(via MAKE)
Finally, humans can rest easy
Posted by Ben on August 17, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/finally-humans-can-rest-easy/
Weirdly addictive
ColorFlip Hedgehog Launch MKSR. I don’t know. This one might just be addictive for me.
Posted by Ben on August 13, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/weirdly-addictive/
And then there’s the unlucky 10%
“Consumer Reports Survey: More Than 90 Percent of Hagglers Scored Better Prices on Furniture, Electronics and Appliances, Medical Bills, and More.” (via Consumerist)
Posted by Ben on August 13, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/and-then-theres-the-unlucky-10/
I’ll have the veal birds with pine nuts
Airline menus through history (plus a steamship menu or two), at the Northwestern University Library Transportation Archives. (via ResearchBuzz)
Posted by Ben on August 9, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/ill-have-the-veal-birds-with-pine-nuts/
Life on Mars, rendered by Ukulele
(via Crooked Timber)
Posted by Ben on August 6, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/life-on-mars-rendered-by-ukulele/
What people ask when they can ask anything
Forget the Golden Gate Bridge and House of Nanking and Zeitgeist on a summer night — the heart of San Francisco beats loudest on the carpeted second floor of that South Van Ness building you thought was Bank of America. … “Thank you for calling San Francisco 311, this is Kyle speaking, how may I […]
Posted by Ben on August 6, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/what-people-ask-when-they-can-ask-anything/
Useful information, by any standard
No child should touch a gun or pistol, or on any account present one at another person. We behold a little boy shooting his sister dead! And: Here we see the danger of playing with lighted candles. One little girl has set the bed-curtains on fire, and the other her hair; and both are in […]
Posted by Ben on July 24, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/useful-information-by-any-standard/
Sheep are not meant to have six legs
…or are they? This is terrifying, but in a comical sense. (via BoingBoing Gadgets)
Posted by Ben on July 18, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/sheep-are-not-meant-to-have-six-legs/
I Am Legend
I’d always assumed the criteria were loose (at best), but I didn’t realize that the only necessary condition of stating that a movie is “Based On” the book is a cursory glance at the book’s cover and a $150 million budget. No, really; that’s it. And I know “the book” is traditionally supposed to be […]
Posted by Ben on July 15, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/i-am-legend/
This Is Not a Robbery
0. / 5. First of all / The End. The feeling in the pit of my stomach, working its uneasy way to my throat, wasn’t from some glance at mortality. Part of it may have been the terrible omelet I’d eaten for breakfast, but even that didn’t cover the entirety of the feeling. The feeling […]
Posted by Ben on July 13, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/this-is-not-a-robbery/