June 2010
1 post
The magic levitating top →
When this magnetic top is set spinning over another magnet, it levitates. No superconduction necessary. (via @ebertchicago) Tags: magnetism physics science video
Jun 1st
May 2010
5 posts
Monday puzzle time! →
Shared by Yuliy Still kind of makes no sense to me even after reading the explanation. Here’s the entire text of a talk given at math, magic, and puzzle gathering (attendees included Stephen…
May 29th
How recipes should look (by Starsammy) →
How recipes should look (by Starsammy)
May 17th
Humble Indie Bundle hits $1m, goes open-source,... →
Shared by Yuliy I’m so proud of our indie gaming community. There should be more of this. And speaking of which, Steam’s indie game bundle is a good deal as well. …
May 14th
Copenhagen wheel stores and provides power for... →
Make: Online, which is currently covering alternative transportation, posted this neat video of a concept product from MIT Senseable City Lab called the Copenhagen Wheel. Its basic…
May 5th
Switching Thumbs animated gif →
From Gif Bin.
May 4th
April 2010
3 posts
Soundshapes: Amit Pitaru/Zach Gage bring Sonic... →
Shared by Yuliy OK. I haven’t wanted an iPad until now. This is amazing. Best known for his “irresponsible” art/game Lose/Lose — which deletes files from your hard drive every time…
Apr 14th
The robot who considers towels →
Who knew that watching a towel-folding robot could be so funny and fascinating? I found this on Mike Migurski’s site and I cannot improve upon his description of the video: There is…
Apr 14th
The Story of Bottled Water →
Shared by Yuliy From FastCompany: The Story of Bottled Water breaks down the problems with our beloved water in signature Annie Leonard form, with juicy tidbits like: one third of bottled water…
Apr 14th
March 2010
14 posts
New World Order →
[Image: Work by Shannon Rankin, taken from the artist’s Flickr page]. Artist Shannon Rankin does amazing things with maps. Treating them as mere pieces of decorated paper to be…
Mar 31st
The internet in 1969 →
What the wife selects on her console, will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console. Tags: video
Mar 26th
David Mamet's guidelines for screenwriting →
In a memo to the writers of The Unit, David Mamet (the show’s executive producer) provides a short but master class in writing for television. THINK LIKE A FILMMAKER RATHER THAN A FUNCTIONARY,…
Mar 25th
Wired article about young criminal mastermind →
(From left: Blanchard at age 8; with his then-wife and father-in-law in Vienna, 1998; Blanchard’s girlfriend enjoying his proceeds in 2006. Photos: Courtesy of Gerald Blanchard) Joshuah…
Mar 25th
Cloak Bag →
Shared by Yuliy If anyone wants to get me a present… Please meet Cloak Bag, the world’s first shoot-through camera bag. Brilliant! Watch this video to see how the bag…
Mar 25th
The Dense States of America →
Shared by Yuliy Let’s do it! If the population density of the United States was equal to that of Brooklyn, the entire US population would fit into New Hampshire. The state would be ruined,…
Mar 24th
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Quantum mechanics just got REAL →
The opening paragraph of the article says it all: A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not…
Mar 18th
Miniature NYC, a movie →
Shared by Yuliy I want every movie to be in tilt-shift. Do yourself a favor: take the next five minutes and watch this tilt-shift video of NYC in fullscreen HD. The construction stuff that starts…
Mar 12th
Dog Stache →
image by dog-milk.com This is for you Tim: Dog Stache. (thank you herrt)
Mar 10th
"Fat" is now a taste →
Shared by Yuliy Kottke is back you guys! In addition to sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami, Australian scientists have found evidence that humans can also taste fat. “We found that the…
Mar 9th
8-bit map of NYC →
Shared by Yuliy Yaaay Fully draggable, zoomable, Zelda-like map of NYC…this is awesome. But where are the Octoroks? (via waxy) Tags: maps NYC
Mar 8th
Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой →
Nothing I can say here will make this any better. (Thanks Jim and Steve!)
