Extreme Path-walking

Need a base for your super-villainy?  You need Project Utopia.

2012=1968? (nymag)
In 2008, Barack Obama lit a fire among young activists. Next year, Occupy Wall Street could consume him.

Zdenek Miller, Czech animator passed away today.  Miller created Krtecek, a black mole famous to European audiences.  His color, characterization, background styles are pure mid-century gold.  [youtube trail starts here]

Famous Magazines' First Covers

$35 Indian Android tablet

Brian Eno on bizarre instruments

Researchers in England are starting a 10 year project to build the 1830s Babbage Analytical Engine
(nytimes)

If you want to play the arcade game Off the Waffle, you'll need to make a trip to Eugene, OR.

"You've never heard of this game. It's in only one cabinet, playable in one city and, generously estimating, maybe it makes a dollar a day. Nothing about this video game suggests it's someone's meal ticket, but it is. For life."

Formula for complete and utter Bayhem!
(or, why Michael Bay films make so much money)

Secret iOS Business: What You Don't Know About your App

Dark Stores, a photo project by Brian Ulrich documenting retail casualties of the economic bust.

 Cartoon eyes! (with hints, only if you need 'em)

A Few Million Monkeys Randomly Recreate Every Work of Shakespeare

RIP Steve Jobs.  This is the end of an era.  I remember spending hours on the first generation Mac at the University of Delaware's computer lab in the summer of 85.  Under Jobs, Apple revolutionized technology, and the rest of the world was always playing catch-up.

Elizabeth Warren explains what happened to Wall Street during the last 30 year on Jon Stewart's Daily Show.

 

I really like Google's error-bot.

What if the secret to success is failure? (NYTimes)

Dr. Michio Kaku: America has a secret weapon.(4 min video, wimp.com)

How well do you see color?