Sixty-seven people in home-made Dalek costumes converged last Sunday at The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England. They were attempting to set a world record for the largest assembly of the extraterrestrial borg bad guys, featured in the beloved BBC TV series Dr. Who. Dalek Invasion of Earth – Link Day of the […]
On the new Boing Boing Gadgets blog, helmed by the brilliant Joel Johnson, he has a link to a photography blog of Haiko Hebig. Hebig travels throughout Europe documenting the decaying corpse of Europe’s 20th century industrial infrastructure. Love the control room images. Endangered Machinery – Link
Paul makes miniature replicas of collectible antique tools, great stuff! – Link.
Pink Tentacle writes – Gensou Hyouhon Hakubutsukan (“Museum of Fantastic Specimens”) is an online collection of creatures “curated” by Hajime Emoto. The three-story virtual museum consists of 9 rooms chock full of water- and land-dwelling monstrosities from all corners of the globe. Each specimen has a clickable thumbnail that links to additional photos and historical […]
Stewart R Justin’s existing independently, made from fleece, rope, paint, pvc caps, hose barbs, metal hardware – Each module is made of a hollow fleece cube which is formed by adding tension to the ropes that connect it to the floor wall and ceiling. When the tension is added the fleece cubes become extremely rigid. […]
Josh Simon’s over at the Sun blog(s) has a great set of photos from a supercomputer in an chapel! With my supercomputer-as-art background from Thinking Machines, I’m perhaps pre-disposed to appreciate nicely done computers and computer installations. I was blown away when I saw the photos below of MareNostrum, currently the 9th largest supercomputer in […]
We’ve blogged about the Robot Hut before, and I’d been there (the site) before, but I’m not sure I’d seen how much info there is on all of the builds for many of the bots in the Hut’s collection. And there’s a tour of the museum in 3D, too (and even a link on where […]
