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Saturday, July 12, 2008

How to Make Spaghetti



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How to Make Spaghetti

"Making Pasta Faster!" (using some really improbable objects).
Written and directed by PES.



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Today's pictures & links:
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This guy ends up everywhere... in a strangest way possible

Creations of Chinese photographer Li Wei - these shots are sure to astound anyone:




... getting ready for the Olympics, perhaps?

This one is similar, but not a Photoshop in any way:



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Industrial Night Lights

David Sommars makes some impressive night shots of spooky industrial areas:



(images credit: David Sommars)

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Ray Guns from Hand Blown Glass

Jeff Burnette from Joe Blow Glassworks in Vancouver, Canada likes to create hand blown colored glass ray gun concepts:



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Intensity




(originals unknown)

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I like this urban ad



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Mixed fresh links for today:

Richest people & how they made their fortunes - [fascinating]
Another neat futurist illustrator - [art]
Fascinating Bird's Eye Views of Florida - [photos]
Mail the whole building... brick by brick - [weird]
Creative Recycled Art & Architecture - [art & design]
Unique Lobsters - [weird pics]
Driving while... doing everything else - [wow video]
One Lucky Guy - [wow video]
Reality Shows: Not here to make friends! - [fun video]

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Surreal Seaside

"New Brow" (The Rise of Underground Art) exhibition in Seaside, California, contains the whimsical works by Eric Joyner: "Destination Desolation" and "Summer" -



Good addition to our "Surreal Art" gallery. Another very cool exhibition in California, fragment of the poster - click to see the whole image:



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Wicked PC Mod on eBay

As a follow-up to our "Computer Modding" article, we received news that the very rad Batmobile PC mod is currently being sold on eBay: more info and eBay listing - just in time for the release of "The Dark Knight":


(image credit: Rig of the Month)

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Very Disturbing Spiders

Don't say we did not warn you... ha ha.


(original unknown)





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Very Efficient Christian Warrior

Weird toy, spotted in Japan. Good addition to our "Strangest Christian Products" collection:



Good to wage war against these spiders....

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Ugly Machinery

Next entry in our "Ugly Machinery" collection: some old A/C units photo, sent in by Allan Dowdeswell -



Another (ever so slightly cool, regardless of how ugly it is):



Here is how it works (video), sent by Kaarel Jänes.

Keep sending in the most obnoxious mechanisms.

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Bavarian Ravers



Whatever the explanation for this picture, I'm sure it's complicated.
Update: this is traditional Bavarian dance called "Schuhplattln" - see a variation of it here.

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Blogger Anna said...

About "Bavarian Ravers"

It is not complicated. The dance is called the "Schuhplattler" and tells a story of fighting which resolves at the end in happiness when the women enter the dance.

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Anonymous peter said...

Re: spaghetti

Welcome to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

http://www.venganza.org/

ROFLCOPTER

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Blogger alvarhillo said...

You can see it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBPA4ApF-J4
Its really freak.

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Blogger Robyn McIntyre said...

You have the neatest stuff.

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  • Heh... only saw one Mac... the pyramid with the blue neon. The monitor is one of the old CRT Studio displays. It's probably an old G4.
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  • Blogger BrianDeuelDotCom said...
    Heh... only saw one Mac... the pyramid with the blue neon. The monitor is one of the old CRT Studio displays. It's probably an old G4.



    soooooooooo what??????? its cool :D
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  • oh very superb where can i get this they are out of this world
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  • Temple of Nod case is awesome
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  • Re: Hackers?

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/szl/2652826258/

    he he
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  • Thats not an "Akira shaped bike". Akira's bike is a recumbent with a windscreen.
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  • The “ugliest piece of machinery” on a picture is not a machine but a Russian military field kitchen. Although it looks like it has been cooking some tar lately…
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  • Yikes! the one with the horse scary. It's obvious the horse fell in. Hope they got 'em out
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  • wow...it is stunning.
    Good shots too.
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  • O_O I didn't know fog could do that!
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  • Re: Presto

    WALL-E - FINAL Trailer TRUE-HD

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC86heBo0d4

    I saw a new YouTube feature here, under the playing of this video. Suddenly a small window was popuped that says -> "Click here for this Music Track" oopps

    There is everebody who saw this ?

