Paul, the wine guy, presents his Flickr set Understanding art for geeks. My first impression was a big shock, and I asked to my buttons: what the hell? After three of four images, my artsy side went to walk and my geek side started laughing of the hilarious (explantions) combinations. Paul explains classic paintings using (classic) expressions and commands of geek knowledge. He chose a classic Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David for All Your base are belong to us, a Gerard Dou painting for RTFM, Second Life explaining Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights“, and there it goes. (via MetaFilter)
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The perfect kitty for geeks allergic to cat hair: Computer Cat Wall Clock.

He is made out of mostly recycled computer parts, ranging from recycled hard drive platters and floppy disks, to memory ears and a wire tail.
He also uses one of the finest quartz clock motors to keep accurate time.

The charming clock cat can go to your home, if you live in the United States, for $24.99 plus mail. That means no kitty for me. (via GeekAlerts)
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Nerd Watch Museum: Our collection spans hundreds of models, dozens of manufacturers and infinite gadgetry. I had some watches with cool “high-tech” features, like date, alarm and chronometer. But I never had a watch with a calculator. I think I wasn’t nerd enough.

The artist Nemo Gould has been creating his signature style of kinetic metal and found object sculpture for over 20 years. His portfolio has shows fabulous mixed media and found object sculptures, with a neat retro style. It also includes videos of his creations in movement.

Nemo Gould was cool enough to share the tutorial of the process of four of his last pieces, step-by-step, with lots of process photos at Instructables: the Giant Kinetic Robot sculpture, the Jacob’s Ladder Sculpture, the Chopper bicycle and the Giant Squid kinetic sculpture of the picture above. Below, a two-minutes videos of the giant squid moving.

How pretty or cool is the not found page of your blog / site? I’m ashamed of the layout of 404 pages of my blogs: they are boring normal. I wanted some funny image, as the several images collected by 404lounge.net. The gallery has almost four hundred screenshots the most funkiest, freakiest and funniest examples 404 pages.That’s just the begining.
The 404 Research Lab has a huge collection of links to 404 pages divided by category and themes. There are no screenshots, but they worth the visit, at least the categories I checked. They also have: a do-it-yourself 404 tutorial, with good reasons to build it and step by step with the technical information; pages with tips to fix your pages with errors;news; and the history of 404.

I keep this blog safe for work and that’s a pity, because I would like to post more not safe images. The funny thing is, that I know this blog was blocked by some (stupid) filters at work and school, as if it had some “immoral” content – at least in Brazil. Even they I blog about sex, I use a safe image – or make it safe.
So I hope I didn’t offend anyone with the image above from Make Love Not War photo set. The set was created by cszar with his naughty T-800’s robots. Warning: the set contains naked robots in sex positions. But in the name of the positions, there are binary codes.

I would like to have played more videogame in my childhood. Just a vaguely thought, based on my knowledge of the games of this set of Atari Game Manuals, with 103 images. I know several by the name, just by the name. I remember to play Astroblast, Asteroids, Pitfall!, Space Invaders and Pac-Man. That’s all. The Atari wasn’t mine and I wasn’t able to finish any of those – I was a bad player. BTW, the worst Atari game ever is on too.
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The fantastic on-line geek store ThinkGeek has a tradition to release their most incredible products at April 1st. I remember when they showed for the first time the PC EZ-Bake Oven to make tiny cakes while you are using the computer, the Fundue, a desktop USB Fondue Set and Buzzaire – Metered Dose Caffeine Inhaler, that would be perfect now.
This year they highlighted seven new products: The ThinkGeek WiiHelm to fit your Wii control and let you hands free to eat cereal while you play – with a very illustrative video-; The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie, to all the guys that miss the 8-Bit video games; a set of Piranhaz – R/C Battle Fish, with two battle fish, equipped with their own laser cannon; SurgeStix – Inhalable Caffeine Stix, a kind of cigarette with coffee in the tobacco’s place; and the damn useful The Lonely Guy Dream Vacation Digital Photo Frame, all you need to make your friends stop to encouraging you to take a vacation.

My honourable mention goes to two of them. The first is the Sn?zNL?z, a Wifi Donation Alarm Clock, is brilliant. It connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze! That’s what I call a very efficient alarm clock, that deeply motivates you to wake up. The tagline says everything: Wake up to the smell of…Animosity…
And the second honourable gadget is the Vilcus Plug Dactyloadapter, which allows anyone to quickly and easily test the working condition of any wall socket. Really useful and it’s much easy than try the kids technique – search for things that could fit at the wall socket. This ingenious product was developed by the Russian design studio Art Lebedev specially to ThinkGeek customers enjoy the health benefits of finger contact with high-voltage electricity.
Check also the other amazing products announced by Think Geek through the years. BTW, I made a screenshot of their main page in the case of some of you miss it at April Fool’s Day.

From time to time this blog receives visits of people searching for Daleks. Those incredible extraterrestrial mutant creatures from Doctor Who series are much more popular that I imagined. The first time I made a post about the Daleks I had no idea that it wouldn’t be enough to cover it. Then, a while after, I saw a very nice tutorial of How to Make a Dalek and IR Control Daleks.
Of course that wasn’t enough. Every time there are new stuff about them: crochet and more crochet Daleks (via Quiddity), Dalek cakes and many other kind of related Dalek stuff that fans collect. For fans it’s never enough. And to keep you busy for a while, here is a list of tutorials to you make your own Dalek. Chose the material and start working:

- Building a Robotic Dalek Pumpkin: a neat tutorial from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories for those with more talents, that only cut and paste. It requires an arduous work but it worth it.
- Build your own tiny Dalek army: an easy tutorial, with a PDF version including a Dalek skin, from RMIT University to build a Dalek using very easy to find materials.
- DalekCity presents the history of Daleks and some steps of more elaborated models. But the webmaster must be exterminate, since the site just works on IE.
- Dalek Chocolate Cake: with a lot of labour, patience, chocolate cookies and chocolate you will make a delicious Dalek to be exterminate as soon as you finish it.
- Two tutorials from Scary-Crayon: Genesis of the Homemade Daleks: Part 1 and Part 2. The first tutorial demands some materials very easy to be find, some creativity and time. The second it’s even more easier, with coloured Dalek patterns, which original template can be found at The Ultimate Dalek Factory.

Doblando Papeles is a fantastic new papercraft blog, or I must say origami blog. Created by Miguel, a Spanish that lives in Barcelona, the blog has beautiful creations with paper. There are “just” with the images of his last creations, posts with several pictures showing all the steps and some other posts with videos. Following his posts you will able to make little starts, tesselations, sonobes, a paper box or the cool Torus 555 Phizz illustrated above. (via hoemro)