Penny Arcade on Lego fruit snacks- June 20, 2008 unfortunately, the bottoms are flat so they don't stack nicely viahttp://penny-arcade.com/2008/6/18/#news_22519 Edith Macefield, Ballard woman who refused to sell her home, passes away at 86- June 20, 2008 wonderful story; I'm not the only one who was reminded of The Little Househttp://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/367335_obitmacefield18.html Girl Talk's Feed the Animals, outstanding illegal mashup album- June 19, 2008 I gave $20 towards the inevitable legal costs; preview it on Hype Machine, partial sample list on Wikipediahttp://illegalart.net/ First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival from 1979- June 19, 2008 MP3s for the entire vinyl LP; I love hearing digital through an analog mediumhttp://www.vintagecomputermusic.com/ Earliest recordings of computer music revealed- June 19, 2008 on an Ferranti Mark I in 1951, before Bell Labs and Daisy but after the CSIRAChttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7458479.stm Firefox 3's robot easter egg- June 19, 2008 if you don't want to be spoiled, just type "about:robots" in the location barhttp://laughingsquid.com/firefox-3-robot-themed-easter-egg/ Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno predict unthinkable futures from 1993- June 19, 2008 "it costs half a day's pay to drive your car into the downtown area of a big city"http://kk.org/ct2/2008/06/unthinkable-futures.php Twittering Teddy, Teddy Ruxpin modded to speak real-time tweets- June 19, 2008 a fun hack, equal parts terrifying and irritatinghttp://2pointhome.com/teddy |