I made this one as a tribute to the brilliant work of jebni at antipopper, but you can make your own (via uber-coolhunter lorbus):

Speaking of antipopper, a recent post there takes us along on a fascinating wander through hobbyist production, consumer desire, and the politics of the boycott.

Via things magazine, I came across Bootleg Objects, which is an interesting project that questions the neat analog-retro vs. techno-futurist-digital divide. A 1970s Bang and Olufsen hi-fi repurposed as DVD player, a Technics turntable that doesn’t turn, displaying cutouts of vintage record covers instead. I like.

In the emerging tradition of weekend blogging, here is a post concerned exclusively with silliness.

You have to love Monty Python to get this – and if you don’t love Monty Python, then what, may I ask, is wrong with you? At iFilm you can watch the “knights of the roundtable” song-and-dance scene from The Holy Grail – the stop-motion LEGO version (an “official” Python release available on DVD/video from the usual places). Stills from other scenes are here. It’s been out since 2001, but better late than never, right?

I don’t know about you, but every time an attack of redesignitis has hit me, the initial euphoria of a fresh new layout has been quickly followed by hours of late-night panic as I try to repair whatever insults or injuries I have done to my style sheets. If your mental health is more important to you than DIY coding kudos, do yourself a favour (as Molly Meldrum would say) and pop over to inknoise’s layoutomatic page. Fill in a couple of fields, and there you go – 2 column or 3 column layouts all elegantly set up in a stylesheet for you. All you’ll have to do is play with the pretty colours.