Nike doesn’t often totally blow a commercial, but the LeBron What Should I Do? commercial is just one sour note after another. A meatball for Cleveland to knock out of the park. (via kottke)

We’ve all heard of Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment that showed people are willing to torture other people when ordered to by authority figures, but we don’t often hear about his subjects who refused orders.

One of my favorite Shouts & Murmurs in quite awhile, E-Mail Auto-Response. Excerpt of reasons for not hearing back:

• Thinking about the matter gives me a headache.
• Thinking about the matter takes longer than forty-five (45) seconds.
• Thinking about the matter is simple enough, and takes less than forty-five (45) seconds, but, when combined with all the other e-mails in my in-box, it creates a synergy of matterdom, exacerbating the headaches mentioned at the beginning of this list.

Good stacking game with a nice wrinkle (the eating of the tower) and good music and graphics: Feed the King.

I should have posted this on Halloween: His Face All Red.

Always a happy day when Ross Enamait posts a new training video, RossTraining.com Compilation II. Badass, as usual. He also has an accompanying post describing the equipment he uses.

This is pretty cool, Kansas University students perform Shakespeare in original pronunciation:

KU Theatre professor Paul Meier, in collaboration with Linguist David Crystal, are staging the first-ever American rendition of a Shakespeare play in its original pronunciation. Here, KU Theatre students rehearse a scene in original pronunciation from the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Surprisingly and easily understandable. (via kottke)

Check out the Wrecked trailer with Adrian Brody. Splice, Predators, and now this. I’m liking his choice of genre picture projects.

Holy crap, this guy made an SLR camera. From scratch!

My project consists in creating a 24x36mm reflex all by myself - no more, no less. I have had this project in mind for the past 25 years, but I didn’t master the technique nor did I have the knowledge necessary to complete it until now (I’m almost 42).

• The aim is not to use pieces scrapped from existing cameras, except for the shutter curtain fabric, ball bearings and screws; I have already found a solution for manufacturing the mirror, the focusing screen and even the prism.
• This camera will not be a copycat of an existing camera, but a new design that allows me to use my workshop equipped with model-making machine tools. Of course, the design will be drawing from existing solutions, such as the focal-plane shutter of the Leica II.
• I didn’t find anything like this on the web, even on Anglo-Saxon websites, and they do like DIY a lot, I will therefore be facing the teething problems.
• This project does have some difficulties :gratgrat:, this wouldn’t otherwise be interesting. The most hindering issues for me will be the light proofness and the focal-plane shutter. As regard the light proofness, I will be bypassing this issue by drawing from the bottom-loading design of Leica, Zenit 1, Zorki… The only difference is that the bottom plate and the casing will be removable in a single piece. As regards the shutter, I scrutinized a Zenit 1 as well as a Zenit E from every possible angle to understand the operation, I have had some issues understanding it, but it now clear to me.
• Lastly, my camera will have to be reasonably sized in comparison with existing cameras. The technical level will be more or less on par with the one of the 1950s, I don’t think I’ll be able to implement an instant-return mirror, for example, but if one is too greedy from the start, the project fails and end up unfinished in a box.

Nice Myst feel to this escape-the-room game (or in this case, escape the ninja house): Kalaquli.

Hyperbole and a Half, The God of Cake. I could link to just about any post of hers and random and they’d be equally great. A couple favorites (which I’ve probably linked to before):

• This is Why I’ll Never be an Adult
• Dog
• The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

This is terrific, The True Size of Africa. Here’s just a corner to give you a taste: