Your Advertisement-Filled Future
Saturday, July 17th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Cool little 3 minute film from Keiichi Matsuda that shows how poor our future might be with an advertising-based augmented reality.
World’s Worst Lyrics and Songs
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 | music | No Comments
Truly incredible documentary featuring some of the strangest people you’ve ever seen.
Living in the Past
Friday, April 30th, 2010 | attention seekers | No Comments
How Richard Stallman watches movies.
Would A Company Make A Better Politician?
Monday, April 12th, 2010 | politics | No Comments
The Economist reports that it’s now possible in America, land of opportunities, to elect a company to a political office.
Solar System Music Box
Saturday, April 10th, 2010 | music | No Comments
[via Information Is Beautiful]
The Psychopath’s Guide to Child Rearing
Saturday, March 20th, 2010 | humor | No Comments
New Calendar Time
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | cool tool | No Comments
For the Gregorians amongst us, it’s coming up to the New Year, and every New Year needs a new calendar. So here are a couple of ideas for you.
If you‘re really cheap like arts and crafts you can make your own calendar. Not one of those stuffy ‘photo-pasted-over-month’ thingies. No! I give you the ‘dodecahedral calendar‘. You choose the year (2010, obviously), the language (Albanian to Welsh), day to start the week, and the format.
Perhaps you like the standard calendar format of picture and month. Then you can make your own calendar at Glennz Desktop Calendar, where you can choose the start month and then select which images you want from a set of cool illustrations.
Becoming Greenland
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | Earth | No Comments
Johann Hari writes a very saddening piece in MoreIntelligentLife.com about the effect global warming is having on the Inuits in Greenland. Did you know that the North Pole could be open ocean as early as 2015?
Honour
Friday, October 30th, 2009 | politics | No Comments
The US Administration, led by the man recently given the Nobel Peace Prize, engages in extra-territorial assassinations using their remotely-operated drone planes. This much is common knowledge. But just how many have been killed in Obama’s first 9 months of administration? And what percentage of them are innocent bystanders? Does anyone care?
A report in the New Yorker reveals some uncomfortable truths. Some choice quotes:
John Radsan, a former lawyer in the C.I.A.’s office of general counsel, who is now a professor at William Mitchell College of Law, in St. Paul, Minnesota, says … “If it’s Osama bin Laden in a house with a four-year-old, most people will say go ahead,” …
I don’t know anyone who thinks like that.
… the recent campaign to kill Baitullah Mehsud offers a sobering case study of the hazards of robotic warfare. It appears to have taken sixteen missile strikes, and fourteen months, before the C.I.A. succeeded in killing him. During this hunt, between two hundred and seven and three hundred and twenty-one additional people were killed, depending on which news accounts you rely upon. It’s all but impossible to get a complete picture of whom the C.I.A. killed during this campaign, which took place largely in Waziristan.
Is it okay to target a funeral?
… and then killed dozens more people—possibly as many as eighty-six—during funeral prayers for the earlier casualties. An account in the Pakistani publication The News described ten of the dead as children.
Coffee Bean to Carbon Atom
Friday, October 30th, 2009 | science | No Comments
A brilliant zoom scale from the University of Utah showing just how small the human cell and its enemies are…
Insects Are Food
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | yikes | No Comments
This borders on nightmare territory for me. Entomophagy. Might as well put me in a restaurant where the waiters are clowns and my hair and teeth are falling out.
The Ogori Café
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | inspiring | No Comments
Cabel finds an amazing concept cafe in Japan. The Ogori Café. I’d love to see every café do this once a year.
Sand Art
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 | art | No Comments
Environmental Graffiti have a small piece on Peter Donnelly, an artist who uses the beach as his canvas.
A Picture Made From The Scales of Butterfly Wings
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 | art | No Comments
This weeks Economist has this article about the Museum of Jurassic Technology. They’ve republished one of the more incredible exhibits: a picture made from the scales of butterfly wings.
Here Be Treasures…
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