July 2011
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Kuriositas →
One of the blogs that is a collection of the unusual and rare. Some retro, some travel, some pop culture all mixed together.
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Owling is the new planking →
Really? Are people that bored or uncreative that they need to do this? Is this performance art for the masses? Is this critique or imitation?
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Yooouuutuuube.com →
As if Fantasia was not weird enough Yooouuutuuube.com lets you apply a zoeptropic effect to any YouTube or Vimeo video - the flux option mashes things up even greater randomness. For some reason it all makes for a rather watchable remix.
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Ravelry →
If you like your knitting unusual Ravelry is extraordinary… I think Doctor Who gloves are a step too far myself but then so is the Police Box hat (or tam)…
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The Bad Fads Museum →
A really really scary collection of things that seemed like a good idea at the time (even if that was last week). I recognise far too many of these for my own health.
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Where JISC can take you...
I thought I would have a scan of the various JISC projects that are currently public. Definitely an eye-opener. There are 202 projects listed but the first thing that struck me is that so many of the projects are either specific to an institution or institutional collection or to a discipline. Obviously there needs to be some of this because arguably every collection has specific demands but it...
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Murdoch block and Murdoch alert →
This plugin for Chrome or Firefox will warn and/or block you from visiting any Murdoch owned website (of which there are obviously quite a few and including myspace!). An extraordinary (and clever) response to the story of the last few weeks and removes the transparency that the Web engenders when it comes to media ownership. It is sometimes too easy to forget that when you are hoping from web...
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Signspotting →
If you really need to rummage through a lot of really wrong signs then this is really the site for you. I suspect I recognise a few of these.
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Wikipedia entries for 'old' technologies
The start of a tentative list…
Media Technologies
Audio Cassette - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_cassette
VHS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS
12” Single - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-inch_single
Picture disc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_disc#Picture_discs
Portable CD Players - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_CD_player
Computer Technologies
3.5”...
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Dark Links →
Dubbed as the “Dark Side of the Net” this is really a directory of gothy type links as well as a bit of steampunk. Covers specific twitter ids as well as things like costumes, recipes and all the necessary peripherals to be really ‘dark’.
It also reminded me how much I liked (like?) Danielle Dax…
Hey yeah…
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Bomb - a manifesto of art terrorism
[Someone sent me a press release - it doesn’t mention comedy pies but I was flattered, even if it was spam]
GRAFFITI ARTIST PUBLISHES “ART TERRORISM” MANIFESTO. BOMB: A Manifesto of Art Terrorism Raymond Salvatore Harmon Graffiti artist and media terrorist RSH (Raymond Salvatore Harmon) has released his manifesto, an often humorous and poignantly personal account of his...
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Poopsenders →
Do you hate someone? Do you hate them so much that you want to anonymously send them a big pile of poo? If there was ever a need for evidence that ecommerce allows every single niche to be filled (didn’t quite mean it that way) then poopsenders is the poster child. For anything between about 20-30 USD you can choose to send cow, elephant or gorilla excrement to something who you think...
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Travellers' kits
I don’t really stay in hotels enough to really justify overly long periods of thought about what is and is not available within a hotel room but I think this is quite a good idea.
There seems to be no end of kits for travellers available. Springwise highlighted a drinks kit that effectively replaces a mini-bar in each room (which is obviously an expensive offering that is tricky to...
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Vampire Hunting Kit from the 1800s →
The geek in me loves kits - of any sort - this one is right in so many ways and suggests that the producers of the Van Helsing film did a little bit of research before filming (and then added much bigger guns and crossbows).
The kit is surely a curiousity - that’s fair enough - but it does show that people are more inclined towards have a complete kit that covers all their specific...
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Visual.ly
Visual.ly has gone live and is offering the opportunity for you to automatically create an information graphic about your tweeting habits. It also provides a few options to customise the avatar to look a little bit more like yourself.
I think this just proves I am a fairly boring Twitter user who is a webaholic obsessed with shopping (WTF??) - although admittedly Ikea does come up as a...
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PRIMARK MENS MONKEY SLEEPSUIT BRAND NEW WITH TAGS →
Mens… not kids… and if that was not good enough the hood includes monkey ears. If being a ‘monkey’ is not your thing Primark are also offering the chance at playing a Tiger or Elvis.
How long before men’s Primark sleepsuits become the custom of choice for stag parties in Manchester city centre?
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Incredibox →
Now I can have my own acapella hipster band … just what I needed for July (nice t-shirts though).
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