Apparently there’s a yearly Bring Your Own Big Wheel race down Lombard Street in SF. Something like a thousand people go and slalom down the crookedest street there is, and it’s damn steep, too! Check out some pics and some videos to get a sense of the mayhem. It’s a good thing there’s so many, [...]

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I don’t know why I don’t just load up an RSS feed of the Wooster Collective on this site, but this particular post is art, but also a little nerdy, so I felt like I could post it this Tuesday evening. It’s one of those things where you have to find just the right place [...]

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So hot on the heels of R2D2 mailboxes, the USPS is about to release their Star Wars stamps. Their whole homepage is focussed on the new stamps and they’re letting you vote for your favourite stamp, the winner of said vote to be released as an individual stamp (the rest are part of a sheet). [...]

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monday is good for you. so is art.
So it’ll be a heavy start this monday morning. This new device for New Yorkers tells you when peak power is happening so that you can reduce your usage (energy prices change hourly). Busting that out can help you save ducats and save the world. Or you could [...]

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Check out this documentary on the creation of the Dr. Who Theme song from the early 80’s. This is really cool, that guy shows you how he busts out that signature “ooooo-EEEEE-oooooo” (you see how I disagree with the Wired writer’s transcription? He started with a woooo, but it sounds more like oooo to me, [...]

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We’ll start with another case of Google giving up information, this time it’s Orkut giving Mumbai police information about its users who post “objectionable material” on the site. Not saying if it’s right or wrong, I’m sure any company would have done the same, I’m just suggesting that people should stop being surprised by Google’s [...]

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some art for your monday enjoyment
Ok, this is madness (no! this is Sparta!! sorry.. sorry..). Take a look at the workout the actors who were training to be Spartans were put through. It was, appropriately, a 300 rep workout done for time. It changed daily but one sample routine was: 25 pull ups, 50 deadlifts [...]

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It’s monday, so there’s art.
Well, I’m excited to see Paprika, an upcoming movie by Satoshi Kon. I haven’t seen any of his other work, not Paranoia Agents, nor Tokyo Godfathers, nor anything. But this one looks pretty amazing and he was interviewed in the issue 46 of Giant Robot. His first words are this:
A lot [...]

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First we have the opening of Eyebeam’s 2007 exhibition season. Looks like a cool exhibit (with sessions) featuring street artists of all shapes and sizes. I love the graffiti research lab, or as my brain thinks of things - the laser guys. Watch this video, it will blow your mind. Seriously.
I think it’s an [...]

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Just a little monday morning art.
Let’s start the week with this crazy article about how parents in Australia forced a Hyundai ad to be pulled off the air. The ad featuers a diaper wearing toddler driving his car, picking up a hitchhiking girl (his age) and going to the beach and surfing. The reason? They [...]

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