False Teeth for Christmas
Eine Gas/Wasser/Scheiße-Firma aus Monkmoor, Shrewsbury, will zu Weihnachten den Leute ihre Gebissen zurückgeben, die sie versehentlich in der Toilette runtergespült hatten. Herzallerliebst!
A utility company is trying to reunite nine people with their false teeth in time for Christmas. The dentures were all recovered from Severn Trent’s sewage treatment works in Monkmoor, Shrewsbury. The teeth are thought to have been flushed down toilets or dropped down plug-holes.
Nominate your gnashers – Severn Trent is looking to put the smile back on 9 people’s faces this holiday season, BBC: Severn Trent bids to reunite people with false teeth (via Arbroath)
Michel Gondrys sweded Taxi Driver
Youtube Direkttaxi, via Daniel
Michel Gondry hat für die französische Premiere von Martin Scorseses eine sweded (der Begriff stammt aus Gondrys Film „Be Kind, Rewind“) Version von Taxi Driver gedreht. Auf Youtube gibt’s nur eine asynchron-geschrottete Version (siehe oben), in gut gibt’s das bei France2.fr.
Nuclear Spiderweb-Lifeform found?
Wissenschaftler untersuchen grade eine weiße, spinnennetz-artige Substanz, die auf Fässern voller Atommüll gewachsen ist. Sweet!
The “white, stringlike” material was found among thousands of spent fuel assemblies submerged in deep pools within the site’s L Area, according to a report filed by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, a federal oversight panel.
“The growth, which resembles a spider web, has yet to be characterized, but may be biological in nature,” the report said.
Strange nuclear waste lint might be “biological in nature” (via Fefe)
Space Travel Supply Store
Die Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company verkauft Globen vom Mars, Karten vom bekannten Universum, elektrische Gehirnstimulatoren, Chaos in Dosen, noch viel mehr und ich finde das alles sehr grandios. Und zwar weil, auch wenn die Produkte gut gestalteter Fakeschnickschnack sind, der Shop ist Geldbeschaffer einer Schreib- und Leseschule in Seattle und das ganze basiert auf einer Idee von Dave Eggers, der vor drölf Jahren einen Shop für Piraten eröffnete, der eigentlich eine Schule war, die in den hinteren Räumen des Shops stattfand, hier sein TED Talk von 2008. Leider liefern die ihr Astronautenfutter nur in die USA. Schade.
Chip Kidd about Batman – Death by Design
Chip Kidd ist Designer und Author (unter anderem von „Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan“, das bei mir im Schrank steht) und schreibt derzeit an „Death by Design“, seinem ersten eigenen Batman-Comic in dem der Dark Knight gegen einen Designer/Architektur-Supervillain kämpft.
Im superunterhaltsamen Video oben von der AIGA Design Conference im Oktober erzählt er ein bisschen was zum Entstehungsprozess, was er so vor hat und auch welche Probleme er als bekannter Designer und selbsterklärten größten Batfan ever gestoßen ist: „After 25 years working nonstop as a graphic designer and writer, it happens: Chip Kidd gets the commission of a lifetime. That should be a good thing, shouldn’t it? Well, shouldn’t it?!“
Chip Kidd: What Are You Doing Here? (via Bleeding Cool)
For those who know: „I actually wrote the Script in Quark… [verhaltenes Kichern, nur einer klatscht…] …There’s one of the Quark-Reps clapping.“
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Chip Kidds Captain Marvel-Book: Shazam!
Batmangas Chip Kidd-Interview
Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan
Untitled 31
Untitled auf Nerdcore:
-003, -002, -001, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 19 (2), 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
D&D-Dice Chocolate
Offbeat Bride erklärt in einem langen und komplizierten Tutorial, wie man Gussformen für selbstgemachte Dungeons & Dragons-Würfelschokolade macht:
This is about as complicated and expensive (net cost: $100 + shipping) a mold as you’re likely to get, for anything reasonably sized. (Well, unless you want molded daleks complete with little plunger-arms or something else that is fundamentally not a convex shape.) That’s because it has a lot of little, tiny, fiddly pieces, and it’s a two-piece mold meant to create solid 3D shapes with no flat back. And the little fiddly pieces are of variable depth so you need way more silicone than you would if, say, you were just molding your favorite buttons. Chances are, your mold doesn’t need to be this insane. But that’s fine! You can still use this tutorial, just skip the pieces that are clearly irrelevant.
