Mad ProfessorMark Frauenfelder reviews neat stuffFrank and Cindy- July 25, 2007 G.J. Echterncamp is a young video director and documentary filmmaker. His latest subject is an utterly absorbing movie about his parents, Frank and Cindy. In the 80s, Frank was a rising new wave pop star in a band called OXO. He was in his early 20s when he married Cindy, a vivacious blond woman almost 20 years his senior. Shortly after they married, OXO broke up. Cindy supported Frank for many years as he worked the club circuit in Florida, to no avail. They both began drinking and drugging..http://www.madprofessor.net/2007/07/frank_and_cindy.html Passive aggressive sign spotted in office kitchen- July 25, 2007 (Click on thumbnail for enlargement) Please, do your fucking dishes! Thanks! Previously on Mad Professor: Passive aggressive taxi cab signhttp://www.madprofessor.net/2007/07/passive_aggressive_sign_spotte.html Super market design renderings- July 24, 2007 Shawn Wolfe says: I love looking at (ie. studying, meditating on, losing myself in) this collection of old architectural renderings of supermarket prototypes, found by their owner in a photo album purchased at a garage sale. They appear to be from the early 1960s. Store names are delightfully awkward word-play experiments and made-up sounding. I assume these renderings were used to simply show prospective clients what is possible in the way of modern "Food Mart" architectural...http://www.madprofessor.net/2007/07/super_market_design_renderings.html Cell phone photos from Tijuana- July 23, 2007 I am enjoying Glyph Jockey's cell phone photos of interesting sites in Tijuana. Linkhttp://www.madprofessor.net/2007/07/cell_phone_photos_from_tijuana.html Jane's masks- July 20, 2007 IMG_0806.JPG Originally uploaded by Frauenfelder My four-year-old daughter made these masks at summer camp today. They remind me a bit of the characters in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.http://www.madprofessor.net/2007/07/janes_masks.html NYC cabbie's Passive-aggressive sign- July 20, 2007 This no-nonsense cabbie wants his fares to know what's what without having to speak to them. Xeni Jardin snapped the photo with her iPhone and added incisive comments in her Flickr stream. Linkhttp://www.madprofessor.net/2007/07/nyc_cabbies_passiveaggressive.html Tio Nacho medicinal soap- July 19, 2007 (Click on thumbnails for enlargement) Mister Jalopy gave me this cake of Tio Nacho. It's a medicinal soap made by Bustillos in Mexico. Take a look at Tio Nacho ("Uncle Tio"). He's undeniably related to J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, the holy figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius, of which I am a devout member. Here they are, side-by-side. Can you deny the resemblance It's safe to say that Uncle Nacho was J.R. "Bob" Dobbs' uncle. This fact alone was enough to guarantee my lifelong...http://www.madprofessor.net/2007/07/tio_nacho_medicinal_soap.html iChat and AIM for iPhone- July 17, 2007 I like my iPhone very much, but I was unhappily surprised to learn that it doesn't have iChat and AIM built into it. I suspect this is because AT&T wants you to get used to paying for SMS. But I just learned about a service called JiveTalk that lets you use instant messaging on your iPhone. I tried the alpha version it and it seems to work well. JiveTalk for iPhone (alpha) Features: Multiple IM networks, multiple accounts per network: AIMiChat, MSN, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, ICQ, and Jabber ...http://www.madprofessor.net/2007/07/ichat_and_aim_for_iphone.html |