Er, so... It's been a while! And some of you might have already seen a good chunk of this as I share away in my Google Reader. But here is a bumper edition of my not-so-weekly links post!

Art & Design

• Women in Art - 500 years of the same old face over and over. [VID]
• Acoustic alarm means a nicer way of waking up.
• I love ridiculous oversized art installations! Art that uses space like that is the best.
• Space Invaders chairs.
• USB padlock is the safest.
• Rainbow panorama walkway.
• Doodles on Netflix return envelopes.
• Broccoli Treehouse.
• A camera that allows for switching focus after you've taken photos. What amazing potential this has!
• Triangle notebook, very tidy.
• Scroll bookshelf/bookends.
• Seedbombs, some green design amazingness.
• Straightforward products with nothing to hide.
• Cosy, beautiful handmade houses of old - tiny spaces, but full of warmth!
• "Mind Your Step" - large scale optical illusion that was pulled off really well!
• Roses art installation from earlier this year in NYC.
• Tetris post-it notes!
• The Cosby Sweater project is doing important work.
• Film on Paper - film poster archive.
• Video game character alphabet poster.
• Prize-winning illustrations for the London Transport Museum - such great style!
• Bicycle cufflinks.

Comics

• I love the look on Batman's face in this cute fanart as he rides Superman.
• X-Babies! N'awww.
• Web MD is like a Choose Your Own Adventure Book! Haha. (Meanwhile, the site that's on is a pretty neat concept in itself!).
• Planet with the wandering moon.
• Great Showdowns does Luke VS Rancor! AND Inigo VS the 5-fingered man. Sigh.
• X-Muppets.
• Expedition Mercury with Reginald and Beartato!
• Hellboy becomes Hellbot. So cool.
• Star Wars themed fail whale.
• Riding the train is the best.

Photos

• Looks incredible and unreal, but it really is a photo and not altered or digitally painted.
• Great B&W of Toronto's Flatiron on a rainy day.
• Mars Rover's last ever panorama.
• Amazing Soviet monuments that look super futuristic, yet decayed as hell.
• Merging colours of blue as two bodies of water meet.
• More industrial decay with a photoset of an abandoned coal mine.
• This is the most amazing cloud formation i've ever seen. Like a wave! Insane.
• Portraits of parents and children with their heads swapped is guaranteed to FREAK YOU OUT.
• People posing with the moon in inventive ways.
• Long exposures of planes at SFO taking off and landing.
• Rays of light on a lovely landscape.
• I wish I could find a link to the original for this strange scene.
• Rubbish rainbows does what it says on the box.
• Coloured shutters.
• Chess crime scene.
• Waves of rock.

Random/Misc

• Top 10 myths about the brain.
• Peter Jackson getting up to hijinks with elves and a wizard. DORKS.
• Sci-fi IKEA manuals - my fave is the TARDIS, naturally.
• Gummi bear stop motion of video games.
• The CDC are on top of things with their preparedness for the zombie apocalypse.
• Unexpected cakes - flower pot and coffee cups.
• I wish all passive-agressive notes were great flow charts!
• World's Tallest Lego tower.
• Balloon dino skeleton of awesomeness.
• Tube Map of British comedy. The yellow line's a good 'un!
• 8-bit Invader - using the front of a building as a screen for game clips.
• Zombie finger attack!
• Mmm, tastes of insanity - Cthulu-pops.
• What goes on in 60 seconds on the web - an infographic.
• Super Mario Bros custom hi-tops.
• Stripy bow tie pasta.
• Camera lens bracelets.
• Star Wars character hoodies at Think Geek! I want to get one and sit on the couch nomming cookies from this jar.
• Lunar eclipse GIF.
• Face Your Pockets - empty your pockets & scan the contents with your face. A little like the Flickr group of what's in your bag :)
• Antique anatomy books.
• Star Wars bathroom tiling.
• Larger than life Angry Birds game.
• A great impression of Moss from the IT Crowd.
• Onion-like headlines in real life.
• Get the Hint post-it tags with straightforward messages.
• Chewbacca bento box, almost too cute to nom?
• Vintage infographics.
• Keeping a child's gender secret when raising it, to avoid gender-bias from friends/family.
• A human bicycle, just for LOLs.

Museumy

• Modern-day cabinet of curiosities in London.
• Digital Archaeology - an exhibition about the history of websites and their technology/experience. Super neat.
• The Riverside Museum in Glasgow is finished and looks INCREDIBLE! What a building.
• Visiting behind the scenes of the Frick Collection in NYC - how awesome is the bowling alley?!
• Intel's "Museum of Me" which collates info/photos etc from your Facebook to create an online "exhibition". It's a cool concept - if you keep your online life completely on Facebook. My exhibition was pretty skewed/boring to be honest!
• Behind the scenes at the ROM here in Toronto.

Cute

• Kittens on a roomba!
• The indignation this seal displays is too funny. Seriously, call the police, it's TOO FUNNY.
• Child finds paraplegic baby bunny, makes it a wee wheelchair. Nicole finds this article, cries.
• Floppy disk pillow.
• Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure - games by 5-yr-olds are adorable.
• Peering Raccoon!
• Time-lapse of a dog going from puppy to 1 year old is so cool!
• 3-toed sloth crossing a road.
• NINJA SQUIRREL.

Until next time!

I have had remarkably little downtime for link postage today! But I gotta clean out the RSS feeder, so here we go. *toots on ocarina* Have a good weekend, folks!

Art/Design

• Strange and kinda beautiful metal/bone art sculptures/creatures.
• Giant skeleton sculpture
• Trivial Pursuit ad - brain maze.
• Camera development shack looks like a camera.
• Very cool Google Sightseeing post on all the Ripley's museums worldwise.
• This parasol is just an incredibly awesome structure. I love how it looks in the aerial shot amongst all the other buildings!
• USB stick in a film roll. Cute!
• "Be your own souvenir" - 3D printing and Kinect used to make wee figurines of people. I WANT ONE.

Photos

• Awesome photos of a creepy abandoned village of pod houses.
• Ass raiders! What.
• Aerial shot taken from the air near Pearson Int'l Airport, Toronto.
• Whirlpool of darkness

Misc

• Incredibly useful tool - stolen camera finder.
• Interesting use of Foursquare data - breakdown of how busy London museums are, and when's best to visit. Although I think some of the museum visitors to certain venues are more inclined to use social media than others, so it can't be entirely representative.
• A guide to NYC Superheroes!
• Quotes - Clients From Hell
• Interesting reading about the 'Smurfette Principle' trope.
• Signs of the geek zodiac.
• The FBI's wasted time and money investigating ordinary people makes for curious reading.
• Rally racing car is also a functioning large-scale Operation game. MADNESS.
• David Lynch has gone beyond insane, as he has a dialogue with a Barbie's head about his new coffee product [VID]. I am not gonna lie, I want to try the coffee!
• 25 everyday things you never knew had names; I quite like Skeuomorph.


Cute

• I can't express how much glee this gives me - Wookiee the Chew (Star Wars meets Winnie the Pooh!)
• HOVERBUNNY.

Yes, I ended up not having time for the links post last Friday with it being a holiday, me prepping/packing to move house, and doing super secret baking in prep for the mister's birthday. So you get a double dose this week! Hurrah?

Art/Design

- Cascading teapot fountain
- Miniature plastic people doing miniature plastic people things
- Giant wood sculpture that kinda reminds me of those weird metal blunt nail things you could press your hand/face into and leave and impression. 
- The Pantone colours of Video Games
- Gorgeous B&W mural on the side of a building - harnassing a giant squid
- Human spirograph (check out the vids under some of the pieces)
- More spirograph - mega sized spiro machine [VID]
- Crazy toothpick mish-mash sculpture of San Francisco
- Potholes plugged up with colourful yarn
- Transparent chair looks nifty and actually kinda comfy.
- Lovely "From the desk of" stamps
- Honest product/website logos
- Intricate large-scale permanent marker art

Photos

- House consumed by sand in Namibian ghost town 
- Gorgeous light in hallway
- Moth casts Batman shadow
- This sky scares me
- Amazing Hubble image of a pair of galaxies
- Malls across America photo project
- Images from latest Silent Hill filmset are super creepy and atmospheric.

