5 THINGS I LOVE THIS WEEK… OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 1 (LATE EDITION)

4 Nov

Twinfluence“TwInfluence is a simple tool using the Twitter API to to measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus.”
My stats were a little less than encouraging. Feel free to give me a boost @andrewlockhart.

andrewlockhart’s Rank: #2,012 (75%)
Velocity: 1,465 second-order followers/day
Social Capital: 4,465.4 +3.1 Very High
Centralization: 31.95% / -0.1 Average – Fragile
This Halloween Costume
(Courtesy of Wired.com Readers’ Best Geeky Halloween Costumes).
This Buddhust Monastery Built of Beer Bottles
(Courtesy of Tree Hugger).

“Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand’s Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple.
Brendan Stevens Skimming Maybe if I hadn’t forgotten to bring my board with me to California, I would have been riding like Brendan Stevens in this upcoming film for Exile Skimboards.
The Anatomy of a Lego Man
(Courtesy of Gizmodo via Lucas)

Anybody who knows me, knows how I feel about Lego (I attribute any success I experience to a combination of my parents and playing with Lego as a child). Jason Freeny has done an incredible job laying out the anatomy of the classic Lego man (even explaining the detachable head).