.: Above The Aether :.

I love stumbling across good industrial design.  And when the industrial design involves a tool, it’s even better.  I follow several tool/gadget blogs and stumbled into this while reading one of my favorite tool blogs, Toolmonger.
It’s pretty amazing how much planning and effort goes into a little tool like this.  You may see a bucket [...]

I love interesting data visualizations and happened to stumble upon this map of nuclear explosions since 1945 (high res) on Neatorama.
I have a lot of respect for designers who can take a mass of data and create an elegantly simple visualization like this one.
Original high res image (via Neatorama)
- Dave

Sometimes you only need three frames.
This site may hurt your brain.  I make no promises.
- Dave

Link to video (via Laughing Squid)

Link to video (via TMBLG)

Have you ever wondered what is lost or gained in automated translation services?  Have you ever used a web-based language translation tool like Google Translator or BabelFish and gotten a bizarre result?
An amusing site called Blahblah Fish translates your words into the language of your choice and then back out again into english.  Hilarity ensues.  [...]

If you’re wondering which side to butter…might I suggest The Dark Side.
(Sorry, the Star Wars puns are flying out of me tonight.)
Link (via Neatorama)

Video link (via Ectoplasmosis)
This looks cool and painful at the same time.
-Dave

This classy nose-shaped shampoo & conditioner dispenser can be yours for a mere $18 bucks.
The idea of rubbing snot into your hair seems to be marketable product.
Who knew?
Product link (via boingboing)
- Dave

I  was recently shown a really cool site called Wordle that takes any text and converts it into a word cloud, giving more frequently used words more prominence on the page.
This is where writing and art collide.  It’s both beautiful and interesting at the same time.
Link to a larger graphic above.
-Dave