Miranda July is a filmmaker, performing artist and writer. She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career by writing plays and staging them at the local punk club. July’s videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in the 2002 and 2004 Whitney Biennials. Her short fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker, and a collection of stories is forthcoming from Scribner in May 2007. more >>

Miranda July has a new book published it seems. I never heard of her and have no idea if the book is good bad or indifferent. but I imagine it might be good, because Miranda is obviously highly creative. I wouldn’t often praise a website made entirely of images - you’d more likely hear me rant on about findability and the like.

But the website for Miranda’s book of short stories “No One Belongs Here More Than You” is entirely comprised of images and yet is wonderfully compelling and I looked at every page.

Check it out.

So I found this cartoon and HandRooster and thought “that’s pretty funny, reminds me of xkcd a bit though”, then I looked at some more of their cartoons and found this one which references that very fact.

They have a point about the stick men I suppose, although Hugleikur Dagsson makes his stick men unique…

HandRooster is created by a husband and wife team, Mike and Steph Adams. They have fun doing it and don’t care too much if some people hate their cartoons or think they’re similar to xkcd.

So more power to them, although to be honest the one above was the only one I found truly funny.

My soundcard is still not functioning, so god knows what sound effects come with this zombie shoot em up game, but even as a silent game it was good fun!

Gameplay is nice, ability to switch weapons is cute, a fifteen minute time waster at least

Salvador Dali on “What’s my Line” a very popular TV show for the masses back in the day. Somebody should get Damien Hirst on Countdown..

Via Coop

A bulb with a dummy screw in cap so it looks cool. From these guys, 100% (a Japanese Design firm), who also have an umbrella which stands on it’s own which I think is also excellent.