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- Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School one-year anniversary in LA, Sunday May 15, 2010, 7:00 PM
- Desk Cat Demands Pens
- Headed to Portland and San Francisco -- EFF fundraiser FTW!
- Space Invaders toaster
- Will 3D plans for bongs become illegal, too?
- Jane Siberry makes entire back-catalog into free downloads
| Posted: 15 May 2010 11:28 PM PDT |
| How the Amiga's death heralded the PC gaming revolution Posted: 15 May 2010 11:13 PM PDT On a story about how a Commodore Amiga demo helped defeat a patent troll, a Slashdot commenter on the story claims refugees from its culture of bare-metal coders kickstarted the PC gaming revolution after Commodore's demise. Follow-ups challenge the truthiness of this hypothesis. HAM sandwiches for all! |
| Ribs in a can (and other delights) Posted: 15 May 2010 09:37 PM PDT  |
| Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School one-year anniversary in LA, Sunday May 15, 2010, 7:00 PM Posted: 15 May 2010 06:05 PM PDT  Bob Self says: The Los Angeles branch of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School (a figure drawing cabaret for artists and art voyeurs) is celebrating its one-year anniversary under the leadership of the team at Baby Tattoo (an independent art book publishing company) this Sunday at 7:00 PM. There will be three sexy models posing both in and out of costume, a special appearance by magician/mad scientist Rudy Coby, and a whole bunch of prizes to be given away. The venue is one of LA's most unusual theatre spaces -- the sideshow, circus, villain's lair themed California Institute of Abnormalarts in the NoHo Arts District. You've never seen (or drawn) anything like it.Tinky Sparkle ( aka Jessica Whiteside, above right) is an excellent painter. Full details here |
| Posted: 15 May 2010 11:43 AM PDT |
| Headed to Portland and San Francisco -- EFF fundraiser FTW! Posted: 15 May 2010 05:50 AM PDT  Hey, Portlanders! I'm on my way today to the Powell's location in Beaverton at 2PM for the latest stop in my For the Win tour. After that, I'm off to the Bay Area, where I'll kick off with a signing at Borderlands Books in the Mission on Monday at 7PM. Then it's a stop in Palo Alto at Books Inc for the Not Your Mother's Book Club event on Tuesday at 7PM. It culminates with a kick-ass EFF fundraiser at the 111 Minna Gallery on Wednesday at 7:30PM. After that, the tour goes on, with stops in Austin on May 20, Raleigh on the 22nd, Chapel Hill on the 23d, New York on the 26th, Brooklyn on the 27th, New York again on the 28th, and Toronto on June 4. Hope to see you! |
| Posted: 15 May 2010 05:43 AM PDT  Chris Naylor, a student designer in London, designed this jim-dandy Space Invaders toaster that toasts individual invaders into your bread. I would absolutely buy one of these if he went into production. Invader Toaster (via Cribcandy) Previously: |
| Will 3D plans for bongs become illegal, too? Posted: 15 May 2010 05:37 AM PDT Thingiverse -- a repository for user-created 3D meshes that can be fed to a 3D printer -- has just had its first (?) bong design uploaded, raising the question: if it's illegal in some jurisdictions to own or sell a bong, will it become illegal to own or sell the 3D design for printing a bong on your desktop 3D fab? A note on the bong: MakerBong is a modular bong design that allows the smoker to design her own bong out of interlocking pieces, print them, and assemble to her satisfaction. Up Against the Wall and Spread Your Legs! (via Futurismic) Previously: |
| Jane Siberry makes entire back-catalog into free downloads Posted: 15 May 2010 06:19 AM PDT  Clifton sez, "Canadian recording artist Jane Siberry has made all of her recordings (16 complete albums) available for free download, with the words: "DOWNLOAD ALL SIBERRY MUSIC HERE. IT IS FREE, A GIFT FROM JANE. TAKE GOOD CARE OF IT. AND 'PAY IT FORWARD' TO OTHERS." Siberry has an interesting history: in 2006, she gave away nearly everything she owned, becoming homeless with only one guitar, and she changed her name to "Issa," and declared that she had "decommodified" her life. She's since changed her name back. Jane Siberry (Thanks, Clifton!) (Image: My Favorite Magazine Cover, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from jurvetson's photostream, photo by Bart Nagel) Previously: |
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