Barbara Mandrell’s Crutch-Shaped Electric Lap Steel Guitar by Semie Moseley, 1984
Strange.
In 1984, Barbara Mandrell was in a car crash that left her severely injured. Moseley, Mandrell’s close friend, devised a creative get-well gift; an electric lap-steel guitar built as a functional crutch and finished in a bright blue metallic lacquer.
Devo Revamps Tracks For Kids
Would this be considered capital punsihment? Whip It, whip it good!
For the project, all five members of Devo regrouped to re-record some of its best known songs, including the 1980 hit “Whip It!” with vocals provided by a quintet of kids. Also included will be “Cyclops” and “The Winner,” the [...]
Daisy - Your Personal Web Assistant
This looks very intersting.
Daisy’s Feature List
Daisy aims to make your web surfing experience simpler and more productive. Daisy:
* Indexes HTML, CSS, PDF, Atom and RSS documents
* Can recreate any web page viewed as it existed at that point in time
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MySA.com
Oh dear, not the killer chihuahuas!
A pack of angry Chihuahuas attacked a police officer who was escorting a teenager home after a traffic stop, authorities said.
The officer suffered minor injuries, including bites to his ankle, Detective Bill Veteran said.
Windows 0-day exploit found on Web
A previously unknown vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows graphics rendering engine is being exploited by several malicious Web sites to infect visitors’ systems, security experts said on Wednesday.
If you’re still using IE, think about making the switch
Firefox users on Windows aren’t completely immune, but they at least get a [...]
kalephunk: Guess who got new license plates in the
This is just way too funny. If you don’t get the joke, there’s a work safe description of goatse on wikipedia.
Guess who got new license plates in the mail today?
Official Google Blog: I’m feeling silly
Every wonder what an 8th of a ton of silly putty looks like? Me too.
Not long ago, I walked by the desk of software engineer JJ Furman, and saw that he had made an interesting addition to his desk: a large blob of Silly Putty, about the size of [...]
Brandon and I are working on a new lyrics site. We’ve both been frustrated by lyrics sites chocked full of banners, slow images, pop-ups, and misleading links and believe we can provide an alternative.
Link Right Lyrics aims to be the quickest, and most complete lyrics site on the net. Check it out if [...]
Pearl Crescent Page Saver
Mac and Windows only at this time. Linux support is planned for January 2006.
Pearl Crescent Page Saver is a free extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you save an image of a web page to a file in PNG format. Options let you control whether images are saved at full [...]
Topless-Sandal.com
I might have to order a pair of these for the next flip-flop day at work.
It’s a cool idea, but I seriously doubt I’d get a year out of them. The best made shoes rarely live past 6 months on my feet.
Topless sandals - also called “down unders” - simulate walking barefoot while protecting [...]
