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Experiments: Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?
A blind test revealed audiophiles cannot distinguish between audio transmitted over unshielded coat hangers and audio sent over expensive Monster Cables.
audio  awesome  hype  marketing  schadenfreude  branding 
march 2008 by McChris
KHOU: Student voters march at Prairie View A&M
The local political machine located an early voting location no closer to the campus of Prairie View A&M University, so students at the historically black campus marched down a highway to vote.
awesome  racism  elections  texas 
february 2008 by McChris
Last Plane to Jakarta: Butter Cow of Doom
John Darnielle listens to an old Minneapolis punk album and laments the commodification of domain space of spammers.
vinyl  punk  distribution  indie  awesome 
january 2008 by McChris
Suck.com Archive
I've been looking for old Suck columns, but suck.com is content-free. Fortunately Aaron Schwartz has a mirror of the old articles.
archive  history  blog  awesome 
january 2008 by McChris
You're Not My Father
Treewave's Paul Slocum re-enacts a scene from the TV show "Full House" several times with different actors.
art  video  awesome  TV 
january 2008 by McChris
USPS 2008 stamp collection includes Eames!
The postal service plans to issue stamps commemorating the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames.
design  philately  awesome 
january 2008 by McChris
corprewland: LOLcat Wasteland
oh dear, it's T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" translated into lulz.
lolcats  awesome  silly 
november 2007 by McChris
WikiPediaVision (beta)
It's like Twittervision for Wikipedia!
awesome  wikipedia  map  mashup 
october 2007 by McChris
Austinist: State-Commissioned Report Declares Texas Has Too Many State Reports
I needed a real-world example of recursion for a seventh-grade math lesson I was writing last week. I wish I could have used this doozy.
texas  awesome  publicpolicy 
october 2007 by McChris
Black ColcaSac. Black Hemp and Fleece MacBook Sleeve
The idea of a hemp MacBook sleeve is awesome, even if the execution is iffy.
Apple  awesome  shopping 
october 2007 by McChris
Broadcast Law Blog: Another Indication that LPFM Could Get More Protections
"Given the broad investment across the country in translators and the unique service that they provide in both rural and more urban areas, often importing unique noncommercial channels, would the additional localism provided by LPFM justify the change in
microradio  FCC  totalcorporatedouches  awesome 
october 2007 by McChris
LPFM Slowing Processing of Full Power FM Stations
This is really interesting, even if the authors are total corporate douches. The authors complain that low-power licenses interfere with corporate radio's requests to upgrade their equipment, just as it should be.
localism  microradio  awesome  totalcorporatedouches  FCC  radio 
september 2007 by McChris
Trebor Scholz: Playing Class Struggle
A 1970s board game tries to make Marxist political theory fun for the whole family.
awesome  gaming  politicaleconomy  history 
september 2007 by McChris
User Generated Discontent
A-list blogger Heather Champ had this amusing T-shirt made at Neighborhoodies.
clothing  UGC  awesome 
august 2007 by McChris
xkcd: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
If you have not yet seen this comic, you must.
visualization  chart  awesome  comics  publicpolicy  telecom 
june 2007 by McChris
xkcd: Map of Online Communities
I'm really behind the curve posting this, but it was a hit in one of my presentations last week.
awesome  map  yasns  Web2.0 
may 2007 by McChris
Etsy: Colors
I'm pretty sure Jared Tarbell created this awesome Flash interface I found yesterday. Users mouse over colored blobs, and click to retrieve inventory items matching those colors.
awesome  Flash  shopping  color 
april 2007 by McChris
Larry West for Mayor: About Larry
Larry is a mohawked punk running for mayor of the city of brotherly shove. I don't care for Philly, but damn if I don't love Philadelphia punk rock!
awesome  Philadelphia  DIY  politics  punk 
march 2007 by McChris
Overstated: The price of using social media for politics…
Cameron Marlowe takes a screen shot of a Barack Obama promotional page that features an ad with some major cleavage.
politics2.0  advertising  gender  awesome 
february 2007 by McChris
Useless Account
Boiling down Web 2.0 to its most salient components, this has to be the ultimate Web 2.0 site. I'd invite all my friends, but it doesn't offer that feature.
