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This lady’s walking between panels of thermally-bonded polypropylene filaments which I keep thinking are giant dryer sheets. Either way, her body’s static charge is all that’s required to make the panels jump apart.

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The WhiteOut Art Installation Makes the Effects of Static Electricity Seem Dreamy [Art]

Ignore the fact that there’s no room for bread or utensils, and for a moment, appreciate the efficiency of this compact lithium ion-powered coffee maker, milk frother and toaster—no bigger than a large cereal box. You done?

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The Downtown Breakfast Set Makes Mornings Modular [Concepts]

Wayne Coyne, frontman of the acclaimed rock band The Flaming Lips, recently renovated his Oklahoma compound, and the new space gives the group’s music a run for its money in terms of psychedelic flair, playful construction, and sheer imagination. The last we saw of Coyne, he was, naturally, sitting in a bathtub on Google Street View.

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The Flaming Lips’ Crib Is Even More Psychedelic Than Their Music [Architecture]

I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother. There’s a BIG drop-off between them and my other “most frequent” contacts. You know who my third most frequent contact is. My abusive ex-husband. Which is why it’s SO EXCITING, Google, that you AUTOMATICALLY allowed all my most frequent contacts access to my Reader, including all the comments I’ve made on Reader items, usually shared with my boyfriend, who I had NO REASON to hide my current location or workplace from, and never did. My other most frequent contacts? Other friends of Flint’s. Oh, also, people who email my ANONYMOUS blog account, which gets forwarded to my personal account. They are frequent contacts as well. Most of them, they are nice people. Some of them are probably nice but a little unbalanced and scary. A minority of them – but the minority that emails me the most, thus becoming FREQUENT – are psychotic men who think I deserve to be raped because I keep a blog about how I do not deserve to be raped, and this apparently causes the Hulk rage. I can’t block these people, because I never made a Google profile or Buzz profile, due to privacy concerns (apparently and resoundingly founded!). Which doesn’t matter anyway, because every time I do block them, they are following me again in an hour. I’m hoping that they, like me, do not realize and are not intentionally following me, but that’s the optimistic half of the glass. My pessimistic half is of the abyss, and it is staring back at you with a redolent stink-eye. Oh, yes, I suppose I could opt out of Buzz – which I did when it was introduced, though that apparently has no effect on whether or not I am now using Buzz – but as soon as I did that, all sorts of new people were following me on my Reader! People I couldn’t block, because I am not on Buzz! Fuck you, Google. My privacy concerns are not trite. They are linked to my actual physical safety, and I will now have to spend the next few days maintaining that safety by continually knocking down followers as they pop up. A few days is how long I expect it will take before you either knock this shit off, or I delete every Google account I have ever had and use Bing out of fucking spite. Fuck you, Google. You have destroyed over ten years of my goodwill and adoration, just so you could try and out-MySpace MySpace. Harriet Jacobs is the nom de plume of the author of Fugitivus . She’s a mid-twenties white girl living in the Midwest, working at a non-profit that assists families and deals with a lot of racial politics. Harriet has had a fucked-up life, and Fugitivus —fugitive—is her space to talk, where the fucked-up people who did the fucked-up things couldn’t find her and be creepy. Bad Valentine is our own special take on the beauty—and awkwardness—of geek love.

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F*ck You, Google [Rant]

Apparently Industrial Light and Magic is now inserting R2-D2 in every single movie they make. Before it was Star Trek , and according to film’s visual-effects supervisor Scott Farrar, now it is Transformers 2 : There’s an R2-D2 flying around in there somewhere. There’s a little bit of space junk thrown in there; see if you can find it.

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R2-D2 Appears in Transformers 2 [Robots]

No way is an electric utility an attractive partner for a product company, least of all in the home automation space. Ask the AMI meter suppliers. The most interesting thing about the Microsoft announcement IMHO was that MS-Hohm, …

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The Future of Home Energy Management Lies With Consumers, Analyst Says

I love Gundam . Seriously, I really love love love it . But this pink hellokittyzed Gundam makes me have doubts about my sexuality

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Preeeeetty Pink Gundam Confuses My Masculinity [Gundam]

The Hero feels more substantial than HTC’s previous Android handsets, but the hardware—and the software, to a certain extent—will be familiar to anyone who’s used the company’s other hardware.

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HTC Hero Android Phone Hands-On (With Video) [Htc]

HTC’s London event, happening today at about 12:00am GMT (7:00am Eastern) today, has already been pegged as a launch for two new Android phones in a report by Digitimes.

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Is HTC Launching New Android Phones Today? [Android]

Just in time to celebrate the comeback of the director of Armageddon and Miami Vice actor Michael Bay, here’s a load of $1 retro Transformers made in China, probably made with loads of cancer-inducing paints and plastics. Wilson says these look like GoBots from the mid 1980s

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$1 Transformer Armada Looks as Silly as the New Movie [Toys]