Archive: May 18, 2009

Back in October of last year, I posted a video of a kid named Sammy who sang a song called The Cuppy Cake Song. I didn’t really know much about the video then and I didn’t know much about the kid beyond his name so I just sort of left it at that. The other [...]

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo. William Castleman captured this amazing time-lapse of the starry night sky at a Texas Star Party on April 21-22, 2009 (9:20PM to 6:43AM). Using a 15mm fisheye, he captured many images of the sky at 20 second exposures every single [...]

baba-3sixteen

So Andrew hooked me up with a 3sixteen Monsoon Jacket today and I’m really loving it. It fits well, looks great, and is the perfect jacket for this odd transitional weather (where it’s not hot and it’s not quite cold). I love the high collars, the many pockets, and overall, I’m honestly going to say [...]

brass-knuckle-wine-bottle-opener

If the last place you thought you’d see brass knuckles was at the end of a cork screw, then the guys at Chromoly have done their job right. You see, they wanted to juxtapose the complete opposite sides of the socio-economic spectrum by fusing a glorified street weapon with an upper-class activity (wine drinking, apparently). [...]

glass-shard-fake

Photo: Timothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Wow, New York City apparently wasn’t joking when they announced that they were doing an emergency drill at the PATH station at the World Trade Center. The picture above from Photo Journal shows a volunteer victim with a FAKE shard of glass in his head. Freaky!

american-airlines-redesigned

Dustin Curtis is an interface designer who was so fed up with American Airlines’ outdated and confusing website that he decided to take it upon himself to redesign the whole site. At a company as large as American Airlines, I have a hard time figuring out why they even have their current website looking the [...]