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but is it art? November 13, 2009 posted by
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Macessity Slimkey V2 – Neat Mac monitor stand

Macessity make a range of Mac-styled accessories including this Slimkey V2 monitor stand. It’s made from powder-coated aluminium, has four USB 2.0 ports and neatly hides the large or small Apple keyboards while supporting your monitor. Looks alright too. Macessity make a few other nifty Mac bits, including this Mac Mini hider, the Stand By Mi, mini stand and the NX Stand , an all-in-one laptop and external hard drive stand. US$64.99 This stand is our third addition to this…


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but is it art? November 12, 2009 posted by
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Bus Stop Shelter – A bus shelter made of school bus parts

If you’ve ever been nostalgic about those bright yellow school buses we all rode, take heart! Now they’ve been recycled into yellow Bus Stop Shelters. Made from recycled parts of old school buses that would otherwise have ended up in the scrap yard, these unique eye-catching shelters even look like a school bus, at least part of one. Located in Athens, Georgia (not far from Atlanta), pieces of decomissioned buses from 1962, ’72 and ’77 were welded together, along with…


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but is it art? November 11, 2009 posted by
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DNA Mini Portraits – give your loved one a true likeness to remember you by

You know those photos of you and the family on the beach you keep on your desk? So old school, man. What you need, desire and must have is a new DNA Mini Portrait of the one you love, carefully embedded into a high grade glass frame and bolted to your forehead dropped onto your cubicle desk for all to admire. Just $199.00/£134.00 plus shipping. And if you really want to go to town how about gifting a Fingerprint Portrait…


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but is it art? November 11, 2009 posted by
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Fail/Win Stamps – Stamps make it official

Be part of whatever the FAIL phenomenon is with these FAIL/WIN stamps. Bonus points if you get the stamp on their forehead and then take the picture. US$19.99 for the pair. Of course if Failing, isn’t your thing, you could always try the Succeed Blog. Never let another FAIL or WIN go by unannounced in your world. Get this set of two self-inking stamps, one FAIL and one WIN. FAIL stamp is in bright red, WIN stamp is in black,…


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but is it art? November 9, 2009 posted by
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Vitruvian Voltron – Anime meets Da Vinci

The story of Voltron is long, with many a winding turn but that doesn’t mean you can’t get back to its renaissance roots with the Vitruvian Voltron tee shirt. US$17.99 from ThinkGeek. Voltron with Vitruvian-style da Vinci-esque drawings printed all over the front (but not the back… the back is plain) of a sand-colored, 100% cotton t-shirt. Tags: voltron, thinkgeek, vitruvian+voltron


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Awesome November 2, 2009 posted by
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xkcd Movie Narrative Charts – See the films, get the flow chart

The always amusing xkcd webcomic has boiled down a few quintessential movies into easily digested movie narrative flow charts. Why not print them out and present them at tomorrow’s sales meeting? These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicates which characters are together at a given time. Tags: xkcd, movie+narrative+charts


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Bookmark This! October 30, 2009 posted by
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Clockwords – uber addictive game for wordsmiths with quick fingers

Clockwords. Beautifully crafted, addictively entertaining, tremendous fun. What more do you need to know? To play – type in long words as fast as you can, to shoot down nasty spiders intent on doing you harm. Fab. [Via Metafilter]  Clockwords is a hectic word game set in Victorian London. You are a genius inventor who discovers plans for a mysterious machine that runs on the power of language. Then your lab is infiltrated by mechanical bugs that have come to…


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Bookmark This! October 30, 2009 posted by
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Classic Cinema Online – old movies streamed to your eyes for free

Classic Cinema Online is a glorious collection of olde tyme movies in all sorts of genres for your amusement and education. Some are from the 70’s, some from the 30’s. Some in-between. All for free, no sign up required, distributed via Google Video. Isn’t the Internets a sharing place? Tags: classic+movies+online, movies


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Bookmark This! October 28, 2009 posted by
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Concert Vault – 3000 live music concerts available to all for free streaming

Concert Vault features over 3000 live concerts by some of the great and the good, recorded and re-mastered over the years by various people. It’s free to listen after registration, so of course there’s advertising all over the place, but that said, there’s some choice stuff on here. Makes a change from YouTube anyway and there are downloads available for a price too. Nice.  How do you do it? We’ve transferred these aging, but well-preserved, tape archives to highest-quality digital…


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but is it art? October 26, 2009 posted by
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Breakfast on the Bridge – turfing the coathanger

Just a quick plug for my home town, Sydney. There’s an October-length festival going on here at the moment called Crave, celebrating all things great about living in Sydney including food. As part of the festivities, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed for 12 hours on Sunday morning and 10,000m� of turf was laid across it temporarily for the inaugural Breakfast on the Bridge event. Not bad considering it’s over a kilometer in length. Around 6,000 randomly selected people enjoyed…


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but is it art? October 20, 2009 posted by
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Digital Harinezumi – Super 8 meets VGA

The Digital Harinezumi is a faux Super 8 digital video camera shaped like a 110 film canister. At its heart is a 2 Megapixel CMOS sensor that will capture both 1600×1200 stills and VGA quality movies and record them onto a microSD card. Because it’s emulating Super 8 the camera has built-in filters which produce the same saturated, vignetted effect of Super 8 and it even has the same juddering motion produced by the film gate. For real authenticity the…


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but is it art? October 16, 2009 posted by
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Green Laser Projector – Turn your loungeroom in a raveroom

Fancy a Green Laser Projector for your lounge? Well this one is sound activated and will project onto a surface up to 50m�, a distance of 20 metres away. It has a range of patterns and will vary them in relation to the music and a universal mount so you can hang it anywhere. The best bit is it’s only around US$53. Let the music make the green laser dance. Built with and internal micro-stepping motor scanner with extra wide…


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Awesome October 12, 2009 posted by
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Uniqlo Screensaver – awesome arty screensaver offers glorious tilt-shift video

We featured the brilliant Uniqlock online clock a while back, with its combination of artsy dancing, stylish clothing and surreal music, but now the Japanese fashion store has gone one further with an awesome Uniqlo Screensaver which lets you sample these delights on your Mac or PC desktop. The usual dancing clock is there (I shut off the music quite quickly), but they’ve also included the desktop version of their awesome tilt-shift video based online calendar, which gives date and weather for your…


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Bookmark This! October 9, 2009 posted by
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WP Clipart – 33,000 + free clipart images and viewer

WP Clipart. 33,000 + free public domain clipart images with a free viewer for download. There’s also an online viewer, image converter and download service available on the site if you don’t want the hassle of the nearly 1 GB download. Lovely jubbly.  WPClipart is a collection of high-quality public domain images specifically tailored for use in word processors and optimized for printing on home/small office inkjet printers. There are thousands of color graphic clips as well as illustrations, photographs and…


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