This is a HILARIOUS idea – not sure why anyone would actually go so far as to use it, but i love that it exists :)
“The Tyrant Clock takes waking up into pure psychological warfare territory. The clock syncs up with your cell phone, randomly goes through your contact list, and then calls someone different every three minutes after your intended wake up time. It displays in a large size the name of the person who’s about to get their own wake up call from you. The potential for it to call someone and in some way completely ruin your life is huge. A disaster waiting to happen, which would make it the ideal alarm clock. ”
Brilliant / Awesome .. This little box hooks up to your bike’s generator hub and converts your pedal power – plug in your cellphone / iPod / camera battery via the USB port and start charging.. (full charge takes three hours).
The BioLogic FreeCharge will go for just $100 when it ships next spring [March 2010] SOURCE: WIRED
Who Made Who offers limited edition hand screen-printed posters, art prints, and whatnot – from various local artists (Miss Amy Jo & TOOTH shown in this print)..
Check out their $5 Scratch & Dent Poster Sale + TOOTH prints on sale for only $10 (it’s TOOTH’s b-day :) It’s one day / in store only this Thursday (First Thursday) from 3pm-8pm @ 158 13th Avenue NE / NE Minneapolis
Switchblade Comb, Star Tribune and City Pages all reporting that the end is near for one of our city’s most iconic live venues, the Uptown Bar – at least in Uptown..
“The Minneapolis Planning Commission has approved the Uptown Bar owner Frank Toonen’s application that would allow him to tear down the bar and replace it with a three-story retail unit. The proposed retail building is being developed by Urban Anthology who are responsible for Victoria Secret and American Apparel opening in the Uptown neighborhood. The last chance the bar has for staying in its present location is if the Heritage Preservation Commission intervenes at their next meeting on September 1.” - Switchblade Comb
UPDATE 09/11 :
“November 1 ends it. I suggest keeping your evenings free and plan on going into work late from October 1 – November 1. There are gonna be some amazing shows that last month that the bar is open. Bands that you would never imagine playing the Uptown Bar will be playing the Uptown Bar.” switchbladecomb
Seriously. It was recently discovered that, two years ago, Microsoft filed a patent for clustering phylogenetics methods, which have existed for years, and are currently in use by just about anyone who does evolutionary biology. The filing has been compared to attempting to patent multiplication tables, and has the phylogenetics community on edge.
This may seem like it falls well outside the range of Microsoft’s typical interests, but the company appears to be taking an interest in bioinformatics. In June, Microsoft bought assets of Rosetta Biosoftware from Merck. Microsoft intended to integrate Rosetta’s software with its own Amalga Life Sciences platform, which is used for research at drug companies and universities.
Hopefully, a patent with this much prior art will not be approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office because the methods it details are so common—and, in fact, a reader noted that it has received a “nonfinal rejection” from the USPTO. That still allows the patent to be resubmitted in a modified form, however, so the biomedical community may want to follow it carefully.
Lemonade, a new film about the 70,000+ advertising professionals who have lost their jobs in “The Great Recession” so far, explores what happens when people who once made a living as “creatives” in advertising are forced to make a life creatively.
For the show Suzuki collaborated with Luxembourg punk groups Tvesla, TakeMeUnderground and Yegussa, proposing an ‘amateur music production system’. This involved recording sessions and pressing the vinyls all in one evening, which were later on sale at the mudam boutique.
Stand Up Frank’s is dead – Long live Donny Dirk’s Zombie Den
Leslie Bock (owner of Saint Sabrina’s) has reinvented the notorious Northeast bar (Broadway and Washington Avenue North) and made it a zombie bar – complete with insane decor, zombie staff and some cool-as-hell specialty drinks.
“Does your t-shirt help lower your carbon footprint, improve air quality and reduce your utility bill? Ours do! This shirt is part of the Holiday Matinee Artist Series, which means we donate 100% of proceeds from every t-shirt sold to Plant-It 2020. That means every time you buy a shirt you plant, maintain, and protect twenty trees. It’s that simple, plus all shirts are tag-free and 100% organic.
About the artist: Nikki Farquharson is a left-handed designer living in London, England. She’s obsessed with letters, lines, patterns, shapes and colors.”
-Supermarket