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Thanks to long rainy days and a lot of funky global culture and cross-pollination, Seattle has long been known as an epicenter of music and related creativity where people riff off of each other and freely beg, borrow and steal ideas. But how incestuous is it, really? Who has collaborated with whom? Played gigs together? Worked on albums together? Exactly how complicated is the Seattle music scene? It's so complicated that it needs a map - the Seattle Band Map. Via Wired.
posted on Mar-1-11 at 11:27 PM

Yogscast is already well known for their gaming related podcasts and video blogging, but have really come into their own with their Minecraft story-telling saga of THE SHADOW OF ISRAPHEL...
posted on Feb-18-11 at 11:04 PM

The Last Minecart (SLYT, pixelated violence)
posted on Feb-17-11 at 8:19 PM

Princess the Hamster gets a robot walking suit. (SLYT)
posted on Feb-7-11 at 7:39 AM

Hyperbole and a Half discusses "Wolf Pack" - a game for six year old girls.
posted on Jan-18-11 at 11:40 PM

"A Wrinkle in Time" in 90 Seconds.
posted on Jan-15-11 at 12:17 PM

Ganondorf has a simple request for Christmas, via Brawl in the Family. (An Musical number in web comic form. Audio and Zelda required.)
posted on Dec-26-10 at 1:48 AM

Not more then a few days ago, the reddit community started a campaign to call Stephen Colbert to hold a rally tentatively called Restoring Truthiness in counterpoint to the recent Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" rally. Today redditors put their money where their keyboards are through direct action and broke the previous records and servers by donating $46,983 $92,004 to the school-teacher funding DonorsChoose.org in Operation Truthy Classroom obliterating records set by Hillary Clinton's donation campaign (which has been active since 2008) in less the eight hours. (Previously, and more previously.)
posted on Sep-14-10 at 5:24 AM

Le blog de VelosVintage is a gorgeous French blog chock full of detailed photographs and history of beautiful vintage racing bicycles from older to newer.
posted on Aug-18-10 at 11:30 PM

Learn how to operate the world's first fully electronic digital computer in this helpful instructional video. No, not ENIAC - the Atanasoff Berry Computer. Here's an operator's manual. More information about the reconstruction.
posted on Aug-13-10 at 8:49 PM

Seattle's newest transportation system.
posted on Jul-29-10 at 11:43 PM

Year On Earth breaks it down, explaining the complicated mechanics involved in trying to determine how long a year really is, why seasons and ice ages happen, and how not all years are created equal.
posted on Jul-5-10 at 10:16 PM

Here's a mostly working replica Star Trek Phaser. Original series, of course. Build pics and description here.
posted on Apr-25-10 at 7:42 PM

MOONWALK ONE - A surprisingly groovy look at the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in a full length documentary that contains a lot of rare and not often seen footage of the preparations and launch of the first manned mission to the moon. Warning: Also contains lots of theramins, trippy optical effects, faux bohemians and some really blowy narrative.
posted on Apr-23-10 at 2:10 PM

Here's some gorgeous vintage posters.
posted on Apr-2-10 at 3:39 PM

This isn't your grandpa's PEEK and POKE. Real-time graphical hacking of the Commodore 64 system.
posted on Mar-10-10 at 7:35 PM

NWA's "Straight outta Compton" edited down to just the profanity. Backup link.
posted on Feb-22-10 at 12:33 PM

Ghost shift ghost chips. A tale about a Chumby hardware developer with a keen investigative eye noticing some oddities about microSD FLASH cards from supposedly reputable suppliers.
posted on Feb-16-10 at 10:28 PM

Iranian breakdancers circa 1991. (SLYT)
posted on Jan-25-10 at 7:14 PM

Ediface Wrecks: A Greek Tragicomedy About the Fall of Man's Handiwork #1 (With Apologies to Sophocles.)
posted on Dec-3-09 at 10:19 PM

The development blog for the original Prince of Persia from Jordan Mechner.
posted on Nov-22-09 at 12:13 AM

At the dark end of disco and funk in the early 1980s a DJ and crew known as Afrika Bambaataa had wild, sweaty, drunken sex with the emotionless zombie robot corpse of school-of-Bauhaus German synthpop unit Kraftwerk and an unholy thousand-headed monster rose from the undead to groove across the land. Its name is Electro.
posted on Oct-26-09 at 1:40 AM

