[robots] - Pleo the robotic dinosaur is the latest toy from the creator of Furby. infographic, video1, video2.
robo3 - robot catalogue. coming to a theme park near you...
YouTube - Whitegoat- Practical Robot Application
lots of new Honda Asimo videos
Mythbusters Test The Vex Robotic Design System (via)
Gas-powered robotic mule can't be kicked over (plus demonstration video)
[music] - The Visual Context of Music
Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos. YouTube is almost as dangerous as Wikipedia, for timesinkness.
also Stylus Magazine’s Top 100 Music Videos of All Time
whitney music box, try 2,6,7, and 11.
Atlas of Plucked Instruments and Gallery of Ceramic Musical Instruments
2 new stations from SomaFM. Those added, and other changes, at my music page.
[commonplace] - A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. - Carl Jung
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. - Walter Smith
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. - Sigmund Freud
I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation. - George Bernard Shaw
You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
Creativity is a bloody nuisance and an evil curse that will see to it that you die from stress and alcohol abuse at a very early age, that you piss off all your friends, break appointments, show up late, and have this strange bohemian urge (you know that decadent laid-back pimp-style way of life). The truly creative people I know all live lousy lives, never have time to see you, don't take care of themselves properly, have weird tastes in women and behave badly. They don't wash and they eat disgusting stuff, they are mentally unstable and are absolutely brilliant. - Toke Nygaard
[art] - Art Moco: House Ascending and Red Core and Franco Dellerba
Wooster: Union is strength, chics6 crew, and Mark Jenkins' Embeds plus video.
Jason Hackenwerth’s balloon art (the Dale Chihuly of balloons...?)
[architecture] - 15 Best Skylines in the World
Ironic Sans: "Animated Manhattan" a 10-part (so far) series on the animation of NYC.
M House, nagoya, japan.
The Maison de Verre. The sensuality of veiled things and Scraps on Pierre Chareau and his Magnificent Maison de Verre
Modular Dwellings, a roundup of some prefabs.
[art] - Typewriter art
Jean-Luc Cornec's telephone sheep
Moon Pool and Rolling Balls kinetic sculptures.
Ole Worm’s Museum recreated.
Video and article about Stephen Wiltshire, autistic savant.
Inka Essenhigh 2005, artist/studio miniatures.
[design] - Inefficient but pretty: Sense of Place and Flap Flap
Daddy Longlegs - Yet another themed-room hotel
Tetris Flat - more interlocking shelves.
DMY - designmai youngsters, berlin, may 2006
milan design week 2006 : snapshots from the salone del mobile. tons.