Emergency Cuff-Links

I love French cuffs on my shirts. Love. Unfortunately, I have never had much success holding on to cuff-links because I'm careless and I lose things. Fortunately, Spunique has provided these handy backups. They come in packs of 6 and are, unfortunately, single use.

12 GBP here.

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Geeky Graffiti

Kontraband has about 30 "geeky" examples of graffiti/outright vandalism and some of them are funny. Plus I am super busy today but I feel bad about the 3 posts the week before last so I'm overcompensating, possibly to the overall detriment of the blog, but I mean seriously do you really care? What difference does it make to you, off in your ivory tower? I'm on the streets. Pounding the pavement. In the trenches. Getting shit done. Yeah.

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SaveTheWords.org

SaveTheWords is a neat little site from Oxford University Press which allows you to "adopt a word" (obviously a very obscure word) and thus prevent it from being lost to the English language forever. As someone who loves words, I find this endearingly futile, but fun.



If you adopt a word, you will receive a neat certificate like the one Newrosis just got for adopting the word vampirarchy, which means an archy of vamps. I kid...it is a society ruled by vampires! well, the technical definition is a society ruled as if by vampires, but this obviously calls into question the existence of actual vampires, which I don't approve of.

There is also a "word of the day" feature and some other stuff you can sign up for.

Core77 Greener Gadgets Design Competition

So this is an industrial design competition by my favorite design site (core77, duh) that is geared toward making use of green technology in gadget development. The top 50 entries are listed here. Check it out and vote. I'm pretty impressed with some of these ideas, but others make me wonder what kind of crap was submitted and didn't make the top 50.

Like this thing which you build yourself and use to wirelessly publish your power usage in kWh on a Twitter account. Couldn't you just look at your electrical bill? Maybe the meter? I mean its an interesting concept, but I can't see any real beneficial effect other than providing people on Twitter with statistical data regarding your power usage. Do the denizens of the internet really want to publish these things about themselves? I guess they do, but I think it is lame and stupid. No offense to the designers or voters, though I suppose 'lame' and 'stupid' are generally accepted as being offensive words, and therefore perhaps I should go the whole nine? Screw you and your stupid design.

On the other side of the equation, we have a sweet idea with a really bad name: Blight, which is a Venetian blind system in which the outer edge of the blind (the one facing the sun) has solar cells attached which store energy in batteries located in the top of the blind during the day to power the electroluminescent foil which covers the inside of the blind at night. Pretty slick.

Finally, my submission** is a solar-powered hologram generator placed on the moon which disguises the earth as a giant planet-shaped space monster. I have no solutions on how to create this machine or how to get it to the moon, but it would seem to me that in the grand scheme of things, protecting the earth from alien attack is just as important as curbing CO2 emissions or composting our own feces.

Check out the rest of the entries here.

**my design was neither submitted nor approved...

The Sharpie Show Presented by Crewest

I'm a big fan of marker/pen and ink drawings, it is my preferred medium, and so I will be sad this weekend because The Sharpie Show will be going on in Los Angeles while I am lurking in my apartment scowling at the weather.

Check out the poster below for a roster of the artists, but I'm almost positive that nobody will know any of the names because I don't even know any of the names. Anyway, the show kicks off Saturday (Feb. 7) and runs through March 1 at the Crewest HQ located at 110 Winston St. in LA. Sponsored by Sharpie... so jealous...

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News for Nerds: Denver Man Robs Convenience Store With Klingon Sword

via Channel 7 News, Denver CO:

"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Colorado Springs police are looking for a man who hit two 7-Eleven convenience stores early Wednesday, armed with a Klingon sword.

The first robbery was reported at 1:50 a.m., at 145 N Spruce St. The clerk told police a white man in his 20s, wearing a black jacket, blue jeans and wearing a black mask, entered the store with a weapon the clerk recognized from the Star Trek TV series.

The robber demanded money and left with an undisclosed amount."

Yes, the clerk recognized the weapon. I am not going to lie, Star Trek isn't exactly at the top of my nerdy pile of favorites, but I respect both the act of recognition and whatever drugs it requires for a man to rob a convenience store with a TV prop.

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Mark Gonzalez x adidas Campus

Here's an adidas Campus with a unique colorway and upper artwork by skateboard legend Mark Gonzalez. Available here. These are mostly here because I don't want those fucking Kanye abominations to be the only kicks on the front page.

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The Impossible Project: The Re-Invention of Instant Film

Remember when Polaroid made the switch from analog to digital cameras? It was a really long time ago... Like 3 weeks or something crazy. Well it turns out that some intrepid folks in the Netherlands have acquired a former Polaroid factory located in Enschede, NL, and are planning to restart production next year. The Impossible Project is not aiming to produce the same film, but aims instead "to develop a new product with new characteristics, consisting of new optimised components, produced with a streamlined modern setup."

Learn more about The Impossible Project as well as lend your support here. Also check out the archives for a look at Polaroid's new digital instant camera, set for release this year.

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AT&T, Comcast the First to Bend Consumers Over for RIAA

Remember when I told you about the RIAA and how it was no longer going to sue dead people and children? The alternative was instead to place the copyright enforcement burden on ISPs, remember? Well the first step in that process began with the revelation that Comcast and AT&T are working towards active cooperation in this new anti-piracy regime.

According to CNET three sources close to the companies admitted that they were looking at implementing programs to punish broadband users for illegally downloading copyrighted music. The program will reportedly employ a "three strikes" policy that allows you to get caught without too much trouble twice, but the third time you will have your broadband disconnected, you will not be able to reconnect, and you could potentially be blackballed from other ISPs.

I don't know what to say about this. Blackballing people from broadband access for copyright violations? What happens if someone is stealing your cable to download illegally? Wouldn't it be easier and more fair to the consumer to shut out the sites that facilitate piracy? I guess not.

I'm not going to use any violent language because it is after 6 and I'm contentedly eating dinner and watching a documentary on The Flaming Lips who are, incidentally, a great band. Maybe I will get some vitriol flowing later on when I watch this Daft Punk movie that apparently has no Daft Punk music or helmets. I'm fairly certain it will make me angry...I know I was annoyed when I read the synopsis, and thinking about it now has me on the verge of irritated. More details to follow. I know you can't wait.

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Bumpy Pitch T-Shirts

Bumpy Pitch has some vintage football club designs from this side of the pond. They are supposedly a retrospective of important football clubs from the 1890s through the 1980s, but the list seems incomplete without a New York Cosmos shirt. Such is life, though.

$36 here

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