LEGO
I’m going to spend 10 minutes on the 13th November being interesting. About Lego. On the same day, dozens of other people are also going to be interesting, about topics as diverse as sidesaddle riding, feral children, American baseball scorekeeping and cake. This isn’t just a random occurrence, it’s part of an event called Interesting North, [...]
This video is pure Lego porn. If you can get over the somewhat cheesy intro, this is actually a pretty compelling pitch for a new lego set which lets you build London’s Tower Bridge. The designer in the video is Jamie Berard, who used to be simply an adult fan of lego (an AFOL, in [...]
I love the list of ‘fictional universes’ on Wikipedia. It contains everything from The Simpsons to Star Trek to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The Fictional Universes database on Freebase is even better, as it contains thousands of details about the universes, such as species, objects, and even ethnicities. However, one universe neither site [...]
The new Lego ‘Mindstorms’ robot looks cool, and Lego have just announced that they’ll release open-source developer kits enabling access to the Software, Hardware and Bluetooth components. The director of the product has said “most often, innovation comes from the core community of users – our ongoing commitment to enabling our fan base to personalize [...]
Two cool lego links before I go to bed. First, the Google Talk team have made lego Google logos. Pretty good. They use the term “legos”, which is frowned upon by the Lego company (for fear that it’ll become a generic term and lose its brand status), but I think it’s quite widely used in [...]
Well, I’ve had an enjoyable weekend. On Saturday (5th November), it was my younger brother’s 20th birthday, and so to celebrate, I took him on a day out to Legoland Windsor. A theme park full of families with small children might not seem like an obvious way to celebrate leaving teenagerhood, but we both like [...]