Infrared Tree Photography

January 17, 2009 at 2:24 am | In Eye Candy, Photography | Leave a Comment
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Post #2001: Ireneo’s Top 5%, Again

January 16, 2009 at 5:25 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Just under two years ago, I listed the fifty best links of my first thousand posts.  Here, now, are the best of the best from the second generation:

1. Knytt Stories: A free, extensible, and elegantly minimalist platforming game with rock-solid controls.

2. Gear’s Heart: A frankly astonishing piece of handiwork.  Just turn to crank to experience (and recover from) heartbreak.

3. Complexification: Proof that making software that makes art is itself art.

4. One Year In 40 Seconds: Soothing time-lapse photography/animation.

5. Catatumbo: The Everlasting Storm: In Venezuela, there is a storm that has raged every night for hundreds of years.

6. This. Fucking. Election.: We’ll remember the buzzwords far longer than we remember the scandals.

7. Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken: Chicken chicken chicken chicken.

8. 5 Card Nancy: Telling a story competitively and cooperatively.

9. The World Community Grid: Do the right thing.  Donate those clock cycles you aren’t using to charitable science.

10. And I Refuse To Forget: A short film about the power of love and the dangers of memory.

11. “Weightless” by Erika Janunger: A clever and stylish piece of media art.

12. How To Deconstruct Almost Anything: Why computer scientists probably shouldn’t take up literary criticism.

13. Cake Wrecks: The very best of the very worst of commercial cake making.

14. “Garbage Island” by VBS.TV: A raw and striking documentary about the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.”

15. The Light Blubs of Pieke Bergmans: Light fixtures in need of a diet.

16. Dean Kamen’s “Luke Arm”: The future of prosthetic arms.

17. Evolving Clocks: Proof that evolution is a blind watchmaker, provided the clocks can breed.

18. The Comedy of Victor Borge: Classic pieces by one of the all-time great musical comedians.

19. The Junior Science Club Musical Archive: The life’s work of the prolific Logan Whitehurst.

20. Portrait Of The Godfather Using The Hand-Drawn Script: A stunning combination of design and obsessive compulsion.

21. The Loudness War: How digital recording, instead of enriching popular music, is draining it of its essence.

22. Modern Hobo Code: How hobos find the best ATMs.

23. team9: Superlative music mashups from down under.

24. “The Ecstacy of Influence” by Jonathan Lethem: A thoughtful essay about the artistic merit of plagiarism.

25. Using Photographs To Enhance A Static Scene: New tools with which your eyes can be lied to.

26. The Hauntening: Short film showing what happens when the ghosts aren’t too bright.

27. Garfield Minus Garfield: Easily the most brilliant of the Garfield remixes on the net.

28. Keepon: The most adorable of all the robots.

29. How To: The Droste Effect: Escherize your photos.

30. Teach The Starlings: A mad quest to educate starlings about their origins.

31. “City of Shadows” by Alexey Titarenko: Haunting, eerie long-exposure photography.

32. The Reimagined Still-Life Paintings Of Jose Manuel Ballester: Imagine your favorite paintings with all the people removed.

33. Wordle: A powerful and intuitive new text visualization web application.

34. Principles of Economics, Translated: What economists really think about, behind the buzzwords.

35. The Disumbrationist Hoax: One man humiliated the art world by revealing that it will accept anything as genius.

36. Kids In Mind: Movie Ratings That Work: Forget G through NC-17.  This site has the best movie rating system you’ve ever seen.

37. Ladies of the Ages: Beauty through the generations.

38. The Wooden Mirror: Your reflection, in animatronic wood.

39. “My Paper Mind” by Javan Ivey: The baffling beauty of stratastencil animation.

40. Seven Deadly Glasses: The sins, as hilarious wine glasses.

41. “Always Outsiders, Never Outdone” by The Prodigy: A free album of solid remixed electronica.

42. Igudesman & Joo: Comedic chamber music, provided the chamber is a rubber room.

43. The Journey of Mankind: Our current best guess at human migration.

44. Books That Make You Dumb: See what kind of brains those who like the same books as you are sporting.

45. Lost Cities: Photographing the ruins of lost civilizations the world over.

46. How To Make A Crowd Without Extras: How to turn a car load of props and a couple of guys into an entire war.

47. Map of Humanity: All that we are, in geographic form.

48. Ambigram.Matic: If you’re looking for a site that generates ambigrams, look no further!

49. Beyond Red & Blue: Understanding America’s political landscape using subdivisions other than state lines.

50. Norwegian Recycling: A young kid with real talent for chopping & mashing music.

Little Big Star

January 16, 2009 at 4:40 am | In Education, Games, Gratis, Music, Software | Leave a Comment
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Tired of Rock Band/Guitar Hero and want to learn a real instrument?  Behold the next generation of rhythm game, now with extra Gratis.

