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 August 4th:

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

These are my delicious links for June 16th:

• Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years – Forgetting the lessons of Jurrasic Park, scientists have "awaken" a strain of bacteria called Hermeniimonas glacei from a 120,000-year slumber trapped beneath a block of ice. What could go wrong?

  "We don't know what state they were in," said study team member Jean Brenchley of Pennsylvania State University. "They could've been dormant, or they could've been slowly metabolizing, but we don't know for sure."

• The Treepe; a tent, a castle, a trampoline, a swing. – The Treepee® is an exciting new product that combines the timeless appeal of a tree house with the excitement of aerial suspension and a trampoline to create a whole world of possibilities.

  Zipped safely inside, standing Treepee® riders, once they get their balance, can experience a surfing/snowboarding sensation without any worries of falling. The less adventurous can simply ‘hang out’ with their friends in their own private space away from mum and dad.

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 19th through February 20th:

• Why is my private folder visible in / ? – Mac Forums – I had this problem turn up the other day. Rather annoying, but a simple Terminal command will take care of it. "sudo chflags hidden /private" (the /private is the folder you want hidden).
• If you watch it backwards. – If you watch the Brady Bunch backwards, you find out they killed Oliver, and the grief over his "disappearance" caused the family to split with the mom taking the girls and the dad taking the boys.
• Cool Tools: NeoCube – A 6×6x6 cube of 216 small neodymium-iron-boron magnetic spheres which can be arranged into an amazing assortment of geometrical and non-geometrical shapes. You can create various polyhedra, even Buckyballs, and all kinds of familiar shapes, too. It's basically a 3D tangram on steroids.
• Tiny Art Director – Bill has been doing art based on the direction of his little girl, who then critiques the hell out of it. It's immensely hilarious, and well worth spending some time browsing his art.

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 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.

Just a quick break to show you this brilliance. He also does Aliens,  Cthulhu, Predator and more.

These are my delicious links for October 1st:

• How to bypass Windows Security –
• Microfly Tiny R/C Hovering UFO – This is by far the smallest flying R/C device we've ever seen and it's damn impressive in the air.