Cool-Mo-Dee (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
24 comic strip scans from 1924 in cbz format. The quality isn't the greatest but it's a great glimpse into the past at the height of newspaper comic strips' popularity. Link
Geek Gaz Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a amazing construction set. The Q-BA-MAZE combining the concepts of LEGO with the concepts of Rube Goldberg, which gives you a set of 20 to 50 pieces that you put together to make a descending maze for marbles. The structures can be recreate again and again with your imagination and creative play and [...]
Free Gamer (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... department where Nexuiz doesn't shine. And ODE physics have been implemented into Nexuiz: Rube Goldberg machine in Nexuiz Besides these great news, there is a nice modification in the works which adds zombies and spider-bots (awesome combination if you ask me ;) ).
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... pay for it. The plans for arena transactions and PILOTs; see if they make sense to you They're not Rube Goldberg contraptions, instead they are the schematic plans that illustrates how the arena bonds are structured and get paid pack. Just to be clear: Ellerbe Becket is the arena architect; SHoP is merely the façade architect Though SHoP has been brought on board to satisfy...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... bill. But it is not. It is the central demand of the liberal base of the Democratic Party in this rube goldberg health care plan and has long since gone way beyond a policy to become a symbol. Perhaps that is wrong on policy grounds. People will argue about that forever. But that doesn't change the fact that it is no longer a matter of policy but rather a matter of political power....
MoPo | Geek News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Blake Fall-Conroy's "Minimum Wage Machine" is a penny-dispensing Rube Goldberg machine that "allows anybody to work for minimum wage."The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money....
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... the message to the government over in Pakistan to fight harder against al Qaeda. It sounds more Rube Goldberg than ‘Remember the Alamo.' Also try tonight to workout whether the president's goals in Afghanistan are achievable. Are they? And of course, there's always Dick Cheney who jumped it from under his bridge to bite the president's ankle even before he made the speech tonight....
GeekDad (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
DaVinci’s Secret Machines is a new iPhone game that recalls old PC games like The Incredible Machine, with Rube Goldberg-like machines built to solve physics puzzles. I got to try the game out recently, and it kept me entertained for a while. The graphics are nice, as you can see from the screen shots, with [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Blake Fall-Conroy's "Minimum Wage Machine" is a penny-dispensing Rube Goldberg machine that "allows anybody to work for minimum wage." Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches) The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds,...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Blake Fall-Conroy's "Minimum Wage Machine" is a penny-dispensing Rube Goldberg machine that "allows anybody to work for minimum wage." Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches) The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds,...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Here's Japanese mixologist Kazuo Uyeda demonstrating his "hard shake" technique. Whatever he's mixing looks delicious. ginza hard shake (via Kottke) Previously:The Sweet Delirium of the Perfect Eggnog - Boing Boing Rube Goldberg cocktail-mixing machine - Boing Boing Halloween cocktail photos - Boing Boing HOWTO make a snail out of a melted cocktail stirrer - Boing Boing Mario-themed...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Here's Japanese mixologist Kazuo Uyeda demonstrating his "hard shake" technique. Whatever he's mixing looks delicious. ginza hard shake (via Kottke) Previously:The Sweet Delirium of the Perfect Eggnog - Boing Boing Rube Goldberg cocktail-mixing machine - Boing Boing Halloween cocktail photos - Boing Boing HOWTO make a snail out of a melted cocktail stirrer - Boing Boing Mario-themed...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
At 17 feet high, the door's guts are more complex than a Rube Goldberg machine. Architectural Review has tapped four projects by young architects in its annual Emerging Architecture Awards. The projects include one gorgeously rustic school in China ; a lovely, sylvan research office in Spain; an elegantly minimal friar's quarters in Ireland; and also...a door. Granted, the door had to...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Professor Alexander's Botanical Vasculum - Steamed 300 watt Moss Terrarium from Etsy seller SteamedGlass is a beautiful blown-glass steampunk Rube Goldberg terrarium: "This is the largest of our "steamed" light bulb terrariums with a bulb measuring 3 3/4" x 7 3/4". It stands 10 1/4" tall as mounted on the SteamPunked stand made of a simulated cherrywood base,...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Professor Alexander's Botanical Vasculum - Steamed 300 watt Moss Terrarium from Etsy seller SteamedGlass is a beautiful blown-glass steampunk Rube Goldberg terrarrium: "This is the largest of our "steamed" light bulb terrariums with a bulb measuring 3 3/4" x 7 3/4". It stands 10 1/4" tall as mounted on the SteamPunked stand made of a simulated cherrywood...
