Legos, Glen Campbell, Philly Ghost Signs, Little Michael Jackson & More Olympics!

“Move it son, I need your toys, I’m making serious stuff here!” – Sorry chubby-fingered little ones, Legos are not toys anymore. They are the premiere building material for robot nerds and conceptual artists alike. So you can stop building that stupid little house, junior. It’s crap compared to this stuff:

• The Art of Brick: Nathan Sawaya’s Lego Exhibit Hits Philadelphia
• Beijing Olympic Games: The Lego Version
• Mindstorms NXT
• The Brick Testament

It Worked for Johnny Cash… Country legend Glen Campbell has just released an album of pop and rock covers and I’m happy to report it’s damn good — a little over polished, but it captures the spirit of early “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” Glen Campbell well enough. He wisely chose a mix of modern songs that allowed his sweetly emotive and sagacious voice to shine brightly. My faves include “Sadly Beautiful” by the Replacements and “Sing” by Travis. Campbell was joined in the studio by members of Jellyfish and Cheap Trick.

Speaking of early Glen, one of the first 45s I owned (and played to death) was the resplendent “Witchita Lineman,” one of the most beautiful and heartfelt songs ever penned. Big ups to Aunt Mary for giving me that and a bunch of other old vinyl gems when I was a kid.

9 to Fried: We do our best to collect web-based distractions here at UW, but we pale in comparison to our pal Illuminati and his daily collection of office-based time wasters.

Need More Distractions? You got ‘em. Always check out the venerable I Love Bacon. Mr. Bacon has been entertaining me for years with his simple site jam packed with “dumb but fun” photos and links.

Keeping Up with The Spandex Gods: I don’t watch the Olympics anymore, I just read Mikey P’s Olympic Recap everyday:

In men’s synchronized diving, teammates Wang Feng and Qin Kai easily won their fourth diving medal event of the games. Fourth place finishers Chris Colwill and Jevon Tarantino from the US were docked several points when they dived both off the same board while sharing a single bathing suit. More>

I See Dead Signs: If you dig urban photography and faded old city signage like me, you must checkout the Philadelphia Ghost Signage Project. It’s “a visual record of ghost signs and faded advertisements in and around the greater Philadelphia area.”

Friend Us, Won’t You: Like we mentioned recently, we’re late to the Facebook game and we still don’t realize it’s considered lame. Nonetheless, our FB Master, Scott, is looking for our 300th Group Member. Join now and our 300th member will get a swell prize.

Video: It seems our pal Dave Hill has got himself in another pickle! Check out: “Little Michael Jackson and Me”

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