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Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on December 9th, 2007:

• Paint fragment from Belmont Art Park – The fragment is about 1cm thick, and appears to consist of about 150-200 layers of paint.
• Compression for Dummies – Learning how to effectively apply compression in your mix can take a significant amount of study time, patience, and good old fashioned experience.
• Aracade game on oscilloscope – Flickr user Moose2000 did a cool mod: MAME + sound card + oscilloscope = star wars arcade game.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 20th, 2007:

• GameBoy foot controller mod – Joey Mariano’s GBC foot controller mod (gameboy is mounted on a mic stand during performance).

Joey Mariano Game Boy Color foot controller mod

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Typography – Jon Hicks put together a slideshow of typography from the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
• Add more GB to your iPod Mini – How to open your iPod, and replace the micro drive with a better (bigger) micro drive.
• IKEA MAME Dinner Table – Eric Gradman’s IKEA dinner table is expandable and now houses a sit-down MAME cabinet.
• excit – A fun little Excel themed Flash game.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 22nd, 2007:

• Ultimate Guitar Hero case mod – Rocker/Case Modder Kneivel put together this ingenious home arcade cabinet by taking a stack of Marshall amp cases and transforming them into a Guitar Hero themed gaming system.
• Graphite Sequencer (2006) – Caleb Coppock’s graphite sequencer.

• breakfast by Jon Huck – A photo series of people and their breakfasts.
• Rising seas threaten 21 mega-cities – Cities around the world are facing the danger of rising seas and other disasters related to climate change.
• Iconfactory Skelanimals – Icons based on Mitchell Bernal’s cute and creepy Skelanimals
• Drum Buddy – a unique percussion synthesizer made with oscillators, photoresistors, a light, a motor and a perforated number 10 can.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 7th, 2007:

• reCAPTCHA – Stop Spam, Read Books. This new captcha stops spam while digitizing books.
• Mouthpiece – Pinhole photography with a twist by Justin Quinnell.
• Wire & Twine – A group of designers, coders, screenprinters, photographers, artists, moms, dads, and down-to-earth people… Some excellent t-shirts available here.
• Best Of Screensavers – Smashing Magazine lists some of the greatest screensavers
• The Chronulator – The Chronulator starts life as a clock, showing the hours and minutes on two old-school analog panel meters. Dress it up to look like old test equipment, audio VU meters, or motorcycle gauges.
• The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie – It doesn’t get much geekier than this, does it?

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 2nd, 2007:

• 40+ Media Players That Aren’t iTunes – Mashable lists over 40 players for those who don’t want to use iTunes.
• McLaggan Smith Mugs – Lovely mugs, sweet mugs, cool mugs, and… more mugs.
• The Atari 2600 celebrates 30 years of low-rez fun – Retro Thing takes a trip down memory lane.
• Using CCTV for low-budget filmmaking – Mediashed involved a group of kids who usually hang around in the streets to engage in Video sniffin’ activities and turn CCTV into a free broadcasting system for their own use.
• Microsoft bows to pressure on XP – Customer demand has forced Microsoft to extend the shelf life of Windows XP by five months.
• rsizr – With rsizr, in addition to normal image rescaling and cropping, you can also resize images using a new image resizing algorithm called seam carving (a method of image retargeting) that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail.
• Ronald’s Crisis – On September 15, 2007 Ronald McDonald, who had fallen in love with the food of New York and become frustrated with the corporate agenda of McDonald’s, stepped into action closing every McDonald’s store in Manhattan.
• M.T.A. Makes Deal for Cellphones in Stations – All 277 underground stations in the subway system are to be wired for cellphone use.
• New AT&T terms of service – From now on, AT&T can terminate your connection for conduct that “tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries”.

Michael Schiess (curator, Neptune Beach Amusement Museum and Lucky JuJu Pinball Arcade) writes about The Visible Pinball Project, a 1976 “Surf Champ” Gottlieb pinball machine transformed into a completely transparent pinball machine.

The Visible Pinball machine, absolutely gorgeous!

Michael writes:

This project started as most do; out of necessity. I was teaching classes in Interactive Kinetic Art (pinball) and I had a need to show students what was happening inside the machine while it was running. It was difficult to prop the playfield up and trigger various switches on the playfield to simulate play. I first thought a clear window on the side would be nice but it seemed so “hacked” I then thought of making a clear playfield and then the idea of a totally see through machine hit me. That way you could see the mechanical board and the scoring in the head.

The Visible Pinball Project took more than a year from inception to creation, and can now be seen at the first public showing at this year’s Pacific Pinball Expo.

Check this Flickr gallery for more images.

Link via Boing Boing