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Cool stuff you might have missed this week…2010-05-15-2010-05-21

Zelle launches the 1337 collection of sophisticated jewelry made from electronic components 10:11:42, 2010-05-15 Nice writeup from CrunchGear on my Zelle 1337 line 13:30:46, 2010-05-15 Tracks are starting to come in from my contest! This is soooo cool! 10:49:57, 2010-05-16 totally dot com: K'NEX anyone? RT @candice: Orrrrr… why I quit playing with girl toys and moved on to computers. – 10:55:44, 2010-05-16 One of my fav toys when I was mini-Liz Playschool Pipeworks Deluxe…

Microcontroller Earrings and Floppy Disk Necklace

Check out these Microcontroller Earrings at Fractalspin, small ICs that you can wear on your ears. Here’s the black cord version of the Floppy Disk Necklace. It has a cool clasp made from a flange terminal.

Win some limited edition Zelle gear!

Fill out a short survey for Fractaspin and you can have a chance to win your choice of either a Black Capacitor Necklace (above) or a Timer IC Tie Clip (below). Plus, you’ll also get a $10 coupon. Take the survey!

Zelle launches the 1337 collection of sophisticated jewelry made from electronic components

Check out some new jewelry pieces I’ve designed for Zelle. Zelle (zellestyle.com), the elegantly minimal tech jewelry brand that has elevated electronic components into wearable works of art has expanded its vision to celebrate the inherent beauty of technology in its haute couture take on the art form with their 1337 collection. As the original line is restrained, keeping the focus on the components and their relationship to each other and avoiding the use of…

Cool stuff you might have missed this week…2010-05-08-2010-05-14

Gary Busey on "Buseyisms" 12:27:51, 2010-05-11 Hipster to HIppie in 6 Steps: A Cautionary Tale 12:34:12, 2010-05-11 RT @xcopy: Sleeper Wakes Jeff Mills Futuristic DJ Jump Suit – 12:35:26, 2010-05-11 Music Gear Nerds: Robotspeak is closing so everything must go 16:23:13, 2010-05-11 SIMCard Notebook & Address Book 20:15:34, 2010-05-11 The story of Nikola Tesla, told drunk and sober 23:56:33, 2010-05-11 rendering audio to disk 12:56:27, 2010-05-12 yay! RT @MstrPrgrmmr: Remixin some @quantazelle samples 13:02:47, 2010-05-12…

The story of Nikola Tesla, told drunk and sober

Drunk History: Nikola Tesla Drunk History vol. 6 w/ John C. Reilly & Crispin Glover from John C Reilly Nikola Tesla: Genius who Lit the World

SIMCard Notebook & Address Book

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.

Cool stuff you might have missed this week…2010-05-01-2010-05-07

ROFLcon ends today dot lulz 19:58:22, 2010-05-01 I'm at Double Door (1572 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago) w/ 2 others. 20:33:25, 2010-05-01 lulz 13:02:45, 2010-05-03 Mumbles buys a car 00:15:34, 2010-05-04 HOW YOU DOIN? 00:16:29, 2010-05-04 Job interview from hell #lulz 00:42:14, 2010-05-04 NEW! SIM Card Address Book and SIMBook Notebook #fractalspin 15:53:46, 2010-05-04 New deadline for my remix contest is May 28. Get on it! 07:23:59, 2010-05-05 Izabella's on #Yelp: This is one of…

Cool stuff you might have missed this week…2010-04-24-2010-04-30

“Visitations: A Musical Tribute to Dr. Who” 10:33:07, 2010-04-24 Taking woofie to Humbolt Park with Mommazelle. 09:15:44, 2010-04-25 30 Days: Life in Another’s Shoes (Straight Man in a Gay World) 11:14:07, 2010-04-25 To my musician and DJ friends who struggle, remember that music is powerful. Look at Estonia's "Singing Revolution" 09:46:55, 2010-04-26 Last nite El stop announcer goes "Ma'am, you're draggin' your scarf" and I was like "Weird announcement." Then I looked down. Oops 12:20:36,…

30 Days: Life in Another's Shoes (Straight Man in a Gay World)

I found this series on Hulu from the creator of Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock, and found it fascinating from a human perspective, along with the educational aspect from the documentary aspects. The premise is that the series put someone into a totally foreign environment for 30 days, and often that someone is extremely wary of what they’re getting into but at least open minded enough to give it a shot. Hilarity ensues. In the…

"Visitations: A Musical Tribute to Dr. Who"

Check out this mostly-nerdcore hiphop compilation inspired by Doctor Who, Put together by the excellent nerd-musicblog, Hipsterplease. “Visitations: A Musical Tribute to Dr. Who.” It’s free as either a single-track or .rar download.

Cool stuff you might have missed this week…2010-04-17-2010-04-23

Oh god…academic analysis of Ke$ha's Tic Tok "The most prevalent motif is 'oh'" "Which is a King Lear reference" 08:34:38, 2010-04-17 I couldn't not NOT share this "The trustworthiness of facial hair," with infografic 08:39:05, 2010-04-17 The lulz must go on. Critical theory people will find humor in this 10:13:21, 2010-04-17 16:12:49, 2010-04-21 Drunk Pranks: Don't be the first one to pass out 10:10:49, 2010-04-22 [RECOMMENDED] Circuit Bent Saturdays 12:51:40, 2010-04-22 “The Digital Musician”…