Misc

- Interesting reading re: gender gap at Marvel and DC
- Casualties of war toy soldiers are a little too realistic.
- Disturbing, yet awesome: cutting into the baby cake
- Airpiano - kinda theraminy and pretty awesome instrument you play using movement
- Dark Side coffee beans! Droid farmers indeed.
- Pixel hall of fame
- Doctor Who in some classic art
- Enjoy some lovely music with this Said the Whale YouTube playlist!
- Hilariously bad analogies from high school essays/papers.
- Tshirt: the gamer's closet
- Doofuses at Abbey Road
- Flickr 'unavailable' noticed used in empty advertisement stand
- Knotted cog metal art piece.
- Tom Hanks is a lot of animals  (wwwttttfffff)
- Cute little coffee primer animation [VID]
- A whole HECKLOAD of Last Supper parody images
- Angry Star Wars Birds - the parody/homages from this game just keep on going
- What would the back of a webpage look like if it were a physical thing?
- Tetris heart tattoos are super nerdy romantic wooooo.
- Shaun of the Dead done Scott Pilgrim-style
- Fight Club Calvin and Hobbes style is almost too cute.Weirdly.

Cute
- Happy tapir gets a rub down  [VID]
- Daydreaming cat tableaus are something I wish i'd thought of dang it!
- Snoutlets (too cute, and a nifty idea)
- Richard Scarry 'I Am A Bunny' is just the most precious
- TINY WEE SNUGGLEY THINGS
- Penguin getting tickled [VID] will make your day unless you are cold and dead inside. I don't care if you've seen it already, WATCH IT AGAIN!

HAPPY WEEKEND TIMES YAY.

Art/Design

• Tiny people sculptures. So tiny and sad.
• This is a gorgeous poster for Sherlock Holmes. Mmm.
• Angry Birds-inspired art continues.
• This robot knows how to imbibe his coffee properly.
• Ridiculously detailed poster of superpowers.
• Peanuts meets Doctor Who is almost TOO cute.
• Heart Maze.
• Carved banana art.
• Tiny wee polaroid magnets.
• Silver skeletal jewelry.

Photos

• Gorgeous aerial shot of Balinese rice fields.
• Images from the first Australian Antarctic expedition in the early 1900s.
• Some gorgeous & beautifully shot museum images. I particularly love the photos of storage. This is like porn for me. Yep.
• Supermarket art - products by colour. Strangely alluring.
• Some really whacked out mutated images of bridges/overpasses messed up in Google Maps.

Misc

• Fun with sounds: click the squares and see what sound patterns you can come up with; think you can touch type pretty badass? Try touch typing Daft Punk.
• Twin Peaks board game - it looks like it would be terrible to play, but I don't care! I need to try it! Wah.
• As much as I dislike having spiders near/on my person, I still find them fascinating critters - case in point, this awesome peacock spider mating dance, which gets really nifty about 3 mins in. [VID]
• Your browser may poop itself when it visits the world's biggest Pacman game
• Terminator sinking into molten steel, cake version (!!)
• Dear Blank Please Blank is good times, the hilarious category is probably the best value.
• HBO are making American Gods into a telly series! YAY!
• How to use Encyclopedia Britannica.
• First video re: the Hobbit production from Peter Jackson. ME SO EXCITED. [VID]
• Artist cataloguing a bunch of his stuff before getting rid of it to move to smaller studio space. [VID]
• Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim style. [VID]
• Replace me with a new one! Oh, technology.
• 2 minute time-lapse of flight from San Francisco to Paris, with aurora borealis! Crazy. [VID]
• Word cloud: How Toy Ad Vocabulary Reinforces Gender Stereotypes. This stuff makes me so mad. And this kind of bullshit doesn't end in childhood! Just look at gender stereotyping around Mothers & Fathers Days. UGH.

