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  • Baby Orangutan

    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)

  • Capsule hotels

    “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.

  • Fear the cute ones*

    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.

  • The sky above

    “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.

  • Ojingogo

    Ojingogo. A little girl, a squid and a robot.
    From comingupforair, “a catalogue of sketches – graphic, typographic, photographic, & aural – from Matthew Forsythe.”.    		 Ojingogo

  • You have two cows

    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.

  • Bumpers stickers

    “Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant.”.

    Bumpers stickers: all your bumper sticker needs in one place.

    “The more you complain, the longer God makes you live.”. Have fun.

  • Moskow Diskow

    “Tonight sound is really wild
    All the boys look super chic
    All their songs are fantastic”

    What do you think of today’s music?

    “It often accompanies the videos quite well.”.

    What has changed the most in 20 years?

    “Computers. 20 years ago we had computers in the studios. Now we have studios in the computers.”.

    (Telex)

  • Soundpalette

    Wiebe, Danny, Bart, Han en Maurits are Soundpalette.
    Music and sound for film, television, theatre and dance.

    Listen, read, see.

    Swingers (Stephan Brenninkmeijer, 2002)
    “The film is full of music, especially because there’s a lot of background music hearable.
    CD’s are played on stereosets to increase the atmosphere.”.

    The Tulse Luper Suitcases (Peter Greenaway, 2003)
    “Doing the sound sounds somewhat vague, so to clarify the matter….
    …Producing tones and sounds, that give character to the film, or influence it’s atmosphere.
    Also called sounddesign.”.

    Total loss (Dana Nechustan, 2000)
    “Total loss is a extremly stylish film that contains some very rewarding scenes for music…
    A interesting part of the film is where one of the main characters tells a highly imaginative story about his experiences in Cologne.”.

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  • This is Blythe

    She’s not easy to define.
    I can say she’s born in 1972 and is a photogenic non-Barbie doll, but this is not enough.
    This is Blythe, (Gina Garan, Chronicle Books, 2002) is the book that made her famous and, later, a cult icon.
    See:
    This is Blythe
    blythe is go!
    Blythe the doll    		 Blythe by elevens''custom

    “…Unlike Barbie, Blythe does not have a boyfriend. She also does not advertise her professional life.”.
    Above: eleven entry from Show Us Your Customized Girl contest, at thisisblythe.com.