Tripods!

I stumbled across these odd looking audio speakers online today.
The O'hEocha Audiophile's Speakers, which are produced in Ireland and were imagined by a BMW designer, stand 3 1/2 ft. and are crafted from aircraft aluminum. They look not so much like speakers as they do tripods from "The War of the Worlds." They run about $9,000 and are currently sold out.

Then again, perhaps these speakers aren't quite as menacing as a "real" martian tripod that currently menaces Woking, England.

Know When to Fold 'Em

Susan Orlean writes in this weeks New Yorker about physicist Robert J. Lang's journey to becoming a rock star of the origami world. Link

A Blog That's True to Its Title

I Did Not Know That Yesterday is a blog that stays true to its title, unlike this blog. (Big face? Small razor?) Visit IDNKTY for a daily dose of fun facts.

Rocking the Bottom of the Planet

Pitchfork has a great article today about the music scene at McMurdo Ice Station in Antarctica. Which makes me wonder, if Ernest Shackleton had been in a band, what would it have been called?