August 2011
3 posts
How to Get $12 Billion of Gold to Venezuela →
Felix Salmon ponders an interesting problem: how to move $12 billion in gold from England to Venezuela.
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Last place aversion →
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Figures.
Researchers have found that lower income individuals become more opposed to programs designed to help them if people they perceive as below them will also be helped. I…
A Modest Proposal, Cont. →
On a less satirical note, a lot of my discontent with our narrative of gentrification doesn’t come from a lack of sympathy for the poor and working class of black America. On the contrary, it comes…
July 2011
4 posts
What would Don Draper do? →
A flowchart from The Oatmeal on what Don Draper might do when confronted with a problem. (thx, toni) Tags: Mad Men
John Adams: ‘It Is More Important That Innocence... →
I almost linked to this page of quotes from founding father John Adams yesterday, but I’m glad I held off. This one seems more apt today: It is more important that innocence be protected than it…
You Can't Go Home From Here: Why... →
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Guilty until proven innocent.
(photo credit: Steve Clemons, The Washington Note)
(This article is appearing simultaneously at TheAtlantic.com)
News is breaking that the…
Designer Roy Letterle, aka Iero, merged 2... →
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Want this please. Thank you.
Designer Roy Letterle, aka Iero, merged 2 chairs and 1 bed in the piece ‘Bed Blend’. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)
June 2011
1 post
The 'Tree of Life' "No Refunds" Sign →
This “Warning: Terrence Malick Film!” sign, published by Next Projection (and, update! Apparently actually photographed by reporter Joe Meyers, which, should it really be that hard to…
May 2011
6 posts
sg10D.jpg (JPEG Image, 359x478 pixels) →
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A story from the near future →
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Great short story.
Paul Ford is writing on Ftrain.com again and it’s just super. Today’s post is a short story that extrapolates our present cultural preoccupation with lawsuits,…
Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite... →
Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces (by kirstendirksen)
This is amazing. (via Dave Caolo)
emmanuelle moureaux architecture + design: sugamo... →
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Why don't more people live in liveable cities? →
Those lists of most liveable cities…why don’t any of the vibrant big cities of the world ever make the list? Because the lists don’t take into account many important reasons why people choose to…
How to make a magazine →
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I used to work there, but I don’t remember those sofas or a catered food place.
A fun little video about how Bloomberg Businessweek gets made. Tags: magazines video
April 2011
1 post
110327 →
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Sometimes I love this blog.
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March 2011
2 posts
The fear of missing out →
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I share this only because I identify with the piling up unread copies of the New Yorker.
Caterina Fake on the fear and hope that underlies social media. FOMO -Fear of Missing Out-…
Canada's prime minister abolishes the Government... →
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Canada’s modest, self-effacing autocratic Prime Minister has demanded that the country’s civil service must cease to use “the government of Canada” in official…
January 2011
2 posts
Could It Be? Spooky Experiments That 'See' The... →
Shared by Yuliy Interesting.
Tests suggest that today you’ll do something you don’t know about yet — but somehow, it’s already happened…and affected you.
Cocaine vaccine could make drug addiction a... →
The first ever vaccine for drug addiction has just been created. By combining a cocaine-like molecule with part of the common cold virus, you get a vaccine that turns the immune…
December 2010
1 post
Stopping the world →
Oh, this is lovely. Someone took a high-speed camera and instead of pointing it at something fast, they put it on a fast-moving train and shot footage of the platform moving by. Wonderful…
September 2010
1 post
The easy way to ruin your day. →
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This has happened to me before too.
The easy way to ruin your day.
August 2010
6 posts
Fullscreen and more! →
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YES to fullscreen. NOOO to lifetime read item count. I don’t want to know how much of my life I’ve wasted. (Answer: 69,521)
As Google Reader is all about reading, we thought we…
Call phones from Gmail →
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YES. Finally.
Posted by Robin Schriebman, Software Engineer Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone…
SPECIAL FEATURE: Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza →
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For any and all interested. Less video games and more Adelstein being amazing. As kottke points out, this is relevant too: …
"Two Rocks Converse," by Tom Gauld →
I’ve expressed my admiration for Tom Gauld before (The Gigantic Robot, Characters for an Epic Tale). He is one of the best cartoonists around! Read Tom’s comics here.
Justin Bieber slowed down →
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Amazing
“Turn Justin Bieber into Sigur Ros in one easy step,” writes in reader Yossarian . Slowed down 800%, the young star’s inane “U Smile” becomes a languid, half-hour…
Facebranch Beats Facepalm →
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How I feel.
He’s just realized someone drugged his eucalyptus. Or maybe it was the eucalyptus plant that did that? Either way, this guy looks pretty out of it.
Via The…
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
May 2010
5 posts
Monday puzzle time! →
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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…
How recipes should look (by Starsammy) →
How recipes should look (by Starsammy)
Humble Indie Bundle hits $1m, goes open-source,... →
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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. …
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…
Switching Thumbs animated gif →
From Gif Bin.
April 2010
3 posts
Soundshapes: Amit Pitaru/Zach Gage bring Sonic... →
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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…
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…
The Story of Bottled Water →
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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…
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…
The internet in 1969 →
What the wife selects on her console, will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console. Tags: video
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,…
Cloak Bag →
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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…
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…
The Dense States of America →
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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,…
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…
Miniature NYC, a movie →
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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…
Dog Stache →
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This is for you Tim: Dog Stache.
(thank you herrt)
"Fat" is now a taste →
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In addition to sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami, Australian scientists have found evidence that humans can also taste fat.
“We found that the…
8-bit map of NYC →
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Yaaay
Fully draggable, zoomable, Zelda-like map of NYC…this is awesome. But where are the Octoroks? (via waxy) Tags: maps NYC
Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой →
Nothing I can say here will make this any better. (Thanks Jim and Steve!)
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…
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…