Simian Design

These are my delicious links for December 8th through December 9th:

• Water Drops – wicked cool.
• Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel – In which you prove to the world that you are indeed a dork and a nerd, and understand math and space better than most.
• Bugs. Big Giant Bugs. – Thomas Shahan takes excellent macro photos of bugs. Check out his stream.

These are my delicious links for October 16th:

• Neo-Classic Space – This site is a tribute to LEGO's Classic Space era from 1979 to 1987.
• Classic Space Legos – Great forum showing people's creations using Classic Space Legos. Hours of nostalgic fun here.
• Pre-Classic Space Legos – PCS started in the late 1990 and early 2000 It is an attempt to create a bridge from the Lego themes of Space Port and Life on Mars to future theme of Lego known as Classic Space. Now though the theme is more a style than a storyline, folks seem to know PCS as a retro future space theme. PCS also has a line of heroes known as the Star Rangers.

These are my delicious links for August 4th:

• Top 15 Original Chess Sets – A nice collection of odd chess sets.

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 17th:

• Meeting Ticker – If this shortens one meeting, then it's worthwhile.
• I, For One, Welcome our new Blob Overlords – "It's certainly biological," Hasenauer said. "It's definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter.

  "It's definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it's some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism."

  Something else: No one in Barrow or Wainwright can remember seeing anything like this before, Brower said.

These are my delicious links for July 8th:

• Photo Fun – Real or Fake Image Game – LIFE – Is it 'shopped or not? Fun game.

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.

These are my delicious links for June 24th through June 26th:

• Touched by an Angel – The story of how the Farah Fawcett poster came to be.

  "…t may be the most famous pinup poster of all time. Farrah Fawcett's smile is a row of impossibly white teeth so perfectly aligned they look machine-made, her hair a windblown blond tangle that swallows her slender hand.
  Then there is her nipple: a salacious nub straining against the nylon of her red one-piece. Its appearance marked the advent of "nippling." Whenever a model applies ice to her breast before a photo shoot, she's paying homage to Farrah….."

• The Bug, the Worm and the Death Star – As professionals, we prefer logo, logotype, mark, symbol, wordmark, icon, visual identity or signature. With this many choices it is no wonder others have settled on the irreverent bug. Incidentally, a long-time friend in Mumbai told me of some of the general names for logo in India include pintu (pint sized), chintu (tiny), dabboo (fat) and kaka (small one). (But depending on the specific region, language and even community in India, kaka also can mean poo-poo, as elsewhere. I guess context is everything, when calling a logo kaka in India.)

  But whether we designed it, manage it, or just live with it, having a name for the logo appears to fulfill some human need. Some companies provide a formal name, such as The Monogram (GE). Here are a few logos and their officially sanctioned names:

• How many colors? Wrong. – Richard Wiseman comes one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen.
• Fun with a spray-gun, a field and perspective. – Nice project, doing POV Perspective on a field, the photos are quite nice.
• Volcano from Space; or how I would kill a man to stay in the ISS for a bit. – A chance recording by astronauts on the International Space Station has captured the moment a volcano explosively erupted, sending massive shockwaves through the atmosphere.
• 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance – Nettuts+ –

These are my delicious links for May 11th:

• When Celebrity Baby Naming Goes Bad – Sure, we all know about Moon Unit and Dweezil, but what about Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q, Brawley King, Spec Wildhorse, Mingus Lucien, Zoltan and more?