Crossing Abbey Road

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Crossing Abbey Road

A nice idea for music video - to catch "a day in the life" of Abbey Road (and various people crossing it)

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A big collection of variations on this famous "Abbey Road" cover can be seen here.

Today's pictures & links:

Radio Revelations

Listening to radio... in a remote Russian village in the 1910s

Still an enchantment, even in the 1920s -

(original unknown)

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Enthusiasm

(original unknown)

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For a cheap electricity....

Try some lemon power! Here is how, plus you can always charge your iPod...

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Go out in style

More pictures of this Harley hearse (made by Kevin Brennan Funeral Home in Topeka, Kansas) you can find here:

(images via)

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Mixed fresh links for today:

Vanity of Vanities - [cool photo]
Visual Dictionary Online - [useful?]
Driftwood Horse Art - [weird art]
Unfortunate product names, more - [weird]
Inventions that experts said would never work - [interesting]
Balancing, Climbing and Jumping Robots - [cool video]
Sand fountain: strange sight - [wow video]
One Finger Board Smash - [wow video]
Song Composed Entirely of 37 Cello Parts - [cool video]
Crossing Abbey Road - [neat video]
Make stunning Flash websites for free! - [promotion]

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This Year in History

Insightful and hilarious peeks into the "future past" - originally appeared in Locus, the magazine of the SF&F field.

2041:
New city for sex offenders. Neverland, Nevada is granted first-ever "adults-only" municipal charter, giving convicted sex offenders a place to live. No internet access.

2121:
Time goes decimal. The hundred-minute-hour and the hundred-second minute are officially adopted worldwide, over protests by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Tachometer Manufacturers of America (TMA)

Read latest science fiction news at Locusmag.com

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Aaron Ristau's Steampunk Sculptures

Aaron shares with us: "I have been studying mechanical watch movements during this season. The goggles seemed like a fun way to reference the awesome detail that went into older watch movements. The pair of goggles with the graduated white scales around both eyes are from a very old pair of optometry sizing frames. The other pair of goggles are, I think, railroad safety glasses circa 1940's from Marfa, Tx. thrift store." See more interesting structures on Aaron's site.

"I incorporated many wonderful gears from years of collecting into the mirror..."

(images credit: aaronristau.com)

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Nazi in Color

If you click on this link, you will go to a page with immense amount of Nazi-era photos in color (make sure to wait for it to load). Sort of a follow-up to our recent "Nazi Architecture" article, this collection can be a creepy experience...

The Storyteller (creepy picture) -

(images credit: LIFE Magazine archives)

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Impossible feats

either out of necessity, or sheer boredom -

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For those with extra time on their hands

Aptly named "Insane Design" photostream on Flickr (click here) presents a DIY folded-paper "Vibe" toy, for those who wants to print out the template and make it.... to put it on top of your monitor, or something: