Grand Larseny

This goes out to all the photographers in my family, the Siberian Wooden Houses project.
Irkutsk, Siberia is a city next to the deepest lake in the world, and it is home to some amazing (I assume) hand-made wooden houses. Vlad, of Vladstudio.com fame, drove around the city documenting the houses as they are falling into [...]

A few rablming thoughts, prepared hastily:
I really love music. There’s something about the tone and emotion of a song that can really affect your reality. Music, to me, is more than just what you hear; you have to agree with what the artist is doing in order to enjoy it.
Put another way, when I’m in [...]

Just ran across the transcript of John Gruber and Merlin Mann’s talk at the SXSW conference. After reading it for just a few minutes I couldn’t help but hear the voices of the Professor Brothers’s Steve and Frank in my head. I’ll let you figure out for youself which is which by reading.
 
John is Steve [...]

This time is the coder’s favorite TheDailyWTF. It seems that Conflickr has infected the minds of those running it, and they’ve turned the entire site into a Twitter stream. Now THAT’S the new Web 3.0, baby.
Also, I have to say to the guys running TheDailyWTF congrats on the funding. I’ve always thought of milking the [...]

Gizmodo is infected with the Conflickr worm, which has led to hilarious results.

Ran across more furniture ideas. Because our home so far is 1) beautiful and 2) a realization of Monica’s vision for a home, we have a policy that all furniture with a hope of becoming a part of our house must first be approved by Monica. It keeps things looking good.
I’m pretty sure these are [...]

File this away as so awesome it’s scary. A couple in Colorado thought they smelled gas in the water coming from the faucet, so they decided to do what everyone else does in that situation. They lit the water on fire.
No joke, friends, they lit the water on fire. You can read more about it, [...]

Everyone knows that one day our robotic masters will rise from their primative shackles to a brutal and emotionless reign. To make the transition for future generations as smooth as possible, researchers have developed the robot cradle to take care of human infants while sleeping.
Apparently the cradle monitors noise coming from the mouth-hole of their [...]

A few days ago Apple unveiled a new model of the iPod Shuffle. Here’s a link to the Shuffle’s homepage along with a video guided tour of the new tech; just try to drool as little as possible.
Here’s the key points for people afraid of clicking links on the web* 

No buttons on the Shuffle. None. Every [...]

Making a terrarium inside a wine bottle; this is also something I want to do. It seems that I’ve reached a tipping point where now I have a grip of projects that I want to complete (a grip is, roughly, more than a smattering, but less than an avalance), which makes for fun, if a [...]

The world’s biggest diamoind heist, it turns out, may well have been an elaborate scam. Well, if you can draw a distinction between a scam and a robbery.
Over at Wired the have the full story given by Leonardo Notarbartolo, who is a gentleman I have not had the pleasure of meeting. It’s a really interesting [...]

Much hero-worship has been done regarding US Airways Flight 1549, the flight that crash landed in the Hudson river. I think it’s time that a more critical eye, a more experienced eye, takes a look at the true facts behind the admiration. Thankfully, we’ve got McSweeney’s.
Please, review this compelling list of reasons as to why the [...]

I’m ready for this. Garden lamps that look just great and don’t require some horrid electric plug to be strung across your lawn. Ikea has just announced solar lamps for the typical Ikea price of $20 for a string of five lights.
You can check out some shots of the lights in action at Inhabitat, where [...]

Steve Martin has hosted SNL what, twenty times now or something.  As they say, with experience comes comedy.  Don’t question it.
SNL with Steve Martin via Hulu.com (again).