Month: December 2005

05/11/05 The Stinkymeat Project – The first day of Joel’s Blog.
05/12/05 Primate Programming
05/13/05 The Brick Testament
05/14/05 Anti-Dihydrogen Monoxide Coalition (ADMC)
05/14/05 Google Content Blocker
05/19/05 Elevator
05/22/05 Radioactive Boy Scout
05/24/05 Pimp my Ride – Pimp my Bride.
05/27/05 Prehistoric Shopping Cart
05/29/05 Giant Steps

06/02/05 Grocery Store Wars
06/04/05 Save the Rambler
06/08/05 The Hidden Words Stone
06/09/05 Heart of the Apple
06/20/05 Joie Chitwood
06/21/05 Iowa Pork
06/22/05 1957 Plymouth Belvedere
06/23/05 Lotus on eBay
06/24/05 Creep
06/30/05 Stubbies

07/07/05 Growth of a Nation
07/08/05 Museum of Depressionist Art
07/09/05 Gallery of the Unidentifiable
07/12/05 J-Walk Blog
07/19/05 Heavy Drinkers Guide to Iowa City
07/20/05 Banning 1324
07/20/05 Magic Makeover
07/21/05 World School Photographs
07/27/05 Bum Wines
07/28/05 B-Boy Junior a.k.a. Buana

08/01/05 The Dammed Mississippi
08/02/05 Living History Farms
08/03/05 Norman Borlaug Heritage Foundation
08/03/05 Global Rich List
08/10/05 Hemi Grill
08/13/05 Hillbilly Video
08/14/05 Annual Performance Review
08/16/05 JetKart
08/16/05 Strangelets
08/23/05 Playing With Fire

09/02/05 Tongue-eating bug
09/04/05 Origami Boulder
09/04/05 Drummers
09/12/05 Abbot Downing Company
09/14/05 Delusions of Self-Sufficiency
09/15/05 Advertising/Design Goodness
09/19/05 Petrol Direct
09/26/05 Stanislav Petrov
09/27/05 Space Elevator
09/29/05 Rainforest Iowa: Right For America, Right For Puppies

10/06/05 Atmospheric Vortex Engine
10/07/05 Tornado Attack Vehicle
10/11/05 Stupid Gravity
10/17/05 Empire State Building
10/20/05 Butterfly
10/22/05 Monk and Coltrane
10/27/05 Sizzling Organic Chemistry Dramas!
10/28/05 like no other
10/30/05 Drivers License Search
10/30/05 Troy Hurtubise

11/01/05 Missouri Spies on Drivers
11/05/05 Near Earth Objects
11/06/05 FlightAware Live Flight Tracker
11/10/05 NYSee
11/11/05 Fern
11/21/05 Jules
11/22/05 Land Speed Record
11/26/05 Dan Osman
11/29/05 A Sense of Scale
11/30/05 Jigsaw Puzzles

12/03/05 The Bicycle Forrest
12/04/05 Matchstick Marvels
12/04/05 One Red Paperclip
12/07/05 Trebuchet
12/09/05 Big Eye in the Sky
12/14/05 Science Toys
12/17/05 A Magical Fall
12/22/05 Pipe Dream
12/26/05 How to Procrastinate Well
12/26/05 Joels Blog in Art History

It was bound to happen eventually:
05/16/05 Jeff and Juhan’s RC Plane Website
12/05/05 Jeff and Juhan’s RC Plane Website

Golf balls that don’t go missing, a computer pooch you needn’t pick up after, whole-grain white bread: 2005 brought a flurry of innovative surprises.

It’s our 18th Annual celebration of innovation – the 100 most impressive technologies of the year, from the A380 to Zubbles.

Half the fun of drinking bubbly is seeing what damage you can do with the exploding cork. Now you can add to the fun by clipping the 9cm Champichute onto the neck of the bottle and carefully pushing the ‘pin’ at the end of the parachute into the cork. The parachute is taken along with the cork which drifts down slowly and harmlessly.

Found at Jeff’s page of Nothing Important.

Now you can speak your own sweet mind on M&M‘s and package them just as creatively.

NASA completed a successful year of milestones and discoveries in 2005 as the agency begins to implement the Vision for Space Exploration, America’s long-term plan for returning astronauts to the moon to prepare for voyages to Mars and other destinations in the solar system. The year included returning the space shuttle to flight, the announcement of plans for America’s next generation spacecraft and numerous scientific milestones.

Max ERNST – 1925

Jack of all trades again; prospects gloomy. Eluard continued to help. Then, suddenly and unexpectedly, a contract with Jacques Viot, courtier en chambre and adventurer, who had already signed on Miro and later, on Max’s recommendation, was to place Arp under contract, too. Arp, Ernst, Miro – the trio that would win accolades a quarter of a century later in Venice.

Max, at the age of thirty-four, was at last able to settle down to his ‘work’, for the first time in his life. And to rent his first studio (in Rue Tourlaque in Montmartre).

Art history tends to be presented chronologically. The life of an artist or school is traced through their active years. My intent is to display the cross-current: an overview of what a variety of artists were creating at a specific point in time. I chose the year 1925 not only to illustrate the rich diversity of styles being used in Western art at the time, but to emphasize the enduring vitality of these works. Although painted [eighty] years ago, each canvas retains the capacity to jar the sensitivity of the average viewer.

Compiling a list of the best links of the year was a little more difficult than last year. I put more effort this year into selecting quality links for kottke.org, so there wasn’t a lot of chaff to be found in the archives.

Make your own snowflake