OK Go’s highly successful video for “This Too Shall Pass” was a lot of people’s first introduction to the mechanical-stylings of Rube Goldberg, but people have been building contraptions that mimic his mind-boggling style for some time. Evidence: this Breakfast-making Machine…

The band OK Go has the unenviable task of having to constantly outperform themselves in terms of their music videos (evidence: their video for Here I Go Again). In their new video for “This Too Shall Pass,” they have have succeeded again:

Take special note of the astounding levels of detail here. They could have easily gotten away with much less. But, even in the world of Rube Goldberg-inspired contraptions, this video is massively impressive.

Unhappy Hipsters provides new (and seemingly insightful) captions to the coolly modern home/homeowner photos in magazines like Dwell*.

*Dwell, just for the record, is probably the best home design magazine around.

Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой translates to “I’m very glad because I’m finally back home.”

That translation offers no explanation for this amazing video…

A few selections from FoodBeast.com:

The Bacon Beer Mug

The Bacon Guy Lombardi Trophy

The Bacon Gingerbread House

The Bacon Cheese Turtleburger

“For English-speaking people who want to talk to and be understood by jazz musicians, hipsters, beatniks, juvenile delinquents and the criminal fringe.”

How to Speak Hip with your instructor Geets Romo.

I love these beautiful cover designs from Jim Tierney:

This post is a break from the normal and will probably be of interest to almost no one. But, yours truly found a solution that doesn’t seem to be anywhere on the Internet — so I thought I’d post it here to help anyone searching for the same answer: How to Get Adobe CS3 to Run in Windows 7/Vista.

If you have installed Adobe CS3 within Windows 7/Vista and are experiencing the issue where the programs (Photoshop, Illustratror, Dreamweaver, what-have-you) are either not loading or only beginning to load then “not responding” (this happens with Photoshop), rest easy: there is a fix that just might work for you!

Strangely enough, you need to a licensing fix named Adobe Acrobat 8 licensing service update (Windows Vista only).

Even though it’s listed as being for Acrobat & Vista — it fixed my issues with Adobe CS3 & Windows 7.

Good luck!

Tonight! In San Francisco…

BarBot 2010: the third annual festival of Cocktail Robotics!

“BarBot is a celebration of cocktail culture and man-machine interface. Get a drink from an actual robot. Chat up a snarky electronic bartender. Listen to some graceful tunes being played by robotic music makers. And, after downing your sixth martini, you can finally admit that it’s the geeks who shall inherit the earth.“