- newNew, cheap edition of Taschen's stupendous "Magic 1400s-1950" book
Back in 2009, I wrote about Taschen's amazing "Magic 1400s-1950s," which presently goes for about $300. Taschen is reissuing the book in a cheaper edition, which'll cost you $42.22 when it comes out on July 1. Here's a review on Crackajack, providing…
- 60 mins ago, 24 May 13, 2:49pm -
- newVan Halen's "Eruption" guitar solo shredded by 14yo girl
The guitar solo from Van Halen's song "Eruption" played by Tina, who is 14. More than 3 million video views in 3 days. She was taught and filmed by Renaud Louis-Servais, and she's playing a Vigier Excalibur Custom. Below, Eddie Van Halen performing t…
- 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 2:09pm -
- newApple "corporate tax evasion" product parody video: iRS
The troublesome thing is that only about half of what's in this video is made up. From Sourcefed. Background: Apple, like many other large US corporations, does interesting things with money overseas to minimize the amount it must pay in taxes, and m…
- 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:53pm -
- newDoc about Louisiana atheist seeks funding
Bill sez, "Husband-and-wife Berkeley filmmakers Jason Cohn and Camille Servan-Schreiber won a Peabody award for their documentary about design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames, 'Eames: The Architect and the Painter.' Now they want to make a film about…
- 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:44pm -
- newMy Own Private Westeros: hand-made scale model of Game of Thrones map
[Click to enlarge]. Mikeal is making an incredibly labor-intensive scale model of the Game of Thrones Westeros map, and you can watch him build it at his tumblr: myownprivatewesteros.tumblr.com. 3D-printed castle models, walls of putty, hand-painted…
- 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:22pm -
- newHardwood Escher tesselated interlocking lizard tiles
The Spanish firm Arbore offered these custom Escher-inspired floor tiles back in 2011; from the looks of things, they're still available. It's a very well-executed conceit, done in hardwood. Diseño geometrico inspiración Escher (via Geekologie) …
- 3 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:09pm -
- newWhy is Eric Holder in charge of reviewing Eric Holder's surveillance of journalists policy?
During Obama's national security speech yesterday, the president unexpectedly mentioned the AP and Fox News press freedom scandals. “Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs,” he said, adding that he is “troubled by the poss…
- 3 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:02pm -
- newHow Edmund Wilson said NO
Update: Here's Mark's first post of this, from 2009 Here's literary critic Edmund Wilson's form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn't a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializin…
- 13 hours ago, 24 May 13, 2:42am -
- newThe unsung heroes of early Tumblr culture
A good read in The Daily Dot about a "major piece of the puzzle" in Tumblr's origin myth that’s often overlooked: "[Founder David] Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down blogging and conten…
- 14 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:31am -
- newBeautiful vintage jetpack-futurist car
On Super Punch, set of photos of a beautiful, enbubbled, betailfinned Los Angeles land yacht spotted on the 101. Hoo-ah. Saw a this on the 101 in Los Angeles today. It was caravanning with a bunch of classic cars.
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