Bookmarks for January 29th 2009

Links for January 29th 2009

• The Greatest Snack Food Stadium Ever Built | www.holytaco.com – "So, in honor of the Super Bowl and our need to cram our faces full of processed foods with funny names, we created this football stadium made entirely out of snack foods"
• Top 7 Most Tradable Lunch Box Snacks « The High Definite – Whether you were the kid with the awesome packed lunch that wielded limitless trading power due to the quality of your snack foods, or the school lunch kid that was willing to sacrifice entire sections of your lunch for that one badass snack, cafeteria bartering made a nutritional and educational impact on us all.
• Triceracopter: If Only Evolution Had Worked Out Differently – The Triceracopter is half Triceratops, half helicopter. Built as a sculpture in 1977 by artist Patricia Renick, it's now available now for the discerning collector/dinopilot.
• ‘Organic’ robots to mimic primitive life – Pink Tentacle – A University of Tokyo research team led by professor/computer graphic artist Yoichiro Kawaguchi is developing robots designed to imitate primitive life forms. Mockups have been put on display at a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, and working versions of the robots are scheduled for completion in two years.
• I.Z. Reloaded: Online Refreshments: Relive your childhood with this huge toy collection on eBay – For US$29,999, you can be the proud owner of this vintage to modern toy collection which was purchased in Ohio from a retired collector/dealer. The collection with 9,185 different toys, games, etc has a retail value of way over $100,0000. Check out the pics!
• OhGizmo! » Archive » 3D Star Wars Kites – Three of the more recognizable ships from the Star Wars universe are represented including the TIE Fighter, the X-Wing and the Millennium Falcon.
• Scifi Art: Pulp SF Book Covers That Channel Pure Id – The greatest pulp science fiction book covers aren't just trashy, they're lurid: filled with half-naked squirming and misplaced eyes, with Prince's man/woman glyph bursting out.
• Glowing Cities Under a Nighttime Sky auf Flickr – Fotosharing! – "On my night time flight back to SF from Amsterdam, I noticed that the lights from cities were making the clouds glow. Really spectacular and ethereal – it was really seeing the impact of urban environments from a different perspective. Each glow or squiggle represents one town or city!"
• Spanish steampunk clock – Boing Boing Gadgets – A great clock by Tenerifean artist of Gonzalo Álvarez. It looks something like the center timepiece of a steampunk Swiss Family Robinson.
• The Most Extravagant Dinner Parties in History – I’ll have the Ostrich Brain and the Exploding Breast Cake, Please
• Best complaint letter ever? – This is a letter recently received by the Virgin Atlantic customer complaints team and is currently being hailed on several blogs as possibly the funniest customer complaint letter ever.
• Cake Wrecks: Sunday Sweets: Lord of the Rings – Awesome looking LOTR inspired cakes
• Light Saber Umbrella – LED and rain protector together at last - The Red Ferret Journal – The Light Saber Umbrella. Take the trendy and illuminating properties of an LED flashlight, mix in a light emitting multi-coloured handle, throw in the terribly useful water repelling function of an umbrella and you’ve got a hip and wacky way to brighten up a dismal day in the city.
• How to make Lego valve stem caps. – Want to make your own LEGO valve stem caps for your full-scale LEGO car? No problem. Take a LEGO block, hollow it out and glue in a regular cap.
• Awwww! Real Monsters! – Urlesque – Internet Trends, Viral Videos, Memes and Web Culture – Chilean artist Relleno De Mono knows monsters. And he knows that they're pretty nice. And that they make great babysitters. They also like street meat, the beach, and they may have even been around when you were a kid (you just don't remember).