My favorite new music plus ten stories I excavated from 2007
And my favorite Silver Surfer toy
Here’s 10 gems from the first year of Super Punch that are still functioning links:
The Guardian reported on a “a population of super-sized chimps” in the Congo that hunt big cats.
Stenciled short text excerpts placed on sidewalks to let pedestrians construct a narrative based on their path.
The original site lives on only through aggregators, but FaceYourPockets was a fun idea where people would scan their faces along with the contents of their pockets. Items We Carry is a Flickr gallery with similar concept.
The Samsonite Black Label Alexander McQueen Hero is a rolling suitcase that looks like leather stretched over a rib cage.
A baby monitor in Chicago received a video stream from the Space Shuttle Atlantis (possibly redirected from an unknown source).
The Thai government announced a plan to publish a list of government-approved nicknames to fight the encroachment of American pop culture.
Clever, simple advertisement for “Ugly Betty.”
Sony Sony displayed the PSP Slim at the Penny Arcade Expo by attaching them with short tethers to women.
Neal Stephenson described in detail who would win in a fight between him and William Gibson.
Lemony Snicket’s parents had a clever strategy to trick him into loving reading.
Here’s my favorite new music:
5. bbno$ - lil' freak (starring MoistCr1TiKaL)
4. Little Dragon - Gold (also on Tiny Desk)
3. Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso
1. Willow - Big Feelings (also on Tiny Desk)
And in light of the Silver Surfer casting news, which already feels like ancient history, here’s my favorite Silver Surfer toy—if memory serves, it’s a kid’s meal toy from Burger King made to promote the 2007 movie “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.”
This is also possibly the best Thing toy ever made (the figures have some articulation at the shoulders, waist, neck):
