Bookmarks for January 30th 2009
Links for January 30th 2009 from 15:41 to 16:58:
- 10 Moments in Music Censorship History – with music videos for all to see
- Concept Art: A Trilobite Made of Welded Steel and Time – Its carapace has turned to steel in the hundreds of millions of years since it went extinct, but the watch in this Trilobite’s brain never stops tracking the seconds passed since the Cambrian ended.
- FLOODING MCDONALD’S – Superflex are a radical art collective from Copenhagen, with previous hits including a burnt out car and an intriguing ‘Free Beer' enterprise. With their latest exhibit they have flooded a McDonalds.
- The Top 11 Most Depressing Songs of All Time – There’s just something about a depressing song that can instantly shift your mood from light to dark. A lot of music listeners out there will even use gloomy and emotional songs to put themselves in a low-spirited state. If you're one of those people, these are the songs most likely to make you want to wallow in the darkness.
- Bacon Bra » Funny, Bizarre, Amazing Pictures & Videos – indeed, a bra made of bacon.
- YouTube – Prison Escape Fail – These Two People Escape From A Prison Tied TOgether By Handcuffs So They Decide To Do This
- LEGO’s Digital Box Kiosks Use Augmented Reality To Bring The Models To Life – LEGO will apparently be rolling out these new ‘Digital Box’ kiosks to select toyshops around the world that allow you to see a 3D representation of what the LEGO model looks like when fully assembled.
- sansa clip in the hole!: grenade mp3 player – Explosive modder Matt purchased some decommissioned test grenades and decided that it would make for a great MP3 player shell. So does it? Yesno.
- 10 things your great grandchildren won’t remember – we’ve put together a list of 10 things you may be familiar with now, but when your great grandchildren are growing up, they’ll be all like “lol what, people used to sit in front of computers when they worked?”
- Anakin’s Lightsaber Flashlight – Dropping half a grand on a replica lightsaber from a company like Master Replicas isn’t for everyone, but if you’ve got a Star Wars itch to scratch this cheap lightsaber flashlight could do the trick.
- Paramount Takes Trek Merchandise to Warp Nine | The Underwire from Wired.com – Paramount and CBS are going all-in with J.J. Abrams' Star Trek this summer, and the merchandising frenzy is set to arrive before the film's summer premiere.
- DNA Art: The Most Awesome Science Video About DNA Ever Made – It's hard to explain DNA replication, transcription, and protein building in an accessible but non-dumbed-down way. This quick, elegant video does it, though: You get the full story with helpful visualizations.
