“Van Diagram”, a puntastic new Shirt.Woot t-shirt by Adam Koford.
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Archival footage of a streetcar trip down Market Street in San Francisco shot in 1905 before the great earthquake and then again a year later in 1906 after the earthquake showing the massive destruction.
The footage is from the Prelinger Archives, edited together by edited by Matt Lake.
via Ed Hunsinger
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A few photos I shot last week while visiting the Apple Store in SOHO.
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The awesome music video for “Amethyst Caverns”, from the original soundtrack for the video game Shatter by Sidhe. Shot with a Canon 5D MKII, it features several tiny robots making their way through the world.
via Andrew Ferguson
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The German televsion game show Wetten, dass … ? challenged a contestant to identify Star Wars LEGO figures using only their mouth.
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Brett Camper created an interactive 8-Bit Map of NYC using data from OpenStreetMap and now has a Kickstarter project to expand it to 15 other cities around the world.
I hope that these maps will evoke the same urge for exploration and abstract sense of scale that many of us remember experiencing on the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Commodore 64, or any other number of 8-bit microcomputers. Maps offer us visual architectures of the world, encouraging us to think about and interact with space in particularly constrained ways. Let’s set out on an 8-bit quest!
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William Shatner reading @ShitMyDadSays from last week’s Shorty Awards.
Shatner will be playing the Dad in the televsion version of “Shit My Dad Says” on CBS.
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“The New Dork – Entrepreneur State of Mind” by Pantless Knights, an internet startup spoof of “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z featruing Alicia Keys.
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Hugh D’Andrade has been creating a beautiful series of book jacket illustrations.
Hugh is also an occasional guest blogger here on Laughing Squid.
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a plastinated squid on display at Paris Natural History Museum
Anatomist Gunther von Hagens, who developed the Body Worlds exhibition of preserved human bodies, has plastinated a pair giant squid.
Previously, von Hagens has plastinated giraffes, elephants and humans, but a giant squid – with fragile skin, no skeleton for structural support and more body water to replace than any other attempt – posed some challenges for the controversial anatomist.
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Congratulations to Craig Newmark and crew on the 15th anniversary of craigslist!
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The Game Developers Conference (GDC), the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event, takes place March 9-13 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The GDC attracts over 17,000 attendees, and is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry.
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Gabe Rivera and Megan McCarthy have just launched the latest Techmeme aggregation site, Mediagazer which will focus on media news.
Maya Baratz has more on the launch in SF Weekly’s All Shook Down.
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Der Spiegel has a fascinating profile of Andrey Ternovskiy, the 17 year-old Russian student who created the overnight sensation Chatroulette. He is currently struggling with the decision of doing business in Russia or The United States.
Late last year, only 500 people were using the Web site that Andrey Ternovskiy launched. Now Chatroulette gets around 1.5 million visitors daily. With Russian billionaires offering him cash and Google on the other line, the Moscow teenager has to make a decision: America or Russia?
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Popular Science has partnered with Google to offer their entire 137-year archive online for free. You can also browse the archive online via Google.
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“Lee, ‘The Pink Sheep’” painting by Lori Earley
Hi-Fructose Magazine is celebrating their 5th anniversary with a group art exhibition at CoproGallery in Santa Monica. The show, which includes many of the artists featured in the magazine, opens on Saturday, March 13th and runs through April 3rd.
Hi-Fructose was founded by artists, Attaboy and Annie Owens in 2005 and is published by Ouchfactory Yumclub Publishing. Not a lifestyle magazine, Hi-Fructose puts its focus squarely on the art which transcends genre and trend, assuring readers thorough coverage and content that is relevant, informative and original. Hi-Fructose showcases an amalgamation of new contemporary, emerging as well distinguished artists, with a spotlight on awe inspiring spectacles and developing counter cultures from around the world.
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Real-life superheroes may be this year’s Hollywood darling, but Michigan has had their very own masked vigilante, Captain Jackson for years. The Captain has been patrolling the streets of Downtown Jackson since 1999, spreading his message of civic duty while keeping an eye out for crooks and super-villains. He keeps a website with a schedule of community appearances, safety tips, and even a roster of his allied costume heroes, The Crimefighter Corps. Always ahead of the curve, Captain Jackson has been maintaining a blog since May 2000 called The Captain’s Corner with brilliant entries such as, CALLING ALL GOOD DEED DOERS!, BEING AWARE, and HOW TO BE A CRIMEFIGHTER. In addition, the blog features ground chuck-centric recipes in a section called “Cooking with the Captain”.
Captain Jackson’s career ran into a snag in 2004 when he was charged with “impaired driving”. The local newspaper subsequently ran an article about the incident and published the Captains real life identity. The toll that the media coverage took on our hero is best outlined in the blog entry, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. After a two-year hiatus, it seemed that he was back in active-duty at community events and online. In the past year though, there seems to be little to report on this masked man, but we may not have seen the last of Michigan’s own, Captain Jackson.
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Last week we came across this massive macrame owl hanging on the wall at the J. Crew in SOHO. You can’t tell from the photo, but is was several feet high and wide.
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In a wonderfully detailed, video-rich post, Lifehacker goes Lady Gaga for Ladyada and our friend Phillip Torrone guestblogs on what makes Limor Fried Lifehacker’s MacGyver of the Day. It’s impossible not to be impressed and awed; after reading the post we think Fried is a tenacious and prolific genius who’s cut a powerful swath for women engineers, designers and makers. Watch only half the videos in which mastermind Fried explains from her secret underground laboratory the many ways you can create your own doomsday devices life simplifying gadgets, and you’ll see why we think she’s more like the woman MacGyver would run crying to for help like a little girl should he actually be caught in a tough spot and needed to, say, make a cell phone jammer. Limor (Adafruit Industries) is quoted saying,
“In contemporary Western society, electronic devices are becoming so prevalent that many people find themselves surrounded by technologies they find frustrating or annoying. The electronics industry has little incentive to address this complaint (…) By building functional prototypes that reflect equal consideration of technical and social issues, I identify three attributes of Noir products: Personal empowerment, participation in a critical discourse, and subversion.”
The post is like a “best of” Ladyada’s most effective and slightly subversive designs, explained in step-by-step DIY terms and gifted to any and all as open source projects. In addition, the videos featuring Fried and Torrone creating and experimenting with the edgy electronics are nerdy and subtly hilarious, making them fun to watch even if you can’t solder your way out of a paper bag. However, if you did want to learn how, we’re pretty sure they’ve got a humorous video tutorial. Don’t miss her fantastic weekly “ask an engineer” show.
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