That's How It Happened

Hardy Blechman has a protective yet prohibitive policy regarding his prized collection of nerd-toys. Cameras are banned at the Maharishi store. If you try to take a photo a bouncer promptly attempts to disassemble your camera. Fortunately my little Sony is made of sturdy stuff, and survived its "examination". Having consulted my lawyers I bring you this pic of the Michael Lau x Maharishi x Nike Air Force 1. Laser etched on the heel it says "Michaelrishi Blechman", along with the Maharishi logo. Only 5 ever made, and given that the much more numerous Fiberops x Lau x Nike Wildwood (pictured here signed by Mikey) has fetched in excess of $20,000, it's a very, very expensive shoe.

You probably knew that metafilter has a clone called monkeyfilter. Strangely ebaum's world now has a clone too, welcome to abum.

Should we drop to six days a week, and enjoy the luxury of the 28 hour day?. If you lived indoors, and never saw natural light this would be possible. But actually the circadian clock would vote for a 25 hour day, which is why you could always use an extra hour in bed.

Ray Caesar is the best art director Tim Burton never had, he was also born a dog.

More excellent invisibilty cloak images and movies.

Pierre Omidyar invented eBay. Now he's up to something else. It looks to be a lot less commercial.

GTA: San Andreas, so eager, so anticipated.

Your working day ends here Mr Bond: gyroball.