Monowheel by Ben Wilson. This is a totally dead-sexy piece of construction and a tribute to the do-it-yourselfer.
I’m pretty serious about somebody making me one and getting it out to me pronto.
Robert Krampf is my hero of the week. His online video on how effective water is at absorbing heat is brilliant. Quick and simple, it’s the sort of thing you can do with kids that will probably give them at worst, a momentary thrill, but at best, a passion for hands-on science.
I’m totally doing this with my kids this week.
From i like toys: This great Frank Cho Monkey Boy vinyl statue. I like a great deal, and I’m generally not one to go in for these type of toys. But a monkey? A bitter looking monkey? I’m sold.
This video of these four guys taking the robot to a brand new level is amazing. Just amazing. I ran across this today (thanks to Kottke). Which is ironic when I spent a fair amount of time on Wikipedia looking into breakdancing.
I started looking into it because for some reason I was looking up Crazy Legs. Then I learnt about the terms Toprock, Uprock, Downrock, Power moves, Suicides, Freezes.
A side little note about myself. Back in middle school, I spent time doing breakdancing myself. I tried learning Toprock, but spent most of my time doing Downrock. I also had my own Members-only jacket, parachute pants, all color coordinated.
Luckily, all photos have been destroyed.
I’m not to proud at the moment to be living in Fairfax, VA. I just read about what the Fairfax County Library is doing: removing classics off the shelves if they’re not checked out.
“Library officials explain, not unreasonably, that their shelf space is limited and that they want to satisfy the demands of the public. Every unpopular book that’s removed from circulation, after all, creates room for a new page-turner by John Grisham, David Baldacci, or James Patterson–the authors of the three most checked-out books in Fairfax County last month.”
Now the article brings up a great question, What is a Library for? Is it to cater to the masses fickle (and craptastic) reading needs? Or is it to be a cultural repository, aiding in the enlightenment and education of the people.
Keep in mind that Libraries are funded by the government. This official funding lends credence to the cultural repository I believe.
I find this whole new development disturbing.
“Books by Charlotte Brontë, William Faulkner, Thomas Hardy, Marcel Proust and Alexander Solzhenitsyn have recently been pulled.“
I’m so not proud of my local government, nor of where I live.
I think I might start making a list of books to go check out, just to keep these books on the shelves.
I can’t decide if I’d rather eat at Dinner in the Sky or at Sirroco. It’s a real toss up.
I think that because of the sheer uniqueness of Dinner in the Sky I’d choose that. But Sirroco looks amazing.
I’ve updated my link-fu section. I moved to Mag.nol.ia, for a number of reasons. I tried Del.icio.us for a while, and while I like it fine, it just didn’t seem right. Mag.nol.ia didn’t either for a while.
Then I saw Jeff Croft move his entire Mag.nol.ia site into his site, so it’s transparent. I was jealous, so I immediately copied it. You can see the results here.
I’ll post up the code at some point, because getting it to work was actually a pain in the ass at first.
The next thing I want to do to this is get the rss feed back on track (it’s currently being built on Mag.nol.ia. My feedburner feed points to it as well. I currently have two feeds, one for this site, one for my links. )
I’m going to be switching stuff around yet again. I keep finding that I’m trying to use this one site/blog for at least 5 different purposes. (blog, portfolio, links, resume, experiments)
Step one is that I’m going to stop really posting all my (remaindered, elsewhere, link-fu, meme) links here, and start posting them on Mag.nol.ia. I was going to start using Del.icio.us but this great post from Jeff Croft showed me that Mag.nol.ia is a better long-term solution.
So I’ll still post here, for a while. I’ll probably break this site apart at some point, break down the areas I identified above. So if you want my selection of links, be sure and mark down my Mag.nol.ia account into your reader.
Wow. I so am in love with this idea. Take a picture of yourself. Send it in. They paint you up as a piece of lovely propaganda. I can’t decide between this poster, or this one.
Sorry for the downtime, and lack of posting. I’ve moved servers. All seems to be working now.