February 2008
91 posts
Life Hearts Shirt Is Zelda-ish, Light Up →
The 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirts From Thinkgeek remind me of playing Zelda and cost $25 apiece (but you’re going to need two). When you’re far away from your lady/man friend wearing the other shirt your hearts deplete to 2 and 1/2. When you come within 2 meters of your special someone your meter goes back to a full 6 hearts. Which sure as hell isn’t enough to beat Ganon unless you...
January 2008
26 posts
Breakfast Time Gaming: Tic Tac Toast →
Mmm, toast. So simple, so bready, so delicious. And so fun to play with thanks to the Tic Tac Toast stamper! All you do is press the mold into your bread, toast it, and presto - tic tac toast. Whee! Screw boring X’s and O’s, the best part about this modern miracle is you get to choose what condiments to play with. As you can see from the picture, you can even play with, uh, chewed...
JACOB DAHLGREN →
Guest poster – Demelza Hill
‘Heaven is a place on earth is 9×7 metres of flickering Bathroom scales. Jacob Dahlgren is a well established artist based in Stockholm in 2006. His website shows some of his best work including Colour reading and contexture which was shown at Malmö Konsthall 2005 which he is well known for. A really inspiring portfolio!’
www.jacobdahlgren.com
HadToSay: Web-to-Print System for Anonymous Love... →
HadToSay is a fun new site that is modernizing the secret admirer letter. The basic premise is that you create an anonymous message, print out a notification card, and then discretely get it to the recipient. The recipient can then take the message ID # and PIN # on the card and see the message on HadToSay. Here’s what the print out looks like:
If the recipient chooses to login to HadToSay,...
WonderHowTo.com - a directory of how-to videos →
The New York Times profiles Stephen Chao, a former Fox executive who was fired in 1992 by Rupert Murdoch for hiring a male stripper at a Fox meeting (Here’s an old NYT story about it). He has a new web directory of how-to videos called WonderHowTo.com. It has links to 100,000 how-to videos. Here are some fun quotes from the article: (Photo by Ann Johansson for The New York Times) Mr. Chao...
Observed : Periodic Table Printmaking Project →
Ninety-six artists interpret the elements in the periodic table. (Via BoingBoing.) Meanwhile Breaking Bad, a new series on AMC, does periodic. (Thanks to Andrew Gomez.) [WD]
(via Design Observer)
Johnny Chung Lee’s Wii Projects →
Fantastic software projects based on the Nintendo Wiimote controller; check out the “Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays” video halfway down the page.
★ (via Daring Fireball)
Facebook Adds the Ignore All Option →
After the ignore all requests bookmarklet became extremely popular over the weekend, it appears that Facebook immediately decided to implement it themselves. Once you have over 25 requests, an “Ignore all requests” option shows up in your sidebar. There is an additional alert that Orli Yakuel has posted to her Flickr account. This new feature was definitely needed as I already have over 87...
The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts,... →
The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007 Some personal highlights: The Importance of White space - One of the oldest principals of design is white space, and knowing how to use it properly could mean wonders for your design. Popular site A List Apart tackles the subject. 35 Designers x 5 Questions - What better way to learn technique then to speak to those...
"We will have teachings based on Yoda - the... →
“We will have teachings based on Yoda - the 900-year-old grand master - as well as readings, essays submitted, meditation and relaxation, visualisation and discuss healthy eating.” - May the Force be with pew: Brothers open Jedi ‘church’ in Wales | the Daily Mail
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Word Nerds References →
Relink. Frequently asked questions from the team at Oxford Dictionaries. Also, Commonly made suggestions about commonly made errors, and more importantly, non-errors, “those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.” Which is exactly the sort of attitude up with which I will not put.
(via Coudal Partners)
Apple launches Mac video tutorials website →
A new subsection of Apple’s website dubbed “Find out how” offers dozens of new video tutorials aimed at swaying consumers towards its Mac computing platform and then helping them achieve the most from their Mac experience once they bite the bullet. … (via AppleInsider)
Add to friends. →
Add to friends t-shirt by Leon Oziel
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The Incompatible Food Triad. Are there three foods... →
The Incompatible Food Triad. Are there three foods that don’t taste good together but every pair of them does?
There are many ways to interpret this “going together” but an example solution would be three pizza toppings — A, B, and C — such that a pizza with A and B is good, and a pizza with A and C is good, and a pizza with B and C is good, but a pizza with A, B,...
So I guess I got kicked off another My Little Pony... →
So I guess I got kicked off another My Little Pony Forum. Via Glass. (via Coudal Partners)
Kids enlisted to invent the next great toy →
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Wham-O, the plucky little toy company that’s been making the same three things since World War II ended. This clearly isn’t the legacy they want, because they’re celebrating with a contest in which kids can design a new toy for the company. Provided they and their parents can parse through the dense legalese, that is. It’s a cool idea, as Wham-O basically...
saving silverman vol.17 →
A couple of years back, Grant Lee Phillips put together a pretty amazing album of highly influential 80’s tunes.
Grant Lee Phillips covering Ashes to Ashes originally recorded by David Bowie.
I’m out of words now.
The 2008 Create Your Own Oscar Pool Page →
The 2008 Create Your Own Oscar Pool Page is live.
If you notice anything amiss-bugs, broken links, wrong nominees, typos—mention it in the comments, or drop me a line at matthew@defectiveyeti.com.
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Grunge Style In Modern Web Design →
Most design trends come unexpectedly, evolve over time, become pointless and finally disappear from the design landscape. This holds particularly for web design, which is — just as every other creative field — prone for over-hyping and over-usage of trends. Being used excessively (sometimes properly, but mostly without any reasonable purpose), trends lose their ability to communicate information,...
eternal sunshine of the blogless mind →
Like I’m hitting the reset button.
“Let me explain something to you… I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.” - the dude
It’s considered poor form to address one’s blogging hiatus, so I’ll just say this, “Sorry, man.” …
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The Hype Machine Releases 2007 Music Blog... →
The Hype Machine is a great music blog aggregator that we’ve somehow failed to write about until now. The site continuously collects material, including reviews and songs, from the best music blogs on the net. Comparisons can be drawn to Techmeme, which curates a selection of the best tech news articles from the multitude published each day. The Hype Machine does the same for music, saving indie...
Marc Johns | Illustrator →
Marc Johns - wonderfully talented illustrator with a lovely sense of humor.
(via swissmiss)
Watchonce upon a time, like four years ago…
Mahna Mahna - Cake →
Mahna Mahna For the Kids Cake Genre: Children’s Music Price: $0.99 Release Date: January 01, 2002
© 2002 Nettwerk
Shake Your Rump - Beastie Boys →
Shake Your Rump Solid Gold Hits Beastie Boys Genre: Hip Hop/Rap Price: $0.99 Release Date: November 08, 2005
© This Compilation (P) 2005 Capitol Records, Inc. and Beastie Boys. All rights reserved.
In Between Days - Ben Folds →
In Between Days Supersunnyspeedgraphic, the LP Ben Folds Genre: Rock Price: $0.99 Release Date: October 24, 2006
© (C) 2004, 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT/ (P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT