Simpsons @ Colette

i love the simpsons + i love fashion

= i WANT this copy of Hapers Bazaar "The Simpsons go to Paris with Linda Evangelista” “Models”: The Simpsons, Linda Evangelista, and various designers with Illustrations by Julius Preite. Marge lets down her hair for Versace. Lisa gives up her pearls for Alber Elbaz. Homer dresses as Karl Lagerfeld. Selma & Patty in Viktor & Rolf. Maggie rides around in Jean Paul Gaultier’s Birkin Bag."

sigh, and to be at the Colette exhibition in Paris with all the designers in matching outfits...

here for images of the images and the real outfits.

via NOTCOT

iTunes U

A little while ago i was musing about how good it would be if Melbourne uni architecture podcast its lectures (the law school does this already). Well well, iTunes has now launched iTunes U: the campus that never sleeps with Stanford, UC Berkerly, MIT and other institutions setting up shop.

“iTunes U makes it easy for anyone to access amazing educational material from many of the country’s most respected colleges and universities,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “Education is a lifelong pursuit and we’re pleased to give everyone the ability to download lectures, speeches and other academic content for free.”

No students will ever attend lectures again.

Hello, world!

I was doing some research on crop circles and the like for a project out in Berwick where I am proposing rooftop agriculture (can't wait for the community feed back when it goes into town planning) and came across this interesting geeky project...

In the artist's words
"“Hello, world!” is a real installation for the virtual globe of the software Google Earth. A Semacode measuring 160 x 160 meters was mown into a wheat field near the town of Ilmenau in the Land Thuringia. The code consists of 18 x 18 bright and dark squares producing decoded the phrase “Hello, world!”.

More images here

Fixed Width

One of my favourite geeks in the www (that's Whole Wide World not World Wide Web) sent this to me because he thought I would appreciate the humour and its about a girl called Emily.

from xkcd a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.