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 toFlat 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'sHALLOWEEN (ever-growing) PHENOMETHON of LINKS & GAMES Java's Cosmic Halloween Special: a podcast mix of retro-lounge Halloween tunes and an eerie radio play with zombies, car races & possessed pumpkins.Make a...

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

While I am deeply engrossed in an offline special project, I pop up to share with you a fine article from the Wall Street Journal Tiki Doesn't Have to Be Tacky(If the current economic woes have you down, there are few better cures than a little of the...

On this most auspicious of days, Jim wants everyone to be able to Post Like A Pirate

Laura & Misha want to keep YOUR lunch safe, hence they share:The Anti-Theft Lunch Bag 

 Arrr! Avast! Ahoy and all that! This Friday (Sept. 19th) is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.Need help quickly? Here's a shortcut to 'How to Talk Like a Pirate.'

 Failing economy got you down? Don't worry - just make yourself a Rice Krispie Treat Panda. All will be well.

The Bubble Calendar = absolutely awesome. It's a calendar printed on bubble wrap where you can pop the days as they go by. Fantastic. But -- $50? Yikers.

The Stairway Suite presents the undying rock classic "Stairway to Heaven" re-imagined, if you will, through the compositional sensibilities of: Franz Schubert, Gustav Holst, Glenn Miller, Gustav Mahler, Georges Bizet and Ludwig von Beethoven. It's not simply...