    Re: Interview with Avi Abrams

    Cool man thanks :-)
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  • Re: Paper shampoo

    Cheese paper

    LOL
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  • This brings back many memories. Born and raised in the town of Malmoe I am. Seen this crane for some 35 years of my life. I don't miss it. Yes, it was most impressive and a highly visibly landmark. You cannot however linger in sentimetnality. We got new landmaks now since we got rid of this ugly monster of a crane. Calatrava's Turning Torso would be the most well known of these.
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  • Proud to see a Singapore vessel, the Asian Hercules, helped in the operation.
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  • Has anybody noticed the small crane on top of the upper plate of the huge crane being dismantled? I only noticed it when i checked it the second time XD. Awesome!!!
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  • The picture of the wine with the corkscrewers comes from an ad from Finca La Linda, an argentine wine maker.
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  • the romanian cemetery was in the Michael palin series on the BBC. i think it is called the happy cemetery?
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  • Is that really a picture of a woman being hit by a car on one of those tombstones?

    Loved the Google image search idea BTW... I predict this will be a huge meme soon!
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  • It's a shame that so many of the faces have been damaged [injuried]...
    Think they look beautiful really.
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  • I concur. So many torn legs/antennae! Kind of painful to look at.
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  • oh god! I saw one of those house centepedes in a house in Iowa years ago and was terrified. It looks like something out of the rainforest!
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  • Very interesting article!

    Feel free to read my ugliest looking animals at

    http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Zoology/20-Weirdest-and-Ugliest-Looking-Animals-on-Earth.154635

    or visit my author page at:

    http://www.triond.com/users/CHAN+LEE+PENG

    Thanks.
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  • Who keeps breaking the antennae off those bugs?
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  • I think that the "mystery device" is a canine powered respirator. First thing I noticed was the tube into the trachea of the lady sitting in the chair: I suspect that the running motion of the hound on the treadmill causes the pump on its back to move, thus working the respirator.
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  • Re: Translucent Creatures

    Deep under the sea ->

    http://www.freeweb.hu/tarrdaniel/images/hydrozoa.htm
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  • The telephone on the guys back is an ex-Soviet military device, this was and should be carried in a knapsack and was used in case of an urban emergency, like a street fight with rebels, the army would get into a civilians home, wire the device to the telephone lines and call in back up from HQ.

    This method was abandoned in the early 80's for use of radio equipment.
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  • But the dog isn't on a treadmill! Weird.
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  • that mystery device is a copy of an old child's toy. It had a small wooden ball hanging down that, when swung in a flat circle the dog would lean forward and the rabbit in turn goes further forward.
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  • Heh. Warren Ellis' "Planetary" series strikes again.
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  • What a bunch of BS.
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  • what a crock
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  • >> "Learning to stop thinking in
    >> only three dimensions may be our
    >> biggest ongoing challenge"

    Not for me; I've always thought in 4 dimensions. If I left out Time, I'd be a statue.
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  • 'Tarded.
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  • This is Hinduism and Wicca glossed over with Matrix-esque techno-blather. This is bogus at best and evil at worst.
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  • whether or not the hackuracy of the post is all it's hacked up to be, the art is gorgeous.
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  • It's probably easier to just do drugs.
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  • This thing was started here for me ->

    hacker manifesto
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  • Rational arguments for irrationality are always more compelling than irrational arguments for irrationality. This article is among the latter. Read some psychology, and you'll get a better picture what's being expressed here.

    Our natural feelings/reactions to situations do provide beneficial outcomes. Its a shorcut way of our brains dealing with situations we dont have time to think about. Its not spiritual at all.
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  • Reality is made of compressed information, therefore (they say) it's like a computer and it can be hacked?

    That does not follow. You might as well conclude that a cow is full of milk, therefore a cow is like a coffee machine and it can produce espresso.

