10,000 Drink straws were needed to make this chair and still it looks like it is not comfortable at all. According to designer Scott Jarvie it is a research piece passing comment on our disposable culture. I might prefer to dispose of straws instead of sitting in this chair.
Contrarily to the chair, I actually do like the straw Clutch light.
Source: Scott Jarvie.
After much work, the first two nodes of what would become the ARPANET were interconnected between UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, on October 29, 1969. The ARPANET was one of the “eve” networks of today’s Internet. Following on from the demonstration that packet switching worked on the ARPANET, the British Post Office, Telenet, DATAPAC and TRANSPAC collaborated to create the first international packet-switched network service.
Via Wikipedia.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this one. Guess part of it is fun, the friends elements is less fun. But being grounded for Twilight…
Via Lamebook.
I am sure that their are pillheads who will buy this but these ‘glow in dark jeans’ certainly aren’t what I expected for the Holiday Season. Whatever floats your boat and £80 I suppose. I’d rather have a Diesel watch than this. Or a Storm watch actually.
It is interesting to note how what is Google’s main battle, the battle against spam, and once was one of the main reasons to switch to Gmail, now seems to become the end of ‘Google Groups’:
When you create a public group everything will go well for a couple days, at most. Without fail an onslaught of spam will start to come through your group – I’ve even seen it happen within the first day. It happens to every group and doesn’t matter how well you advertise it (or try to hide it). After having watched Google Groups for as long as I have I can only assume that there exists no spam filtering whatsoever. Or, if there is any, it’s the most grossly incompetent spam filter I’ve ever seen.
Or could it be that newsgroups, by their own very nature of relying on emails, are doomed themselves. Surprisingly the WordPress newsgroups do not suffer this problem. At least not that we can tell.
Read more at John Resig‘s blog.
Robert Cringely in his way analysis of the Windows 7 price has a nostalgic moment :
When Windows 95 was introduced (I was there, shooting Triumph of the Nerds), part of the Bill Gates and Jay Leno performance that day was upgrading a 486/66 machine from Windows 3.1 to Win95. It took about half an hour. With more modern processors, memory, disk drives, and a new OS touted as being lean and mean, why should Windows 7 take significantly longer than that to upgrade?
It shouldn’t, unless speed-of-upgrading wasn’t on the feature list to begin with.
Title says it all. Another one for our awesome flowchart collection.
This one is old but I had never read it before.
In both cases, the entity that began as the ideal companion soon took on a more realistic, three-dimensional quality. In other words, they became real. This is evident in that both Hobbes and Tyler also began to function as scapegoats for their creators. For instance, consider that Calvin often blames broken lamps and other assorted household mischief on Hobbes, and that Jack is inclined to believe that Fight Club and other various anti-society mischief is brought about by Tyler, not himself. Calvin claims Hobbes pounces on him every day after school; Jack believes Tyler beats him up next to 40 kilotons of nitroglycerin in a parking garage—the list goes on and on. The relationships between the two sets of friends are the exact same. Is this mere coincidence?
Read the complete argument at Metaphilm.
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