Lego Sequencer Creates Crazy 8-Bit Beats

Frank Cozzarelli · 03/10/10 05:49PM

Japanese artist/designer Yoshi Akai has engineered a sequencer that uses Legos to manipulate sound! The Lego Sequencer MRII is a 3-channel, 8-step sequencer that creates beats that wouldn't be out of place on a Crystal Castles record.

Take a Trip with this IHOP Ad from the 60's

Frank Cozzarelli · 03/10/10 05:14PM

Although they were doubtlessly trying to present a wholesome image, there's something about this ad that makes you feel like you're on drugs. What is it about grainy footage of people running through a field with balloons that suggests LSD?

Daily Link Roundup: TV News and the Best of the Rest on the Web

Whitney Jefferson · 03/10/10 05:00PM

Conan O'Brien might be touring in Canada, Leno's ratings are dropping, Rock Band is releasing Cartman's version of "Poker Face," Real Housewives are expanding to Beverly Hills, and Mad Men are being made into Barbie dolls.

Court Says NYC Owns Tavern on the Green

Brian Moylan · 03/10/10 03:54PM

A judge has ruled that the city—not the restaurant's previous operator—controls the name of the famous tourist trap, which closed January 1. Thank God. Now when it reopens, our grandmother won't drag us to "Tavern on the Park."

Sloganeering Towards Fallujah

Hamilton Nolan · 03/10/10 03:46PM

The Way We Live Now: Boldly Embracing Change. We must Move Forward and Evolve With Strength and Reward Success and other such buzzwords, if we are to survive as a nation in which people "buy" things. Not that you can.