Who wants to be a merperson? With detachable dolphin-tail prosthetics that can make you travel twice as fast as an Olympic swimmer?

Ten students from the University of Cincinnati’s nationally number-one ranked interior design program recently returned from the Florida Keys where they tested – and provided feedback to the inventor and manufacturer of – unusual foot appendages that aid human sea divers to swim like dolphins.

Then, about 24 UC design students further tested these mechanical “Flipper” fins (called Lunocets) in UC’s Olympic-sized lap pool.

I am terrified to note that the documentary film about me has a Facebook page.

John Vorus.  “Deep organic ambient.”  Caught a performance of his live on a radio channel Saturday night, bought his album off iTunes right after.

Painfully funny. Almost died. If I hadn’t been sitting on the toilet at the time there would have been a terrible mess.

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NO SERIOUSLY IT’S HOVERING HOW IS IT HOVERING WHY IS THERE A FUCKING HOVERSHARK NOW

The Augmented Reality Event: Bruce Sterling’s keynote from Ori Inbar on Vimeo.

The Space Bastard bumper sticker, among other things in the Unmentionables section of the IEU store:

"Whirlwind" by Antwerp is a rather lovely noise.

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Going away at the end of the month, these are:

"BrokenZero is a series of precursors to Broken20 – releases prior to the present that still fit into the internal timeline of the label. They form a part of the narrative thread of the label, and their specific chronology is incidental. Where possible we will be giving these releases away for free."

Former Ghosts – “New Love” – on Upset The Rhythm – out autumn 2010

Andi James Chamberlain’s Zombie Apocalypse Prepared apparel:

I watched part of a recent episode of CRIMINAL MINDS this evening, and I swear to god, when Fat Tony, Forest Whitaker and him from DHARMA AND GREG weren’t on screen, it looked for all the world like the cast of FRIENDS standing around wearing stab vests. Fighting crime, feeling pretty: law enforcement never owed so much to Bare Escentuals. Also, note to producers: a character who is cast as "British" does not have to speak with English, Irish, Scots and Welsh accents in the same sentence.

Sent by Gypsythepunk, with the note "the second coming of Joe Strummer." Shirt by IEU.

meant to post this earlier, oops

I wrote a little book once (amazons – UK – US – CA)

Rather fascinated by the Pears album STERLING POSTURES, which can be downloaded for free here. More beat-oriented cousin to the melted beachy glo-fi of Best Coast or High Wolf.

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