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NinjaFuel | Readings for the Urban Ninja (25/02/10)

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“In the olden days, ninjas would develop their strength by wrestling with dogs, playing video games, and just plain hanging out. Fortunately, not much has changed.“ (excerpt from: Real Ultimate Power : The Official Ninja Book)

NinjaFuel is a theme for posts that will keep you and your Ninja senses alert. NinjaFuel combines recent spottings in the vast online space, funny links, links to my fav tunes, and general Ninja related goodies.

Interesting spottings:

Got the Avatar Blues? No worries! Ecorazzi presents, Pandora On Earth: 12 Places And Things That Remind Us Of Avatar.
As the World Burns: Interesting article about how Big Oil and Big Coal mounted one of the most aggressive lobbying campaigns in history to block progress on global warming, via Rolling Stone.
Tokyo studio Aberrant Architecture have proposed a mobile office canteen so that people working from home in residential areas can feel like they’re part of a big company, via Dezeen.
Sydney based Gerard Reinmuth of TERROIR has been featured as an artist on the Adam and Eve Projects website. Other featured artists include colleagues Tatiana Bilbao, Bjarke Ingels, Chris Bosse and Nick Cave.
Inhabiting a Piece of Art: It’s Not Always So Pretty: Short (20minute) Films by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine look at the difficulties of living in an architectural masterpiece — Heartfelt, thought-provoking and at times hilariously funny. Be sure to check out the videos.
Deep deep down town move: A short video of a town being moved house by house to escape mine-induced sinkholes, Amazing clip and music, surreal but amazing. Via BLDGBLG’s twitter feed – Wonderful find!
Robocalypse Alert: $32 million Defense Contract Awarded to Boston Dynamics to build BigDog (The loud all-terrain prototype robot).
For comic lovers, Credit Card Finder have put an interesting spin on Personal Finance with their ‘PF Comics’
Study finds Women take significantly longer than men to decide whether or not they find something funny- The comedy circuit via new scientist.

Ninjas to follow on twitter:

@liam_young is an independent designer and critic, together with Darrly Chen and Liam young are the f0unders of Tomorrows Thoughts Today (TTT).
@noisyrobot provides some awesome and broad content on Architecture, Music and Astronomy.

Blogs you should be subscribed to:

Hilarious Videos:

Funny episode of Klay World where the ‘klay people’ stumble upon some pancake! “I like to sit on my pancakes…”
Brett takes a look at the most popular viral videos of 2009 in the Viral Video Film School Final Exam.

Tunes:

That is all for this week from the Archi-Ninja dojo. I always love hearing from my readers with guest contributions or suggestions to include on Archi-Ninja. If you have a suggestion, any ideas, or feedback please e-mail me! e: [email protected]

Sensei Linda *bows*