shiny things in messy little piles

Year: 2009 (Page 23 of 25)

Morning Linkage (Apr 17)

Because a Titan Mis­sile silo east­ern Wash­ing­ton is the ultimate
loca­tion for a hack­er camp. (click around for photos):
http://www.toorcamp.org/content/introduction

More inter­est­ing ques­tions about how the oceans work. In this case how
long does it take an ocean to rise. (not sure of the cred­i­bil­i­ty of
the web­site but the jour­nal cit­ed is legit):
http://www.openthefuture.com/2009/04/the_sea_level_rise_mystery.html

Sil­ly tech for today — tweets, morse code, and ambi­ent lighting:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/16/tweetlite-flashes-tw.html

Illus­tra­tions and ani­ma­tion pro­duced from paper constructions:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnykelly/

Our new space tele­scope is com­ing on-line:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/first-light-kep.html

Nice sum­ma­ry of the pro­pos­al for lim­it­ed “high-speed” rail in the USA:
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/04/obama-lays-out.html

Peo­ple agree­ing to hav­ing their cars tracked and hacked because they
are poor and untrustworthy:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/17/sales-booming-in-rem.html

Ship­ping con­tain­ers are the lat­est archi­tec­tur­al cliche:
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/this_just_inbox_new_puma_vs_new_nike_vs_new_adidas_13183.asp

A gig­gle in hon­or of the end of Passover:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/16/haminal-plush-tinned.html

Try to fig­ure out how this was done before you click through to Instructables.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/04/how-to_vertically_stacked_flow.html

more next week

Morning Linkage (Apr 16)

fair warn­ing — look for me to bom­bard you with links to this in August.
http://www.core77.com/blog/news/maker_faire_africa_is_happening_august_1315_in_accra_ghana_13199.asp

walk through of the design process for “fix­ing” one of the least
suc­cess­ful tools in the world — the con­fer­ence phone.
http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2009/04/product-concept-touchscreen-conference-phone/

today’s must have cloth­ing item.
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/missilecommand

over­ly flash site but OMG the design (pana­son­ic)
http://www.panasonic.eu/designmuseum/

sweet­est zom­bie car­toon evah! I send you via Neil Gaiman’s site
because he’s very cool and has inter­est­ing things to say about the
cartoon.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/04/it-was-dark-and-silly-night.html

also dude keeps bees.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/04/to-bat-hive-bee-wonder-and-other.html

Wired:Autotopia — Your Dai­ly Source for Fugly
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/04/a‑truck-enginee.html

Laugh­ably Scary? The keep­ers have no idea what the inmates do.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious

more tomor­row

Morning Linkage (Apr 14)

Port­fo­lio of Kyle Houchens. Take time to page through the illos. The
diecast car designs are loverly.
http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_set.asp?individual_id=845&set_id=55

St John was a whack job. Today’s religious/Lego moment.
http://www.thebricktestament.com/revelation/god_tortures_kills_billions/rv06_01.html

Break it. Illus­trate it.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/anatomical-drawing‑o.html

My dad (the physi­cist) had one of these when they were first available.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/13/hp-35-scientific-cal.html

I had nev­er con­sid­ered the down­side of auto­mo­tive tech for rescuers
doing extrac­tion. Noe I have.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/04/one-of-the-grea.html

Just because it’s so cool. Might make one of these a desk­top for a
while. Link to the full fli­cr set at the bottom.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/soviet-nuclear-contr.html

more tomor­row,

Morning Linkage (Apr 13)

Slow news morning.

Kathy G has the best round up of links for the Ama­zon Rank­ings hulabaloo.
http://wiredpen.com/2009/04/12/amazonfail/

Links to some of the blog posts from authors delist­ed can be found in
Lisa Gold’s Sun­day post.
http://lisagoldresearch.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/amazon-sets-the-blogosphere-on-fire/

I was won­der­ing when some­one would make the joke.
http://apelad.blogspot.com/2009/04/laugh-out-loud-cats-1110.html

Now:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/04/13/funny-pictures-ur-lettin-teh-monday-in/

Morning Linkage (Apr 12)

Bonus East­er Sun­day Edition

For no par­tic­u­lar rea­son in no par­tic­u­lar order:

Extreme cute­ness. Lit­tle lost robot.
Reported:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/11/adorable-robots-get-where-theyre-going-with-human-help/
Cre­ator’s site:
http://www.tweenbots.com/

Micheal Velli­quette — cut paper art. Shiny.
http://www.velliquette.com/Site/SlideShow_assets/SlideShow.html?lang=en

For the 7 year old in all of us. Do want.
http://www.cookiemag.com/homefront/decor/2008/11/london_greenhouse?slide=2#showSlide

Why I could­n’t go to the gym on Wednes­day. They took my lit­tle iPod shuffle.
http://sleepmachine.tumblr.com/post/95168434/buzzp-via-cache-gawker-com

more tomor­row,

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