Mar 1st
Mercedes-Benz Tornado →
While we’re still on the subject of artificial weather, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, designed by UNStudio, can repurpose its internal ventilation system to form an artificial…
Mar 1st
North Korea's woman traffic-cops and the robotic... →
Super Punch has rounded up a bunch of the best YouTube videos of Kim Jong Il’s “traffic girls,” who are dressed in snappy uniforms, which they wear as they perform an elaborate, robotic…
Mar 1st
February 2010
28 posts
Walmart Bests Whole Foods in Blind Taste Tests... →
Shared by Yuliy Not a huge surprise. Local »» Organic. Anyway, inorganic fruits and vegetables definitely taste the same as or better than organic because they’re get bigger and sweeter and are…
Feb 26th
Edit your Consciousness →
SPRAY TO FORGET functions as a beneficial editor for one’s consciousness, removing undesired memories from the user’s psyche via supported intent. Reed Seifer proposes that “in order to…
Feb 25th
Concept for swarming "display blocks" →
Shared by Yuliy Amazing concept that is beautifully illustrated. Last week, I posted about Flyfire, an MIT research project to explore whether a swarm of tiny illuminated helicopters…
Feb 24th
Edit your Consciousness →
SPRAY TO FORGET functions as a beneficial editor for one’s consciousness, removing undesired memories from the user’s psyche via supported intent. Reed Seifer proposes that “in order to…
Feb 24th
Islands in the Net →
This is part of the week-long sprawling Glacier/Island/Storm conversation that’s happening in conjunction with BLDGBLOG’s design studio being taught at Columbia’s Graduate School of…
Feb 23rd
4 trillion degrees Celsius →
Using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, particle physicists have succeeded in creating quark-gluon plasma, the temperature of which is 4…
Feb 22nd
A Man of Many Moods →
Shared by Yuliy You should all be reading this internet comic strip. It is brilliant.
Feb 21st
Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-Up Men →
Just over a month ago, I ran into a friend at a CES event. While I see this friend around town once in a while, this was the first time I’d seen him in a non-casual setting since…
Feb 18th
Green screened →
Shared by Yuliy The real amazing here besides the special effects is the lighting design that makes it seamlessly integrate into the virtual outside. I had no idea how many outdoor scenes on TV…
Feb 17th
Carnival 2010 →
Shared by Yuliy Incredible. Once more, it is Carnival Season in many countries around the world with a Roman Catholic heritage. Celebrations and parades are put on just prior to the observance of…
Feb 15th
Bing Maps Wows 'Em At TED2010 →
Shared by Yuliy Google has some major competition. theodp writes “In an eye-candy filled presentation that earned him a standing-O at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality mapping…
Feb 15th
Bear With Three Legs Walks Like People! →
Shared by Yuliy WOAH. Bears. I have watched this like four times now and I’m still all, WHA? Anyway: “No one seems to know how the bear lost her right paw and foreleg, but she’s…
Feb 14th
Donnie Darko And Tim Burton Are No Longer Lovable... →
Shared by kuroki Yeaaaa. As usual, I find myself agreeing with the Onion AV Club. Two gothic treasures have lost their dark lustre, according to the Onion AV Club. When asked which pop-culture…
Feb 14th
Protect your privacy from Google →
After months and years of complaints, Google is now allowing users to opt-out of its service by moving them to a remote mountain village. Tags: Google privacy
Feb 12th
Sketchpad →
This is really cool — a well-featured painting app that runs entirely on HTML5. [Source]
Feb 11th
How To Hide An Airplane Factory →
Shared by kuroki This would probably still work to fool Google Earth. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from…
Feb 10th
New Muppet Vid: Beaker’s Ballad →
Feb 9th
Vancouver forecast: light winds, unlimited... →
Shared by kuroki I just had this idea this weekend. Google stole my idea. The view from Whistler Mountain is something everyone should see: a range of rugged mountains, trails of snow, fir trees…
Feb 9th
Authentic imitation →
The way that books used to be printed, the reader would have to cut open each page with a paper knife before it could be read, every page a tiny gift from the writer. The printing happened on…
Feb 8th
The auteur's Super Bowl →
Shared by kuroki The Wes Anderson and Werner Herzog ones are really good. What if the Super Bowl was directed by Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarantino? You’d get something like this. The Werner…
Feb 5th
Cult Movie Visions Of The Future Transformed Into... →
The screencaps from obscure foreign science-fiction films in Mononukleoza’s Flickr account are hypnotic in their strangeness. Captured in moments of psychedelic glory or alien stateliness,…
Feb 4th
Vans, vans, vans →
Shared by kuroki I’m pleasantly surprised by how good this is. Photos of vans and the places where they were. Suddenly, I want a van. (via matt) Tags: cars photography
Feb 4th
Man carried across Manhattan by strangers →
Comedian Mark Malkoff set out to disprove that New Yorkers are unfriendly and unhelpful by cajoling people into carrying him the length of Manhattan. Hilarious. He made it all the way up…
Feb 2nd
Twitch clicking game →
Shared by kuroki Worked perfectly in Firefox. From Casey Reas, a quick Chrome-only mouse-only game called Twitch. (thx, david) Tags: Casey Reas video games
Feb 2nd
It's Time To Get Serious About Colonizing Space... →
Today the Obama Administration unveiled its new budget for NASA, which included a shocker: Plans to return to the Moon have been scrapped. So why are we optimistic? Because Obama’s budget…
Feb 1st
A simple case of miraculous conception →
Never bring your uterus to a knife fight. I think that’s how the old adage goes, or perhaps, how it should go. NCBI ROFL reports on the strange story of a woman with no vagina, who…
Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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