Schockoladespielzeugkombinationseier

Obviously, the adults who survived to the Kinder eggs hecatomb have decided to finally put an end to this atrocity.

The children's committee of the German parliament, which is responsible for introducing legislation, fears children might mistake the toys contained in the …

Music

Can is one of those bands that is pretty often named, largely regarded as important, seminal, etc.
I - quite stupidly, actually - tend to be over cautious with those bands, and prefer to discover stuff following my own curiosity instead of some "authority". For the same …

In which P. Diddy escapes from a yacht full of penguins.

But you have to look under the surface, fools !

Because, of course, it's not just about the penguin threat over leisure sailing (just the day you got your suit dry-cleaned, damnit!), Sean John Combs explains :

"When a young African-American male or a young Latino male …

The Art of Electronic Failure

So if you remember, on June 17th, Electronic Arts released the Spore Creature Creator, which is not only a fantastic digital toy, but a perfect teaser to get people who don't usually play videogames interested in Spore - the full game.
I thought it was the best way to …

Penny Arcade on the "Diablo 3 controversy"..

.. and, uh... Deviant Art :p



Also : http://agonast.deviantart.com/

Not to mention the answer of the Diablo 3 designer to photoshoped screenshots

Julian Oliver !!!

levelHead v1.0, 3 cube speed-run (spoiler!) from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.

It works with a linux computer, a webcam and cubes that you could actually print yourself.

No LCD screen, no projector, no expensive hardware, the "rooms" you see are actually composed into the …

A demonstration of VHS generation loss

Remember when I was talking about the VHS aesthetic & unoptimization ?
Here's what I randomly found while looking for William Basinski :

Video signals decay rapidly when copied repeatedly on domestic VHS video recorders. This video demonstrates the results, showing the …

wordleFM

My last.fm overall artists chart as a Wordle, thanks to mastergiraffe and, of course, wordle.net

Found, among tons of other awesome tools on http://www.last.fm/group/Stats

Pika pikaaa pikapikapikapika

and then it turns into a Pikachu Teenage Riot


(wait until 2:12)

and ends with Hellpikaraiser



[via Pink Tentacle]

A joke gone too far (where no man has gone before)

via Waxy.org, of course - via negatendo's del.icio.us

Ding ding ding ding ding dango

Today I tried to make dangos.



Don't be fooled by it's sweet colourful yummy rounded appearance, cos it wasn't yet a huge success.

Basically I wanted to know if I could make dangos with.. that rice flour you can "easily" find here, which is called "cr

How can you not love the 00s ?

Seriously ?



"In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards", no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data."

The …

How can you not love the 80s ?

Seriously ?






(this last one is via womanonfire, thank you :D)