Monday, 30 June 2008
If you haven't seen the real thing, you won't really get it...
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Funny really, sometimes I feel like I've been taken prisoner and held capitive within the digital world, just like Flynn was all those years ago...
Tron, still one of my all time favs.
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Friday, 27 June 2008
Dutch wonderkid producer HayZee has produced a mixtape comprising the hottest Gameboy-inspired beats you will ever hear!
IF your going to Dj, then you're going to want to DJ in style with these decks
Trichobatracus robustus (top) and Astylosternus perreti (bottom)—sport a Wolverine-like defense mechanism, scientists have announced. When threatened, the amphibians pierce their skin with toe bones, sprouting makeshift claws with which to attack predators.
David C. Blackburn, a biologist at Harvard University, came across the frogs while conducting fieldwork in Cameroon. When he picked up one of the fist-size amphibians, it kicked its hind legs violently.
"I was surprised to come across frogs that can give you such a nasty scratch when you pick them up," Blackburn said. "When I got back to the U.S., I used preserved museum specimens to study the anatomy of these claws, because it was obviously pretty unusual."
After going through 63 species of African frogs, Blackburn found that in at least 11, the bones at the ends of the toes are connected to smaller and sharper free-floating bones. These smaller end bones are part of structures called nodules that are connected to the rest of the foot by a collagen-rich sheath. (Related: video: "See-Through Frogs Bred By Japanese Researchers" [October 1, 2007].)
By flexing a certain foot muscle, the frog causes the bone to retreat from the nodule and pierce the skin, revealing a clawlike structure. Unlike ordinary claws, such as those of a cat's, the frog bones do not possess a protective coating of a protein known as keratin, nor do they emerge from a specialized structure in the foot.
The frogs, all in the genera Astylosternus, Trichobatracus, or Scotobleps, appear to employ this mechanism only when threatened, as revealing the claws causes traumatic damage to the frogs' skin.
Blackburn's study is described in a forthcoming issue of the journal Biology Letters.
—Sara Goudarzi (from the National Geographic)
Thursday, 26 June 2008
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Saturday, 21 June 2008
I know it's not a Triumph, but still it's surely worth having a go to see if you can build your very own Paper Yamamha MT-01
A PDF version of Guidelines for online success by Taschen
Friday, 20 June 2008
If your nuts about type you may want to wrap yourself up in this scarf!
Thursday, 19 June 2008
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Monday, 16 June 2008
Mike Sacks obviously watches too much tv, but he's got a great sense of timing and humour!
The perfect mix of katana, Edo-stylings and contemporary counterculture references, Samurai Champloo is well worth watching.
Stuffed with swordplay, slapstick comedy and swift-moving plot, it follows Fuu (dizzy teenage girl), Jin (disgraced master swordsman) and Muguen (breakdancing psycho) as they try to find 'The Samurai who smells of sunflower's, travelling across Japan and having all sorts of adventures.
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The whole thing is the brainchild of Shinichiro Watanabe, the man who gave us Cowboy Bepop. As you'd expect, everything from the music to the pace of the story has been well looked after. There are terrific set-piece scenes, and fantastic attention to detail throughout.
There's a Samurai Champloo fansite here with plenty of downloads, but Veoh.com - from the embedded video above - has all the episodes for free, so you get your laptop and watch 'em in bed with a hangover.
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Friday, 13 June 2008
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Made me laugh this morning.
"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"
Categorised archive of found (digital) photography. One of sooooo many specialist online ‘collections’, and, like with many revolving around people, you come away from fiddling with it for a bit, remembering how there is life beyond your own little universe.Check em out
Via its nice that
Now The Apprentice is over, Suuuur Alan's sidekick Nick Hewer is off to Ulan Bator in a 20 year old Renault to take part in the Mongol Rally.he hard-nosed taskmaster has a softer side - he's raising money to reunite institutionalised children in Eastern Europe with their families. Sugar has coughed up a grand. The cream of Britain's TV business world (Jacqueline Gold, Karren Brady, Margaret Mountford etc) have also sponsored Nick.
See how cheap/generous the celebrity sponsors have been
(Gold - 200 quid, Brady 20 quid etc)
via popbitch
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Apologies for the harsh language used on this video, but this kind of thing that needs to be seen and remembered, so that we can learn from our mistakes and never allow it to happen again
Unbelievable, but then again it is a Sun Story..
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Photographer Jason Tozer was asked to take some pictures of bubbles by Creative Review magazine, using the new Sony Alpha camera. More details on how he achieved the shots will be posted at the CR Blog. You can see the rest here
If you are a technerd god, then this may be of interest
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
The British-built three-cylinder machine saw off competition from its supersport-class rivals at the Almeria circuit in southern Spain. 'Supertest' is an annual event organised by 15 leading motorcycle magazines in the world. Each publication sends a test rider to the circuit, with each bike being scored on its best lap times and rider feedback. The Triumph remains unbeaten in the competition, having won each year since its introduction for the 2006 model year.
Triumph!!!
If you can drag your attention away from the cleavage (guess this is to get your attention!?), you will be informed and be given confirmation that by 2012 ISP's all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit.
It may be of some interest also that according to the Mayan calendar this same year, 21.12.2012 to be precise, a similar doomsday prophecy was predicted
Friday, 6 June 2008
Desktopography 2008 is finally here! Pete Harrison a.k.a Aeiko has brought about yet another desktop wallpaper exhibition, comprising of some super illustration work that's just ripe enough for you to download!
And as if that's not good enough, the very first Desktopography album, Sacred Abandon, is now available!
It's so funny a little bit of wee might come out. Or so I'm told.
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
But must of us don't go smashing the office up.
Office Worker Meltdown Second Angle - Watch more free videos
(PS - It's a fake viral) :-)
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
MA students in the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art were challenged to explore the future of money when it disappears as a physical currency.
