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Bread Clip Science

Liz — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:09:44 +0000

Ha! Finally someone is taking bread clips seriously!

I made a mixed-media work a while back from bread clips in the theme of Space Invaders, since I’ve been collecting them for quite a while.

“Bread Intruders”

Here’s the proposal:

A publication in this month’s BMJ Case Reports, a peer-reviewed publication of the British Medical Journal, offers a “proposal for phylogenic plastic bag clip classification”. Contributing authors include John Daniel of the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (HORG).

Proposal for phylogenic classification advances bread clip science

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“Let’s go to Oktoberfest” chiptune song and music video

Liz — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:11:40 +0000

Here’s a cool chiptune + pixel art video featuring beer, the German language, robots, and snorkeling cows, snorkeling cows and a host of other surreal bits.

This 8-bit trip to bavaria captures the spirit of retro video-games and our Gameboy plays authentic Oktoberfest drinking music ;-)

The so-called ‘Wiesn’ in Munich is the biggest beer festival in the world and in this music-video you could join the CUBIES travelling there.
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Neuron Tie giveaway & geeky-yet-cool gifts for dads

Liz — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:19:52 +0000

Here’s Fractalspin‘s top picks for geeky-yet-cool gifts for dads this year. There’s also a giveaway for a special edition Sage on Black Neuron Tie (pictured above) by Cyberoptix. To enter, you need to comment on Fractalspin’s wall and tell them “Who’s your favorite dad?”

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Futuristic LED watches at Fractalspin

Liz — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:57:52 +0000

Here are some cool new LED watches up at Fractalspin. My favorites are the really minimal-looking ones, like the Slim Round Stainless Gamma Ray Blue LED Watch, Square Gamma Ray Green LED Watch and Lightmare LED Watch – Black Stainless Steel

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Punchcards: Blank greeting cards made from vintage computer punch cards

Liz — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:55:02 +0000

Greeting cards are in full circulation during the holiday season, and I had been thinking a while about something that would be geeky and retro, so I went searching for old-school punch cards.

A punched card (also known by various synonyms) is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Now almost an obsolete recording medium, punched cards were widely used throughout the 19th century for controlling textile looms and in the late 19th and early 20th century for operating fairground organs and related instruments. They were used through the 20th century in unit record machines for input, processing, and data storage. Early digital computers used punched cards, often prepared using keypunch machines, as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and data. -wikipedia

You can grab a set of them at Fractalspin: Punchcards.

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New site design and new products at Fractalspin

Liz — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:19:48 +0000

Two months ago I started moving Fractalspin over to a hosted ecommerce platform and since then have been migrating over products and creating the new site design.

I’ve also added a bunch of new products, and even more stuff is on the way. Let mw know what you think!
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Know your nerds!

Liz — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:08:43 +0000

Anther awesome t-shirt at Threadless.

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Cool desktop background competition “Cute Vector” at PixelGirlPresents: Win Fractalspin, iTunes, and Shanalogic gift cards

Liz — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:29:55 +0000

Submit your cutest vector desktop and you could WIN!

Definition of Cute: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness, obviously contrived to charm

Definition of Vector: the use of points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics. Most people use illustrator or photoshop to make vector graphics.

Winners will be announced by August 15th 2010

Grand Prize:
$50 gift card to iTunes
$100 gift card to ShanaLogic.com
$50 gift card to fractalspin.com
Free promo code for Ramp Champ (an iPhone/iPod touch game)
Free copy of Frenzic for Mac

2nd Place:
$25 gift card to iTunes
$50 gift card to ShanaLogic.com
$25 gift card to fractalspin.com
Free promo code for Ramp Champ (an iPhone/iPod touch game)
Free copy of Frenzic for Mac

3rd Place:
$25 gift card to ShanaLogic.com
$10 gift card to iTunes
$10 gift card to fractalspin.com
Free promo code for Ramp Champ (an iPhone/iPod touch game)
Free copy of Frenzic for Mac
Ready? Enter now at PixelGirlPresents

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SIMCard Notebook & Address Book

Liz — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:14:58 +0000

Check out these notebooks and address books in the form of a SIM Card, the SIMBook Notebook & SIMBook Address Book. Thankfully, they are useful in that they are not to scale–they are both 3.25″ x 5.5″. $6.00 at Fractalspin.

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Paper Game Boys

Liz — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:44:36 +0000

Pretty impressive!
More photos here.
via LikeCool

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