From the interminably brilliant hardware hacker Phillip Torrone, comes a way to turn your pup into a photographer. Scroll down to see the photo gallery from Torrone’s spaniel. His doggie-eyed view of his food bowl, cat, and master’s leg on a walk are hilarious.
Swarms of temblors around Mt. St. Helens have prompted officials to close the mountain above 4,800 feet. Cynthia Gardner, the acting scientist in charge at the Cascades Volcano Observatory descibed these small quakes as a signature that was very similar to the signature that we saw back in the days when the dome was building. If you want to obsessively watch for signs of activity, keep checking the Mt. St. Helens Webcam.
Where’s my flying car, damnit? Where’s my hypersonic transport, or my personal helicopter? It’s the 21st Century and I want to ride a monorail to get places around town! Oh yeah, that one actually will happen. But anyway, UC Berkeley
Apprently Tom Ridge has not put any of his investments in a blind trust while acting as the nation’s Homeland Security Chief. Last year Ridge held between $100,000 and $815,000 in investments with contractors to the Department of Homeland Security, including Microsoft, Unisys, General Electric, Sprint, Raytheon, Oracles, Merck and Pfizer.
Sitting Child by Bristol, England artist Anna Gillespie is made of masking tape & resin. It’s on view at London’s newly opened Spectrum Gallery.
Everybody’s got a blog these days, even Freddy.
So how would you celebrate your final exams? One Englishman decided to build an enormous f*****g sandwich. Inside this affront to God would be an enchilada, some garlic mushrooms, burgers, sausages, assloads of cheese and some good old HP sauce. I put in a bit of salad as well to even out the bad stuff. In the end it was an 8600 calorie sandwich.
Newcomer Sonya Thomas was named IFOCE 2003 Rookie of the Year and is nearly unbeaten in competition in 2004.
The list of six finalists shortlisted for Britain’s
The City of Vancouver recently asked its citizens to submit design ideas for new manhole covers. Here are the winners for Storm Sewer Design and for Sanitary Sewer Design.
Two Harvard scientist, Bevil Conway and Margaret Livingstone, have theorized that Rembrandt probably had a lazy eye disorder which diminished his depth perception and probably aided his painting.
I know you’ve been looking for this. From a guy in North Carolina comes possibly the world’s largest online collection of phonebooks. At left is a Birmingham, Alabama phonebook from 1977. This 1967 Roman phonebook is kinda nice too.
While the Sheboygan Museum of Art does not have the resources to acquire the works by major abstract expressionists, the institution does feel it can demonstrate a sense of the genre with this exhibit of crayon works by Miss Wensleydale’s second grade class from Sheboygan Elementary School.
Following a traffic stop in Oklahoma over the weekend, former child actor Macaulay Culkin was busted for possession of marijuana and a possesion of a “controlled dangerous substance” .
But my Hummer’s so cramped, you say? Well the International
Korean-American artist Jean Shin takes mundane discarded objects and turns then into beautiful sculptures and installations. Her Chance City piece (on the left) is made from $21,496 worth of discarded lottery tickets). Jean Shin’s work will be up at MoMA in NYC untill September 27th.,
Thinking about getting a new yacht. If I could only convince the maker to get rid of the world “wally” from the nameplate, I might try out the 118 WallyPower high performance superyacht.16,800 hp lets you cruise at 60 knots and look like darth vader doing it.
Interesting research study from the the Poynter Institute that tracked visitors eye movements as the navigated through web pages.
Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital’s chic 16th arrondissement, as the Guardian describes it.
London’s Tate Britain Museum is asking you to tell them what you think some of their paintings mean. The museum is asking you to write up your own descriptive labels for more than 43 works. The 30 most interesting comments culled from contributions to the Tate website will be used as captions in the gallery and will be on view at Tate Britain during British Art Week which starts September 20th.