    I'm also leery of their description of "the brain's death grip on physical reality". Most of the people I know have only a loose grip on reality. Some of them are away with the fairies, and if you hacked reality they'd hardly notice.
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  • This was beyond geeky :s
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  • This is a first for Dark Roasted Blend - a bad post. Not much more than new age spiritual mumbo jumbo combined with science-y sounding buzzwords. I surely hope this was a joke! How much ya wanna bet that behind that very skinny Reality Hacker website frontend is a pitch for sending them money, probably for 'secret methods' and such.

    It was all worth reading though just for David Byrden's Cow/Coffee Machine analogy. That was just awesome!
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  • Here's a link to the hidden site for Reality Hacker. It's pretty sad.

    For a good laugh, take a look at the HTML source for that page. It's got hundreds of unnecessary nested font tags. Must have been from a hyper-dimensional vibration in the quantum matrix causing a glitch in the reality hackstack.
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  • Don't take it too seriously, folks. These are just means to shake things up a little :)
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  • I have a PhD in psychology and this *is* a crock. If a spotty undergraduate came up with it I'd giove it a C at best.
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  • "you can mix hard science and ancient spirituality with comic books and video games to make something happen."

    Yup, I call it 'my life'. Science, religion, comic books, video games... Wheeee!

    I think this post needs a follow-up post dedicated to Happy Mutants, the culture hackers. (And as culture is made up of information, it is 'hackable', either for information or for malice.)
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  • I'd have to agree that this was the worst post that I have ever seen on Dark Roasted Blend... But I won't fault you... Hitting home runs 99.99999% of the time is perfectly OK by me :D
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  • The fact that a psych PhD felt this was worth a "C" exposes more about psychology than the article...
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  • I hack reality all the time, it's called Psychedelic drugs: LSD, Psylocibin, DMT
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  • "Avi Abrams said...

    Don't take it too seriously, folks. These are just means to shake things up a little :)"

    Avi, why do you feel the need to defend your entries/articles? It's your blog, isn't it?
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  • All in good fun, Commander. Comments were getting nasty toward the hacker girl.
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  • my english is'nt so good:

    But i did understand.
    You never be able to Hack reality but Your Brain... All senses ar illusions of your brain and iff you think you feel somthing it is an imagination.

    So iff you hack your brain, you can manipulate the illusion of senses.
    "Your" reality is changing but only yours. and sometimes you get lost.

    This act can be assisted of druguse.
    Or insanity...

    Good luck in hacking.

    Reg. Pillum
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  • actually, its abra kadabra

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abra_Kadabra_(comics)

    that melded science and magic.
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  • As an epileptic, I can assure you all that reality has some thin spots.
    The natural reaction to these events is to run the other way, or to hang on for dear life in hope of maintaining things long enough to get to a safe place.
    The brain is very soft.
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  • You guy have obviously never done any serious meditation or read very much into some deep hardcore buddhism ancient hinduism, physics philosophy, any other medium that questions our rather strong grip on reality. That and and you seem to be missing the point about using ideas from every medium to explore our own reality, or lack there of.

    Buddha would have been considered insane by a lot of people in his time if it weren't for his incredible common sense intelligence. He believed in life on other planets before people believed there were other planets. He believed that everything was made up of sub-atomic particles that continually recreate themselves as science has only proven recently. He like Einstein believed that time is not linear. He believed that you shouldn't believe what anyone says and find things out for yourselves.

    I think that we can all agree that sci-fi and comics tend to bend ideas about reality further then almost any other medium and time and again their ideas are used with success within our reality framework. There are so many undiscovered secrets in our universe that have yet to be found yet you simply write off someones ideas as idiotic and move on just like others did to DiVince, Einstein, Jesus, Buddha anyone who didn't believe in the Catholic version of Christianity, countless tinkerers and experimenters throughout time. And no I'm not putting this chick on the same level and some of the great minds of our time only pointing out that she is trying to understand things in her own way and shouldn't be persecuted for it by some nerds spinning their psychology beanies calling her a wackjob while studying great people that were once called wackjobs themselves. Try reading some Jung, talk about some messed up stuff that works. I'm simply saying that lack of an open mind and thinking you know all the answers using only modern science and ideas only serves to leave you fighting for scraps of knowledge once the dust all settles.

    In short, get over yourselves. She may be barking up the wrong tree at times but I'm sure that if she's looking with honesty she'll see with honesty.

