LEGO Punk

So, guess what I'm listening to, today!?

A stunning album, to start the week.

Although this is the LEGO version. Obviously...

It's simple, and it only works in straight lines, but it should be inspiring enough for someone to build a much larger version that can do much more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de4xdOVVROQ

A charming, if simplistic, animation of this classic Nintendo computer game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfOk4ao5FIU&feature=related

With all the possible components with which to build a automata, and all the problem domains, the last one we'd have though to get the treatment would be knitting.

But, no!

Someone's gone and built a LEGO knitting machine. For real...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV19wqtfyF0

It's Tuesday. And after Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!

Ok - so it's an old joke. But it's the only justification I can find for showing you the most useless thing ever, on Tuesday.

It's a machine that, when you switch it on, goes and switches itself off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixx92NkO78w

It's a gentle start to the week, this week, and so here's one of many LEGO-built sweet machines you can find around teh interwebz. This gets my pick of the day simply because the build took some effort to find matching bricks for the housing! And because there's a coin slot which (sorta) works. It's not a complex mechanism, but it provides a elementary level of security.

Of course, nothing stops you from taking the top off.

Mmmmm... maybe they should combine it with a puzzle box!

The astronaut is just one of several large LEGO sculptures, featured on the page below. Since this week has had a (slight) space theme, it seemed only right to end it with this.

http://steinaufstein.net/bildergalerie.html

Building a model of the International Space Station is kinda cool.

Building a model of the International Space Station, whilst _on_ the International Space Station is very cool.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/250778/astronaut_builds_a_lego_iss_while_...

There's, there's probably only one person who'll have lay claim to doing so, but at least he's captured here.

So, in what is apparently blatent cross-self-promotion, todays LEGO figurines are brewers. This is solely because my book on beer (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-British-Beer-Book/dp/B004SV2EVA since you asked :) got to Number One, in the Amazon ebook charts, in the section on beer. To you it might be a minor achievement! But to me, it means another £1.53 in royalties that I can now spend on. Er. Beer.

Or LEGO.

Difficult question that: beer or LEGO? Beer or LEGO?