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Grow Your Own 1UP Mushroom

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:29:03 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: The packet claims that eating the 1up Mushroom will grant "immortal life beyond dreams of man." It also has the warning: Do not put in face. To be honest, we haven't gotten up the courage to eat one yet.

Clip Source: www.thinkgeek.com

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Deep in the basement of an ancient house in Sonobe (tucked in the fields of Kyoto, Japan), an amazing discovery has been made: real 1up Mushrooms. We know this sounds unbelievable, and we laughed when we were contacted by an exporter about them two months ago. But then we were sent a sample, and that's when our lives changed forever.

The instructions are pretty simple. All you do is add potting soil to the green sewer-pipe-shaped flower pot, and push the spores deep into it. Soak the soil with water using the dropper, add a squirt of the food solution, and then it's off to a dark location for a few weeks. We left ours in the darkest corner of our server room, and broke out our NES to relive some classic Mario memories. Three weeks later, we checked in on it. To our surprise, what you see in the photo above is what greeted us - a perfect 1up mushroom. Thrilled, we jumped up in the air, punched the ceiling tiles (earning 10 coins), and instantly bought the entire stock of them to offer to you, our friends.

The packet claims that eating the 1up Mushroom will grant "immortal life beyond dreams of man." It also has the warning: Do not put in face. To be honest, we haven't gotten up the courage to eat one yet. We have, however, sent one to the Smithsonian Institution and another to the National Institutes of Health for study. So far, everyone we show it to, especially the mycologists we know, have been very excited about this discovery. We sell them to you now, warn you not to eat them (yet!), and join us in crossing your fingers for the lab results. We'll post more as soon as we know.

Grow Your Own 1up Mushroom Kit Includes:

Green Pipe Planter
"Seed" packet (though, they are really spores)
Food solution bottle
Water dropper

Tags: design, fun, funny, good idea, great, humor, society, video game

Download, Sample, Cut-up, Share.

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:58:45 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks:

Sampling, Mashing, Sharing

This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

Remixers If you're into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample. All legal.

Podcasters, directors and music lovers If you're into music, browse this site to hear some of the great remixes people have built from sampling music on this site, all licensed for use under Creative Commons license.

Clip Source: ccmixter.org

Welcome to ccMixter

Sampling, Mashing, Sharing

This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

Remixers If you're into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample. All legal.

Podcasters, directors and music lovers If you're into music, browse this site to hear some of the great remixes people have built from sampling music on this site, all licensed for use under Creative Commons license.

Fort Minor Contest Winner!

Congratulations to marc kaschke our Fort Minor Remix Contest Grand Prize Winner for his remix "Remember the Name (Kaschke & Mauer Remix)"

marc will be awarded a new Technics SL-1200MK5 turntable, courtesy of Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings.

More information about the Fort Minor contest...

ccMixter has teamed up with the freesound project to share information about freesound's 20,000 samples and track remixes across the two sites. It's all part of the Creative Commons Sample Pool and therefore available to all remixers, safe, legal and sane.

Check out our freesound support, new sample packs and the new samples browser that makes it easy to find all the CC licensed samples by the Beastie Boys, Fort Minor, Chuck D., My Morning Jacket, Theivery Corp., DJ Dolores and Cibelle and hundreds more...

All about samples at ccMixter...

Crammed Discs

Crammed Discs artists Cibelle, DJ Dolores, and Apollo Nove are offering some of their new music under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license, so that producers worldwide can use the tracks in remixes and new compositions. Nine winning remixes will appear on a Crammed/ccMixter remix compilation, to be sold online through digital music stores.

More information about the Crammed Discs contest...

Tags: music, production, fun, great, good idea, share, download, artist

Thomas Allen cuts up old pulp fiction novels

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:10:38 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: Artist Thomas Allen cuts up old pulp fiction novels creating intriguing puns and unexpected narratives.

Clip Source: www.foleygallery.com

Tags: art, design, interesting, good idea, radical

Google + Firefox = Free Music

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:01:35 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: There’s a lot you can do with Google if you can take advantage of it’s advanced search features. Expanding on this tip which shows you how to find music in open directories, here’s a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use Firefox Smart Keyword searches to speed up the process.

Clip Source: www.friedbeef.com

Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

Posted by James Yeang
October 17, 2006

Firefox, Google, lifehacks, music, smart+keywords, Useful Tips

There’s a lot you can do with Google if you can take advantage of it’s advanced search features. Expanding on this tip which shows you how to find music in open directories, here’s a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use Firefox Smart Keyword searches to speed up the process.

All you need to do is:

Create a bookmark in Firefox
Use the URLs in this text file as the bookmark location in your Firefox bookmarks (like in the pic above)
Assign a keyword to it - eg. music
Type the keyword (eg. music) followed by the search term (eg. beatles) directly into the address bar (NOT the search box). For example… type in music beatles , and Google will search open directories for Beatles music files that you can download.

You can modify the code in the text file to change file extensions, which opens a whole window for you. For example, you can even change it to PDF and DOC to look to e-books, or AVI and MPG to look for movies.

By the way, I’m assuming you already own the media you will be downloading :)

Bonus Tips:

The feature above only works for Firefox. If you’re NOT on Firefox yet, try it now
If you want to create basic smart keywords to search any web page, here’s how.
Here’s a useful advanced features cheat sheet from Google
If you don’t find the files on Google, you can try the best bittorrent search engine ever.

