Category Archives: Ephemera and links

YouTube – Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion Now *this* is how you build a lego kit: superb stop motion video of the Millenium Falcon being built with real panache (tags: lego youtube build stopmotion) News feature: BMW F1 at the Ring | evo News | News | evo Short piece that gets the most fromContinue reading “links for 2007-07-19”

Gone with the Blastwave – Haven’t you heard? Real is brown! Darkly humourous web comic set in a spooky war time environment; a tip from one of the blogs on the new CPC site (tags: webcomic comics illustration war) What phone calls sound like in hell. – By Evan Eisenberg – Slate Magazine “Please noteContinue reading “links for 2007-07-18”

YouTube – Train Drivers View Tube on YouTube (you can bet a tabloud sub would have fun with that); strangely mesmeric video shot from the driver’s cab of a tube train. (tags: youtube video london tube)

An A to Z of the Evening Standard | LinkMachineGo “A is for Attack, B is for Bastards, C is for Chaos”; a pictorial celebration of the London Evening Standard’s bloodthirsty and salacious attempts to attract readers (tags: headlines lmg eveningstandard newspaper alpahbet)

How To: keep your iTunes library on an external hard drive – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Just moved to a new place, and I’m thinking of putting all my MP3s on a central server somewhere, so this How To could be useful… (tags: itunes howto)

Nothing is impossible when you work for the circus As opposed to when you work in a place that is a circus, when everything is impossible (sorry, it’s been a loooong, hard day…) (tags: t-shirts circus slogan mcsweeneys) Amazon.com: Star Wars Pop-up: Books: Matthew Reinhart Not out till November, but Amazon has shots of RobertContinue reading “links for 2007-07-14”

Design by Humans Touted by some as “the new Threadless”… looks similar in terms of submit designs/vote on t-shirts, but so far the selection is a little limited. Some interesting designs though. (tags: shopping t-shirts design) Dennis creates ‘start your own blog’ site | New media | MediaGuardian.co.uk The new Custom PC site launched today,Continue reading “links for 2007-07-13”

How to get a REAL cappuccino at Starbucks – and why it isn’t on the menu! (Slate Magazine) Short and sweet little article on why Starbucks prefers to sell oversized buckets of milk rather than decent coffee – it’s all about margins and scaring the rich (tags: slate reddit coffee starbucks tips business) Zombie InfectionContinue reading “links for 2007-07-12”

Photos: Iconic computer innards as art Slideshow of great looking old computer hardware; beautiful to look at in that way that old tehcnology often is – it may not be remotely classed as powerful any more, but when that falls away, the power of the idea and engineering often remians (tags: cnet photos technology computer)Continue reading “links for 2007-07-10”

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: The music industry nobs have finally figured out what we’re doing Fake Steve nails the music industry biz in brilliant, scathing terms. Is this, as one commenter points out, endgame for Fake Steve – has he revealed that he is, in fact, not so fake at all? (tags: appleContinue reading “links for 2007-07-07”