Archive for the ‘Ephemera’ Category
Monday, July 6th, 2009
I recently stumbled upon a somewhat novel Guerrilla marketing effort for a audio novella prequel that involves a broadsword giveaway stamped with a unique and exclusive flash fiction story that will be signed in blood by the author.
The sword is the object/subject of J.C. Hutchens's free prequel novella podcast Personal ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
A truly inspiring act of quality Journalism committed here:
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
Update: Gave this IM convo the xtranormal treatment. Enjoy.
This IM started off with "B" (the name has been changed to protect our stupidity) asking me to do something. Being compliant, I replied:
Me: will do Lash La Rue
Me: (real dude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lash_LaRue)
B: dont even want to know why you know who ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Here are three things I'm currently looking forward to checking out in more depth; that is, spend some more time on:
David Lynch Foundation Television -- The psychologically macabre director has launched a video intensive site promoting his love of transcendental meditation. Good Magazine blurb here.
Stereofame -- Chance to win prizes ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
No clue where the above image was procured or if it's a joke, but the blog Breach, Bang, Clear explains the toilet undies:
This space diaper is designed to use powerful suction to gather up all the nastiness created when nature calls. Sensors strategically placed around your ass and crotch let ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Funny stuff. The Asian characters below are what I get when I try dragging links from Firefox into Open Office (where they look normal) then into Word Press. And I even tried saving as a Word document then using the "Paste from Word" button in Word Press.
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Update: The Asian characters ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Friend Tim Showers did a blog post not too long ago called "Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents" where he introduced me to a Wordle. A Wordle is also embedded above from the NY Times Visualization Lab. I haven't explored the Times site extensively, but it looks like there are some ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
I found this on reddit. The file name of the animated gif is 1spiraltorusknot.gif. I'm assuming it is some form of Torus knot.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Kind of old, but still cool. From the Wikipedia description:
Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of an 8-cell performing a simple rotation about a plane which bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.
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