How to make your own Dungeons & Dragons chocolate dice mold (via MeFi)
Why Norway ran out of Butter
Ihr habt’s vielleicht letzte Woche gelesen: Norwegen ist die Butter ausgegangen. Slate erklärt, warum das möglich war. Kurz: Norwegen hält große Teile seines Erdöl-Einkommens in einem Pensionsfond, der in ausländischen Aktien angelegt ist und verteilt die Kohle nicht komplett per Subventionen an die heimische Wirtschaft. Deshalb konnte die nicht mal schnell die Importe für Butter hochfahren und so wachten die Norweger neulich morgens auf und konnten sich nix mehr auf’s Brot schmieren. Warum das nicht wirklich so doof ist, steht bei Slate:
A large share of the oil revenues, rather than subsidizing current government operations, is invested via the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, which is thought to own approximately 1 percent of the publicly traded stock in the world. In part, the purpose of the fund is, as its website says, “to safeguard and build financial wealth for future generations,” but this could be accomplished by directly giving the funds to Norwegians instead. The real purpose of holding the wealth in a fund that invests exclusively abroad is to limit the appreciation of the krone in international currency markets and maintain Norway’s industrial competitiveness. What it has in common with the butter tariffs, however, is that Norwegians are accepting lower living standards than they might otherwise enjoy for the sake of a long-term strategy of not becoming a Saudi-style oil monoculture.
So laugh it up this week if you see another story about Russian butter smugglers making their way to Oslo. Just remember that there are a lot of small oil-rich countries out there, and Norway is the most politically and socially functional of them all, thanks largely to the very ideas that saddled them with this amusing shortage.
The Norwegian Butter Crisis – An absurd dairy shortage and its very valuable economic lessons (via MeFi)
[update] „A Butter message to the USA!“
Youtube Direktbutter, danke Yama!
The Dark Knight Rises – 6 Min. Prologue
X-Posting von den Filmfreunden: Seit ein paar Stunden geistern mehrere geleakte Versionen des 6minütigen Dark Knight Prologs durchs Netz, der vor M:I4 zu sehen war, hier eine ganz angenehm abgefilmte Version davon. Ich ersetze die durch eine gute Version, sobald sie verfügbar ist. Ach ja, ich vergaß: FUCK YEAH BANE!
Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA on Reddit (again)
Neil deGrasse Tyson beantwortet seit einer Stunde zum zweiten Mal Fragen auf Reddit. Ich hab’ grade bisschen zu tun, werde dann aber die spannendsten Antworten hier als Update posten – die erste geht aber schonmal gut los:
Q: If a space traveling entity approached you with an opportunity to visit any celestial object from any distance and allow you bring one scientific instrument of your choosing, where would you go and what would you bring? The size of the instrument does not matter, but keep in mind the farther away your object of choice is, the more it may have changed (i.e. if you hoped to visit the recently discovered supernova SN 2011fe, you would arrive 21 million years after the event).
A: I’d bring my iPhone, as the most compact representation of modern culture there is. And I’d visit a civilization on a galaxy 65 million light years away. Assuming I can get there instantaneously, I would look back to Earth with their presumably super telescopes and witness the extinction of the dinosaurs – the light of which is just now reach them.
[update] My brain hurts:
Q: Hey Neil, can you somehow try to to make it a little easier to grasp the concept of infinity. best wishes from Germany!
A: No. The human mind, forged on the plains of Africa in search of food, sex, and shelter, is helpless in the face of infinity.
Therein is the barrier to learning calculus for most people — where infinities pop up often. The best you can do is simply grow accustomed to the concept. Which is not the same as understanding it.
And when you are ready, consider that some infinities are larger than others. For example, there are more fractions than there are counting numbers, yet they are both infinite. Just a thought to delay your sleep this evening.
I am Neil deGrasse Tyson — AMA (via Nils @Twitter)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA on Reddit
Musicvideos: Songodsuns, 2MEX, Scroobius Pip, Y LUV
Oben erstmal Songodsuns mit „Do That Trick“ und 2MEX mit „Press Your Luck“ (in der Reihenfolge), weitere Clips nach dem Klick. Ich hab’ grade im Backend aufgeräumt und alte Posting-Entwürfe gelöscht – macht man so gegen Jahresende: Arbeitsplatz aufräumen –, da hab’ ich noch jede Menge Videos gefunden, die ich verschlampt habe und die seit ungefähr September liegengeblieben sind, die hab’ ich dazugepackt. Die Clips sind also insgesamt gut abgehangen.
Plop! Comic-Covers and the Story of Vernon Glute
Golden Age Comicbook-Covers hat ein paar Highres-Scans der 70er-Comicserie Plop! Das war eine Horror/Humor-Anthologie, deren Stories später stellenweise in Deutschland in den Horror-Comics vom Williams Verlag zweitverwertet wurden (zu den Horror-Comics hatte ich hier mal ein Flickr-Set gebastelt). Nach dem Klick noch die komplette Story from verfressenen Vernon Glute, der seine Froschschenkel am liebsten frisch mag und ich verwette meinen Arsch, wenn der nicht das Vorbild für Monty Pythons Mr. Creosote war.
