Hangman Cheat is quite a clever website which can pretty accurately guess the word you are thinking of. Simply tell it how many letters the word has and start playing.
I tried the word “japan” first and it found it very quickly. When I tried “blizzardboy” it didn’t have so much luck – probably because blizzardboy isn’t a dictionary word.
If you like games such as babble I think you will enjoy this.
I found this interesting Weapons Generator at http://genzu.net/buki/. The generator is only in Japanese, but is pretty easy to use even if one can’t read Japanese. Scroll down the page to the box with the enter button beside it. Enter your name in the box and hit enter. It will render your name into the weapon that represents you. I entered “Simon” and this is what it produced:
Quite a nice piece of rendering. The final weapon that came out was some sort of dual-pronged sword.
The site also gives your name and weapon a rank out of a 100. Mine got 62 – according to the page, 25 is normal. Guess Simon is a strong name!
Found these awesome T-Shirt designs while surfing this morning. I don’t know anything about the person making them, but they do have a mighty fine sense of humour!
Split Personality
Thomas the Tank Engine meets the Transformers! Obviously inspired by Ringo Starr.
Endangered Species
Inverting the old adage – You Are What You Eat.
Extreme Beginnings
Look to see extreme Penny Farthing events at the London Olympics.
You can find more of these designs at http://www.glennz.com. The designer Glenn Jones, is a graphic designer and illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand. Wicked!
Here is how not to provide advice to beginning users of your software:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/
A great example of a Catch 22 though!
I mean if you can understand what they have written, you don’t really need the page do you.
Some great photos of maki-sushi from toxel.com. Yummy!
Rolling sushi so that the ingredients make a pretty picture is quite an art form. You can see more pictures of scrummy sushi here.
Well spring is sprung, the rat is out of the hat, and no amount of platitudes could really fail to convince you that you need:
They only have a 100 of these, so get in quick.
Here is what they have to say about all this it glows in the dark goodness:
NEW FREAKDANCE RECORDS SKULL CRACKER T-SHIRTS ARE HERE!
The good-ole Freakdance skull logo has been revamped, reborn and brutally sodomized by label hustler Jere Häkkinen (Luomuhappo) – he has handpainted & re-sketched our company logo by hand and transformed it into a brand new level of fartistical approach!
These brand new Freakdance Records (TM)(C)(R) skull-cracker t-shirts are now internationally available from our webshop in colours such as … well, as Glenn Danzig would put it: “Black, black, The black is back, I am the blackest of the black of time!” – But don’t you worry, in the midst of all this blackness, the beautiful white print on these babies does not only glow in UV light alone, but THESE SHIRTS GLOW IN THE DARK AS WELL! Now how cool is that, you can spook out your acidhead friends in dark rave caves?? HUH ??
Take a look at the shirt here: http://www.freakdancerecords.net/images/fdpaita2_large.jpg
The price is 15 euros a piece and the total print has been limited to 100 copies, so get yours before they disappear from the face of the earth. The shirts are only available for men for the time being, but we will get some models for the ladies very soon!
Be patient, o’ titted ones! <3
For our Finnish customers / HUOMIO SUOMALAASET PEOPLE!!!: order two CD’s, get the shirt for 10 euros. It doesn’t get any cheaper than that, and if any of you hippie bums still have the nerve to complain about the prices, we’ll hit you in the face with a hammer. Offer valid inside Finland only, sorry.
Our international web shop is at http://www.freakdancerecords.net -> mailorder
If you don’t want one, you can always order one for me for my birthday. It is only 6 months away you know!
Above is a print by the Edo period printmaker Hiroshige depicting a hawk. It is in the style of Kage’e or shadow print, something I hadn’t seen before I stumbled on the post Kage-e: Shadow pictures over at the Pink Tentacle blog. You can see more shadow prints at that page.
I love the way it is so delicately clever.
We have all seen barcode tattoos, and have probably heard about evil satanic barcode conspiracies (they mean 666 and represent the end of the world of course!) but Japanese company Design Barcode KK (デザインãƒãƒ¼ã‚³ãƒ¼ãƒ‰æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾) has taken things a step further by taking the barcode and reworking it into the package design as a whole.
I found these while looking at Dark Roasted Blend – a collection of weird and wonderful things. They have some very fascinating photos:)
A nice video from National Geographic showcasing Tokyo architect Yasuhiroi Yamashita’s Penguin House. It is quite fascinating to watch this and to see how he utilises the height of rooms to give a greater feeling of spaciousness to the houses he works on.
What interests me with Japanese architecture is how they manipulate space and light to create some beautiful living environments. Little in the way of traditional building techniques and materials are evident – for me, I would rather go all the way – completely traditional, or on the other hand something like the penguin house.
If people anywhere in the world are likely to go overboard when doing things then the Japanese would have to be right there at the top, and deco-tora or deco-trucks are a rockingly great example of this.
Taking the decoration of the vehicles to almost unimaginable heights, the owners of these trucks add all sorts of magical lighting, paneling and decoration to make their trucks works of art. The photo above is from pingmag, who have an interesting article about an exhibition of photographs of these pop culture icons by Japanese photographer Masaru Tatsuki. From their post:
This pretty colourful aspect of Japanese pop culture has been extensively explored by photographer Masaru Tatsuki who spent ten years with the truckers of Japan’s highways. Today PingMag walks over to Masaru’s current exhibition at Harajuku‘s Little More Chika gallery to catch up with him about his new photo book.
You can read the full interview here in English: Masaru Tatsuki’s Decotora Photo Op
And it isn’t just cars and trucks that get decorated – I once saw a deco-chari, a decorated bicycle, done up to look like the rider was in the cab of a big rig! Now that was something special!
