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Mario Sculpture Built From Skateboard Decks, Plug a BP Pipe With an iPhone Duck

by Matthew Zuras on June 16, 2010 at 07:21 PM

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • While it's not strictly tech, these marvelous works by Japanese sculptor Haroshi embody the bright, video game aesthetic over which the nerdiest of art lovers (like us) swoon and salivate. Haroshi works only with discarded skateboard decks, which he stacks together and hews into glossy, toy-like figures. (He even did a beautiful Mario series, pictured above.) Check out the link for some more images from a recent exhibition of his work. [From: Designboom]
  • We wrote last week about the anti-Twitter dictum issued by Phil Corbett, the new standards editor at the New York Times, to the staff writers. A leaked memo from Corbett asked Times journalists to refrain from using the word "tweet" except under special circumstances. Corbett's now back-pedaling somewhat, saying that blogs were exaggerating the issue, and that he rarely, if ever, bans a word outright from the paper's copy. But why answer your critics at all? Sure, Switched employs jargon-y neologisms all the time, but we're a tech blog. If you're the person who sets the style bar at the almighty Times, stick with your convictions. [From: NYTimes]
  • If your kids don't already know what's going on in the Gulf, you are a horrible parent. Also, you may want to consider downloading this free iPhone app, called 'Duck vs. BP,' so that your descendants don't resent you for shielding them from one of the worst ecological crap-storms in our nation's history. This accelerometer-based game figures you as a duck attempting to plug a leaking petrol pipe while dodging oil drops and learning sad facts about our environment. Maybe your kids will grow up and join the league of heroic pelican scrubbers, or will at least want to smack an oil exec. [From: Gizmodo]
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