This lovely sleeve, snugly accommodating a netbook, was made by mendicon ’s girlfriend for his Acer Apire One. [via Gizmodo ]

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NES Controller Netbook Sleeve

If the desire to spend ten grand on an aluminum soma cube thumbdrive ever takes you, this one, by Toshi Satoji Design of Milan, comes highly recommended. [ Mnemosyne via Akihabara News ]

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Mnemosyne

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Byte Magazine, August 1981

(Currently the band’s download page is offline, but the whole album is available for free download on Last.fm . No agenda, just really digging this band.)

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MP3: Office - "Enter Me, Exit You"

Goodbye, Michael . Even with all the problems, you were one of the greats. [via Karina ]

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Video: Michael Jackson’s Captain EO

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Needlepoint Space Invader fridge magnets

Guerilla artist residencies in DIY megastores [Make]

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Guerilla art at Home Depot

Samson’s Zoom R16 is a 16-track recorder that writes audio files to SD cards (although only 8 tracks can be recorder at a time). Better, it can be operated on just 6AA batteries for mobile recording. Even better, you can connect it to your computer and just use it as a control surface. There’s even a built-in stereo condenser mic that makes it possible to do some basic recording without plugging into the XLR/1/4-inch inputs. Price! $400 is suggested.

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Samson Zoom R16: Multitrack mobile recording

Miyamoto Musashi is a famous swordsman and philosopher who lived in Edo period Japan. He founded the Niten Ichi style of swordsmanship, which entails the use of two wooden swords, long and short, at the same time. The Asian Art Museum’s Lord of the Samurai art exhibit, which opens this Friday in San Francisco, will showcase the original wooden swords made my Musashi himself between 1640 and 1645. Lord of the Samurai at the Asian Art Museum

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SF Samurai exhibit showcases vintage swords and armor

Theirs is a wonderful gallery of designs , mockups and creative ideas: wouldn’t it be cool if all of them were realized and a concert performed?

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The imaginary musical instruments of Yanko