Simian Design

These are my delicious links for January 4th through January 6th:

• Parkour Flip Book. – Oh My God. That's amazing. Just stunning. Utterly fantastic.
• Bridge House – Designed by Max Pritchard
• FARK Headlines of the Year – I didn't expect this. The Top 20 headliens of 2009 from FARK are way brilliant. If newspapers had the balls to have headlines like this I'd buy way more newspapers.
• Greatest.Lego.Set.Ever. – GOD I WANT THIS. The Lego Millennium Falcon is nearly 3 feet long; it costs $499 and it is made of over 5,000 pieces! The Millennium Falcon has been listed as the biggest Lego set ever sold.

These are my delicious links for December 31st:

• Star Trek: The Original Series Wetsuit (7MM) – This is genius. I want this wetsuit.

These are my delicious links for November 20th:

• The Muppet Show's 10 Weirdest Moments – I love the Muppet Show. It's brilliance. Here are it's 10 oddest and weirdest moments.
• Library Porn – A collection of beautiful libraries. Really beautiful places.

These are my delicious links for November 1st:

• Night Battle – Photos from a recent Russian Army War Games.
• Top Reverse Photo Bombs – A photo bomb is "Any time the background of a picture hijacks the original focus."
• Crown of the Wire – The purpose of this blog is to do the impossible: determine the "best" character on the Wire. We have set up an NCAA tournament-style bracket (found here) with 65 Wire characters divided into 2 regions: the Law and the Street. It _should_ end up with the finals being McNulty vs. Omar.

These are my delicious links for August 13th:

• Top 10 Gruesome Fairy Tale Origins – Fairy tales of the past were often full of macabre and gruesome twists and endings. These days, companies like Disney have sanitized them for a modern audience that is clearly deemed unable to cope, and so we see happy endings everywhere.

  Well, here is the gruesome and twisted original endings.

These are my delicious links for August 4th:

• Flip Flop Fly Ball – Some amazing infographics on Baseball.
• 10 Amazing Cold War Propaganda Posters – The Cold War lasted from the end of World War II right up to the early 1990s, although the Soviet Union and the USA never actually engaged in direct battle. Instead, the Cold War was expressed through weapons development (the nuclear arms race), technological development (the space race), espionage and propaganda.

  Western democratic states churned out huge amounts of propaganda material throughout the First and Second World Wars, but practically decommissioned their propaganda machines post 1945. This is why most of the posters that we explore below have emerged from the Soviet Union or independent political activist groups, and not the West.

• Design Observer – The Design Observer redesigns. Nice, clean, much larger scope now. Crisp and 'newspapery'.

These are my delicious links for July 29th through July 31st:

• Feral Homes – James Griffioen has a haunting collection of photos of homes and buildings being overtaken by vegetation in Detroit. I can't imagine walking the streets with these buildings, must be surreal.
• Photos of Chicago from the top of a Crane. – Ken Derry, crane operator for McHugh, has taken some amazing pictures of the Trump Tower during its construction.
• 202 Star Wars T-Shirts – A grand list of 202 Star Wars Shirts. Not ranked, just a missive listing.
• I'm pretty sure I stopped growing up in my teens and have been faking ever since. – One of the best XKCD's I've seen in a while.

These are my delicious links for July 21st:

• 19 Amazing Acts of Death Defiance – For the record, I'd totally do the Skydive from the Heavens one, in a heartbeat. Wouldn't hesitate.

  But there is no way in hell I'd do the tightrope walking, nor the free diving. That shit is just crazy.

• Expert Confirms Authenticity Of Vinland Map – A Danish expert said on Friday that a 15th century Vinland Map, the first known map depicting part of America prior to Christopher Columbus’ arrival on the continent, is almost certainly authentic.

  The map has been surrounded by controversy since its discovery in 1950, with many scholars suspecting it was merely part of a hoax intended to prove that Vikings were the first Europeans to land in North America (a claim confirmed by an archaeological find in 1960).

• Amazing Laser Light Magician – Fantastic show, must watch. I was impressed, would love to see this live.

These are my delicious links for July 13th through July 15th:

• 101 Muppets of Sesame Street – A giant illustration of 101 Muppets. Mouse over them to learn more about some of the lesser-known ones. Done in celebration of their 40th anniversary.
• Ways to trick your brain. –
• light-test.com – When a Photographer wants to test the lighting, often an assistant will step in. These are those shots.
• Digg digs into IE6 usage. – Basically, IE6 users are forced to use IE6 at work. Giving them a message saying, “Hey! Upgrade!” in this case is not only pointless; it’s sadistic.

These are my delicious links for June 27th:

• Sex Issue: Type Tart Cards – Tart cards are the means by which many London prostitutes advertise their services. Step into almost any central London phone box and you can contemplate up to 80 cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged.

  n conjunction with St Bride Library and Type, we asked designers – from students to superstars – to find the tart hiding in every type and create their own graphic numbers. Along with a selection in the magazine, all 450 cards can be viewed here.