(b)logophile

Amsterdam has a lot of trouble with bicycle theft. There’s a thriving black market, centred on a couple of bridges where the junkies cycle past at regular intervals asking people on foot whether they want to buy a bike. So there’s a couple of reasons you might want to paint your bike some unusual colour: [...]

The first annual “Art of Science” competition at Princeton is over, and the images are online. Some pretty cool stuff — the “Wake of a pitching plate” is a favourite of mine. (Via BoingBoing.)

Extremely cool installation art and music project: LEMUR, the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots. These are functional musical instruments (the guitarbot is intended to “extend, not simply duplicate, the capabilities of a human guitarist”) that play themselves, but also weird and beautiful works of art. Seeing the installation pieces in the flesh would be [...]

The Dutch design studio OOOMS, based in Eindhoven, have some pretty damn cool stuff. I mean cool as in strange cool. Recommended picks: the anti-gravity moonwalk experience, hollow land Dutch souvenirs (now you too can own a replica of a hole in the ground somewhere in the Netherlands), and gold-plated staples.

To my disgust, I’ve been struck by comment spam. Naturally, it’s happened while I don’t have easy access to a machine, so I’m shutting down commenting entirely until I get this sorted out. I’m sure the three people who have previously posted non-spam comments will cope.