Category Archives: Ephemera and links

Official Japanese space menu ::: Pink Tentacle Want to know what Japanese in space eat? Japanese food specially re-designed to work in space. You’ve got to love their attention to detail… (tags: japan food ramen) CRACKED.com – The 7 Most Useless Transformers Ever Not all Transformers were awesome. Imagine if you had the ability toContinue reading “links for 2007-07-05”

YouTube – Japanese tv tetris game Ah, Japanese TV. Like Noel’s House Party, but not crap. In this gameshow, contestants must pretend to be the last block in a game of tetris and fit into the ever encroaching wall… (tags: japan youtube tetris gaming funny)

PingMag – Transformers’ Toy Design Interview with one of the designers of the Transformers’ toys; the bits about his inspirations are excellent, as are the images of the models being made (tags: japan pingmag robots design transformers)

YouTube – MSNBC Journalist Burns and Shreds Paris Hilton Story The producers put Paris as the lead story, but MSNBC newsreader Mika Brzezinski disagreed. Vehemently. Live on air. (tags: journalism youtube parisbloodyhilton news video)

Endless Assembly Lines and Giant Cafeterias; Inside China’s Vast Factories So much stuff that we use every day- from furniture to PCs – is made in China; this photo-essay shows the factories that produce it. Very effective images, some reminiscent of the industrial revolution in this country, but others looking completely out of (tags: chinaContinue reading “links for 2007-06-26”

Sick Filth? // GamesIndustry.biz Excellent editorial on Manhunt 2 being banned; I agree with this pretty much word for word, basically… (tags: games gaming censorship) distillation:3 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Creepy, sad photo of a rainy car in Tokyo (tags: dailypic photography persistence)

Hidden Tokyo – New York Times Very Tokyo – the trend for hidden drinking dens (tags: culture japan travel bars persistence) Nikkor Lens Information by Thom Hogan Handy info on lenses (tags: nikon photography)

Cool Mac Apps . com – Home – Cool Software for Your Mac List of cool Mac apps. Some excellent stuff on here; Quicksilver is awesome, but there are some I have yet to try… (tags: mac OSX software list)

Steam – Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved Geometry Wars comes to Steam, and will now work on Win XP! (tags: games xbox360 steam) Ironic Sans: The best and worst of The Economist Nice round up of some of the Economist’s best and worst headlines, chock full of pop culture references and quality puns (tags: journalism economistContinue reading “links for 2007-06-20”

More Cool Stuff From the Grand Designs Live Show Nifty switch that kills standby devices (tags: house power carbon)