Almost Exciting!

I stumbled across foldschool completely by accident. I couldn’t resist linking it up. Check this out:

foldschool is a collection of free cardboard furniture for kids, handmade by you. The downloadable patterns can be printed out with any printer. Follow the instructions and assemble a stable piece of furniture.

Since I just posted about Shorpy, I couldn’t help but also throw in Ghost Cowboy.

Another amazing site, this one about actual events, news, adventure, and photographs from America’s “old west”. Or, as they put it:

Ghost Cowboy is about real tales from the 19th-century American frontier, when the Old West was young. Most of the posts here are actual news items from the 1800s and early 1900s.

Shorpy.com, known as the “100 year old photo blog” is an incredible site, devoted to displaying old photographs. So far, all of the pictures I’ve seen have been very high quality - some surprisingly high quality for their age - so this site is definitely worth checking out.

A snippet:

“Shorpy.com is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating. We’re starting with a collection of photographs taken in the early 1900s…”

Laughing Squid posted this, about an Ad series that’s being run for Suplicy Cafes. Click through to their source for more pictures like this:

If you don’t know what “TARDIS” or “MAME” is, you might want to start here. If you’re excited at the thought of *putting* one inside the other, go directly to the intsructions.

If you’re too confused to continue, read this:

TARDIS stands for “Time and Relative Dimensions in Space. ” Doctor Who (in the TV show of the same name) uses a TARDIS to travel anywhere in time or space. His looks like a 1950’s booth for calling the police.

MAME stands for “Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.” It is an emulator that runs the exact code from arcade video games on a personal computer.

…an enterprising New Zealander named Simon Jansen has combined the two concepts into a very cool video-game apparatus. A TARDIS that runs MAME.

Some pretty amazing photography from Michael Hughes. First saw these over here, but figured I’d link up the Flickr site due to some controversy. Some of them are so good they almost look fake - surely not, though, right?

UPDATE:
It’s worth a look at the comments.

Have I been in the dark? I’ve always been a big fan of the changing Google logos, but for some reason I don’t recall ever visiting the Google Logos Collection. They claim to have all of them, as far back as 1998. Cool.

I love stuff like this.

I once read an article about the creator/creation of the FedEx logo. Very interesting. I’ll try to link it up soon.

Looks like Al Pacino will be in the Ocean’s 13 movie. Maybe having my volume way down caused me to miss something, but the trailer didn’t really put me on edge. Please, please, please don’t be a flop!

Makezine has a Stained Glass PC case that looks awesome.

And while you’re modding your case and throwing out old parts, don’t get rid of a burned out LCD monitor! Make it a corkboard instead! I would so totally put one of these on my office desk if I had one. Guess I’ll be watching the garbage around here a little closer.

Also, in case you’re a “one-day-I’ll-learn-to-build-my-own-electronic-something” like I am, here’s a Homebuilt Synth (more from Make today). I’m mostly linking there because I wanted to come back and check out those related links at the bottom of the article.

Very scary doll. That site displays my favorite, but follow their listed links for more.