"This collection captures findings of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces and design flows from across the web."

WHEN I went to collect my newly minted American passport, I discovered that it came with a radically altered design that included sheaves of wheat, the rather large head of a bald eagle plus the flag wrapped around my picture. And that was just one page.

flight404's magnetosphere coming to iTunes !

• der zyklus + ultradyne

Simple, small, ugly silly stupid game, but the ai/physics makes it hilarious. Should be renamed to Drunk Sumotori, because they're so clumsy :p

maker of the Head, wearable sculpture

PUPPY HELMET, POPCORN EYEGLASSES, PEANUT-BUTTER MONKEY

ACID TEST III, CLARINET RAMROD, BIG SQUIRT, BURNING CANDY, HOT CHOCOLATE, HIP POCKET... after all, tom clancy's titles could be worse :p

"The internal watch is encased in leather, rendering it a non-functional timepiece."

"In the game, players “must save the planet from evil ships that have captured the ancient text of Romeo and Juliet,” and must, over the course of the game, answer questions about Shakespeare's literature." is that a joke ?? :D

the best postcards ever

a blog on retrofuturism !

(it's also the date format used in firefox bookmarks, so it can be useful to search a bookmark by date)

"Google Finance is one of the rather rare Google apps which makes use of Flash. I’m curious, at Google what considerations go into deciding whether to go for Flash or DHTML/ Ajax/ browser vector languages like SVG?"

"Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare"

french slang for beginners ;)

"Video frames printed onto transparency film
and cut down to Super 8 or 16mm film dimensions"

"doodling with a typewriter gives vent to the imagination and originality of both the experienced and the hunt-and-peck typist. (...) An example is shown in the flower which is made with the letter X alone."

"ASCII art had been originally developed in the late 1960s, by computer-art pioneer Kenneth Knowlton, who was working for Bell Labs at the time."

building an aftermarket Rez vibrator

the idea is to have a free sponsored parcel (ads on the skybox) - and only the most popular parcels can stay, the others are given to other people

"As a public librarian, I've seen a lot of books. Some covers are intriguing, some make me really want to read the book...these are the "other" covers."

"If, for instance, the subject's nose is slightly crooked — so slightly, in fact, that it escapes ordinary observation — the flaw is promptly detected by the instrument and corrective makeup is applied by an experienced operator."

: Incredible Retro-Futuristic Sci-Fi Instruments

"On the map, white dots represent individual blogs, sized according to number of links."