Fail

By akie

The Fail blog made me giggle.

Also highly recommended: Doing it Wrong.

Innovative minigame

By akie

I like this minigame I found on Digg. In order to win, you have literally help yourself. You need to spend the first few of your 10 lives on opening doors for your later lives. Nice concept.

Robot arm copies Bible

By akie

A robot arm has made a calligraphed copy of the Lutheran Bible

Histomap of world history

By akie

I think I would like to have this map of world history:

“Not a map really, but a 5-foot-high chart showing in one glance 4,000 years of human history on a global scale. Thirty years ago I saw this on the wall of someone’s dorm room and it flipped me out then, and every time I’ve seen it since. Its beauty is how Mr. Sparks divies up world power (somewhat crudely) into its main factions graphed in each increment of fifty years since 2000 B.C.E. Different civilizations are color-coded so one can easily trace the flow and ebb of culture over the centuries.”

Unfortunately, it is out of sale - but luckily there’s still a high quality mirror online.

Understanding art for geeks

By akie

Someone named Paul has put a nice photoset on Flickr: Understanding art for geeks

New York Times’ first mention of YouTube

By akie

It sure is strange to read the New York Times’ first mention of YouTube, “an amateur video-sharing site”, especially since it was written only two years ago.

Marc Anthony’s dream photo exhibition

By akie

I found this intriguing photo by Chris Anthony on Boing Boing. Click to view full.

Declaration of war on YouTube

By akie

An anonymous Internet group has declared war on Scientology by means of a creepy video and a somewhat uncomfortable slogan: “We are anonymous. We are legion. We never forgive. We never forget.”

To emphasize their point, they stole every single Scientology document they could lay their hands on, and leaked them to the Internet. Including a document that describes ‘the axioms of Scientology’, a handy ‘admin dictionary’ and a fine document describing all the different OT-levels. This is definitely the real stuff, and I think it’s written by a mad man …

Ceci n’est pas une pipe

By akie

I like this adoption of the Magritte classic:

Buy the t-shirt at Threadless T-shirts.

What’s your best quality?

By akie

Bad usability calendar

By akie

This bad usability calendar is right, ofcourse. Buy it at badusability.com.

Click to view full.

Ridiculous Amazon customer reviews

By akie

The customer reviews at Amazon’s product page for uranium ore (wtf??) are delightfully ridiculous:

Reviewer:

I ordered a bunch of cans of this, and still couldn’t get my time machine to work. I can’t wait to get back to 1985 and my hot girlfriend. Meanwhile, I’m stuck working at the Cafe 80s, dammit.

Response:

Time Machines run on Plutonium not Uranium. thats just silly.

Response 2:

You probably connected the Neirmann capacitors wrong on your flux capacitor. They should contact just a few centimeters above the Stendrand coils, but still below the containment field for the fusion material. Uranium ought to work as well as plutonium, the fission material is for collection of free quarks, not any sort of classical power generation.

Link

Bring bad design to justice

By akie

Design Police is an effort to bring bad design to justice. I like their “Visual Enforcement Kit“.

Godvader

By akie

I like this picture I found on Boing Boing.

Bent objects

By akie

The Bent Objects blog features pictures of common household objects in uncommon situations.

Office supplies in the jungle

Dancing Queens

Salad is murder

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Wigs for cats

By akie

I have two cats myself (conveniently called Kat and Poes, which is Dutch for Cat and Pussy), but I would never be so silly to dress them up with wigs - but apparently some people do.

Funny quotes

By akie

Usually I don’t really like lists of quotes, but this one is quite funny indeed:

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.“
- George Carlin

“A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.“
- George Carlin

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.“
- Plato

Link

Giant mechanical animals

By akie

Check out these pictures of the giant mechanical animals. Great stuff.

Which candidate?

By akie

Which US presidential candidate represents you best? I made this test (now also in English) - and found out I should put my money on Barack Obama. No surprises here

The naming of continents

By akie

So how does a continent get a name? Apparently, America was named after Amerigo Vespucci by a German cartographer named Martin Waldseemüller. Europe was named by the Greek, or the Phoenicians - depending on who you ask. Asia seems to stem from the land of sunrise, and Australia has Latin roots. Interesting.

Funny ads

By akie

Scary Ideas has a nice collection of ads, apparently solely collected for your entertainment. Really worth checking out.

I took the accompanying picture from this set of (real? fake?) ads for the US Democratic Party.