Alright then! It's the weekend soon. Next Friday is the first day of a 4-day weekend for me, and I will be packing up my stuff to move house; but there's no doubt will do my regular links post because i'll be looking for ways to procrastinate. Awww yeah.

Late-in-the-day links, but still mostly fresh! Have a rad weekend, one and all; may there be tacos and smooches in your not-too-distant futures.

Art/Design

• Crazy Hot Wheels advertising on highways; man, I would run off the road if I saw these.
• This Space Invaders cushion is made of the raddest fabric! I would totally wear an adorable dress made out of that. If I were the dress-wearing type.
• Mr John Martz did a wicked pixel art poster of Star Trek characters! Check it.
• More pixel fix: patterns for pixelly cross-stiches of comic characters and all sorts of other pop geekery.
• Fantastically surreal paintings.
• Superhero alphabet - who could resist buying this for a nerdy kid?
• Giant coloured pencils.
• Not one, but two tree-ish book storage whatsits.
• Sandworm size chart, a handy reference for the whole family!
• Hanna Barbera's "Ghost World" mash-up.

Photos

• 40 gigapixel panoramic photo of a Prague library. Whoaaa detail.
• Incredible photos of the new Mars rover. So much gear!
• Creepy & atmospheric photos of floaty-ghostly human forms.
• Infinite Selleck (you think the first one's weird? Scroll down...)

Misc

• Guess that movie title from just 3 stock images each movie; I got 45/50 first go around, those last 5 were too elusive!
• I don't suffer from hayfever as bad as I used to, but believe me when I say I would've considered these at one point because it was so bad.
• Promo for the Beastie Boys new record [VID] has ridiculous levels of comedic cameos. The interchangeability of Elijah Wood and Will Ferrell is particularly chuckleworthy.
• Commodore 64 is getting re-released - in its old exterior, and running Linux. Whaaaat. I still don't think it'll be the same without a tape drive :(
• How to tell what's been used on an iPad by looking at the fingerprints left on the screen.
• Timelapse video of NYC. Lovely.
• Pretty nifty short film "Precision" [VID] that came out of the most recent 48-hour Sci-Fi film competition in London.
• I don't care how shite it'll be, I can't wait for Bill & Ted's third installment.
• 90 sq ft apartment in Manhattan? I think I would give it a go were it not for having no kitchen, and being unable to sit up in bed.

Woo!

Art/Design

• Check out this well-wicked Pacman tiled bathroom. Hell yeah.
• Nice collection of some of the best street art of last year.
• Terrific giant robot print.
• A visual history of internet browsers - man, remember Netscape? Those were the days.
• Seriously tripped out shoe design.

Photos

• I've never seen a more amazing photo of a glacier before
• Crazy giant bookshelves. Lookit how tiny the guy looks!
• This building looks like it's about to transform into a spaceship and fly away.
• Speaking of flying away..
• Monkey smash car! (Forced perspective is the best.)
• Mr Daily Dose of Imagery makes me seethe with jealousy at his awesome photos once again.
• Bendy building.
• Gorgeous B&W landscape.

Misc

• I like the sentiment in this quote
• This is a beautiful way to keep a to-do list for your life.
• They really ought to have got on top of this as a blurb for the actual blu-ray for Scott Pilgrim
• Cute, tongue-in-cheek little chart on games played in the 80s
• Lyrebirds are awesome: FACT.
• Interesting and well thought-out summary of a food blogger's thoughts after doing a 'vegan for 30 days' challenge.
• I would lose it if I saw an awesome prank like this in real life. Haaa! [VID]
• Seventy old-school video game deaths: [VID].
• Angry Birds trailer [VID], if it were a Michael Bay action movie. Oh the silly.

Brief today! Still some niceness tucked away in my Google Reader & Tumblr likes to share though. I hope you have all had the good fortune to avoid being the butt of any April Fools jokes today - i've managed not to be suckered for once, yay!

Trying to keep this streamlined today - i've surprisingly had little downtime to sift through much today, so i'm just hitting the highlights of what i've stored away in the past week. Zoooooooom. Weekend is almost here!

