Modcult

Filed in the “WTF Maybe We Should Think Wacky Like Nintendo To Beat The IPod” Department:

Half Aibo, half iPod, the Sony Rolly ($450) is an MP3-player/robotic gadget that rolls around your room playing music from one of two built-in 20mm active speakers.

Where the Group of Seventeen sit, there final justice is done.

// Based on a script in Mark Pilgram's upcoming "Dive into Greasemonkey",
// based off another script based off that

// ==UserScript== 
// @name          replaceannoyingwords
// @namespace     http://modcult.org/userscripts
// @description   Sick of this word
// @include       *
// ==/UserScript== 


(function() {
    var replacements, regex, key, textnodes, node, s; 

    replacements = { 
        "hipsters": "members of the bohemian community",
        "Hipsters": "Toddlers",
        "hipster":  "slick johnny",
        "Hipster":  "Prussian",
        "Zen and the Art of ": "How to Good-bye depression: "
    }; 

    regex = {}; 
    for (key in replacements) { 
        regex[key] = new RegExp(key, 'g'); 
    } 

    textnodes = document.evaluate( "//body//text()", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null); 

    for (var i = 0; i < textnodes.snapshotLength; i++) { 
        node = textnodes.snapshotItem(i); 
        s = node.data; 
        for (key in replacements) { 
            s = s.replace(regex[key], replacements[key]); 
        } 
        node.data = s; 
    } 

})();

Mission Stencil Story

Cool public-art-hypertext (or maybe “walking novel” is a better term for this medium) project images in this photoset. I missed the original press when it went up, but will try and see if any are still up this weekend.

“The mission stencil story is an interactive, choose your-own-adventure story that takes place of the sidewalks of the Mission district in San Francisco. It is told in a new medium of storytelling that uses spraypainted stencils connected to each other by arrows. The streetscape is used as sort of an illustration to accompany each piece of text.”

I could see some awesome possibilites for this- perhaps merged with say new books in the City Noir series.

(via if:book)

I was about to post a link to this article, about the popularity of the Martha Stewart homes. I’m posting an image instead… I got freaked out about the next gen of targeted advertising for a second.