Star Wars Retold (By Someone Who Hasn’t Seen It)

January 16, 2009 at 4:37 am | In Animation, Film, Humor, Mashup/Remix | Leave a Comment
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The Cadillac “World Thorium Fuel”

January 16, 2009 at 4:29 am | In FutureTech, Technology, Vehicles | Leave a Comment
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Freezebubbles

January 16, 2009 at 4:07 am | In Eye Candy, Photography | Leave a Comment
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An Interview With Dali

January 16, 2009 at 4:06 am | In Animation, Art, Drawing, Mashup/Remix, Painting | Leave a Comment
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The Little Engine That Could Kill

January 14, 2009 at 6:52 pm | In Games, Gratis, Literature | Leave a Comment
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A Tiling Database

January 14, 2009 at 6:50 pm | In Design, Reference, Webware | Leave a Comment
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Need some tiling patterns?  Or possibly hundreds of them?  Look no further!

“Jaydiohead” By Minty Fresh Beats

January 13, 2009 at 5:25 am | In Gratis, Mashup/Remix, Music | Leave a Comment
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Apophysis

January 13, 2009 at 1:12 am | In Eye Candy, Gratis, Mathematics, Software | Leave a Comment
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The Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism

January 12, 2009 at 5:02 am | In Biology, Philosophy, Religion, Science | Leave a Comment
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The Prisoner

January 12, 2009 at 5:00 am | In Gratis, Television | Leave a Comment
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“Marco Polo’s Travels” by Nora Sturges

January 12, 2009 at 4:58 am | In Art, Painting | Leave a Comment
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One Year In 40 Seconds

January 12, 2009 at 4:54 am | In Eye Candy, Photography | Leave a Comment
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Modern Hobo Code

January 12, 2009 at 4:53 am | In Humor | 1 Comment
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Knytt Stories

December 15, 2008 at 1:02 am | In Art, Games, Gratis, Software | 1 Comment
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Many things make Knytt Stories an absolutely excellent game.  It is critically acclaimed.  It is free.  You can make new levels, as many others have done.

Goblin Slayer

December 15, 2008 at 12:57 am | In Games, Gratis | Leave a Comment
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One dwarf.  Many goblins.  One treasure.  Occasionally, a troll.  A free board game you can download.

Complexification

December 15, 2008 at 12:54 am | In Art, CG, Eye Candy, Gratis, Software, Technology, Webware | Leave a Comment
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With stunning do-it-yourself procedural pieces like Substrate and Happy Place, there is little doubt that Complexification is a place where art and technology collide.

The Underground City of Derinkuyu

December 15, 2008 at 12:26 am | In Architecture, History | Leave a Comment
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The Sculptures of Greg Brotherton

December 15, 2008 at 12:24 am | In Art, FutureTech, Sculpture | Leave a Comment
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Epic Tales

December 11, 2008 at 7:13 pm | In Games, Photography | Leave a Comment
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5 Card Nancy

December 9, 2008 at 6:44 pm | In Comics, Games, Humor, Mashup/Remix | 1 Comment
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Building on the almost absurd minimalism of the comic strip Nancy, Scott McCloud proposes a free-form party game involving collective storytelling.  For those of you who dislike parties, perhaps you would enjoy the single-player version.

The ErockIT: Half Bicycle, Half Motorcycle

December 9, 2008 at 6:43 pm | In Technology, Vehicles | Leave a Comment
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It’s a user interface idea, really: Just pedal for speed.

Songbird

December 6, 2008 at 8:42 am | In Gratis, Software | Leave a Comment
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The Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 Nitro Express Magnum

December 6, 2008 at 8:39 am | In Weapons | 1 Comment
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The Futurist City of Gwanggyo

December 6, 2008 at 8:30 am | In Architecture, FutureTech | Leave a Comment
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The Thypott Art Galleries

December 6, 2008 at 8:27 am | In Art, Reference | Leave a Comment
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Kris Kuksi’s “Imminent Utopia”

November 23, 2008 at 10:04 am | In Art, Fantastic, Sculpture | Leave a Comment
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1001 Rules For My Unborn Son

November 23, 2008 at 10:02 am | In Reference | Leave a Comment
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One man, on a quest to convey hipness to his son before he grows too old to be hip, prepares a work for the ages.

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