Make Your Own Letterpress

This and many other projects can be found at www.readymade.com which is a really great website that provides plenty of projects to 'make your own....'. This is just an example of one of the many great instruction guides for fiendish D.I.Y.

I mean why wouldn't you want a knitted lamp or to turn your door into a table.

Angry Birds Birthday Cake

For all those of you who are addicted to this game and some of you who are not, this is a brilliant idea. We at SH are curious as to what a Mario or Sonic playable birthday cake would be like. Click the link below to see other birthday based creations unfortunately non were found that are playable. Post your comments below if you have made any or have found any.

Film of the Week : Independence Day

Independence day, its an old film, but by golly gosh its a good un! Its a bit crappy but thats what makes it brilliant.

The cast of actors is not bad either! Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Brent Spiner (other wise known as Data from Startrek)

AND not forgetting, THE MAN, THE LEGEND THAT IS...

Adam Baldwin!!!

Put simply, a good old fashion fun film! Watch it. Love it!

Carsten Nicolai

The work of German artist Carsten Nicolai blends the disciplines of mathematics, science and art. The piece above refers to Richard Buckminster Fuller's experiment concerning the packing of spheres in space. The Kepler Conjecture deals with the maximum density of differently arranged three-dimensional layers of spheres.

The Inner City Bikes : ICB 36 and the ICB 29

"ICB 26"

Inner City Bikes have tried to redefine bicycles for short city commuting. Their website states is “The world doesn’t need another bike redesign—the world needs thoughts on simplification, part reduction and greater product life span. Our lives need attention and care, not the objects that serve us.”

"The inner city bike was designed by JRUITER + studio as a project asking questions about ultra short inner city travel. What is needed, who is riding, and how far are they going. At first glance it was a fun aesthetic opportunity in new trends, color, and materials. Our target lived / worked in an inner city environment with minimal space. Bicycling at this level can be more about fashion and culture than speed and performance." Catch the rest of this statement and more pictures  after the jump.

The use of bio-mimicry in creating sustainable architectural environments. Michael Pawlyn : Using nature's genius in architecture.

As per usual TED lectures have provided a truly inspiring and innovative answers to very obvious and often everyday problems. In "Michael Pawlyn : Using nature's genius in architecture." Michael looks upon things such as pollution and the bi-products of over population and industry as opportunity. Michael's source of inspiration comes from nature, bio-mimicry some of the solutions are truly fantastic, not just using the bi-products of industry to make industry carbon neutral but rather reverse the process completely.

Also he uses nature similarly as a point of departure for more intuitive and efficient architecture such as the "The Eden Project", depicted here.

The TED website describes this video with the blurb, "How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun." This really is an inspiring lecture giving a little bit of hope in humanity just to dull the cynicism for a while. Defiantly worth your time to have a look at this one. To view TED where this video was sourced click the link,HERE.

Get Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun and Firestorm for FREE

Like many people these games were my childhood and very memorable, Red Alert particularity. Also because Red Alert, due to overuse exploded in the family CD drive killing the computer. But there’s no danger of that this time as these versions are digital.

I must stress that this is not piracy and is completely legitimate, and came from the official Command and Conquer website which is visit able from HERE. If you'd like to download all 4 games the link to the site is HERE. Unfortunately this is not a mac friendly download but if you do want to play any game on mac or for that matter use any windows software on mac try running the open source software Darwine. Darwine is not a windows emulator it just sets the file structure so that windows programs will work without having to use anything like bootcamp. There's a little more info after the jump.

Protected by the Power of Grey Skull [Norton 2011]

"By the power of Grayskull" Just a quick yet brilliant little thing to bring to your attention, if you install Norton 2011 this is the completion screen which pops up, whist Norton is an excellent piece of software they may be getting a little above their station.

If you need it Norton may actually send this guy to protect your pc from Skeletor and his malicious infections as of the 2012 edition. Although if you update the software as usual it will cost more than just buying a new version. "I have the power!" and you can to for just £23.00 for 3 Greyskull PC Licences, see Amazon.



Norton 2011 is an excellent piece of software, much better than anything free [AVG], and it installs and works fantastically quickly. However I can't comment on whether He-man, the Masters of the Universe or Cringer are contractually obliged or ever for that matter affiliated with Norton, whom coincidentally are based out of the planet of Eternia.