Art/Design

• I would live in this building just for the awesome staircases.
• The Google sightseeing car caught a Gehry building in progress! So neat.
• Home decor for ubernerds - a pixel trash can (instructions).
• Pretty pretty light installation.
• Keyboard tux, for the nerd who needs to dress up.
• You need to see this painting of flying squirrels with laser eyes. No reason, you just need to.
• More tiny doors! I love this, I want to see them everywhere.

Photos

• Beautiful shot of colour and light and aesthetic, with bonus staircase fantasticness.
• The sheer scale at play in this photo makes me boggle. Drills that big scare me.
• Well, it's a video, but it's a gorgeous timelapse so it fits here damn it: the Aurora Borealis near the Norway/Russia border. So beautiful.
• Actually, here's another video, but it's actually made up of still images - a trip around the world in 2000 pictures.

Misc

• Infographics about Edgar Wright's films, showing the films that influenced them. Lookit all of them for Hot Fuzz! By the power of Greyskull, indeed..
• Friends have a 6 month long party in their absent housemate's bedroom and make a dorkily hilarious video of it. I love the tinfoil part and the buried in balloons bit. Hehehe.
• I've never tried cold-brewed coffee, but these lovely Stumptown stubbies make me want to!
• This guy has pretty much the most epic prostheic leg in the entire universe.
• Remember those hipster traps? Someone's started to set 'Bridge and Tunnel' (aka Jersey Shore) traps. Bless their little faces.
• How to credit images you use on your blog/website: an infographic that informs! Oh happy day.
• Funny or Die's "History of Twitter"; all the bonus points for having one Mr Ray Wise starring as "Prof T. Wheaton". Ha! Get it?

And there you have it. Calorically empty and terrifically procrastinatey.

Assume the position... it's Friday!

Comics

• Bucko is a new comic i've been reading and I think you should check it out!
• Fuck Yeah Headlines is not so much a comic but it's hilarious and rad anyhow. This Tiki Barber one especially.
• Beartato makes faces just like me when playing video games.
• A Softer World asks the hard hitting questions.
• Special food timeline. Come on 2020!

Art/Design/Photos

• I want to work in this office!
• Teapot house! It looks like hobbits should live there.
• R2-droid, Android-D2.
• This jellyfish internet router is marvelous.
• A mural of an arm - it's already neat, but I like the notepad & messages added.
• The vintage-style posters for this X-Men First Class contest are so terrific!
• Brain lightbulbs are a bright spark idea.
• I need these pixel oven mitts or I will cry. Man, that site is gonna send me broke.
• There was a cubic man..
• Typographic world map - poor Australia looks a bit sparse though.
• Street art that plays with urban elements is the most fun kind!
• How freakin' amazing would this library design be?. Pret-ty amazing!
• I'd seen these really organised disassembled pics before, but the companion explodey photos are awesome too.
• Freaky gloves FREAKY GLOVES. Oh man.
• Yarn-bombing subway trains.
• The perspective on this makes me dizzy.

Misc

• Article on a blind man who uses echolocation to see is well worth reading all the way through. (via Mr Topp).
• This 'design your own watch' thing is so neat, but I would have trouble deciding what to put on there!
• The tar pits at La Brea have given forth some new fossils! They are cool.
• Story of a surgeon who removed his own appendix and is therefore totally badass.
• Saturday's full moon will be a super "perigee moon", the biggest in 20 or so years. Check it out!
• Yet another Zombie infographic.
• Someone's been setting hipster traps around NYC and I love them for it.
• Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's reenactment of the droids-on-Tatooine scene from Star Wars is a slice of fried gold.
• Whoaaa bendy map of Manhattan.
• Make your own pop rocks!
• Tiny doors appearing in San Francisco. I love this kind of thing! And doors! I love doors! Why doesn't someone do this here?

CUTE

• Hedgehog HEDGEHOG HEDGIEEEEE is pretty much what I shouted with glee when I first saw this. I WANNA HEDGIE.
• Maximise your sunshine time.