Some guy named Spence Peppard takes a flying shot at Willie Nelson and Patsy Cline's Crazy.
posted on Aug-28-09 at 9:44 PM

Pssst. Hey, kid. Check out these bottle rockets. You can make them yourself. Via: Make.
posted on Aug-26-09 at 10:30 PM

Space is really big. A perspective on the Earth and Moon from the view of a pixel.
posted on Aug-11-09 at 10:23 PM

How to start and drive a Model T
posted on Jun-30-09 at 12:52 AM

Space Shuttle launch aborts. Approximately six minutes of on-pad post-ignition pre-liftoff aborts in a single YouTube link.
posted on Jun-8-09 at 1:53 PM

This is what 300 baud looks like online today.
posted on Jun-1-09 at 11:47 AM

Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid has been recorded as a series of video lectures for MIT's Open Courseware project.
posted on May-30-09 at 9:30 PM

RCA Victor's record manufacturing process in 1942: Part one - Part two.
posted on May-23-09 at 7:35 PM

In Bb 2.0
posted on May-12-09 at 7:00 AM

Daft Punk revealed in bootleg video at the 1996 Even Further festival.
posted on May-10-09 at 6:07 PM

At the mostly abandoned Moffett Field in an abandoned McDonald's, digital archeologists attempt to restore, recover and archive abandoned high resolution imagery and data from previous manned Moon missions, using an abandoned Ampex 2" tape drive found in a chicken coop - the last working machine in the world, restored by the last man alive capable of rebuilding the heads. This is likely only part of their weird story.
posted on May-1-09 at 11:54 AM

We've had quite a few lovely posts over the years about people on bikes and skateboards and all these fine new sports that those crazy kids are in to these days, whether it's charging it, huckin' or riding in all its myriad of forms. New, yeah? Here's your great-great-granddad showing you what for with some barspins and suchlike novelties on a heavy old fixie. Stick around for the full-pipe attempt at the end. Directed and filmed by Thomas Edison.
posted on Apr-20-09 at 7:58 PM

Happy 40th birthday, RFC 1!
posted on Apr-7-09 at 12:59 PM

Antipode Map. Find where the other side of the planet is instantly. Note that if you if you actually do manage to dig a tunnel through to the other side and jump in it will take you 42 minutes to get there.
posted on Mar-24-09 at 3:49 PM

Dinosaurs fucking robots.
posted on Feb-17-09 at 10:41 PM

Star Trek TNG goes horribly wrong in a series of short, surreal and very zen mashups: Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
posted on Jan-31-09 at 4:54 AM

You're going to die.
posted on Jan-8-09 at 9:40 AM

Shouting in the datacenter - increased disk latency caused by shouting: Yelling at your computer* may cause an increase in disk latency and a decrease in performance.
posted on Jan-2-09 at 2:15 AM

In a must-see interview for tabletop gamers everywhere, Colonel Louis Zocchi talks about modern mass produced plastic dice and why they utterly fail at being random: Part 1 - Part 2
posted on Nov-26-08 at 6:00 PM

Man loses father to smoking 50 years ago. Builds time machine.
posted on Nov-6-08 at 6:46 PM

The Kid's Halloween Candy Code from cockeyed.com.
posted on Oct-30-08 at 1:48 PM

BIGFOOT FOUND.
posted on Oct-26-08 at 3:55 PM

Climb Dance A short (and fast) film about a Pikes Peak International Hill Climb run from 1989. (Warning: Contains a small amount of jazzy piano sandwiched around about five minutes of very loud high RPM engine revving.)
posted on Oct-11-08 at 4:56 PM

Quest for a true 3D Mandelbrot Fractal - a very nice exploration of Mandelbrot/Julia set fractals in various kinds of 3D space.
posted on Sep-14-08 at 12:58 AM

You are beautiful.
posted on Jul-23-08 at 11:46 PM

Jedi Gym
posted on Jul-4-08 at 2:28 AM

When television attacks.
posted on Jun-24-08 at 1:14 AM

I LOVE YOU CHEETOS
posted on Jun-13-08 at 3:34 AM