Endless Parade of Excellence

2008-07-01T21:39:00.001-04:00

"The second SALT (Soviet Auto Luxury Tour) Rally was held in and around Framlingham in Suffolk, over the weekend of June 6-8 2008." Photoset on flickr.
(via the Cold War pool)

2008-06-23T16:33:00.000-04:00

Phonographantasmascope!
(via MeFi)

2008-06-19T14:41:00.002-04:00

Weird-Ass Stuff From The Bottom Of the Sea: Apparently lancetfish will only eat prey with big cartoony eyes. And each other.
(thanks, Kat!)
Update: Kat has a lancetfish head!

2008-06-15T10:59:00.002-04:00

Huge collection of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth ephemera on Coop's flickr stream. Includes a lot of interesting Vietnam era military pieces.

2008-06-10T14:36:00.001-04:00

"The UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections has selected and digitized 5,746 of the more than three million images contained in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News photographic archives. The photographs chronicle the history and growth of Los Angeles from the 1920s to 1990."
Forget about getting anything done today.
(via Dinosaurs and Robots)

2008-06-06T16:29:00.002-04:00

Running the Numbers-an American Self-Portrait. by Chris Jordan.
(Thanks, Scott!)

2008-06-02T11:18:00.001-04:00

Hack a Day has a nice roundup of robotic cats.

2008-05-27T10:12:00.001-04:00

"It's pickly and it's cold"
(Thanks, Ron!)

2008-05-23T22:29:00.001-04:00

Inner City Snail: a slow-moving street-art project.
(via b3ta)

2008-05-22T22:35:00.002-04:00

It's always cool when something looks like something else.
(via OVVLvverk)

2008-05-20T12:27:00.003-04:00

Nice collection of Braillewriters, from the New York Institute of Special Education.
(Thanks, Dan!)

2008-05-17T14:07:00.001-04:00

Russian Sinclair clones
(via Things Magazine)

2008-05-12T15:16:00.002-04:00

"This is not a trivial undertaking"
(via MeFi)

2008-05-07T19:12:00.001-04:00

I think "Cereal Killah" would be a good rapper name.
(via The Breakfast Bowl)

2008-05-01T10:20:00.002-04:00

My Installation Adjustable Landscape opens tomorrow at York Quay Gallery at Harbourfront, and runs until June 22nd. Details here.

2008-04-28T09:46:00.001-04:00

WASFTBOTS: Pigbutt worm.
(Via Grow-a-Brain)

2008-04-27T10:11:00.001-04:00

No one who works in TV gets to ask that question.
(via boing boing)

2008-04-25T10:00:00.002-04:00

There's a robot beneath the fluff. I've skinned a toy or two in my time. This makes me want to hit Goodwill with shears in hand.
(Via MeFi)

2008-04-20T18:17:00.000-04:00

WASFTBOTS:
cool fish sounds.
(via neatorama)

2008-04-14T15:04:00.001-04:00

Food that takes the shape of its container.
(via kottke.org)

2008-04-13T15:56:00.002-04:00

An Engineers's Guide to Cats.
(via MeFi)

2008-04-09T13:14:00.008-04:00

In the late 60s our Saturday morning cartoons were often interrupted by warnings about the dangers of blasting caps. None of us had ever seen a blasting cap, but we were all terrified of anything shiny lying on the ground.
Part one Part two

2008-04-07T18:49:00.000-04:00

The Circus Historical Society.
(via Things Magazine)

2008-04-03T14:36:00.000-04:00

Sir Edmund Hillary tribute.
(youtube)

2008-03-31T17:14:00.002-04:00

There's a small chance that, somewhere on the planet, there's a car that's more bad-ass than this, but I sincerely doubt it.
(Via Hooptyrides)