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Comfy chairs, ergonomic chairs, posture correcting chairs, all well and good – but like everyone, designers sometimes like to bend the rules and be bad, oh so bad! These 13 uncomfortable chairs show that even the best furniture designers take (and give) pains to stretch the limits of their art.

What are permablitzes all about? How did they begin?A permablitz is basically a permaculture-inspired backyard makeover where people come together to share knowledge and skills about organic food production in urban gardens while building community and having fun.

General knowledge, from capital cities to key dates, has long been a marker of an educated mind. But what happens when facts can be Googled?

Grooveboxes, or more generically known as Step Sequencers, allow performers to create electronic music on the fly. But the methodology can also work to illustrate some of the principles about music writing and production. Hobnox has a free web app called iNudge that allows you or your kids to play around with a virtual step sequencer in a simple and intuitive manner.

"I first set my eyes on it one Saturday morning in Rough Trade in late June 1979. The record had just come into the shop… I bought it immediately.”Jon Wozencroft on Peter Saville’s work on Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover, as he developed from the ‘Use Hearing Protection’ posters of Factory Records into a graphic design icon.

When King David lamented “How are the mighty fallen” in the Second Book of Samuel, he had more on his mind than the demise of a once promising pop band, but the quote fits the amazing rise and fall of ABC. They were new wave/new romantic gold record-winning hit-makers one day, and flowers in the trash bin of pop history a few short months later. Seldom has a band released an album with so many great tunes that it was a virtual greatest hits collection, only to vanish and never return. Well, okay, they did return, but their albums after The Lexicon of Love were so paltry that even the band’s website sums up their post-The Lexicon of Love output in five sentences. They’re currently playing the new wave nostalgia circuit.

in 1979, The B-52's released their first single in the U.K., "Rock Lobster". It was backed by an instrumental version of "Running Around". The A side appeared on their self-titled debut album. The B side, as an instrumental, did not. The single reached the #37 spot on the U.K. singles chart.

As dusk falls, my husband and I gravitate toward the garden. We can usually be found lounging in our hammock, sharing dinner with friends, or just enjoying an evening stroll. At these times, the halogen patio light outside our back door seems too harsh. Instead, we turn to candlelight to set a mood.

Rachel Denny makes domestic trophies out of hand knitted wool and carved foam. They almost look like hand puppets coming out of the wall. There’s also something a little suffocating about them…

When I'm dead, how will my loved ones break my password?Tales from the encrypt: If you care about the integrity of your data, it's time to investigate solutions for accessing and securing it – and not just for the here and now

Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls and solo fame is definately a self-promoter.  But what sets her apart and makes her efforts effective is that she seemingly does it effortlessly.  By letting the world into her life via blog posts, Twitter, web casts, etc and doing it with playful and rebelous tone, she has made herself worth paying attention to and supporting.  The music's not half bad either.

Pokemon “Heart” Gold und Pokemon “Soul” Silver werden mit dem neuen Poke Walker gebundelt, einem Pedometer-Zubehör, das immer nur einen der niedlichen aber tödlichen Pokemons aufnehmen kann. Sobald der Spieler losmarschiert, gewinnt der Pokemon Erfahrungspunkte. Der Pedometer sorgt außerdem für zusätzliche Watts, die Währung des Spiels. Alle Daten werden anschließend wieder per Infrarot in eine DS zurück übertragen. Das inzwischen schon recht fitte Kind kann daraufhin fortfahren, seinen eigenen Fightclub zu züchten. In Japan sollen die neuen Pokemon-Spiele zuerst herauskommen. Im Herbst ist es soweit.

... such confrontations with material reality have become exotically unfamiliar. Many of us do work that feels more surreal than real. Working in an office, you often find it difficult to see any tangible result from your efforts. What exactly have you accomplished at the end of any given day? Where the chain of cause and effect is opaque and responsibility diffuse, the experience of individual agency can be elusive. “Dilbert,” “The Office” and similar portrayals of cubicle life attest to the dark absurdism with which many Americans have come to view their white-collar jobs.

The book by Cormac McCarthy was truly heartbreaking but "they might be trying to sell this post-apocalyptic journey as an action flick just a little too much". But it has Viggo in it!

Hier, bei Insulin Funk, kann man das Script nämlich runterladen und selber lesen.

Get ready to soil your plants in an all-new action-strategy game from PopCap! A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants. Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to mulchify 26 types of zombies before they can reach your front door.

Ever wonder what it would be like to see a tag-team wrestling match with Darth Vader and Darth Maul against Boba Fett and General Grievous? We do too, and better yet, they should be wearing Lucha Libre (Mexican wrestling) masks!