Mind your pees and queues
When we stopped over in Singapore I noticed the urinals there had the old “fly on the wall” trick, designed to encourage better aim and reduce mess for the cleaning staff. It’s a beautiful nudge.
This one is better. It has nothing to do with “queues” except that less time cleaning means more time being used…
You can buy them to install at home. When the target (the dangling ball) gets a spray it changes colour. Clever stuff.
Life in a shop of flux
Cool stuff comes from Sweden, take my friend Mattias for instance. He’s from Sweden. He’s cool. He even likes lakes.
Anyway, this Flux Shop also comes from Sweden, like Ikea, and sells cool stuff for you to put together at home. Also like Ikea.
Like this box. It comes with a bunch of test tubes holding different coloured paints and some paper. And you shake it all about. And you get a painting.
Or this one, where you get a reversed artwork, and 100 questions to figure out what’s behind it in order to get the key. After you’ve bought it.
Their commitment to mixing and matching also led to the creation of this “religious” text, where readers can mix and match between three books, I think one is the Bible, but I can’t tell what the others are…
The phat controller
Here’s a novel solution to losing the TV remote between the couch cushions… turn the couch cushion into a remote. Brilliant.
Passing the remote to one another across the room might become a slightly more violent affair though…
From here (they’re actually for sale… for $30. Just in time for Christmas).
Alternatively. You could get one of these sofas that is designed to have things stuck in it…
Via Design Bloom.
Ride a bike horse to Bandbury Cross
I don’t know where Bandbury Cross is, but you’ll be a fine lady (or gentleman) upon a white horse if you deck out your bike with this gear:
From Design Bloom, designed as part of a Seoul Cycle Design competition.
Smalltalk Calendar
Just in case you’re a bit lost for words any month of the year (day of the week), just figure out where you are on this chart and go for it.
Via College Humour.
Biscuit Dipper: keep your fingers dry
This seems slightly unnecessary.
It’s called the Dipr. And its inventors want you to invest in getting it produced.
Musical Peanuts
I know Ben has a bit of a thing for posting Peanuts Comics. But there’s no monopoly on ideas in the blogosphere… is there?
And I like this one (found here). I think it explains my fixation with Radiohead.
And this tangentially related piece of street art is also pretty cool and postworthy.
Via this tumblog.
Last exam today
Today is D Day. Or ד ים. I have my final exam for the year, and despite being on the last day possible it’s the exam I feel least prepared for. I think I only need to get thirty percent in the exam in order to pass… so I should be ok. But remind me next year not to neglect my languages for the sake of my essays.
Oh. And if you’re the praying type – 10am. I’d appreciate it.
Don’t pray that I get what I deserve, pray for mercy.
Hipster Preacher: as crazy as the other YouTube crazies
Ok. I’m glad the Wine Barrel guy from Brisbane doesn’t have a monopoly on crazy.
“We have the most revelation of any generation that has walked the planet.”
I can take this “revelation” and leave it… but thanks.
Oh. This explains it.