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Tags: internet, music, digital, good idea, google, firefox

MAKE magazine: tech on your time

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:51:36 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: The first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages.

Clip Source: makezine.com

Volume 07: Backyard Biology

Tags: academics, design, good idea

FOOD NOT BOMBS- COOK FOR PEACE

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:48:41 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest growing revolutionary movements and is gaining momentum throughout the world. There are hundreds of autonomous chapters sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty. Food Not Bombs is not a charity. This energetic grassroots movement is active throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Food Not Bombs is organizing for peace and an end to the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. For over 25 years the movement has worked to end hunger and has supported actions to stop the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people, end exploitation and the destruction of the earth.

Clip Source: www.foodnotbombs.net

COOK FOR PEACE

Tags: community, activism, good cause, good idea, radical, statement

Moose: The Dirt Graffiti Artist

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:57:06 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: This is the most genius public art idea I have seen in quite a long time!

Clip Source: www.caffeinemarketing.com

Moose The Dirt Graffiti Artist of Britian

Moose, aka, Paul Curtis is widely known in Britian as being a graffiti artist by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels. Companies are starting to even pay him to sculpt dirt advertisements. Moose told NPR news that he got the idea “when he saw that people had written their names with their fingers on dirty walls in his hometown of Leeds.” The artists tools? A shoe brush, water and a lil’ elbow grease. The police officers in Britian have no idea whether to arrest him or to applaud him for cleaning up the streets. Add to Onlywire

Tags: art, public art, good idea, design, interesting, mass media

National Emo Kid Beatdown Day

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:38:46 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: HA! Oh emo kids... how we loathe you and your shitty music.

Clip Source: www.nationalemokidbeatdownday.com

Tags: funny, good idea, insane, internet, radical, scandal, philly

Group Hug

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:13:15 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: I'm addicted to this site.

Clip Source: grouphug.us

i am in love with my best friend. he is the sweetest guy (i'm a girl). but it doesn't stop with him, i really like my other really close guy friend. i would tell them, but it would ruin our friendships. i wish we all weren't christains or i'd fuck them both.

my hubby and i seperated a year ago because i was cheating on him and never told him. we got back together and now the man i cheated with wants me back and said he loves me, and i'm thinking about going back with him. i feel awful and don't want to hurt my hubby again.

I just finished watching Bridget Jones's Diary for the 2nd time. I'm a 27 year old guy, and I really liked it...and I can't wait to see the sequel.

2 years ago I lost my virginity to a one night stand. To make matters worse, he was way older than me and not that good looking. I wish I could take back what I did so that I could have saved myself for a very special guy.

Had I had a gun, I would likely have shot myself the other week. Depression is an odd state. I appreciate the good times as well as the bad, and that the when the good is really good it makes up for the bad being really bad.

Tags: funny, insane, good idea, psychology, scandal

IREEPRESSUBLE.INFO

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:18:23 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: This is the essnece of the internet - information should be free.

Clip Source: irrepressible.info

Irrepressible Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control.

Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.

The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.

Amnesty International, with the support of The Observer, is launching a campaign to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress.

Find out more about this campaign

Be irrepressible

Sign our pledge on Internet freedom to call on all governments and companies to ensure the Internet is a force for political freedom, not repression.
Take action to free Shi Tao. Write to the Chinese authorities and Yahoo to urge the release of journalist Shi Tao, serving 10 years in prison for sending an email to a pro-democracy website.
Undermine censorship by publishing irrepressible fragments of censored material on your own site. The more people take part, the more we can defeat unwarranted censorship and create an unstoppable network of protest.

Tags: action, academics, big business, good idea, internet, mass media, political, progressive, propaganda

KAIJU Big Battel

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:24:41 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: I saw these guys here in Philly before. They are awesome!

Clip Source: www.kaiju.com

Mayhem! Murder!
Kaiju Big Battel!

This past weekend's Anime Boston 2006 Big Battel has shaken Kaiju to its core! Dr. Cube lost the Championship Belt to Soup; Uchu Chu defied his ban and crashed Cube's match; and an apparently brainwashed Silver Potato defected to Dr. Cube's Posse and killed legendary Hero Pablo Plantain as the gathered Anime Con masses cried out in horror! A complete commentary and live event highlight reel are on the way. Until then, here is a quick recap of Kaiju Big Battel: Someone Must Die!

Tags: funny, insane, good idea

Personality and Typography

Wed, 31 May 2006 17:20:41 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: Interesting essay on the correlation between font choices and personality.

Clip Source: psychology.wichita.edu

Perception of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses

Tags: design, expirement, good idea, psychology

POSTSECRET picks for the week

Tue, 30 May 2006 14:05:08 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: I used to wonder what those silica packets tasted like too.

Clip Source: postsecret.blogspot.com

Tags: art, art projects, funny, good idea, psychology

New WHEREISMYPOT? merchandise

Tue, 23 May 2006 16:51:08 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: New Tees, thongs and an album by Benjamin Oaks

Clip Source: www.cafepress.com

ANAHATA (Audio CD)
$7.00

WHEREISMYPOT? White T-Shirt
$15.00

PROFANE.US Classic Thong
$10.00

Tags: funny, good idea, guerilla marketing, internet, local, philadelphia