Igloo made of stacked books
"Home," an installation at NYC's MagnanMetz Gallery by Colombian artist Miler Lagos is a stable igloo made of carefully stacked books. Coming to Kindle and Smashwords
November 2013
Apr 12, 2012
nice...
"Home," an installation at NYC's MagnanMetz Gallery by Colombian artist Miler Lagos is a stable igloo made of carefully stacked books. 
Apr 11, 2012
7 Foot Tall Man Dresses as Normal Guy on Stilts for Halloween
7′ tall redditor firstclass_scamp dressed as a normal guy on stilts for his Halloween costume
luv it....
Stamped mottoes on old cutlery
Etsy's BabyPuppyDesigns makes hand-stamped cutlery with simple, all-caps sans-serif mottoes, such as this "Cereal Killer" spoon
weeeeee.......
Russian TV news reports on flying girl
david pescovitz
Collector of anomalies, esoterica, and curiosities.From Russian TV news, evidence of a flying girl
really?
Giant USA sunglasses
Cory Doctorow
Upcoming appearances* Apr 11-12, Wichita, KS: Kansas Library Association, Wichita Public Library
* Apr 14, Prague: Pirate Parties International
* May 11, Copenhagen: EBLIDA
Recent books:
* Context (essays)
* With a Little Help (short stories)
* For the Win (YA novel)
* Makers (adult novel)
You know what these titanic, $260 map-of-the-continental-USA sunglasses need? An Alaska barrette and a Hawai'i epaulet. Seriously
300 Step Rube Goldberg Machine Sets New World Record
A team of engineering students at Purdue University have built a Rube Goldberg-style machine that inflates and pops a balloon in 300 steps—a new world record (video). The machine debuted at the 25th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University. The team’s entry in last year’s contest, a 244 step machine, was the previous world record holder
Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style
To pass the time during long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory, adorns herself in tissue paper costume, and creates hilarious self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings. She calls the series
my prayers have been answered.... bacon and egg ice cream.....Over at Instructables, makendo has posted the recipe and detailed preparation instructions on how to make bacon and egg ice cream. The dish was inspired by a more complex dish with a similar name created by Chef Heston Blumenthal of Fat Duck Restaurant.
Bacon & Egg Ice Cream
By on April 10, 2012
Over at Instructables, makendo has posted the recipe and detailed preparation instructions on how to make bacon and egg ice cream. The dish was inspired by a more complex dish with a similar name created by Chef Heston Blumenthal of Fat Duck Restaurant. You may remember we posted about makendo’s intricate
Apr 6, 2012
wow...that must hurt coming from such a towering legal intellect.....
Clarence Thomas Chides Colleagues For Asking Too Many Questions
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Maybe it's Southern courtesy or his introverted nature that keeps him from interrupting attorneys during oral arguments, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Thursday evening.
Whatever the reason, the Georgia native had a blunt assessment about the rapid-fire questioning from his colleagues during recent hearings on the nation's health care law. The queries weren't helpful to him in deciding the case, he said.
And Thomas suggested his loquacious colleagues should do more listening and less talking.
"I don't see where that advances anything," he said of the questions. "Maybe it's the Southerner in me. Maybe it's the introvert in me, I don't know. I think that when somebody's talking, somebody ought to listen."
His remarks drew applause from the audience that heard Thomas' insights on the court during a 90-minute appearance at the University of Kentucky.
Thomas has gained a reputation for staying silent during oral arguments before the high court.
He said the lawyers presenting their cases are capable and don't need guidance from the justices: "I don't need to hold your hand, help you cross the street to argue a case. I don't need to badger you."
Thomas was asked specifically about the plethora of questions during three days of oral arguments as the justices decide whether to kill or keep President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. But Thomas said it's become habit for justices to interrupt lawyers.
"We have a lifetime to go back in chambers and to argue with each other," he said. "They have 30, 40 minutes per side for cases that are important to them and to the country. They should argue. That's a part of the process.
"I don't like to badger people. These are not children. The court traditionally did not do that. I have been there 20 years. I see no need for all of that. Most of that is in the briefs, and there are a few questions around the edges."
And Thomas suggested his loquacious colleagues should do more listening and less talking.
"I don't see where that advances anything," he said of the questions. "Maybe it's the Southerner in me. Maybe it's the introvert in me, I don't know. I think that when somebody's talking, somebody ought to listen."
His remarks drew applause from the audience that heard Thomas' insights on the court during a 90-minute appearance at the University of Kentucky.
Thomas has gained a reputation for staying silent during oral arguments before the high court.
He said the lawyers presenting their cases are capable and don't need guidance from the justices: "I don't need to hold your hand, help you cross the street to argue a case. I don't need to badger you."
Thomas was asked specifically about the plethora of questions during three days of oral arguments as the justices decide whether to kill or keep President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. But Thomas said it's become habit for justices to interrupt lawyers.
"We have a lifetime to go back in chambers and to argue with each other," he said. "They have 30, 40 minutes per side for cases that are important to them and to the country. They should argue. That's a part of the process.
"I don't like to badger people. These are not children. The court traditionally did not do that. I have been there 20 years. I see no need for all of that. Most of that is in the briefs, and there are a few questions around the edges."
Instructions on a smoke grenade: Don't be a dick
An unnamed brand of smoke grenade includes "Don't be a dick with our products" in its instructions. Apparently this is Canadian (judging from the bilingual instructions).
Apr 5, 2012
really?
Northern Mexico Pointy Boots Crews
In January 2012, New York City-based photographers Alex Troesch and Aline Paley traveled to Matehuala, Mexico and captured some wonderful images of the Los Socios and Los Parrandero crews wearing some very long and pointy boots. TIME LightBox recently published the set of images and they report that in “northern Mexico, the pointy boots trend is more about flash than fashion.”
“They’re worn by people who want to impress other people,” Troesch says. In fact, one boot maker they met had transformed a regular pair of shoes into pointy boots for a client who wanted to impress the jury of a dance contest. That’s how the fervor started—but not everyone is a fan. “Sometimes you’d hear people teasing others about wearing the boots,” Troesch says. “Still, it was very interesting for us to witness how such a common object—cowboy boots—worn by so many people in northern Mexico could be reinvented and reappropriated by young teenagers whose eyes and ears are so many times directed towards the other side of the border.”
Members of “Los Socios” pointy boots crew, posing on the rest of an old mining field of Matehuala.
photos by Alex Troesch and Aline Paley for
I used to live on this stuff.....
Sincerest Form of Parody: the lost ecosystem of MAD-inspired gross-out comics
Today marks the publication of Fantagraphics' magnificent archaeological comicsology, The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD Inspired Satirical Comics. This volume collects the rare, nearly unheard-of parody comics that sprang up in the early 1950s to jump on the bandwagon that MAD magazine set in motion. Many of the same artists who made MAD such a success (Jack Davis, Will Elder, Norman Maurer, Carl Hubbell, William Overgard, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Bill Everett, Al Hartley, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito, Hy Fleischman, Jay Disbrow, Howard Nostrand, and Bob Powell) were represented in long-lost tiles like FLIP, WHACK, NUTS, CRAZY, WILD, RIOT, EH, UNSANE, BUGHOUSE, and GET LOST. Many of these are racier, grosser, and meaner than even MAD dared. There's also an engrossing appendix of annotations from editor John Benson, a MAD expert who wrote the additional text for the first run of MAD reprints.
I grew up on Cracked and Crazy, but these were late, late, latecomers to the MAD knockoff party, and never went as far as these lost titles.
The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD Inspired Satirical Comics
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