is counting down the minutes until the weekend. And looking forward to liveblogging a garage sailing expedition tomorrow morning.
knit picking
I have never wanted to learn to knit as much as I do now. Thanks to this collection of macabre toys.
Bad case of carroted artery
Remember: Electricity can kill
I know. Electricity can be fun. And creating a massive Tesla coil in the backyard sounds like heaps of fun. But electricity is dangerous people. And this guy, Bre Pettis, wants to warn you through this Flickr set.
Be on the lookout for powerlines
Be careful where you stick those scissors
The year in photos
Buildings and debris are seen floating in the Cedar River against a railroad bridge Saturday, June 14, 2008, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Days after it rose out of its banks on its way to record flooding in Cedar Rapids, the Cedar River has forced at least 24,000 people from their homes, emergency officials said. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Electrifyingly cool
Anyone who has played Red Alert knows that Tesla Coils are the ultimate home base defence system. And anyone who hasn’t, but knows what a Tesla coil is knows that they’re totally awesome.
That’s why this guitar amp is cool:
And, why this photographic re-enactment of Red Alert is also cool.
Red Alert: Tesla Coil
If you’re not convinced that Tesla coils are the coolest thing since electricity then check out this gallery from the Red Alert Tesla Guy (an Australian) on the SMH.
Things I’ve Read
- Find the Instruction Manual to Anything, for Free!
- Foodista Takes A Wiki Approach To Recipes
- 45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends
- The power of smart copywriting
– If you’re like me, and enjoy a spot of garage sailing, you may have picked up a cheap piece of electronic gadgetry – affectionately known as “garbage”. Well garbage no more – now you can find the manual and figure out just how that gizmo should work.
– foodista = the wikipedia of recipes
– Some great free fonts from Six Revisions – a design focused web design site that keeps putting out excellent lists of where to find fonts, code, pictures and background images from all over the web.
– Seth Godin on copywriting and coffee – two subjects dear to my heart.
CAPTCHA their attention
Moderating comments could be a real pain. I’m thinking about fighting off spam bots with this baby . It’s just a shame I can’t answer the verification question myself.
World's best CAPTCHA
Plastic workers make for positive office culture
Corporate Minifig
Last week was BYFMTWW. Or “Bring your favourite minifig to work week”. I’m sorry I missed it. For those still not clear on what a minifig is:
Anatomy of a minifig
Shirt of the day – 18 December 2008
Haiku in a shirttotally very awesomeshould I buy it now?
Things I’ve Read
- Tap’dNY: The Bottled Tap Water
- Malus Communis: Turn your DVD Rack into a Tree
- How the Bailout Is Being Paid for, and How It Should Be
– They should just call this “naive” – it’s Evian backwards. Selling tap water, what will they think of next? Ice to eskimos?
– This is a fantastic tree shaped bookshelf.
– Slightly depressing fiscal policy.
Faking it
Fake engineer and fake prince sent to real jail.
On the surface you’d think a guy that pretended to be a Qantas
engineer and worked on planes – endangering lives – would be worthy of a longer sentence than the fake prince. But the fake prince got 12 for claiming to own three banks, a $40 million home and three Australian islands… who owns claims to own one bank, let alone three banks? Other than the guy in that Credit Union ad.
Things I’ve Read
- What’s All the Fighting For?
– This map looks like a giant game of real world Risk.
Goodshirt
Goodshirt were a cool Kiwi band that Australia never managed to claim. They had this cool song called “Sophie” that had a very cool acoustic version.
But I digress. Glennz.com is my current favourite shirt site (I haven’t bought any yet – but I’d like to. Thanks mostly to these:
Experimental Music
Self Maintenance
Extreme Beginnings
Evolution
After Hours
If anyone buying me Christmas or birthday presents hasn’t done so yet – you can’t go wrong with a good novelty T-Shirt.
Controlled Evolution: Intelligent Design?
How many of these have you used? Are designs getting clunkier and more complex? Or more intuitive?
Really, it’s just a cool pic.
Here’s the original post – complete with family tree
On shoes
Lesson in PR from this week:
If you can dodge a journalist’s questions with consumate ease – you
should be expected to be able to dodge their shoe with the same, if
not more, ease. George Bush has obviously learned that lesson early.
He handled that situation with grace and composure. The reporter
probably deserved a tongue lashing – he’ll be lucky to be spared a
literal lashing in Iraq. Ironically, if Saddam was still in power he
probably would have been executed. That’s the best shoe pun I could
come up with because the Facebook George Bush already used “sole
searching.” The Facebook George Bush is not me.
Wikipedia has some interesting things to say about shoe tossing. Including an
interesting look at “shoefiti” the act of throwing shoes onto a
telegraph wire. Which I was always told was to indicate drugs could be
bought nearby.