Curious Worst

In Silver Lake, hipster parents don’t just get mad about the mindless crap that Hollywood tries to force on their kids—they grab a ladder and a couple of cans of Krylon and take matters into their own hands.

MC Square'd in da hizzy!

in the tradition of the churchsign generator

thanks:
Jason

via:
boingbiong

Big City Sign

I just learned about the modern mechanix blog thanks to make blog. It's yesterday's tomorrow today! i am so glad someone is taking the time to not only archive these things, but also making them easy to access.

Here is a very cool article from 1939 about the first programmable electronic sign in Times Square (think the grandfather of the Jumbotron). Every single change of a light, and there are 27,000 of them, is punched as a row on a 160 column roll of paper that gets fed through the vast machine.

Bubbleshare

I'm testing out BubbleShare, a new web-based photo-sharing tool, like Flickr and Fotki. It was really easy to upload an album straight out of iPhoto with Bubbleshare's plug-in. Then with on click, it generates the code for you to en bed a slide show into your blog. It also offers audio captioning. I think that I should have named the pictures in iPhoto. Below you can either view a slide show or click-thru using the buttons. If you click on the image it will take you to my Bubblshare page to view the photos at a larger size.

San Francisco Street Art

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Spell with Flickr

Spell with Flickr is a small program that lets you type in whatever you want, then goes to flickr and grabs pictures for each an every letter! It also allows you to change the images that you see, so you can find better images for your word or phrase!

42 pictures of San Francisco Signs

Sweet Ham is the name of Colin Sjostedt's website, that features his work. He has developed his own style of digitally enhanced photos that exhibit a lot of the characteristics found in paintings... sort of a reverse photo-realism.

BLF in Your Ear Hole

Culture Jamming with Irene McGee on nooneslistening.org
She interviewed Jack Napier and Milton Rand Kalman
from the BLF, and now it's up in podcast form

download the mp3

or
grab the rss feed

thanks:
pesco

Braille for the Fridge

Last sunday I had some time to kill while getting a tire fixed. I ended up window shopping in The Castro, and came accross these magnetic braille letters, at Under One Roof. They have enlarged tactile nubs on the surface, which might make them a great tool for learning to read braille.
It will definately be an addtion to my braille resource page which is still under construction, and hasn't been updated to go with the rest of my site yet, but very soon will be.



previous braille:
Louis Braille's Birthday

and...
Braille Round Up

yum....braille....so
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Dude, Pass me the Doobie

Amsterdam has put their foot (in a wooden shoe) down on the blowverbod. Blowverbod is dutch for smoking pot in public, not to be mistaken for Rookverbod which describes smoking tobacco in public.

more here:
boingboing
thanks:
unscathed
violet
xeni