the night inside me

can't sleep, again. here's tonight's cool website roundup:

banksy is britain's "art terrorist" who tags walls in cities around the world with his socially-aware spraypainting. pretty stinking cool. before i realized it, i'd looked at the whole site, and 45 minutes had gone by. so now you've been warned. i don't know jack shit about the political or social climate of things, but some of the stuff he did on the barrier between bethlehem and jerusalem is really moving.

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the boombox museum. the more i spend these long nights idle, the more i realize i should be doing something creative with this time (or at least my laundry). i'm thinking a lot about kprs and exactly where i want to go with it. naturally, i start by thinking about a redesign. anyway, you can bet on seeing one or many of these bad-boy boomboxes pop up sooner or later...

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readymechs are "free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5″x11″ page and printed with any printer. You’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time." awesome! wish i had a printer. [via konardo, who also showed me the very first pac man skull]

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packetgarden also looks way cool. it grows a virtual "garden" based on the information your computer collects from and sends to different web servers when you use the internet, which you can then "explore." i haven't tried it yet, but there is a mac beta and if i can't sleep in the next hour, i'm going to start growing a goddamn jungle.

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probably from kanardo again, but at this point i've lost track: anticon - hooded sweatshirts for graffiti artists, ugly people, snowboarders, fetishists... or just superheroes. why not?

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and when the smokes and beer are gone and everywhere is closed, you have time to start thinking about the bigger picture: "the threat of a second nuclear age and the expected consequences of climate change push the doomsday clock closer to midnight." [taken from brusasco's blog earlier tonight, not in the mood to read it right now, might be too much for my crazy brain. but i know if i put it here, i'll narcissistically get around to it later.]

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actually, i just realized that almost all of these links are from kanardo's blog. shit.

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well, then, last and certainly not least, google toolbar. i couldn't tell you why i haven't installed this until now, other than that firefox does a pretty good job of being cool on its own. but i saw the link for it tonight and remembered that google has never done us wrong before, and figured what the hell. and of course, it does things uber cool, like translate every word you highlight into another language. amazing. hats off again, guys. how about you make an awesome JOB for me?