Safe As Milk

…but this made me laugh.

Stealth Armor! Hah!

It’s part of NOWhere Limited’s ‘nonpariel’ sculpture show that opens this weekend.

I can identify with that.

You can find a bigger version at his blog.

[]via beaucoupkevin]

Altru has a lot of the generic ‘weathered logo’ tees, but these vintage Olympic Logo tees are pretty sharp (if wildly over priced at $34). I especially like the 1964 Tokyo and the 1980 Moscow.

And this cycle group tee is cool, too.

On the other hand, i could go my whole life without seeing those ‘84 Los Angeles designs again. I hated them as a kid and I hate them today.

This awesome story in the NYT about an architect who built a mystery into his renovation of an NYC apartment. It’s a longish read (and it’s a Kottke link so you’ve probably already read it) but it’s just too damn neat not to share.

THINGS are not as they seem in the 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue…They are living in a typical habitat for the sort of New Yorkers they appear to be: an enormous ’20s-era co-op with Central Park views…But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough, whose ideas about space and domestic living derive more from Buckminster Fuller than Peter Marino.

I do love these photos from outer space. NASA is ruling schools these days. Details on the photo here.

Harvey Korman died.

damn.

Just an fyi, I’m having some screws put into my 3rd metacarpal to help a break heal.

Typing one-handed stinks but it’s where I will be for a while.

**5/14 update**
All went well yesterday. It was a longer-than-expected fracture so it took 4 screws to hold in place. It hurts like hell but at least I’m finally on the road to recovery. Thanks for the well-wishes.

I am in the fits-and-starts stages of installing ubuntu Linux on our old Dell laptop. There are some video settings I need to tinker with and I then I will have to work through getting the correct wireless settings (read: headaches), but overall I am excited at the low-end geekiness of this project.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Linux, specifically Ubuntu, and came across a good “layman’s take” on the newest Ubuntu release, version 8.04 (the Hardy Heron). I kinda love how the releases have names as well as version numbers.

In “The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment” the guy installs Hardy Heron on a computer and asks his girlfriend to perform a series of tasks without any of his help. It’s a good read.

…working for the city.

Great news for him. Here’s to hoping he can affect some of the change he wants to see.