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grose · 2 years ago
boznz · 2 years ago
Thank god for the Internet archive, hit that donate button while you're there and hope it never goes away.
enoch2090 · 2 years ago
Once I accidentally lost 3 poems on my blog as well as the linked Notion database, and weirdly there's nothing in the version history. Thanks to the internet archive that I found those poems back.
matkoniecz · 2 years ago
Opening archive.org link caused my laptop to start spinning fans.
jansan · 2 years ago
Site ist not down, just inconveniently slow.
freels · 2 years ago
One might say uncomfortably slow.
omgmajk · 2 years ago
Site is, in fact down.

> 508: Resource Limit Is Reached

omoikane · 2 years ago
These reminds me of the PHP hammer:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/

ChrisArchitect · 2 years ago
Similar:

Dysfunctional Luxury Products by Jeremy Hutchinson (2013)

https://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2013/01/07/useless-objects...

https://www.erratum.co/products/

Animats · 2 years ago
I didn't know that the Sony Motocompacto scooter was for real. Those are available as Second Life vehicles, although not with Sony branding. Did the real one ever sell? It seems more practical than, say, a one-wheel, and I see one-wheels all the time.
lukev · 2 years ago
Not only was it for real, it is for real. Honda recently re-launched it: https://motocompacto.honda.com
metaphorical · 2 years ago
Along the similar approach in defamiliarization, there's also Chindogu: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/chindogu-japanese-inventions/
athom · 2 years ago
Related:

A Catalogue of Unfindable Objects, by Jacques Carelman https://www.amazon.com/Objets-Introuvables-Catalogue-Fantast...

Perhaps best known for his Coffee Pot for Masochists, featured on the cover of Don Norman's book, The Design of Everyday Things https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expand...

timenova · 2 years ago
> Resource Limit Is Reached

Starting with the website itself... :)

meepmorp · 2 years ago
It's digital performance art.
fuzzythinker · 2 years ago
This guy does this too and many are funny.

https://unnecessaryinventions.com/

maxglute · 2 years ago
I would save a lot of time using that tea set with high throughput spout. I remember filling a huge pot in a waterfall sink that gently dumped a shit load of water and being very pleased at how fast it filled with very little splash back.