 HAPPY WEEKEND, people! Wooooo! I'm gonna loaf about, smooch a boy, eat some foods and do my taxes. GET ON IT!

So, I really needed some distraction today, and I guess most of you could too? I don't remember a time when my mind wasn't racing with everything, all the time, all at once. So, distractions to trick it into forgetting to do that are always welcome. Now i'm done this for the day, I better start looking for other distractions! Have a good weekend, kids.

Photos

• Cool "optical illusion" of see-through laptops
• This bookshelf is organised so sexily, look at all that colour. The room is just lovely, too.
• Coffee cups after Turkish coffee; man, have you ever tried Turkish coffee? It'll just about murder your brain.
• Awesome room of clutter yet homeyness; I just want to hang out in there and drink cups of tea.
• Someone went and made this bridge underpass super Kawaiiiiiiiii.
• Aerial photo of a typhoon in 2005 - like a cloud toupee for the earth.
• Stunning photos inside glacier caves.
• Candid snaps of animals taken with remote cams - I love the red squirrel one when you scroll through the front page.
• Beautiful random urban B&W shot.
• All gorgeous pics, but the first (NSFW) one is very clever visually, definitely caught my eye.
• Don't mind me, just flyin' upside down.
• Rainbow escalator - ride the rainbowwww! There better be a pot of fuckin' gold up there is all i'm saying.
• Scary aerial photos of what's going on today in Japan.

Art & Design

• I would be happy to be trailer trash if my trailer looked like this.
• Sandwich coasters.
• Kitty measuring cups.
• These teacup lights are too precious - such a simple idea that looks so awesome.
• Incredible crazy sculptures - I love the cloudy ones
• Stacked suitcases
• Tiny ice people, melting away on the steps.
• Vegan taxidermy project, a testament to the creativity that comes out of abandoning the use of animals. It's simply incredible art & representation!
• More creating un-real animals, this time from the imagination - paper mutant animal sculptures.
• History of Sci-Fi  diagram - SO DELICIOUS to look at. Info overload though.
• Making something beautiful from discarded/used ammunition - steampunk insects.
• Kong & the lady's roles reversed - terrific print.
• This staircase isn't just functional, it's downright beautiful.
• Clever ad for fingerprinting system with imagined images of houses.
• Check out the image of the work 'Babel', so visually delicious. Stack 'em up!
• Interesting and topical reworking of a typical Japanese 'wave' print.
• Improving thrift store picture finds by painting monsters in them. Awesome.


Comics

• 1930s Batman has a bitchin' ride.
• First image from the new Nickelodeon TMNT cartoon.. I have a bad feeling about this..
• Lizz Lunney makes fun stuff and you should look at what she's made recently.
• 'Fudge That Sugar', on what a Feminist is.

Misc

• Ink cartridge truck accident is a colourful mess, at least?
• 4 Sex Bob-Omb songs not included (or not fully) in the Scott Pilgrim vs the World movie/soundtrack.
• [VID] Dust devil lifts plastic sheets off field. So much nicer than a plastic bag on the wind..
• This browser address bar game is so cool! What a neat piece of coding.
• "Google before you Tweet" is the new think before you speak.
• Yes, I want this sexy turntable. Unf.
• Zelda DIY arcade machine.
• Comic strip picture frame, complete with speech bubbles to write in!
• Ever wondered what the size of a blue whale's heart is? Here's a nice visual comparison for you.
• A Delorean towing a Delorean trailer. You're welcome.
• 1800s anatomical drawings are like hand-drawn CAT scans, just amazing stuff.
• Homeless robot begs for energy.
• This pirate ship bedroom is too awesome for words.
• [VID] Creeping people out with scary kids is awesome.
• Caution - the floor is now lava.
• Angry Birds/Banksy mashup.
• Improv Anywhere setup a dude to sign autographs as King Philip IV in front of his portrait at the Met in NYC. Hee.
• [VID] Music nerd is starting young - uses his whole school as an instrument to construct a piece of music. Contact mikes at the ready!

No time (!) for Friday Five today, so here's the weekly dump of links to neat stuff. WEEKEND TIMES SOON. Hurrah.