Not what I’d call great art, but Ray Ceasar’s digital parodies are fantastic illustrations. Just twisted enough to be interesting, and drawn with the eye of a craftsman.

Just because something is incredibly silly, doesn’t mean it’s not a great idea.

This blog is running a series where a bunch of guests post up a song and tell you why you should listen to it. Keiron Gillen has chosen The Boiler by Rhoda & The Special AKA. He’s right, too. Everyone should listen to that song. Once.

Autocar Online have the first road test report on the Tesla Roadster. This Lotus-engineered electric sports car looks like a real kick up the arse for the traditional motor industry.

The Glasgow Herald reporting on one of our upcoming projects.

This is beautiful. Post-its layered up, one color per layer, darker beneath and lighter shades nearer the surface. As they’re used and taken away, the wall takes on a usage pattern. Amazing.

Videos of performances put together by Finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. The Birmingham Complaints Choir is a disappointment, but the Helsinki one is fantastic.

One of the guests/participants at an event run by my clients at Matthew Algie has posted a decent set of photos form the day. Gotta say, I think my logo for the event looks better embroidered than it ever did in print or onscreen.

The same guy blogged extensively about the day, including a very nice amateur review of our interior design for the new Tinderbox in Glasgow’s Merchant City.

Well, not quite tadpoles. Robot sea squirts, designed and built at Vassar College, NY. By simulating the mating process, evolution occurs, and they can study the development of the backbone.

A downloadable application for mobile phones, giving mobile access to Skype for a monthly subscription fee. Temporarily free, until they sort out their billing model. This is the app 3 are bundling with new phones in the UK next month.

Guardian report on exactly what the newly-introduced biometric passports are, how they work, and how easily their reporter was able to steal information from some examples.

The above Guardian article, with added commentary running through it from Wired’s Bruce Sterling.

Interesting lateral recycling thinking from Penn State University. Grind used tyres to a specific size of particulate, remove metal from the result and use to filter water.

This is one of the best pieces of advertising I’ve seen in years. Must have been damned hard to print though.

Pixel art and knitwear go together really well. Tactile pixels and all that. Fuzzy like an old CRT monitor, too. Here’s a range of scarves based on old-school videogames.

University of Vermont researchers have constructed a robotic system that can sense and recover from damage to its structure without prior programming.

The Smoking Gun website publish rider request lists from bands, just for laughs. This 18-page rant-of-consciousness from Iggy Pop’s tour manager is comedy gold.

A group of holidaymakers on their personal yacht managed to photograph a volcanic island rising up from the ocean right in front of them.

MIT research proposes that the phenomenon of resonance could be used to power electrical devices wirelessly,

Australian fibre technologists have ‘built’ a shirt which enables wearers to control a digital guitar through simple arm movements. One arm picks out the notes, the other strums the imaginary strings.