DIY of the Day: Build your own Shire-like earthbag dome with Owen Geiger’s step-by-step instructions.
Earthbag structures provide a cool space in summer and an escape from the cold in winter (ideal for humans and animals), which means this earthbag dome is well suited for many purposes, like a quiet space for relaxing or playing music.
[make.]
Crossover of the Day: Matthew Inman’s Tumblr Tumbeasts meet Yiying Lu’s Twitter Fail Whale in The Oatmeal’s terrifying ode to service outage mascots.
[oatmeal.]
Art Project of the Day: Alexander Chen’s “Conductor” uses realtime data on the MTA’s subway schedule to to turn Massimo Vignelli’s iconic NYC subway map into an interactive string instument.
The piece follows some rules. Every minute, it checks for new trains launched from their end stations. The train then moves towards the end of the line, with its speed set by the schedule’s estimated trip duration. Some decisions were made for musical, aesthetic, and technical reasons, such as fading out routes over time, the gradual time acceleration, and limiting the number of concurrent trains. Also, I used the weekday schedule. Some of these limitations result in subtle variations, as different trains are chosen during each 24-hour loop.
[chen.]
Things That Are Should Be Real of the Day: Not one to wait on awesome things to happen on their own, Jeff Wysaski @ Pleated Jeans took it upon himself to create an Arrested Development-themed Clue board game, “complete with box art, game board, suspect cards and weapon cards.”
Your move, Hasbro.
Also: George Bluth, with the money, in the banana stand.
[pleatedjeans.]
RIP Society of the Day: Your mom and dad are wrong: College isn’t worth it.
[epicponyz.]
UPDATE: This is for an Honors — HONORS! — Intro to Fiction course at OSU. From the course description:
…While we read and discuss some important, influential narratives about the supernatural – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight as well a few minor works…
1818: “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” 2005: “I sparkle like diamonds.”
[thanks sarah!]
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UPDATE: Army sides with protesters, VP Suleiman says Mubarak ordered multi-party reform dialog; State Department puts pressure on Mubarak, sends former ambassador to start talks. Who’s who in new government; who’s who in Egyptian reform. Egypt’s last ISP Noor taken offline, might be tech issue; all train service suspended.
Punny Map of the Day: The United States of America according to The Economist’s analysis of the State of the Union.
[boj.]
This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: Jason Segel and Paul Rudd, as Sydney Fife and Peter Klaven from I Love You, Man, finally realize their lifelong dream of hanging out with Rush.
Is this a one-off skit, or could a sequel be in the works?
[fod.]
[photo: reddit.]
xkcd.
(alt: “And yet I never stop thinking, ‘sure, these ingredients cost more than a restaurant meal, but think how many meals I’ll get out of them! Especially since each one will have leftovers!’.”)
