Garden Geta

http://www.joeyroth.com/garden-geta/
Wood shoes based on traditional Japanese wooden clog design by Joey Roth. An interesting take on the Japanese geta.

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath An Extreme Blog: Go England! It ys Rad!

http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/
samedi, mars 25, 2006
internet abbreviaciouns

Oh newfanglenesse! Y have learned the privitees of the manye abbreviaciouns ywritten on the internette. OMG: "oh mine ++DOMINUS++". ROFL: "rollinge on the floore laughinge". IRL: "in reale lyfe." WTF: "whatte the swyve?"
Beinge somethinge of an innovator myselfe, Y presente to yow, churles and gentils alle, the followynge abbreviaciouns. May they serven yow welle in your internette communicacioun:

GP: gentil person
WC: woole customes
XC: Exchequer
BATJG: biggere arsehole thanne john gowere
BSL!: by seinte loy!
OTPBRB: Offe to parliamente, be ryghte back
SNAPFU - BYXCA: supposedely nyce annuitie paymente fuckede uppe by the XC againe
KRBMA: Kynge Richarde II buggynge me againe
AOMSHJDOTBD: anothere of myne servauntes hath just dyede of the blacke death
EISBYMIWATCHDNSTHD: eftsoon I shall be ycleped mad if worke atte the customes house doth not settle the helle downe

MangoRed - See what you're missing

http://www.mangored.com/
A great approach to wedding albums, although navigating through the site could be a bitch sometimes. The photos and sample albums make the sometimes tedious site navigation worth it though.

Link courtesy of Aggie.

Romeo Dev, the world's smallest bodybuilder

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/12/wromeo112.xml
Romeo Dev, the world's smallest bodybuilder
By Tom Chivers and agencies
Last Updated: 3:14am GMT 26/02/2008

At 2'9" and a mere one and a half stone, Aditya "Romeo" Dev is the world's smallest bodybuilder.

While most dwarfs have large heads compared to their bodies, Romeo is perfectly proportioned, and despite his diminutive stature has triceps, biceps, calves and thighs that would make many a full-grown man blush.

He was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records in 2006 following three months of intense exercise.

On Food and Zapping - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/dining/02curious.html
"The microwave oven is a quirky appliance. Sure, it cooks and reheats many foods quickly and well, and in containers that can go right to the table or come right from the fridge. But it can also cause a mug of hot water to erupt scaldingly, char nuts and breads on the inside, and blow up eggs and butter."

You Use It Every Day. But Can You Make It Cook? - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/dining/02mini.html
Cooking food by nuking them.

Bound Bookshop

http://www.boundbooks.net/
105-A Scout Castor Street
Barangay Laging Handa, Quezon City 1103, Philippines
Telephone: (+632) 4117768
Email: info @ boundbooks.net

Open Monday to Sunday from 10am to 10pm

Proppian Fairy Tale Generator

http://www.brown.edu/Courses/FR0133/Fairytale_Generator/gen.html
An experiment in electronic (re)writing and an exploration of the retranslation of modernist theory within the electronic environment.

How the generator works:

+ top level:
At the most basic level, the generator receives input from the user (functions selected) and based on that outputs a tale. Each function has up to 10 different possible writings, from these, the computer randomly selects one for each function and outputs them in sequence.

+ geek level:
Each function has an array which stores one possible implementation of the function per cell. When the user hits submit the computer checks to see which functions have been selected, then based on that generates a random number (from 0-9) for each function. It then uses that number to look-up the contents of the corresponding cell in the proper array and stores it in a variable. Finally it outputs the variables one after another.

BBC - 100 things we didn't know last year

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/01/100_things_we_didnt_know_last_3.shtml
"The most interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the Magazine documents some of them in its weekly feature, 10 things we didn't know last week."

Thanks to Cash for the URL.

Market Manila

http://www.marketmanila.com
A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe.

Super 10 Function USB Vibrator

http://blog.pcnews.ro/2006/02/05/super-10-function-computerusb-vibrator/
One would've thought this would be a very popular idea, wouldn't it?

This is the actual product page. For some reason, Multiply doesn't want to accept it as a valid URL.

Sushi USB Drives

http://www.dynamism.com/sushidisk/main.shtml
From the product page: "Never again will you have to choose between having sushi or having a USB memory drive--thanks to the USB sushi drive. These USB drives are hand-made-in-Tokyo sushi replicas. The convincing USB sushi drive comes in several flavors."

Jun Murakoshi Design

http://www.junmurakoshi.com/
The creator of the Shelving Chair and the Stacking Stool, among other curious stuff.

ARTKAMP

http://www.artkamp.org/
ARTKAMP is blog that its contributed to by us artists for artists. Featuring our art, our events, our causes, our interests. It is not an extension of the Auburn Art department, and we intend to keep it that way. However, we are more than willing to cooperate with the university when appropriate. We are working hard to get a virtual gallery in place, so that anyone who is interested in showing their work can submit it to be displayed on the site. So if you are interested in that, stay tuned and we will keep you posted. Hopefully with enough support this will become a destination for artist beyond our community. - ARTKAMP.ORG

Lorem Ipsum generator

http://www.lipsum.com/
Explains the origin of the Lorem Ipsum dummy text used by typesetters. Also has a Lorem Ipsum generator that could be set to different parameters.

bgMaker: Tiled Background generator

http://bgmaker.ventdaval.com/
A great web-based utility for creating tiled background images. Also has a nifty gallery of submitted background images.

SketchCrawl! drawing marathons from around the world

http://www.sketchcrawl.com/blog/
SketchaWhat?
"Three or four years ago a good friend of mine had a fun bachelor party consisting of visiting ten bars and pubs along the N-Juda Muni tram line: a “PubCrawl”. And crawling we did, in fact we didn’t make it past the seventh pub. Quite the night, but that is where I got the idea for the name SketchCrawl when a few months later I decided to do a whole day of intense drawing around the city.

"The basic idea: to record nonstop everything I could around me with my pencil and watercolors. A drawn journal filled with details ranging from the all the coffee I drank to the different buses I took. After a whole day of drawing and walking around the city the name seemed quite fitting: “SketchCrawl” - a drawing marathon. The crawl was more tiring than I imagined but also more fun and exciting than I had thought. Giving yourself this kind of mandate for a full day changes the way you look around you. It makes you stop and see things just a tad longer, just a bit deeper … needless to say I loved it.

"I soon figured out it was much more interesting to do the marathon with a group of artists instead of all by myself! And so SketchCrawl turned communal. After a whole day of drawing it proved to be amazingly interesting and inspiring to share and compare other people’s drawings and thoughts. Different takes on our surroundings, different details, different sensibilities.

"The next step was making the SketchCrawl a World Wide event: having people from different corners of the world join in a day of sketching and journaling and then, thanks to the Internet, having everyone share the results on an online forum.

"So here it is, we have a website now, a few Crawls behind me, some by myself some with friends and artists from around the world … and hopefully plenty SketchCrawls ahead of us." -sketchcrawl.com

MyProject365.com

http://project365.multiply.com/
One drawing per day.

Black and white street photography by Markus Hartel

http://www.markushartel.com/

Douglas Simonson Gallery

http://www.douglassimonson.com/
*may contain male frontal nudity