Web2.0  satire  useless  awesome 
february 2007 by McChris
Banksy: Shop
Street artist Banksy offers hi-res images of his work for free download. I think I may have an 8x10 made of the surveillance camera piece.
streetart  copyright  art  awesome 
january 2007 by McChris
ABC News: Amanda Gets a Shock in Vegas
Marketdroids taser Amanda Congdon and her cheekbones at CES. "Oh my God," Congdon says, "I feel tingly."
video  awesome 
january 2007 by McChris
TPMCafe: Goode's Office Vandalized With Graffiti: "BIGOT"
Goode is the congressman who is protesting Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison's swearing in on Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Quran.
streetart  islam  awesome 
january 2007 by McChris
Eyeteeth: Pac-Man: Graffiti or social engineering?
This cool street, um, highway art reminds drivers to keep a safe follow distance.
transportation  streetart  awesome  gaming 
december 2006 by McChris
Banksy: Films
Videos reveal how street artist Banksy conducted his pranks, such as dropping Guantanamo "detainee" dummy behind a fence at Disneyland.
streetart  prank  awesome  video 
november 2006 by McChris
Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool
Awwww yeah! A Firefox extension that helps you manage and cite Web pages for academic research. I can't tell you how long I've wanted something like this.
academic  firefox  useful  awesome 
november 2006 by McChris
YouTube - Suicide - Ghost Rider
via Cory Arcangel
music  awesome  YouTube  punk 
october 2006 by McChris
Flickr: Etsy Items Color Distribution
Jared Tarbell does it again with an awesome visualization of the incidence of item colors on Etsy, an online storefront service for handmade goods. It's interesting how the colors spike around the primaries.
visualization  craft  Web2.0  awesome 
october 2006 by McChris
MacOS Classic Sound Pack 1.4
I was looking for the "wild eep" sound from the days of yore and found this package of OS 6 and 7 system alert sounds.
Apple  awesome  old-school  useless 
october 2006 by McChris
Internet Pinball Machine Database: Gottlieb 'Punk!' Images
Weird "Punk!" pinball machine from 1982.
punk  awesome  cheese  silly 
october 2006 by McChris
The Miss Rockaway Armada
Since I mentioned this at a party last night, I thought I would post this street art project here. The Miss Rockaway Armada are sailing a biodiesel raft made from salvaged parts down the Mississippi from Minneapolis to St. Louis.
art  streetart  transportation  sustainability  DIY  recycling  awesome 
august 2006 by McChris
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Lego
toys  humor  satire  politics  awesome 
august 2006 by McChris
Muni Consortium - Tiny Windom leads race to a faster Web
Windom, Minnesota – the small town where my dad went to high school – rolled out a municipal 100mbps fiber-optic network last year to serve the town and surrounding farms.
telecom  utilities  minnesota  awesome 
august 2006 by McChris
Lego Advertising/Design Goodness
Wow, these minimal Lego print ads really capture how the bricks stoke the imagination.
toys  advertising  design  awesome 
august 2006 by McChris
Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference
Awesome pictures of a Dell laptop in flames.
awesome  Dell  geek 
june 2006 by McChris
Unhappy Hour - New York Times
The author has a negative response to hearing Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" in a bar. Phillistines...
ambient  drone  music  humor  awesome 
june 2006 by McChris
Appellate judges criticized for citing Wikipedia in Apple vs. Doe case.
Awesome, the opinion in the Apple vs. Doe case cites a "cooperative encyclopedia." I like the phrase "cooperative encyclopedia" - do editors get a discount on granola or hog feed?
law  awesome  co-op  wikipedia 
may 2006 by McChris
Eyeteeth: e-tuktuk
This mobile radio transmitter and internet access point is built on a three-wheel motorcycle/
awesome  DIY  citizensmedia  microradio 
may 2006 by McChris
Umbra - Conceal book shelf
I don't care if this was on bOINGbOING, I want about a half-dozen of these for my apartment. I've got a decent amount of bookshelf space these days, but this would be nice for the books I'm currently using for classes.They need an extra-large size for cou
awesome  books  useful  design 
may 2006 by McChris
Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner
Crooks and Liars entry with video of Stephen Colbert's address to the president and press. It's hard to imagine anyone taking "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenberg" in stride.
humor  awesome  politics  video  TVontheWeb  satire 
april 2006 by McChris

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