Dazzle camouflage was used on ships during World War I. The dazzle disrupts the conventional lines of a ship and makes it difficult for the enemy to determine the size, type, speed, and heading of the ship. If I ever buy a yacht I’m gonna paint it exactly like this.
[ From Coudal Partners ]
11:28 AM
11:13 AM
Engineer Steve Sauer lives in a highly efficient 182 square foot basement condo in Seattle. It has 2 beds, kitchen with dishwasher, bathroom with shower and soaking tub, a video lounge with a cafe area directly above it, and storage space for 2 bikes. He spent lots of time finding small, high quality things like the faucets. I love how every inch of space is used and nothing was wasted. Steve found a bureau that fit to a 1/8 inch, so he bought it. Very cool
8:28 PM
The Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore has an infinity pool on the top deck which is cantilevered across 3 55-story towers. People in the middle ages would’ve been like, “We told you it was flat.”
8:09 PM
The Washington Hotel in Akihabara, Tokyo has a room that caters to train otaku. The room has an L-shaped train set that guests can play with, and it has detailed replicas of Akiba and the Tokyo Tower. Pretty cool, but for an authentic experience the hotel should’ve chosen one of the rooms next to the train tracks so guests can listen to the Shinkansen fly by every 15 minutes.
10:03 PM
The Alamo Drafthouse and Levi’s present the 2010 Rolling Roadshow, free screenings of movies at locations they take place in. Jackie Brown at the Del Amo mall in Torrance, The Blues Brothers at Old Joliet Prison in Illinois. Cool poster artwork too.
11:16 AM
A man disguised as Darth Vader robbed a Chase bank in Setauket, Long Island
Be on the lookout for Darth Vader, with a gun.
That’s what police in Long Island are saying after a man robbed a Setauket bank Thursday morning dressed as the Star Wars character.
Awesome. If I ever needed a disguise to rob a bank, Darth Vader is the way to go. Except I’d wear matching pants.
2:58 PM
Awesome Big Lebowski tribute posters. The limited edition prints are available in 3 sizes. They’re made by the same guy who made those minimalist Quentin Tarantino posters a few months ago.
4:12 PM
This neat graph shows which actor voiced which characters on the Simpsons.
[ From Coudal Partners ]
11:41 AM
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition was just released and it’s available on pretty much everything (PC, Xbox, PS3, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch). I love the new hand-drawn graphics.
And to celebrate the release, 10 Things you did not know about Monkey Island
10:28 PM
Austrian woman gets wrong leg amputated
The patient, who suffered from vascular disease, was meant to have her leg amputated below the hip and went in for the operation on June 16.
After doctors realised they had removed her healthy leg, the elderly woman finally had the correct limb amputated in a second operation a few days later, reports said.
Good news grandma, you won’t have to walk with crutches. The bad news is…
[ From Boing Boing ]
9:11 PM
The military’s developed a hook called RAPS – Remote Auxiliary Power System (the military loves their acronyms) that taps into powerlines to recharge equipment. A soldier is supposed to throw the hook onto a powerline, then a little blade cuts through the insulation to touch the metal, and a transformer converts the AC power to DC. The most important thing to remember is that you have to be going exactly 88 miles per hour when the hook touches the powerline to activate the flux capacitor when the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity hits it.
5:06 PM
I’ve been obsessed with the Kowloon Walled City ever since I saw the book City of Darkness at the Giant Robot store and snapped up a copy. The Walled City was an incredibly dense, self-governed town outside of Hong Kong. The residents added-on and expanded the city where necessary, so it seemed to organically grow and sprout. The city was demolished in 1993 but there’s a German documentary from 1989 showing life in the city: part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4.
5:46 PM
This guy modded an iPad to use Verizon instead of AT&T. He took apart a MiFi and managed to stuff it inside an iPad, so now he doesn’t need to carry around two separate devices, plus his iPad is a wireless hotspot now. Pretty cool. Personally I’d be afraid to take electronic components apart and start soldering stuff together.
2:09 PM
This series of pictures shows the evolution of the Shanghai skyline between 1990 and 2010, specifically the Pudong area on the other side of the Huangpu river. Incredible. When I first visited in 2003 all I could see on the way in from the airport was a forest of construction cranes.
7:52 PM
Compton neighbors grew wary of accused killer
Lt. Liam Gallagher, of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department homicide bureau, said Mireya’s mother called about 7:20 a.m. Sunday to report Mireya missing. Deputies found her in the closet.
Lt. Liam Gallagher? So that’s what he’s been doing since Oasis broke up.
