Guimp is "the world's smallest website" where classic video-games like Pac Man and Sapce Invaders are reinvented at 18 pixel x 18 pixel scale, in tiny little Flash boxes. These… Read the rest of the article: Classic video games recreated as 18-pixel squares

Web Design from Scratch has run a design roundup of several of today's cleanest, best-designed websites, and then analyzed them in depth to explain what characteristics they all share. *… Read the rest of the article: Shared traits of great contemporary web design

Gizmodo has posted the winners of an hilarious competiton to remix the sounds of a hard-drive dying into a song. Some of the runners-up rapped or sang, but the winner,… Read the rest of the article: Songs mixed from the sounds of dying hard-drives

Target Australia has a tutorial on neatly folding elasticated fitted sheets, something that's always stumped me: Step 1 Hold the sheet inside out, by its two adjacent corners on one… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO fold a fitted sheet

Kids at a Florida elementary school refused to sell candy to raise money for a field trip, having just completed an educational unit on health and well-being. The widow of… Read the rest of the article: Kids refuse to sell candy after completing health unit

The Anagram London Underground Map re-labels all of London's tube-stations with anagrams of their names — Goodge Street becomes "Edge Grottoes" and Old Street is "Eldest Rot," Oxford Circus is… Read the rest of the article: Tube map re-labelled with anagrams of station names

Dan Howland of The Journal of Ride Theory built a cardboard model of the Disneyland castle, then finished it off with a squadron of riot cops, recreating a famous photo… Read the rest of the article: Disneyland model recreates Yippie invasion of 1970

Popular music gets that way because we're social animals who follow the leads of influential people and/or the crowd, liking what others like because they like it. A research project… Read the rest of the article: Our music preferences are driven by the crowd as much as taste

The "Li'l Raskals Lookout" is a $5,600 6'x8' prefab kids' treehouse/clubhouse, themed with weathered wood and charmingly misspelled words intended to make it look like something cunningly built by Depression-era… Read the rest of the article: Posh kids' clubhouse themed to look like a Li'l Raskals' treehouse

The Canadian Red Cross, having eliminated all pain and suffering in Canada, has set its sights on video games that use red crosses to denote in-game health-packs. They've sent lawyer-letters… Read the rest of the article: Canadian Red Cross wastes its money harassing video game makers

Nic sez, "Interviewed for BBC website, Lavinia Carey, head of the British Video Association suggests that their research indiciates that people who download films illegally, pay to see as many… Read the rest of the article: Head of British Vid Assoc: Piracy doesn't hurt DVD sales

The Orange County Register has an interactive tour of Walt Disney's private apartment overlooking Disneyland's Main Street, USA. The tour is fascinating, not least for the vicarious thrill of the… Read the rest of the article: Walt Disney's private Disneyland apartment tour

Michael Geist notes that countries around the world are starting to rebel against the extreme, unbalanced copyright laws that the entertainment industry has won for itself, and suggests that Canada… Read the rest of the article: Countries around the world rebelling against extreme copyright

As a follow-on to the mosaics of Web 2.0 logos and favicons, here's a collection of "Web 1.0 logos": web-site badges from an earlier age of the Internet. Link (Thanks,… Read the rest of the article: Web 1.0 logo-mosaic

The National Archives of Japan is hosting a collection of duck-and-cover civil defense posters from WWII. The scans are very high-resolution — what fun you could have with these as… Read the rest of the article: Japanese WWII duck-and-cover posters

This "Tablebed" is a Murphy-bed that hides both a dining-room table for four and a bed (twin-size to king-size) inside its guts. I love stuff made for cramped apartment living… Read the rest of the article: Tablebed – cabinet converts to a table AND a bed

Video Bomb is a new video- playlist- publishing tool from Participatory Culture Foundation, the same people who brought you the brilliant DTV Internet video client. Video Bomb lets you grab… Read the rest of the article: Video Bomb: social video-channel publisher and discovery tool

AOL/Yahoo's plan to tax email will be a disaster for free speech. Last week I blogged about AOL and Yahoo's plan to employ Goodmail's email-taxing service, which charges mail-senders a… Read the rest of the article: How Yahoo/AOL's email tax will hurt free speech

An appeal to Sony's DRM class-action settlement may make it possible for individuals to sue Sony for damages over and above those set out in the agreement. Since last Oct… Read the rest of the article: Court asked to overturn Sony's DRM class-action settlement

Marc Steigler's fascinating new paper "An Introduction to Petname Systems" tries to explain a system for making secure, memorable, and global identifiers for use on the Internet. Our present inability… Read the rest of the article: Fascinating solution to the hard problem of naming stuff online