8-bit FM is a streaming music site that plays Nerdcore, chiptunes and game soundtracks 24 hours a day and they take requests… Sweet.
8 Bit FM
May 8th, 2009Beautiful Radioactive Ghosts
May 8th, 2009
Huggable HandHelds
May 7th, 2009
Aerial Tour of New York
May 7th, 2009
My Famicase Exhibition ’09
May 7th, 2009
Has it really been so long? Japanese hipster/retro culture store Meteor has unveiled this year’s My Famicase exhibition, an arena for 58 Japanese designers and artists to create fictional NES game labels, adhered to cartridges just like the real thing.
Sadly, even by Japanese standards most of these games are too bizarre to coexist peacefully in our world, and it is with a heavy heart that I’ve resigned myself to the fact I will never get to play Look at the Rainbow, Loveletter or the lengthily-titled Because it is Strong, it is Stout, it is Courageous, and it is Popular. Kauji in Childhood in my lifetime.
Full gallery right here.
(via Tiny Cartridge)
Beautiful Radioactive Ghosts
May 1st, 2009
Mario 3 Cross Stitch
April 30th, 2009Blink190 has just finished World 8…
and started work on World 2…
not even a warp whistle can manage that…
(Via Sprite Stitch)
HIV Vaccine
April 30th, 2009There’s an amazing paper that’s just been published on PLoS biology…
Basically, they studied the genes of Old world monkeys which had been found to be resistant to HIV infection, the resistance is caused by the recently identified theta-defensins (cyclic peptides which prevent viruses entering cells).
They then found theta-defensin genes (89.4% intact!) in human ‘junk’ DNA (genes which over our evolution have become inactive due to a ‘nonsense’ mutation).
Astonishingly, they were able to reactivate the gene using aminoglycosides to ignore the nonsense mutation, and produced functional peptides which are active against HIV (in vitro).
Not only is this a great step towards HIV protection but the techniques could unlock all manner of genetic fuctions that we are currently unaware of.
95% of our DNA is inactive ‘junk’ DNA- that’s a lot of potential.
Perhaps we’ll finally be getting that race of super mutants that sci-fi has so thoroughly prepared us for…
Zanis Waldheim
April 30th, 2009I thought I’d give this up and coming geometric abstract artist his big break…
I think it’s due, he was born in 1909…
Head in the Clouds?
April 30th, 2009Check out Worth1000s current photoshop contest which is all about clouds… if you want, it’s optional. You know what, forget it, you had your chance.
