"This is so nice, I’d kind of like a print of it for my wall." Yes please. (Looks like an original patent of the lego block, to me).

Microcontrolled Lego printer, running off some kind of postscript driver, I guess. Properly awesome - and, of course, the most important thing is all the little chaps that keep it working.

"The Lego Step-sequencer is 3 channels 8 steps sequencer. The different coloured Lego pieces each have their own sound. Connecting the Lego three-dimensional makes complex sound. This is building sound more than playing sound."

"Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?” No. In our house, it’ll always be: “Dad, please could you pass me that four-er?”" So true. I'm trying to recall our own nomenclature.

"The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today that The LEGO Group is now the exclusive licensed manufacturer of Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO Architecture sets." Hmn. Not sure what the market for these is, beyond curios; they're not particularly high-resolution, for starters.

"This is not intended to be a fun game. It has all the trappings of a LEGO game. It has the forgiving game mechanics. The ease of control. But it uses these elements to create a cognitive dissonance between the ease of the actions and the terrible nature of their real world counterparts." Corvus hypothesises what A Lego Clockwork Orange might look like. Thoughtful stuff.

A detailed look at various techniques for greebling Lego models.

What it says on the tin.

"an alternative way to represent time schedule tracking by stacking different lengths of Lego blocks as a way to convey different sequential time periods. stacking hourly rows on top of each other builds up the whole day, while color represents the different projects at hand. a whole week of time tracking is created by setting up a series of rainbow-colored days." Awesome.

"...visiting [Lego's] secret vault guarding almost every Lego set ever manufactured—touched me in a way I didn't expect. This wasn't amazement or simple awe... these were tickets to ride a time portal to emotions and simpler days long forgotten."

"The more you play, the more you get to build things" Which is only how it should be.

"With these three agreements — which distilled months of social justice exploration into a few simple tenets of community use of resources — we returned the Legos to their place of honor in the classroom." Wonderful article about education.

Joel Johnson interviews a designer of some "classic" Space Lego, from c.1990. I had a least one of these sets - it was one of my favourite Leg sets to build; really well thought through.

'Apparently, Mailer built “a vast Lego city, incorporating some 15,000 pieces, known as the city of the future, seeming to take as much pride in it as in any of his other creations.”'

I. Want. This. T-shirt.

35mm pinhole camera, made out of lego. Delightful.

Wow. Just wow. Phenomenal print adverts for Lego, that manage to sum up the brand so well.

"Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against". Sounds awesome!

Cal bought a Lego Star Destroyer. It is *huge*.

Lego 'hired' Mindstorms geeks to help them develop a next generation of Mindstorms system. This Wired article explains what happens. Fun.

Mechanical logic gates executed in lego. beautiful.