1 day ago
There’s nothing quite like watching insects get pummeled by tiny catapulted pies to get rid of afternoon anger.
2 days ago
I was bit underwhelmed by Batman Begins. While it is miles better than the installments that preceded it, I felt the film still missed the the mark. The bad guy was fairly lame, the plot progression was pretty obvious, and there was too much explanation — noone cares how Batman can fly/jump-to-the-top-of-high-buildings, they just want it to look cool. Here’s hoping the Dark Knight lives up to the hype.

I was bit underwhelmed by Batman Begins. While it is miles better than the installments that preceded it, I felt the film still missed the the mark. The bad guy was fairly lame, the plot progression was pretty obvious, and there was too much explanation — noone cares how Batman can fly/jump-to-the-top-of-high-buildings, they just want it to look cool.

Here’s hoping the Dark Knight lives up to the hype.

2 days ago
Scott Hansen has found: Some amazing designs by German Industrial Designer Luigi Colani. I particularly enjoy the aerospace stuff, reminiscent of the Soviet Ekranoplan. I have to try very hard to not link to everything that Scott posts.

Scott Hansen has found:

Some amazing designs by German Industrial Designer Luigi Colani. I particularly enjoy the aerospace stuff, reminiscent of the Soviet Ekranoplan.

I have to try very hard to not link to everything that Scott posts.

3 days ago

I wish Tumblr let you change the type of post when reblogging stuff. Sometimes I’d like to add things to the conversation without rehashing the same content — I’m often torn between creating a new post that keeps things simple, but then that loses the reblog-love.

Update: Anthony points out that this behaviour already exists:

If after you click the reblog botton there is an “as…” box after Reblog Whatever text you can change the reblog type. Click it and see. It’s cool. I only found it a couple of weeks ago and it kind of blew my mind.

I’d just never noticed the “as …” next to the title when reblogging. Nice work, Tumblr-folk — way to add features before I complain about them not existing. The only problem with it is that I usually want to remove the photo/video/audio so I can restructure the post a little, but you can’t seem to reblog those content types as anything else.
Pam at awesome-everyday reblogged the poster I reblogged from Square Peg. I try not to bite when people say stupid things on the Internet — sometimes I can’t help but speak up. Apart from her entire post being the wrong interpretation of the events that occurred. The problem with her response is that Pam misses the whole point of this poster. It’s not about laying blame, it’s about stopping this from happening again. The poster isn’t meant to be combative, it’s meant to raise awareness about how a seemingly innocuous act can kill a young man with his entire life in front of him. It seems to me that Pam’s attitude is indicative of exactly what’s wrong with the relationship between drivers and cyclists. Drivers laying blame on the cyclists, cyclists saying the exact opposite. Drivers need to slow down and give cyclists space on the road; cyclists need to get down off their high-horses and stop feeling superior. We need to learn to share the road. Everyone just needs to get over themselves and learn to live together.

Pam at awesome-everyday reblogged the poster I reblogged from Square Peg. I try not to bite when people say stupid things on the Internet — sometimes I can’t help but speak up.

Apart from her entire post being the wrong interpretation of the events that occurred. The problem with her response is that Pam misses the whole point of this poster. It’s not about laying blame, it’s about stopping this from happening again. The poster isn’t meant to be combative, it’s meant to raise awareness about how a seemingly innocuous act can kill a young man with his entire life in front of him.

It seems to me that Pam’s attitude is indicative of exactly what’s wrong with the relationship between drivers and cyclists. Drivers laying blame on the cyclists, cyclists saying the exact opposite. Drivers need to slow down and give cyclists space on the road; cyclists need to get down off their high-horses and stop feeling superior.

We need to learn to share the road. Everyone just needs to get over themselves and learn to live together.

MOO just started printing business cards. Can’t wait to get my hands on some of these.
1 week ago
From Hipster Nascar: “Clinton Miceli, a 22 year old graphic designer, was killed this month after being struck by a car door that someone opened in his path. The Chicago Tribune reported that Clinton “struck the SUV’s door, flew off his bike and was run over by a passing vehicle that eventually stopped. He suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead Monday night at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.” He was the second Chicago area cyclist killed in as many days, bringing the number of cyclists killed on the streets of Chicago this year to at least seven. I live in Canberra, so I hardly ever have to ride close to parked cars — still, I can’t count the number of times I’ve come close to being hit by people opening their doors or pulling out of their parking spaces without looking. Be careful out there, kids.

From Hipster Nascar:

“Clinton Miceli, a 22 year old graphic designer, was killed this month after being struck by a car door that someone opened in his path. The Chicago Tribune reported that Clinton “struck the SUV’s door, flew off his bike and was run over by a passing vehicle that eventually stopped. He suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead Monday night at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.” He was the second Chicago area cyclist killed in as many days, bringing the number of cyclists killed on the streets of Chicago this year to at least seven.

I live in Canberra, so I hardly ever have to ride close to parked cars — still, I can’t count the number of times I’ve come close to being hit by people opening their doors or pulling out of their parking spaces without looking. Be careful out there, kids.
This classic advert for Colt 45 Malt Liquor has been doing the rounds on Tumblr today and reminded me of some of their fantastic television commercials from the same period:

This classic advert for Colt 45 Malt Liquor has been doing the rounds on Tumblr today and reminded me of some of their fantastic television commercials from the same period:

1 week ago
A curtain which you can shape to any form. Through the incorporated structure and magnets, it stays in the shape you push and pull it to. I’d love to have a set of these. Curtains are usually awful — boring, ugly, and hard-to-deal-with (i.e., venetians) — these would let you create organic shapes and manipulate the ambient light to suit your mood, the time of day, etc.

A curtain which you can shape to any form. Through the incorporated structure and magnets, it stays in the shape you push and pull it to.

I’d love to have a set of these. Curtains are usually awful — boring, ugly, and hard-to-deal-with (i.e., venetians) — these would let you create organic shapes and manipulate the ambient light to suit your mood, the time of day, etc.
1 week ago
Cheer Up in California (via claudia « nevver).
Cheer Up in California (via claudia « nevver).
1 week ago
Don’t want to find yourself alone at 35, spending half what you make on your car and hating the drive.
from “A Lull in Traffic” by The Gloria Record (via simmy)
This video embodies everything that is great about the Internet (via yewknee).

From the MIT Mobile Experience Lab comes The Cloud, “an organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers”.

Beautiful.

2 weeks ago
Cameron ‘i/o’ Hunt has just released a lovely theme for NetNewsWire. Named Bullit, it is very easy on the eyes, both in terms of readability and of typographic style. My only gripe is that the default heading size is quite large and takes up a bit too much room on my MacBook. I’ve reduced the size of the headings a little for my own use, which can be seen on the screengrab above.

Cameron ‘i/o’ Hunt has just released a lovely theme for NetNewsWire. Named Bullit, it is very easy on the eyes, both in terms of readability and of typographic style.

My only gripe is that the default heading size is quite large and takes up a bit too much room on my MacBook. I’ve reduced the size of the headings a little for my own use, which can be seen on the screengrab above.

The latest campaign from GetUp! is, like all good viral videos, both amusing and on the money (via Virginia).
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