DeathPop: Heavy Metal-Logos for Trash-Popstars
Großartig! Mark Hall-Platch macht Heavy Metal-Logos for Trash-Popstars. (via Daniel)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Symmetal – Blog about Symmetry in Metal Imagery
The Periödic Table of Heavy Metals
Bieber/Slayer-Tee
Heavy Metal Logo-Book
Map of Song-Titles
Das Designstudio Dorothy verkauft Prints einer Song Map – hier in als limitierter Print für 100£, hier unlimitiert für 20£ –, auf der alle Straßen, Gebäude, Parks und Stadtteile aus Songtiteln bestehen. Eine der Hauptstraßen heisst Long and Winding Road und führt durch A Town called Malice, der Friedhof heisst natürlich Cemetery Gates und es gibt auch The House that Jack built. Super!
A road map of song titles: from Highway to Hell to Penny Lane, Itchycoo Park to Heartbreak Hotel. And just like places in our own neighbourhood, some are really good and some are best avoided – remember Love House by Sam Fox? For the real music geek there’s an A-Z key of all the songs featured on the map with the bands that sang them.
Song Map Signed Limited Edition, Song Map Unlimited Edition (via My Modern Metropolis)
Bookmarks for Dezember 17th: 1966 Batman-Intro in Lego, International Food-Art-Incident and Saddam, Googles L-Team
Sweden Is Lending The Country’s Twitter To Citizens | Geekosystem: In a weird but awesome move, Sweden has started a campaign where its official Twitter account, @sweden, will be taken over and operated by a different Swede every week.
Occupy Goes to Washington, Finding Politics is Complicated | Threat Level | Wired.com: Even by Occupy Wall Street standards, the Washington, D.C. situation is messy and uncertain.
Artist Michael Rakowitz on How His Saddam Hussein Dinner Party Became an International Incident | Artinfo: When a dinner of venison topped with date and tahini sauce was served on plates taken from Saddam Husseins private collection at Park Avenue Autumn for Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitzs project „Spoils“, the assorted art-world diners didn’t bat an eye – but now New York Citys Iraqi mission has, turning Rakowitzs piece into an international incident. The controversy, exploding on the eve of the U.S.s supposed withdrawal from Iraq, has had reverberations touching the artist, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and president Obama himself. As Iraqi artifacts, the plates have been confiscated by the Iraqi mission after a cease-and-desist letter was sent to the restaurant, and were presented by Obama to the Prime Minister on Wednesday.
Exclusive: Google CEO’s inner circle: Meet the L Team | Reuters: The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as "The OC," short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: „L Team“ short for Larry’s Team.
Parting Shot: ‘Go Freelance,’ The Board Game About Being a Comics Freelancer
What If… Herge Created The X-Men?
ARYZ x MONTANA LiSBOA | Silkscreen Print on Vimeo
The Command Line Crash Course – Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal
awesome Gmail Tips : Gmail as you have never known it before
Mars Attacks Portfolio of Roughs Published ~ 1982
Web Symbols typeface
StarCraft changed my life
Early sound recordings heard for first time: Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California together with digital conversion experts at the Library of Congress and curators of the work and industry division of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have succeeded in playing some of the earliest experimental sound recordings by Alexander Graham Bell.
Bradley Manning Had Secrets | Adam Butcher – Writer. Director. Filmmaker: The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks ‘hacktivist’, but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-identity. Animated in a rotoscoped pixel-art style and using dialogue from Bradley’s online conversations, the film explores issues of personal and political secrets, digital identity and alienation.
Changing Contours of Global Order, Professor Noam Chomsky – YouTube: Professor Noam Chomsky presented a lecture „Changing Contours of Global Order“ a look at our drastically changing world, and the implications for domestic and world order on 4 November 2011. This was a free public lecture and was Professor Chomskys only public appearance in Melbourne, Australia.
Art Spiegelman Lecture at SHU – YouTube: SHU ComicsAnimation has uploaded a good, long video featuring Art Spiegelman giving a lecture – it features discussion about Maus, the Holocaust in the media and the craft of creating comics.
Adrian Frutiger – Ein Leben – YouTube: Mit Schriften wie der Univers und der Frutiger hat sich Adrian Frutiger schon zu Lebzeiten ein Denkmal gesetzt. Seine Schriften haben den Alltag geprägt und sind zum Beispiel auf den Euro Scheinen wieder zu finden. Einer der größten Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts ist den meisten Menschen vollkommen unbekannt. Dieses Interview soll das ändern.
Mozilla Reinvents Web Video With Popcorn 1.0 | Webmonkey | Wired.com: Popcorn is simply a JavaScript library that aims to simplify the process of adding external data culled from around the web to your video. To give an idea of what’s possible with Popcorn, Mozilla is showcasing the movie One Millionth Tower, a documentary film about an apartment building and how residents imagine the future. One Millionth Tower premiered online last weekend at Wired.com. If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to the Underwire blog.
One Millionth Tower uses some tricks beyond Popcorn (like WebGL for some 3D elements), but most of its coolest effects — like the way the environment in the film changes based on the real-time weather conditions and time of day at the Toronto high-rises where the documentary was filmed — are all courtesy of Popcorn.
If it happens to be snowing in Toronto when you watch the film, it will begin snowing in the virtual world of One Millionth Tower.
