2008

The Telephone as Political Instrument:...

By Bernard Carlson — really good, written in 2001 but a lot (!) of parallels with municipal...

Pocketbike Racing

Usufruct

“Harry Braverman says in “Labor and Monopoly...”
— Hawthorne effect

“GPG will then start to print some gibberish while it...”
— Robert Sosinski: Link

Curatorialists

Imagine an Amish-like community which instead of choosing a particular momentbin time to freeze...

““If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I...”
— Duck typing

Franco Sbarro

Yamaha Tesseract (via Gizmodo)

Sbarro Spokeless Bicycle Patent

Drake Passage

Mushrooms: a print a day

Many historians who have responded to Menzies’...

“Socrates: I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is...”
— Socrates on books (Plato,...

“Step 1: Feed your lion by sliding his food off a tray and...”
— via William Niebling: eHow:...

SW 2 HW

Hardware, fabbed like hydroponic marijuana, will be cheap and sold next to beef jerky in gas...

Information technology for the masses

A line of toys which allow for situational awareness at low cost. Can be used for home security or...

“Meanwhile, instead of tankers, how about dirigibles...”
— Pruned on tanker-aqueducts...

David Macaulay’s “Through Rome by blimp”

Everyone Forever / Maths / Diffusion limited aggregation

Design for tabular data display. Book of the Dead, columns...

Map in comic-strip format, Valley of the Kings, 1480-1070...

Index of Early Medieval World Maps

Google Trends for “solar power”, “wind...

Fecal Face - Tom Long Interview

Jen Stark

Jen Stark

Accelerometers - H34C

SEM image of an insect (spider mite) on a polysilicon MEMS...

“Since humans depend on their microbiome for various...”
— 6 Tribes of Bacteria, the Good...

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of...

Library of soil maps

SLIDE ACTION LEGO CROSSBOW PISTOL

“[Wired.com]: You take up gardening, we get Pikmin. You get a...”
— Q&A: Nintendo’s...

“[Audience member]: Are you aware of SimCity being used by...”

“Now, giving people access to the underlying algorithms,...”
— Wil Wright, on being asked...

Moire on parrot feathers

Nihilogic: Javascript Super Mario Bros in Canvas

Canvas Photo Experiment

In the Metal Recycling Business, It’s...

The company also attracts smaller-scale customers, like Johnny Slavos, 23, whose ponytail dripped...

Chunking is not a city in China

**On the automatic generation of case libraries by chunking chess games ** Stephen Flinter1 and...

Fwd: Phase space mapping

Begin forwarded message: > From: Jeffrey Warren > Date: June 26, 2008 9:25:08 PM EDT...

My smallest house

Aldo Rossi - Teatro del Mondo

absence of water

by Vicent Callebaut and Pixelab. (via Pruned)

Illustration: Christian Montenegro

’Pataphysics

Phase space

Universal Turing Machine, Robert Penrose

EURion constellation - Omron rings are read by many...

Prime numbers: “The distribution of all the prime...

Fomalhaut: (α PsA / α Piscis Austrini / Alpha Piscis...

Rootabaga Stories: A large number of the stories are told by...

Orgies and apple pie: Google Trends used in obscenity case

Sandman

NYC: Solve the Mystery of the Duck Butt

Fairy chess: Grasshopper (shown as an inverted white queen...

Modeling global crop yields by satellite

South Pointing Penguin based on South Pointing Chariot

Metalworking marks, “A Dictionary of Marks”,...

uscombustion.com

Picoflyer: The 60 mm rotor diameter, 3.3 grams...

Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster

“The method comes down to us through a work in Latin by an...”
— Method of Loci - Wikipedia

“Run around the house three times without thinking of the...”
— cure for hiccups

Post-War New World Map, 1942, via strangemaps

The Seattle Times: Gypsy Hypnosis

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002166501_hypnotic01.html Gypsy hypnosis has been...

A Pattern Language is the I Ching of urban design

Tree of Life. Beinecke MS 416 is a late thirteenth-century...

ANYMAILS

PS3: Everyday Shooter

Arcadium

History Of The Color Wheel by COLOURlovers

Tree of virtues & vices

Early prototype for the TES (Transparent Earth Suit)

“So new were the X-rays, said Dr. Soderberg, that she and her...”
— Scientists See Supernova in...

“Placental mammals that gestate their young internally, as do...”
— Actually I think humans are...

L’OCEAN blew up at the Nile

The Particle Zoo: Subatomic Particle Softies

Collider Detector Facility, hadron calorimeter, Berkeley

Collider

CERN - Large Hadron Collider

Gluons

via the New York Times

It does seem like big discoveries could be under every stone, behind every tree… I can imagine...

McAloo Tikki Party at the office

Giant Saibaba at Borivali East (via jeferonix)

Bamboo-filled hole in a building (via jeferonix)

Colaba police car (via jeferonix)

The 37-foot-high tent, made in British Columbia, that has...

3d Canvas example

Mount a file system on your Mac over SSH

Incipient Spall

Adalberto Libera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Dionaea House

Canvascape - 3D World in tags.

Miyamoto Musashi on the back of a whale

“Yamato (大和), named after the ancient Japanese Yamato...

Dance sketches from Movement Research

Mountainous roofscapes at SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL »...

“iPhone needs a port into which to insert a bit of feather,...”
—  Hello BlackBerry, Meet the...

“Frampton cites the work of the...”
— stereotomic research

Idea: A javascript bookmarklet which looks for references to...

Notes on The Corporation

Says that it’s “grotesque” that the 14th amendment was used to give...

“Reformatting video is no small task, but the BBC has built a...”
— Why didn’t they do it on...

Interesting addition to Google search results…...

Nabble - OATS Project Interest Group - Using...

“bill and melinda recently reread those pieces, and said that...”
— Talk to the Newsroom: Graphics...

World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting 2008

David Crow: Visualizing data

Condensing all the forms of a font into a single image: Matt...

OLPC Jam Session

Long section - Greenstop (via jeferonix)

To live in.

Ajax を使った手書き文字認識

Web-based/online OCR services and demos

iPhone to Twitter GPS logger

WordPress RSS Aggregator

A Modest Gold Farming Proposal

We spend so much damn time playing video games… much of which (for RTS games) is spent solving...

Gold Farming article by the New York Times.

THINKING IN THE RAIN

gumstix.com - way small computing Processor: Marvell®...

American ships of the line (USS North Carolina, above)

HistoryShots Race to the Moon: a nice information-dense...

As cloud computing becomes more powerful and flexible, I do think we’ll need less and less...

( @_@ ) (via mr_cactus) I find myself fascniated with the...

ANYMAILS by Carolin Horn & Florian Jenett from DMI...

Hieroglyphic determinatives are like sparklines or rather, like tagging systems.

Colors I've used

Idea for a Kogbox snippet: “Colors I’ve Used” - a timeline of colors used in...