July 31 and August 1, Profiles in History will be auctioning off a ton of Hollywood props, costumes, one-sheets, and more. Items come from Star Wars, Blade Runner, Austin Powers, and Back to the Future, just for starters.
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After a ScienceBlogger posted that Volcanoes are Evil, he was challenged to write good things about them. He responded with an expanded list of volcanic evils.
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If fonts were people, what would they be like? They’d be pretty funny!
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Shipping your luggage is now cheaper than taking it with you on an airline. Eventually, it will be cheaper to buy everything at your destination, then discard it.
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Facebook is trying to bring some order to the chaos with a new design. It should make the site more like what it’s supposed to be.
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Have you ever wondered how Lego bricks are made? Gizmodo takes a tour of the factory in three videos.
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A hermit’s 15,000 page work of beauty. Perhaps the most prolific artist of our time, Henry Darger’s strange genius wasn’t discovered until after his death.
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That font movie made me giggle. But…Comic Sans as the hero? Please
posted by bedhead on 7-23-2008 at 10:26 am
If you go to Legoland in Carlsbad, CA, they actually have a small model of the factory for kids to see how the bricks are made. They also have a store will all different sizes and colors of legos. Great place to shop if you need, say, 1000 red bricks to make a giant ketchup bottle out of Legos.
posted by kcz on 7-23-2008 at 10:27 am
facebook needs to be less concerned about making things look “pretty” and more concerned about traffic control!
posted by nicole on 7-23-2008 at 3:32 pm
I always thought of Arial Narrow as more of a refined young lady kind of font….
That video was great anyway. :)
Notice the fellow in the facebook article doesn’t have any wall posts? Well, if he did, I think it would look pretty horrendous. At least, it does on mine.
posted by Stephanie on 7-26-2008 at 12:10 am