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Poking the Shub-Internet with a Stick
Artist Fang-Yu Lin is trying to make contact with the “aware” portion of the Internet. According to legend, Shub-Internet, Beast of a 1024 Processors, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise and countless other appellations rests peacefully in its lair deep beneath the Pentagon. Shub-Internet is nothing less than the harsh personification of the hideous…
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Jack-o’Lanterns, Klingon-Style
Just in time for Halloween. Behold! By placing a few glowing boulders, ignited red-hot by the blast of a phaser, the klingon lantern comes alive for the first time. (or you can use tea lights). Link (via BoingBoing)
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Jobs of the Future: Virtual World Tour Guide
Synthtravels is a tour operator that arranges for guided visits to virtual worlds like World of Warcraft and Second Life, providing “native guides” for people who want to get the lay of the land. There’s a job description I bet no SF writer ever saw coming.Link (via BoingBoing)
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Beware of Squid
We all know what a pain those pesky road squid can be. Now you can have the international Road Squid warning sign on a T-shirt or coffee mug, thanks to Barry.
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Dammit, Where Are the Flying Cars?
Two pieces on MSNBC today explore predictions about the future that never quite got off the ground. Some predictions about the future remain forever etched in history: Lord Kelvin’s 1895 declaration that “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible” or Digital Equipment Corp. head Ken Olson’s 1977 statement that “There is no reason anyone would want a…
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Discworld Wedding Cake
A very talented baker with far too much time on her hands made this gorgeous wedding cake in the form of the Great A’Tuin, the galactic turtle on whose back the four elephants that support Terry Pratchett’s Discworld stand. Landmasses are coloured, and the seas are added by “flooding” the low areas with blue liquid…
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Technology Tackles Real-Life Problems
Never forget another anniversary. The Remember Ring is programmed to briefly heat up every hour on a specific date. It powers itself with a “micro thermopile” that turns heat from your hand into stored electricity that runs its internal clock and the heater. Link (via BoingBoing)
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Cephalo(i)Pod
Flickr user queenrobot made this wonderful squid costume for her iPod. And that’s not the half of it: Neatorama, where I found this picture, themselves found it at…:::drum rolll:::..Squid Blog, a wonderfully narrow-niched and hitherto-entirely-unsuspected blog about, well, squid. (I’m not sure why it should have been unsuspected; considering some of the stuff you find…
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“Chip Art” Wine Bottles
The Clos de la Tech winery offers bottles of wine with “chip art” embedded in the label. We have always liked the practice of Chateau Mouton Rothschild, which puts a new piece of modern art on its bottle each year. We decided to put “chip art” on our bottle–in the case of the 2000, two…
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Porn Films For Robosexuals
From Defective Yeti: Some Like It Bot Rebel Without A Program Output Anything Uncanny Valley of the Dolls The Old Man and the PC Anode What You Did Last Summer Cool Grasping Mechanism Luke Neural Network Cape Amphere Schindler’s Array The Cogfather ROMadeus A Roomba With A View In the Heat Of The Byte Unborgiven…