hail to the thief preview | music

radiohead has put up four tracks and a music video from thier new album, hail to the thief, on thier website. hail to the thief will be release on june 10th in north america, oooooo i can't wait!

there there

einstein archives online | science

the einstein archives online website provides the first online access to albert einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the albert einstein archives at the hebrew university of jerusalem and to an extensive archival database, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era.

knowledge is limited

modern living | animation / play

modern living, by han hoogerbrugge who also created nails. the web is just wonderful.

avant-garde

toilet roll art | art

well.. read the topic.

isaac

content | quote

"be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything."

by aesop

fun and suffering? | quote

"most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise."

by george orwell

matrix preloaded | play

thank you for connecting to the matrix, please wait while we download your world..

tis' gonna take a while

up-in-smoke | art

the up-in-smoke cigar band museum is a non-commercial website presenting an online exhibition of antique cigar bands from the golden age of cigar advertising that flourished between the 1890s and 1920s. The cigars themselves long ago went up in smoke, but the bands are presented here for your viewing pleasure.

large bundle band

think clear | play

fido dido can read your mind..

really? not really

absence | quote

"absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

by francois de la rouchefoucauld

indifference | quote

"love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference."

by libbie fudim

wwwwwwwww.jodi.org | art

jodi, arts created by glitches, errors in html code, using the internet as an artistic medium, is a collaborative of artists joan heemskerk and dirk paesmans.

mistakes can be pretty?

long bets | play

the purpose of the long bets foundation is to improve long-term thinking. long bets is a public arena for enjoyably competitive predictions, of interest to society, with philanthropic money at stake..

place your bet here

humor | quote

"humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the worlds economy. one feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders."

by oscar w. firkins

roses | quote

"you can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."

by ziggy

flatter | quote

"the problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."

by albert einstein

mona lip-synch | play

pick your favorite mona lisa expression.

interactive mona lisa

flatter | quote

"it is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise."

by jean paul richter

trainspotting simulator | play

microtoss train spotting simulator brings the power and excitement of one of the world's most favorite hobbies to your pc, placing you in the role of a trainspotter with unprecedented realism, exciting real-world challenges, and the tools to recreate almost any trainspotting experience in the world.

play now!!!

klockwerks | design

roger wood creates with time in mind. yet even though the clock can be a consistent element of his work, it’s often secondary to its creation.

designing time

literature | quote

"literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

by gilbert keith chesterton

facts | quote

"get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish."

by mark twain

talent | quote

"the most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."

by nicholas chamfort

nails | animation / play

nails are short, interactive web animations. little stories about everyday life. the character in the animations is drawn after real life person. this is probably one of the best thing i've found on the web.. i can play this for hours.

we could be heros, just for one day.

doctored photo? freedom? | information

on april 9th 2003, the front page of the london evening standard contained a blurry image supposedly showing a throng of iraqis in baghdad celebrating the toppling of saddam hussein. what we are really looking at is an incredibly ham-fisted attempt at photo manipulation. it looks fake to me, the problem is, should they alter news photo? i thought they are supposed to show us the truth, not the altered truth.

what do you think?

talent | quote

"everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

by dustin hoffman

they made me do it | art

they made me do it, is a collective of artists emerging from the uk graffiti scene. the name was based on the cult film, donnie darko, directed by richard kelly. the project involved the whole collective in one place over one evening, with each artist producing a canvas in 6 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds which was inspired by the film. their first project title is suprisingly, also based around the movie donnie darko.

things aren't that simple

dream | quote

"anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butchers, the poets equal there."

by e. m. cioran

music | quote

"music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."

by ludwig von beethoven

gimp roulette | play

let's play the courage game!

who's the last man standing?

water bear? | weird

water bears, tardigrades, the latin term tardigrada meaning slow walkers, are extremely strange microscopic animals. though almost completely unknown to humans, but they can be found virtually everywhere. well.. this just doesn't sounds too real to me, what do you think?

a close look to a tardigrades

shakespeare: subject to change | literature

an interactive study of how the printing, editing and directing of his plays makes shakespeare's original works a subject to change.

shakespeare, the master of words

emotion | quote

"an ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts."

by john junor

electric swinging cat closet | fashion

what are the women wearing in the 60s?

i like her hair

machine | quote

"it's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to un-learn."

by isaac asimov