Robotperson

What is it with me? Nothing for 6 weeks then I feel like the links are coming out of my ears.

Beautiful Catalina Estrada cd packaging kit. More pics on her Flickr stream. If only I had some mixtape cds to write, which nicely links to…
Muxtape: create and share your mp3 mixtapes.
The Gareth Emery podcast. Nothing […]

Brick Arms. Mini-fig compatible ordnance for those who think there just isn’t enough violence in Legoland
One for Babe: Kent Rogowski’s inside-out bears project. This poor guy looks like he’s on dialysis or something. Take a look at his jigsaws whilst you’re there:
Although puzzle pieces are unique and can only fit into one place within a […]

Random House bravely opts to crowdsource the cover design of a new book on Crowdsourcing. See also ‘Crowdsourcing’ tagged shots on Flickr. Nice.
Rejected Star Wars products concepts
BBC experiments with surround video. How long can you watch it for without throwing up?
Library staircase. Cooool.
How to listen to iTunes only podcasts without itunes
Lego MMO. This might finally […]

Domo arigato, Mr Roboto. The Economist on robots in Japan.
Kokoro, a Japanese manufacturer, showed off a robot for training dentists, which it developed with Nippon Dental University. As student dentists drill into its teeth, replete with sensors, the robot yelps “ouch!” when the work is not up to par. But the robot would really squeal […]

This clip gave me the single biggest laugh of 2007. Utterly bizarre, it’s from R-Kelly’s ‘hip-hopera’, Trapped in the Closet, which I immediately added to my Amazon wish list. Enjoy.

Avast! The return of weekly links.

Russell Brand on heroin at Guardian Unlimited
…almost as soon as the smoke had hit the back of my throat, that feeling - the kicky leg, the sweating - it just went. It was like turning off a light. Then I could lean back and everything was suddenly all relaxing and […]

Nice to see a “download for video iPod / Sony PSP” button appear on Google video. Might be time to break the ceramic white out of retirement, especially if someone puts up the rest of Visions of the Future, which I missed this week.

To reach the essence of things, all non-essential elements must be eliminated
- Dr. Koichi Kawana.
This is a lesson that most web content publishers would benefit from. Interestingly, it had never occurred to me before that the word ‘essential’ is rooted in the idea of ‘essence’.

Freebase pancakes
One Laptop per Child rolls-out in Nigeria. This is just brilliant. But how to keep laptops with children, rather than them disappearing into the black market? Surely the key is to saturate the market. Supply so many that demand dries up. I wonder if this is possible.
Japanese underdog archetypes in anime
…This classic story, however, […]

HTML literati, have you ever viewed-source on Google? Take a peek now - I’ll listen out for the rustle of thousands of geek-brows furrowing.
Yes, that’s right: table layout; font tags; <b> used instead of <strong>; &nbsp;’s used for spacing, missing quotes on attributes… it’s a litany of non-standards, 1996 era web design.
For a company […]