Homethinking displays comparable neighborhoods in cities across the U.S.

For example: NY’s East Village = SF’s Downtown = LA’s Echo Park.

A steampunk cell phone that replaces interfaces and features with a simple punch card for making calls { something tells me this is not a working model }

R.I.P. Yma Sumac

{ here’s some video & music }

Jim also introduces us to

Flat Bulb, like a standard light bulb, but flatter.

Jim {a soon-to-be Hanttula author!} asks:

Why buy a house when you can live on the road? 

Want a Lamborghini? Probably not. But, if you do & you’re strapped for cash, you could always build one yourself.

Natalie Portman & Rashida Jones remind you to vote in this video.
{It’s not necessarily what you might expect.}

P.S. Hanttula reminds you to vote too.

Just in time for Halloween -the 2008 Hanttula’s
HALLOWEEN (ever-growing) PHENOMETHON of LINKS & GAMES

1. Java’s Cosmic Halloween Special: a podcast mix of retro-lounge Halloween tunes and an eerie radio play with zombies, car races & possessed pumpkins.
2. Make a Realistic Stitched Wound: part of Instructables’ DIY Halloween
3. Para Abnormal: a web comic with posts for the "31 Days of Halloween"
4. Pompor: the {faux} IKEA, flat-packed pumpkin
5. Create and Draw Monsters: classic monster & Halloween coloring book pages
6. Springed Spooks Attack: Fend off attacks from spring-bound spooks to save the princess {fun cartoon style!}
7. Night of 1000 Zombies: You are a jack-o-lantern, tossing your own head to smash approaching zombies
8. Monster Match: Stack matching monsters to remove them in this reverse-Tetris style game
9. Dead Frontier – Night One: Can you survive the night during an onslaught of malicious zombies?
10. Mon-Buster: Match monster tiles to remove them in this timed memory game
11. Whack-a-Ghoul: like Whack-a-Mole but with ghouls
12. Ghost Town: a club-wielding baby in a cemetery makes battle with ghosts & other haunting baddies.
13. De-Animator: a shooting game in which you play the part of a regretful scientist who chooses to undo his "reanimation" of corpses… one bullet at a time.
14. Ghoul Academy: side-scrolling shooter action in this early 90′s style video game
15. Pumpkin Toss: a shooting-gallery type game in which you toss pumpkins at approaching ghosts, ghouls & skeletons.
16. Halloween Pumpkins: a stacking-puzzle/strategy game… with pumpkins!
17. Virtual Pumpkin Carving: illuminates when you are done!
18. Halloween Hangman:  just what you would imagine.
19. Very cool & simple (to make) Halloween Mask: [video] if you have two large sheets of paper & about 15 minutes you can create a mask that gives the impression of the wearer’s head being twisted all the way around his/her body
20. All Hallow’s Eve: Defend your home from attacking zombies. Aim for the head.
21. Candy Toss: toss treats to trick-or-treaters on the street below.
22. Halloween on Creepy Street: kind of like Super Mario Bros. expect you’re trick-or-treater dressed as a ghost.
23. Ghost Bowling: Roll jack-o-lanterns at ghostly pins!
24. Bill the Demon: Find souls. Eat them.
25. Halloween Smash: like Bejeweled, but with Halloween-related items.
26. Crumpkin’s Pumpkins: visit this haunted pumpkin patch and click (and click and click) around to see what surprises await you. { or just go to listen to the creepy ambient soundtrack }. { Works in Internet Explorer 6 & Safari Only}

Another interesting article on the modern interest in "tiki" (and the opening of a new, high-end Polynesian-influenced restaurant).

I’m not sure if DarkDan knows something that we don’t, but he sent us the following link:
Zombie Tools: Accessories for the Apolocalpyse