    One final note. You will never get there with drugs. They give you hints and point you in the right direction at times, but that direction will always be way more blurry then if you get there without.

    Namaste motherf$#@ers ;)
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  • Oh, where to start in all this crazy?

    Let's concede that this is slightly plausible; Loop quantum gravity posits something like a Penrose spin network at Plank scale, which is potentially hackable. This puts the "information density" of the universe at about 10^600 bits per square centimeter. The human brain seems capable of processing around 10^14 bits at any one time. If we ignore the huge 10^44 difference between human processing times and Plank time, then the amount of space a human brain could 'hack' is still vastly less than the size of a single proton, assuming the holographic principle.

    Hippies love quantum mechanics, until it shows precisely how wrong they are, at which point it's dismissed as an artifact of useless human logic.

    The universe has already come up with a perfectly amazing way of allowing you to move things around with your mind. It's called your "body".
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  • These "reality hackers" are putting themselves in great danger because they are opening themselves up to control by demons.

    Tikhon.
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  • Anonymous is very correct in his/her response. Bravo! In short though. The mind is just a lens of sorts. The world around you is filled with infinite possibilities. How ever small/opaque you allow your lens to be is your choice. But the visionary is the one that steps beyond the "hard sciences" and such to see into the beyond. The beyond being where previous people's lenses have yet to see. And for those hanging onto the logic of various sciences. Science just reflects the knowledge of the time in question. It evolves. So what seems true today may not be tomorrow with further discoveries. So it isn't wise to make the foundation of your argument in something that is in constant flux. Capiche?
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  • Right on!
    I'm a skeptical scientist and an Asperger who tends to fall outside of time, there have been great mornings when I've experienced 6 impossible things before breakfast.

    Conventional reality is a flimsy kludge. This woman is pointing intelligently at the gaps between our flashing neon signs. Her hints are right on.

    Many of you are right to run away.
    Self meta-programming is risky stuff, and you don't ever really recover.

    I'm glad I didn't... recover.

    Dogstoyevski
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  • the reality hacker site was the biggest bunch of bs ever. and it looked like the website had been put together in 10 minutes. the videos were pointless too.

    watch video 5. the onee where the origami is supposedly hovering in mid air: if you look closely, especially at the end when she takes her hand away, you can see its balancing on a tiny post, kinda like a tooth pick.

    also, the source code for the site, despite being the most basic site on the web is filled with completely unnecessary code, perhaps to make people think more effort was put into it than really was.
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  • about the 'floating oragami'. That video was not showing floating oragami. She was showing how the energy exuded from her palms could make the object spin, not hover. You need more background before you can point out more than a false flaw.
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  • This is the biggest peice of.....
    I've ever seen.

    honestly though, I do beleive it is possible to get your own mind to beleive you're "Hacking reality."

    But this lady is trying to make you beleive you actually can change reality, which is crap.

    By the way, if you'd be so kind,
    Take a look at my fractal and surreal art AVI, if you think it's good enough you might perhapse post it here on DRB (heh heh :)

    ok maybe not post it, but please take a look http://www.flickr.com/photos/professor_enigmas_incredible_fractal_gallery
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  • The beauty about this things is that no one can say for sure if its true or not. The curious thing about them is that everybody thinks that he or she has the truth. Human being, being of contradictions.
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  • Lisa Bruder is actually onto something. The problem is that she's too busy trying to make money to realize what she has in her hand.

    But like in the Matrix, "Nobody makes the first jump." Lisa Bruder needs to take a second leap and look again. Perhaps she will learn something. Anyone claiming a hold on reality manipulation who needs to sell to make money, is missing the boat.

    Neo learned he did not need to dodge bullets. He simply altered their existence and gave them a new behavior.

    Lisa Bruder doesn't know it yet, but that what reality hacking is really all about: Consciously and deliberately giving Reality a new behavior.
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  • Some fresh view on all of this - thank you, Modabid
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  • quote-jenjen:
    whether or not the hackuracy of the post is all it's hacked up to be, the art is gorgeous.

    ---------------------------------
    I agree with you completely.
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