Here’s a quickie: The new logo for the UK Office of Government Commerce looks fine and dandy, right?
Tilt your head to the left and look again.
Nice!
[Via: Boing Boing]
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In the spirit of Honda’s Cog commercial comes this new Ford spot for the UK Focus that turned and tuned various parts from the car into musical instruments.
There’s the “Transmission Case Cello-Dulcimer”, a “Clutch Guitar”, a “Rear Suspension Spike Fiddle”, and a “Fender Bass” among other things, and each one manages to sound good when mashed with the rest.
Though there’s no way of telling if these parts actually played music, or if they just played the part, it sure does look convincing.
I guess it’s time that I re-up my Fender Bass lessons!
[Via: Crave]
No, that’s not a really large man in a tank.
Yes, that’s a really small tank with a man in it.
Called the Paintball Panzer, it’s made by Funtrak Limited, and features:
- Genuine one-person tracked vehicle (That’s right, “Tank Tracks”)
- Fully integrated “Fire-While-Driving” paintball/laser gun
- Can be driven on UK roads
- Choice of many authentic (and some frankly bizarre) colours
- Additional custom mods available
- 8 week lead time (Built to order)
If paintballing is your thing, then I guess you can find a way of justifying the $14,400.
[Funtrak Limited - Paintball Panzer]
[Via: Born Rich]
The Pirate Bay is trying to acquire its own country by purchasing Sealand, a small “island” made up of an abandoned gun battery near the UK “that was occupied, declared sovereign, and turned into an offshore data-center for sensitive information”. Kopimists can donate money to the cause with promises of “high-speed Internet access, no copyright laws, and VIP accounts to The Pirate Bay” for every citizen of Sealandia. If they can’t get enough money together for Sealand though, The Pirate Bay still promises to buy another small island somewhere and claim it as a sovereign state, so no investment goes unrewarded. I’d be interested to see just how far they could go around copyright laws if they did in fact become their own country, so donate now to a movement that could change the world.
[Via: Boing Boing]
Who knew typography could be so sexy? UK design company Taylor Lane created a pin-up girl style calendar using only the symbols you can find on a keyboard. I’ll never type the same way again.
[Via: Twenty Four]
