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 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 March 23rd through March 24th:

• I need me some Lucha Keys – Brilliant key holders. Give your keys that same macho, heroic image you strive to achieve for yourself.
• Vintage Supermarket Photos – I particularly like the rack of hats, and all the various font treatments on the signs.
• best of craigslist : Survival Of The Fittest – I never really was aware of the M & M breeding program, and that the Blue M & M’s are genetically weak, but now I know.
• Lego: 52-pound Lego Mon Calamari Star Cruiser – If this 7-foot long model of the Mon Calamari flagship from Return of the Jedi—complete with integrated lighting—doesn’t impress you on first sight, consider this: It uses 30,500 bricks valued at $5,500.The stunning Lego model—created by Thomas Benedikt—was created to scale from the official Lego Star Destroyer, which is an impressive 3,104-piece beast on its own. According to Thomas, the ship was almost impossible to recreate in Lego because of the difficulty of its surfaces: There are no right angles at all.

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

• Blog: Thom Glick – Thom Glick is a great artist. Thom Glick came from space. Seriously. He escaped from a horrible mucky planet, where all forms of art were forbidden and everyone had to eat puppies. It was a sad place.
• jQuery plugin: Tablesorter 2.0 – tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.
• Sorted Column Highlighting Widget for jQuery TableSorter Plugin – Since Bill Beckman switched to using client side sorting for my tables via the tablesorter.js plugin created by Christian Bach, the one thing he have missed from the server side method he was using before is the highlighting of the sorted columns. He created a nice widget for this.
• Basically, just some architecture porn. (or why building new types of buildings is a good thing) – Herzog & de Mueron won the architecture profession's highest honor, the Pritzker, in 2001; last summer their iconic "Bird's Nest" stadium was beamed into a billion homes during the Beijing Olympics. But unlike other starchitects they haven't been recycling old ideas (Frank Gehry, that's you). They just keep getting better. Witness a new museum/library/community center they just unveiled in Tenerife, Spain.
• Spaceship Yamato. – Vincent Cheung makes the Spaceship Yamato. This is fantastic. I remember this fondly from watching as a kid, and I recently just started rewatching via Netflix. Nice timing. (via Neatorama)

These are my delicious links for January 21st through January 22nd:

• Fifty Years of Exploration – NatGeo has a fantastic zoomable map showing the past paths of exploration that we've taken. Gorgeous detail, fantastic fun.
• Robot Tattoos – I don't have any tattoos, but if I were to ink up, a robot tattoo would probably be at the top of my list. There is one really fake photo in here, but the rest look legit.
• Layers | Screen forensics – A $15 OS X app that takes a screenshot of your current desktop. The catch? The screenshot is saved as a PSD with layers for each application, window and desktop icon. (via shauninman)
• The Inauguration of President Barack Obama – The Big Picture – Boston.com – The Big Picture comes through again with this excellent series of photos from the Inauguration.
• Gaius Baltar, Six, Starbuck, and Morbo from Battlestar Galactica in Lego – Neatorama provides us this fantastic link to a very accurate representation of some BSG characters in Lego.
• Ninja Tacks. – Ninja Tacks are injection molded ABS with a Chrome Plated finish. Each individual web order consists of 3 Ninja Tacks in a padded mailer. It's cheaper than mailing the retail packaging. Feel free to buy me some.

These are my delicious links for January 7th through January 8th:

• Book Cover Archive – For the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design
• Worlds undersea cables. – Nice chart showing how the world's wired up.
• 10 Killer WordPress Hacks – Nice collection of hacks and examples for WordPress.
• Lego Star Wars. – brickplumber's photostream is a fantastic collection of lego Star Wars figures and creations. Fun fun fun.
• Andy Griffith theme/Beyonce mashup – This is so incredibly captivating, just brought a wide smile to my face. Party Ben's Single Ladies (In Mayberry) (Beyoncé vs. "The Andy Griffith Show" Theme) is just the thing to start your day with.
• 100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers | Graphics | Smashing Magazine – Great collection of images to spruce up your iPhone.
• Air Force Releases 'Counter-Blog' Marching Orders – Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don't be surprised. They're just following the service's new "counter-blogging" flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force's public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on how to handle "trolls," "ragers" — and even well-informed online writers, too. It's all part of an Air Force push to "counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force," Captain David Faggard says.
• Vertoramas – Ralph Cooksey-Talbott is a landscape photographer who studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite in the 1970's. Cooksey is currently doing vertical panoramic photography that is reminiscent in composition to monumental Asian landscape ink-on-silk paintings. He calls them Vertoramas and I think they are exceptionally beautiful. Besides selling prints, Cooksey provides many of his images as free desktop pictures.

star_wars_nativty_05, originally uploaded by Larry Lars.

This is full of win. It’s just genius. Having the twins in the manger is the crowning touch.

This is just all the best parts of the holidays, lego and Star Wars all wrapped up in one package. Nice.  Read more at the Star Wars Blog.

These are my delicious links for October 9th:

• Flickr: The BrickCon Pool – Massive photo pool on Flickr with over 4,000 photos from last weekend's BrickCon, over 3,200 attended in Seattle, WA to see some of the biggest and best LEGO creations on earth.

The Brothers Brick is a phenomenal Lego Blog. Just astounding stuff. Lots of good time wasting here. Now I want to go dig out my kids Legos and play.