The bottom hundred feet or so of the Cwmbran valley this morning seems to be filled with some sort of extra thick mist – complete with rainbow. I love how defined the edge of the mist is.
(Photos taken by me precariously hanging out of the window, trying to hold my iPhone and use the Camera app with one hand, preying I wouldn’t drop it!)
This is going mad on YouTube and with good reason: it’s excellent:
“Everything’s drawn and super 80s!” “Piiiiiiiiipe Wrrrrrrrrench Fiiiiiiiiight!”
I’m fed up with my site looking like 90% Twitter echos because I only write 2-3 blog posts a week. So from now on, I’ve taken the daily summary Twitter posts out of my Wordpress RSS. If you still want to read my Twitters, and you are reading this post from my RSS feed, you might want to add http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/6596872.rss to your RSS reader.
Note that Wordpress will still write a tweet whenever I write a blog post (ironically like this one). I like that feature because it is copied over to my Facebook status, and I seem to get a lot of hits from there. So I’m leaving that piece of mirroring in place.
The Brunch is a series of consumer products that celebrate the mundane. Bread Slicer facilitates even, uniform, precision – cuts. Toaster brings knowledge, skill and anticipation to the toasting of a slice of bread, set angle and force to exactly hit your plate. Cutlery perfectly aligned on Placemat is rendered invisible, the Holy Grail of table placement. Teapot records the height one is able to pour tea from. Milk and Sugar allow for meticulous taste.
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A well known theory in psychology states that neurosis are a result of the lack of real dangers that result from the high level of well-being in our western society. This project explores post-functional products that address the desire for skill, struggle, rituals, perfection, preparation and anticipation – qualities lost when we indulge in the comforts of prozac technology.
The toaster is awesome but I think I like the cutlery the best:
(Credit to Rich)
From Wikipedia:
A Luther Burger is a hamburger, specifically a bacon cheeseburger, which employs a grilled glazed doughnut in place of the bun.
I’ll let you think about that for a bit. A doughnut instead of bread. A… glazed… doughnut. This may be the greatest culinary saturated fat delivery mechanism since the Waffle of Death. For your comparative convenience, I present the Waffle of Death:
This was the last potato waffle that wouldn’t fit in the oven when Toby and I were making a refreshing dinner of sausages and waffles. So being a pragmatic chap he fried it alongside the sausages. By the time it was cooked, all the little holes had entire closed up from the absorbed fat. It tasted great, but my stomach hurt after one bite, so that was all I ate. I thought until now this was the pinnacle of culinary achievement but… burgers and doughnuts, together at last?
WE HAVE A NEW CHAMPION.
Did you see this xkcd comic from the other week?
Well, the GooTube boys have actually implemented this feature. This is just, well, all kinds of awesome.
Wil Weaton linked to an article on propeller.com claiming that Patrick Stewart will be in two Doctor Who episodes next season, as a Time Lord. However I have just this second realised, whilst blogging this, that propeller.com appears to be some sort of Digg-esque news sharing site and that the original source of the news is… The Sun, fine British purveyor of nonsense and boobies. Hmmm. The original Sun article further claims that Stewart will play the Meddling Monk, a character I vaguely recall from older Doctor Who. It’d be great if it happens but I’m not holding my breath, given the fact this is being reported by The Sun.
I saw Patrick Stewart in the flesh once. He received an honourary degree from Cardiff the same day that I graduated, and he gave a short speech. His voice is even more mesmerising in real life.
SumoPaint is an astonishingly credible browser-based graphics program, complete with an extensive array of tools and (this really is impressive) Photoshop-like layer support. This is not only an extremely credible replacement for Paint Shop Pro or a warezed copy of Photoshop for quick edits, it’s also the most impressive webapp I’ve ever used. I’m amazed by how responsive and powerful this is.
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