magpie's shiny things

Portfolio of Kyle Houchens. Take time to page through the illos. The
diecast car designs are loverly.
http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_set.asp?individual_id=845&set_id=55

St John was a whack job. Today’s religious/Lego moment.
http://www.thebricktestament.com/revelation/god_tortures_kills_billions/rv06_01.html

Break it. Illustrate it.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/anatomical-drawing‑o.html

My dad (the physi­cist) had one of these when they were first available.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/13/hp-35-scientific-cal.html

I had nev­er con­sid­ered the down­side of auto­mo­tive tech for rescuers
doing extrac­tion. Noe I have.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/04/one-of-the-grea.html

Just because it’s so cool. Might make one of these a desk­top for a
while. Link to the full fli­cr set at the bottom.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/soviet-nuclear-contr.html

more tomor­row,

Slow news morning.

Kathy G has the best round up of links for the Amazon Rankings hulabaloo.
http://wiredpen.com/2009/04/12/amazonfail/

Links to some of the blog posts from authors delist­ed can be found in
Lisa Gold’s Sunday post.
http://lisagoldresearch.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/amazon-sets-the-blogosphere-on-fire/

I was won­der­ing when some­one would make the joke.
http://apelad.blogspot.com/2009/04/laugh-out-loud-cats-1110.html

Now:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/04/13/funny-pictures-ur-lettin-teh-monday-in/

Bonus Easter Sunday Edition

For no par­tic­u­lar rea­son in no par­tic­u­lar order:

Extreme cute­ness. Little lost robot.
Reported:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/11/adorable-robots-get-where-theyre-going-with-human-help/
Creator’s site:
http://www.tweenbots.com/

Micheal Velliquette — cut paper art. Shiny.
http://www.velliquette.com/Site/SlideShow_assets/SlideShow.html?lang=en

For the 7 year old in all of us. Do want.
http://www.cookiemag.com/homefront/decor/2008/11/london_greenhouse?slide=2#showSlide

Why I could­n’t go to the gym on Wednesday. They took my lit­tle iPod shuffle.
http://sleepmachine.tumblr.com/post/95168434/buzzp-via-cache-gawker-com

more tomor­row,

Yet anoth­er stu­pid car design that posits groovy graph­ics as the
solu­tion to — well I don’t know exact­ly what. Usually these things are
pitched at girls/women. Cars as acces­so­ry. (The pug thing is just
cute.)
http://www.core77.com/blog/competition/this_just_inbox_moy_concept_car_by_elvis_tomljenovic_pugzee_by_dave_cortes_13151.asp

Hugh McLeod has anoth­er print com­ing out. Don’t like his style enough
to fork out for one but his irony kills me.
Big ver­sion here:
http://www.gapingvoid.com/ws0904%20jpeg.jpg
Post and pric­ing here:
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004909.html

If I ever have to do a Dale Evans gig I want this dress.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/04/custom_circus_dress_from_ramon.html

I’ve been fol­low­ing the reac­tions to the UK’s real­ly dreadful
“war-on-terror” ad campaigns.
Start here with the first reports of the originals.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/24/london-cops-reach-ne.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/30/dumbest-salvo-yet-in.html

A col­lec­tion of the remix­es here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/26/remixes-of-the-paran.html
And my per­son­al favorite:
http://www.spacetoast.net/STP/culture/london/sheet_road_cctv_remix1.jpg

Someone must want this thing in their den. Not me.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/10/unruly-nephews-buy-this-life-sized-velociraptor-head/

Area 51 and the SR-71-Blackbird. Interviews with engi­neers and others
that worked there.
http://www.latimes.com/la-mag-april052009-backstory,0,786384.story

That’s all for this week.

Good Morning All,

Design inno­va­tion meets skin art.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/stunning_tattoo_gun_13135.asp

Big pic­ture stuns again with pho­tos of the L’Aquila earthquake.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/the_laquila_earthquake.html

Best case mod I’ve seen in a while. The con­struc­tion qual­i­ty is
insane­ly great. (The orig­i­nal Russian site is down.)
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/08/the-ultimate-wall-e-case-mod/

For those of you fol­low­ing the Kindle text-to-speech issue, there is
cov­er­age of yes­ter­day’s protests of the Authors’ Guild on EFF.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/protest-kindle-drm

Sweet bit of pho­to­shop for the WWF.
http://www.cpluv.com/www/feeditem/7494

How to make a 45RPM record. (From BBC there’s an ad first.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7973950.stm

More tomor­row,