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Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on December 5th, 2007:

• Gibson Robot Guitar – The guitar is tuned by tiny servo motors that tune all strings in no more than five seconds.

Gibson Robot Guitar

• CASH Music: Kristin Hersh – CASH will soon be open to any and all independent artists who want a set of tools to offer their music directly to their audience for collaboration as well as financial support.
• Edit your photos on Flickr! – Flickr partners up with Picnik for some nice online photo editing tools.
• Mike Libby – Insect Lab – Artist studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components.
• National Geographic International Photography Contest Winners – Winners and runners-up from the 2007 international photo contest.
• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard – a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 8th, 2007:

• LinnDrum LM-2 with Tuning Modification – Kerry has modified his LinnDrum LM-2 so all voices could be individually tuned.
• UltraPin 12 in 1 Digital Pinball Table – What were they thinking? Clearly not made for pinball lovers…
• How to Win at Monopoly ® – a Surefire Strategy – Tim Darling has detailed information on what to buy, how many houses to build in order to win (and take all the fun out of the game while you’re at it…)

Temperature map showing how quickly you get your incremental investment back

• Build a xylophone out of almost anything – How-tos on building xylophones from everything from pipes, bottles, wood, wrenches, even stone.
• Fran Holland’s Balloon Organ – Uses a bunch of standard plumbing fittings, tuned with sliders and balloons to produce weird, eerie, bagpipe-style music. A large inflated balloon to one side provides the steady air pressure for the drone.
• The ‘Winners’ of the Wired News Saddest-Cubicle Contest – David Gunnells, an IT guy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has his desk penned in by heavily used filing cabinets in a windowless conference room, near a poorly ventilated bathroom and a microwave.
• Julian Wolkenstein – Lovely photography from Australia’s most branded photographer.
• Get 10% discount on Image-Line products – Use this link and get a 10% discount on FL Studio, Deckadance, Maximus, Morphine, Sytrus, Toxic 3 DirectWave, and more (someone recently use my promo code to buy an item at the Image-Line store, thanks David!, so I figured I’d plug my code once more in order to gain enough credits to actually be able to purchase something through the IL affiliate program).

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 4th, 2007:

• Strictly No Photography – A website dedicated to photos taken inside places you’re not supposed to take photos. Art galleries, government buildings, religious sites, science and technology exhibits, all user-submitted.

Strictly No Photography

• Brian Dettmer 03 Ram Skull [lo] on Flickr – A ram skull sculpture made from old cassette tapes.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 30th, 2007:

• Phottle blog: Houses with a View – From the densely populated regions appear, the skyscrapers of the city behind you! In this 2008 show GEO-Kalender GEO-Fotografen houses in great nature, the dream of living and freedom symbolizing.

Granite rock of rose in the Brittany coast (Erich Spiegelhalter/Agentur Focus)

• VectorMagic – This site traces bitmap images, turning them into beautiful vector art. Simply upload your bitmap image and you’ll get a converted version in EPS/SVG format.
• Matt Stuart – Wonderful photograhpy. Stuart writes: I don’t know which came first, being nosey or an interest in ‘street photography’, but a fascination with people and the way they live their lives is why I enjoy the business so much.

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 17th, 2007:

• Atari 2600 Joystick Remote Control – Turn an old Atari 2600 joystick into a TV remote control.
• 15 Most Ill-Advised Career Reinventions in Rock Music History – The artists that do a good job of reinvention are allowed to hang around (like Radiohead and even Madonna, brief reign of terror as a rapper notwithstanding). But sometimes reinvention goes horribly, hilariously wrong, and none were worse than these.
• A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods – I love the dilemma diagram.
• mandolux – Pretty images for you desktop (also for dual screen setups) by Mando Gomez.
• The Talkbox FAQ – Make your own – Yes, you can make your own if you’re relatively handy with your hands. Only the most basic electrical knowledge is necessary and the parts are readily available if you have a hardware store nearby.