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It’s a rare and wonderful treat for the smallest of nature’s creatures to bestow upon me the physically and spiritually humbling experience, nay epiphany of having my own body become an incubator, a living home, for an entire civilization of replicating microscopic entities.
Really, what are minor luxuries like sleeping and breathing when compared to this immaculate Gaia-like existence?
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I hate being sick.
Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Why do pirates always bury their treasure 18 inches below the ground?
Because booty is only shin deep!
The coolest video created with 987 Polaroids and no computer compositing you’ll probably ever see:
This is one of the creepiest and coolest things I have ever seen in my life! Even better than the glowing dead rat LED throwie!
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on Jul 24, 2007
Cory Doctorow: The Experiments in Galvanism frog floats in mineral oil, a webserver installed it its guts, with wires into its muscle groups. You can access the frog over the network and send it galvanic signals that get it to kick its limbs.
Experiments in Galvanism is the culmination of studio and gallery experiments in which a miniature computer is implanted into the dead body of a frog specimen. Akin to Damien Hirst’s bodies in formaldehyde, the frog is suspended in clear liquid contained in a glass cube, with a blue ethernet cable leading into its splayed abdomen. The computer stores a website that enables users to trigger physical movement in the corpse: the resulting movement can be seen in gallery, and through a live streaming webcamera.
– Risa HorowitzGarnet Hertz has implanted a miniature webserver in the body of a frog specimen, which is suspended in a clear glass container of mineral oil, an inert liquid that does not conduct electricity. The frog is viewable on the Internet, and on the computer monitor across the room, through a webcam placed on the wall of the gallery. Through an Ethernet cable connected to the embedded webserver, remote viewers can trigger movement in either the right or left leg of the frog, thereby updating Luigi Galvani’s original 1786 experiment causing the legs of a dead frog to twitch simply by touching muscles and nerves with metal.
Experiments in Galvanism is both a reference to the origins of electricity, one of the earliest new media, and, through Galvani’s discovery that bioelectric forces exist within living tissue, a nod to what many theorists and practitioners consider to be the new new media: bio(tech) art.
– Sarah Cook and Steve Dietz
Cool Video, or Annoyingly Effective Proof-Of-Concept Marketing?
Mike Lawton on June 26, 2007 in random No Comments »To prove the effectivness of viral marketing, these guys created an insanely cool video that got tons of attention. I’m not exactly sure what it proved, they weren’t selling anything other than the fact that they were able to get people’s attention for a few minutes… which in the marketing world, especially online, really is a tremendous success!
Well, you can think too hard about it and get a headache, or just watch the video.
Ultimate rube goldberg machine
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2007
Cory Doctorow: 
This video documents a rube goldberg machine that spans multiple storeys of a residential house, running from room to room, with transitions that include stairwalking slinkies, a computerized magnetic chess-set, and the piece de resistance, a cellphone that calls another phone elsewhere in the house, setting off a vibration ringer that triggers the next reaction. Must be seen to be believed. Link (Thanks, Richard!)
OK, this is a new one.
I had written my post “Susie 2.0″ a few weeks back, talking about erasing and reinstalling OS X on my iBook. I then received an anonymous comment of a rather lengthy and unusual nature.
I used to get a ton of comment spam, the usual crap about porn, \/!@6r@, and the rest. Thankfully, Blogger offered a CAPTCHA word-verification option for comments, haven’t had any problems since. Until this one.
I’d love to post the entire body, but it seriously goes on for pages and pages. Pages of… are you ready… Women’s track and field throw teams.
Women’s track and field throw teams.
3/13/07
Katie Richardson, Fresno State Montague, Calif. 6-0
Dia Matthews 6′ 0″ Fresno, California
Sarah Reed Florida State. Punta Gorda, FL.3/15/07
Nicole Sauer University of Wisconsin 5-9 East Greenwich, R.I.3/16/07
Stephanie Robbins CSUChico Torrance, CA
Jennifer Sturm CSUChico Manawa, WI3/17/07
Sarah Robles University of Alabama San Jancito, Calif.
…and on, and on, and on. Hundreds of lines.
Has anyone out there seen this before?
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So here’s where my little conspiratorial mind starts to have fun.
Why would someone post a list like this?
Say someone wanted to hide a message, a code of some kind. But they didn’t want to send it to the intended recipient in a way easily traced, or that could present a link between the sender and recipient. Perhaps they had a prearranged topic, nice and innocent sounding (like sports statistics) that they would keep an eye out for around the blogosphere. Stuff that would get posted to some unknown personal vanity blog that nobody has any reason to pay attention to, and would hopefully just get left there by a confused but unconcerned blogger.
It’s a little “Mission Impossible”, but hey, what would life be without a little fun and mystery?
(if you’re curious, I kept a copy of the whole thing)
And yes, I know it’s far more likely that Blogger just had a little hiccup and accidentally posted a message intended for another person’s blog… but what’s the fun in that?
My dear friend Joey deVilla (aka: Accordian Guy) is having some fun at the moment with a little Googlebombing campaign against his deadbeat ex-housemate. A local news broadcast even picked up his story (link).
There’s nothing worse than having someone you thought of as a friend screw you out of money (I’ll tell you a story about a golf tournament one day), and I think that Joey’s response is hysterical and awesome and geeky in all the right ways. So in honour of Mr. deVilla, I thought I’d add my meager juice to the campaign. Good luck bro!
deadbeat ex-housemate
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Quick, I Need A Calculator And A Hockey Mask
Mike Lawton on October 13, 2006 in random No Comments »Friday, October 13, 2006.
13/10/2006
1+3+1+0+2+0+0+6
=
13.
I love stuff like this!
(PS – Dow Jones index ended up 13 points!)
Any project that starts out with “hollow out a dead rat” has got to be something special. Oh the evil Halloween fun I could have with all these shiny metal filing cabinets and stressed out employees in the office…
