My job writing for the MAKE: Blog has been especially fun lately. They've got me writing about these kits from Gakken, a company in Japan that makes kits and other toys that are supposed to help you learn about science.
read the whole thing here .
IMU .
that ridiculously germophobic and wasteful? I saw this with my own eyes, and was so disgusted/amazed that I had to take a picture of it. I can count at least TWELVE layers of toilet paper on this toilet seat. This is clearly not the work of someone who poops outside of their own house very often, because it looks like it took about twenty minutes just to set up, and most people can't wait that long. The more I think about this scenario, the stranger it gets, because there's something very emergency about this scene, but also something very calculated.zero diseases that you can catch from a toilet seat . The concept of toilet seat covers grosses me out infinitely more than the thought of the non-existent cooties you might get from a toilet seat. Case in point:weird .
Warning: Nerd content below.RjDj iPhone app , and I wrote a little how-to about it on MAKE . It's fun because you can use touchscreen input and accelerometer data to control the patches, so that allows for a few new ways of interacting with PD patches even if you can't use the regular GUI (instead, you're limited to one simple JPG).
Link to the video . I haven't watched it with sound yet, but I do remember getting a kick out of that fellow's haircuts. People were clearly torn between two feelings:
I want to get my haircut by this famous indie rock singer. He is going to give me the worst haircut of my entire life. It was pretty funny. The look on my face suggests that I am saying to myself "Oh geeez." I also appear to be kind of concerned. I look a lot like my dad in that one.
P.S. Whatever, Pitchfork is so
vanilla .
