The Little Hacker's Room

Yup.

"You buy it, you like it!" Bargain Barn was a public access cable show in Shawnee, Oklahoma in the mid-1990s—a sort of QVC for hillbillies, a televised flea market where one might pick up stray drill bits, chickens, or stained and ripped pillows. As WFMU notes, it's a damn crime YouTube shows only one upload of this gem. The host/barker, whose face we seldom see, is selling nothing but absolute crap. He himself admits most of the junk is "broked," "tore up," or "needs to be warshed a few times." I think my favorite moment in the clip above is 8:35, when we get to the Style Studs ("It don't have no Style Studs in it! I'd call that a pig in a poke, m'self.") I could watch this for hours.

(Thanks, Mikael Jorgensen!)

Browser Showdown - Tom's Hardware tests 5 major browsers.

Goodnight Forest Moon - The children's classic goes Star Wars.

Twitter the Criterion Collection - Live version of Tweets and nothing but the Tweets.

Popular Science - Popular Science has put their entire archives online just for you.

Gollum Cake - I don't find that cake too appetizing, but it is very cool looking.

Sony Lost Its Way - The decline of Sony.

Older Dinosaurs - Dinosaurs are older than we thought. Nearly 7000 years!

Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs - CONFIRMED!

All Apps are Apple's - The iPhone developer license agreement.

YouTube Closes Down - YouTube ends for the night.

Exit Sign War - The international war over the EXIT sign.

Geek Test - A rather extensive (and somewhat dated) geek test.

JMS Superman - Yes, that's true, J. Michael Straczynski is taking over writing duties for the Superman comic.

Pain Reducer - Ripping off a bandage fast has been scientifically proven to be less painful.

Iron Man 2 Trailer - A new trailer for Iron Man 2. Looking forward to this one.

Sealed Game Collecting - Preserving our heritage.

The Modern Pocket - The history of the pocket from the BBC.

DRM FTW - Don't you just love DRM? Me neither.

Mr. Burns - Mr. Burns from The Simpsons brought to life. Creepy.

Fun with Math - .999... = 1

What Do You Suggest? - Type a word and see what Google suggests for you.

Cupertino, CA - Apple Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the estate of famed inventor Alexander Graham Bell claiming the telephone "invented" by Bell violated several patents held by Apple. The company expects to recover all revenue generate by phone sales over the past 134 years.

An Apple lawyer, who wishes to keep his job, said that the lawsuit was filed at the "personal request of Steve Jobs" who felt aggrieved by the fact that Bell was given credit for inventing the telephone when obviously it was Jobs.

Snip from Wall Street Journal article on the last collection of Alexander McQueen. Twice in the weeks leading up to his Feb. 11 death, Mr. McQueen messaged on Twitter, 'Hells angels [sic] and prolific demons.' What seemed a non sequitur now appears to be a reference to the collection he was working on, imprinted with the angels of Sandro Botticelli and the demons of Hieronymus Bosch. He had finished some 16 looks, about half of what the collection would typically include, at the time of his death.

His Twitter account has been taken offline, but a Google Cache exists. The final tweet: "De sade, Marie A- god rest there souls." [sic]

(thanks, Kelly Sparks)

Previously:

• Alexander McQueen's final collection
• Alexander McQueen on Charlie Rose, 1997
• Alexander McQueen has died

Look at Todbot's BristleBots go! He held a workshop at Crash Space in Culver City, CA last night and showed people how to make them. (I'm sorry I didn't announce it in advance!)

BristleBots and LED throwie art at Crash Space