Japanese Artist Haroshi Turns Old Skateboards into Impressive Sculptures (Via)
La Glorieuse Pipe Gun
The unique curiosa cartridge gun, with select briar root bowl marked: LA Glorieuse/Patent 203/Select Briar Root.
.22 rimfire caliber, the cartridge inserted into front of stem, then screwed onto pipe bowl.
A button on bottom of pipe acts as a trigger. Gutta percha stem with brass ferrule.
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So cool! Eirik shot this time-lapse image over one year.
He had a script written that would grab one sliver from each of 3888 photos taken over the year and assembled them into a single photo.
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PermalinkA response to national media coverage of our beloved home state.
“Iowa Nice” had been featured on CNN, the BBC, and MSNBC, as well as numerous blogs and newspapers, including “The Atlantic” and “Gentlemen’s Quarterly”. (via @sjfults)
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Now for that watermelon
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Saving my resolutions for 2013 (via)
Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard. Like the printing press before it (which states also tried to regulate, for centuries), it democratizes information, and thus it democratizes power. If we allow Congress to pass these draconian laws, we’ll be joining nations like China and Iran in filtering what we allow people to see, do, and say on the Web.
And we’re better than that.
Adam Savage (Mythbusters) in an article titled “SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It” on Popular Mechanics (link via boingboing)
Presents Opening Children (link)
Knuckle Meat Tenderizer (via)
Harmless Weapons (Via)
The video is meant to remind viewers that the Internet is a physical, geographically anchored thing. It features a tour inside Telx’s 9th floor Internet exchange at 60 Hudson Street in New York City, and explores how this building became one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. (via)
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