical.”.
iBOTZ MR-1004 Hydrazoid

Left: the Baby Orangutan package (3 x 2 cm).
Right: iBOTZ MR-1004 Hydrazoid©.
“This sound-sensing robot walks on four legs and sports fiber-optic eye stalks.”. (Pololu Corporation)

Categories : technology

Capsule hotels

2006-02-19

“In the spring of 2002, I spent about five weeks transient in Tokyo, living in capsule hotels.”.
“Tokyo in particular is built to support people working away from home. A number of capsule hotels around the city, near train stations, absorb men who miss the last train home or just aren’t sober enough to stumble home.”.
Justin Hall tells his experience.

Categories : design

Fear the cute ones*

2006-02-15
didn't do anything wrong

Games are really about numbers.
Numbers are given loose associations with things in the real world.
Matching numbers to things like strength and stamina is easy.
Mapping them to emotions is far more difficult.”.

Draw feelings. You know, those fragile things that get hurt a lot?”.

“I wish life had multiple save points like games do.
It’d be easier to go back and fix major screwups.
I’d just have to make sure I “save” every five minutes.”.

*ph34r t3h cut3 on3s, that is leet.

And this is Megatokyo, by Fred Gallagher.

recycled heart

From the top: Didn’t do anything wrong (detail), ©Megatokyo; Recycled Heart Tee (detail), Megagear.

Categories : illustration

The sky above

2006-02-12

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”  (Neuromancer, 1984)

Science fiction is always, really, about the period it’s written in, though most people don’t seem to understand that.”.
“I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here.”.
William Gibson: the official website.

Categories : books

Ojingogo

2006-02-11
Ojingogo. A little girl, a squid and a robot.
From comingupforair, “a catalogue of sketches – graphic, typographic, photographic, & aural – from Matthew Forsythe.”.
Ojingogo
Categories : illustration

You have two cows

2006-02-10

The first two cows jokes, originated as a parody of a typical economic example, …were meant to compare opposing economic systems.”.
(from Wikipedia)

Democracy You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
Nacism You have two cows. The government takes both and then shoots you.
Capitalism You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

“..The jokes evolved into satire of various political, cultural, social and philosophical systems and theories.”.
(from Uncyclopedia)

You have two cows.

Google Did you mean You wish you have two cows?
England You’ve two cows. They go mad.
Yoda Two cows, you have.
Romanticism The cows have each other.
Atheism What cows?
Philip Glass You have two cows. You have two cows. You have two cows.
The Simpsons You have two cows. They are yellow.
Categories : phenomena