Semioclast

We’ve seen tons of surveillance cameras, and even a few surveillance cameras camouflaged as birdhouses, but Celine Shenton brings us the first birdhouse disguised as a surveillance camera we’ve seen. I like the mashup of one object we should see more frequently in urban spaces with another we see all too many of.

Via TrendsNow.

1: Georgian riot police, 2007

2: Half Life 2, Combine Civil Protection, 2004

When I lived in the UK I worked as a barman (note fancy use of British slang). One night while outside casually smoking Lucky Strikes like some cool American expat I saw a fight break out between some drunks that security had ejected earlier in the evening. The smaller of the two swung a right hook and laid the other guy out. I was really impressed and until this day have cited that as one of only two instances where I have witnessed someone getting one-punched (the other was during a rugby match).

After 10 Bobbies showed up in a van and cleared the area with batons, we found a bloody wad of newspaper next to a trashcan. At the time I didn’t know what it was; I now know that it was a Millwall Brick.

Lessons learned:

1. Dennis Curtin of the Buffalo Old Boys is the only person I’ve seen accomplish this feat.
2. Creative use of game objects in the interest of griefing existed well before Second Life.

Via Bruce Schneier.