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…
(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)
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…
"Fat" is now a taste
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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…
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 NYCЯ 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 mime they do
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…
