Ok, it’s via BoingBoing, but it’s too cool not to share. A stop-motion Mario Brothers sequence in lego, with music by recorder and sound effects by voice. Delightful.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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Friday, November 17, 2006
If you haven’t already played with LibraryThing’s unSuggester, go play now. John Emerson has some notable book/antibook pairs which are worth a look.
I was tooling around with the ordinary recommendations and was dismayed to discover that since last time I checked my sf predeliction has apparently overwhelmed the stats completely. To my puzzlement but delight, [...]
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Life is busy, but nothing exciting to report. So instead, a couple of nice things you might not have read:
Wired have a collection of incredible
six word short stories. The brief was
for science fiction, fantasy and horror, so they might not be to your taste, but there are some
awfully clever ones. My favourite is by Eileen [...]
Quick links to a week’s worth of browsing:
Design: flowerlike lightbulb unfurls
as it warms up. [via sensory impact]
Craziness: every year two Greek monasteries
bombard each other with fireworks. [via
Nemo Ramjet]
Life/art mutual imitation: A British explorer disappears in the Amazon jungle, while looking
for a lost city. Attempts to find his remains, and the city he searched for, are [...]
Is anyone using Upcoming.org? I just signed up (as user tikitu, naturally), prompted by the awesome potential of Peter Oliver’s Upcomingscrobbler. As you probably won’t have guessed from the name, this site takes the top artists from your last.fm profile (driven by the Audioscrobbler engine — the light begins to dawn!) and cross-indexes them with [...]
Friday, September 23, 2005
The social bookmarking engine del.icio.us has added a cute new feature: tagging for other people. If you tag your bookmark for:tikitu, it will magically appear in a private part of my del.icio.us account, which I’m sucking up as an RSS feed. Anyone else doing this? (Robin, Robert, I’m looking at you guys in particular.) Seems [...]
A comprehensive medieval bestiary site. Gorgeous illustrations from the real thing. The text reads like the originals, but it’s a bit unclear how much it’s been rewritten since they’ve combined from many sources.
Bees are the smallest of birds, and are born from the bodies of oxen
Online version of Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman. This is a wonderfully dark and twisted retelling of a classic story. It seems to be available all over the place — I first read it in a collection but it’s apparently here by permission.