August 2008
429 posts
Frustration →
xkcd.com
Individual Blueberry Grunts →
VeganYumYum
Yeah, I’d never heard of a blueberry grunt, either. Until I became friends with Sandy. Every since we became friends, I couldn’t use the word “blueberry” without her saying…
Five Best Note-Taking Tools →
Lifehacker: Top
Despite the wealth of information a Google search box puts at our fingertips, good old-fashioned note-taking is still one of the best ways to build a personal knowledge…
Real Liquid Display Makes Mac OS X Aqua Look Like... →
Gizmodo
Giz reader Nicholas Buechi created this real liquid display that really doesn’t display anything but bubbles. And that’s enough, because it is mesmerizing enough as it is. The liquid…
Fixing the structural ills of US biomedical... →
Ars Technica
The US biomedical research enterprise has some severe structural problems. We take a look at what’s wrong and examine one proposed remedy.
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Is Our Tourists Learning? →
Overheard in New York
Blonde tourist (after swiping futilely a few times): How do I swipe this? New Yorker (looks at card in tourist’s hand): That’s not a Metrocard, that’s your room key. …
Timelapse Video: Building the Lego Death Star... →
Gizmodo
Here’s a bunch of crazy Lego heads building the Lego Death Star diorama, probably the best Lego set available this side of the Millennium Falcon with 3,803 pieces, and 21 mini-figs—a…
'Cause I'm Gangstrous! →
Overheard in New York
White college dude with glasses: Guys, you absolutely must check out this new reality television show. It is off the hiz-ook. Literally, off the hiz-ook. College chick:…
Galaxies on a String →
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed
Galaxies on a StringGalaxies NGC 5216 (top right) and NGC 5218 really do look likethey are connected by a string.Of course, that string is of gas, dust,…
Typography from Typology: Bernd and Hilla Becher →
Coilhouse
Photographer couple Bernd and Hilla Becher, born in the 30s, dedicated their life to creating a visual taxonomy of the world’s industrial structures. Armed with a large-format…
Ballantine Books to Publish Book Inspired by the... →
garfield minus garfield
Collection to be published simultaneously with Garfield 30th anniversary book NEW YORK, NY – July 30, 2008 – Paws, Inc. and Ballantine Books, a division of the Random…
DIY Siberian Astronomy Observatory Cured... →
Gizmodo
DIY builder Mikhail Levchenko’s homemade backyard observatory once made a drunken Russian give up the sauce for good after revealing Saturn’s rings to him one fateful night. Now, the…
Mob Takes Over Office Lighting To Transform Tower... →
Gizmodo
Sure it’s an ad, but taking over your office building’s lighting system en masse with an army of thirsty friends as an homage to every Irishman’s favorite stout is a pretty refreshing…
iPhone Developers Get Push Notification API... →
Gizmodo
Apple’s just seeded the push notification API to developers through the second beta release of the iPhone 2.1 firmware. What this means to you is that developers can now tailor their…
How the Cormorant Submarine-to-Air Plane Works... →
Gizmodo
After the START II—the second strategic weapons reduction treaty with the former URSS—was signed, the US Navy had to reconvert many of their Ohio-class nuclear submarines, giving new…
Unlicensed Lego Lamps Give the Thrill of Lego and... →
Gizmodo
It’s sort of cheating to use one big Lego to build a “Lego” anything, but for this lamp we’ll make an exception. By 25togo from Japan, the Lego Lamp is powered by white LEDs and has…
July 2008
637 posts
Alphabet made out of corpses in Halo →
Boing Boing
Raketentim sez, “The Halo Corpse Alphabet is a rather macabre project with the goal being to represent every letter of the alphabet by the twisted, curved, stretched, and otherwise…
Giant Radio Telescope Collapses - and Rises Again →
Dark Roasted Blend
“QUANTUM SHOT” #455 link This was a case of “Humpty Dumpty”, total structural failure A giant radio telescope at Green Bank, West Virginia, collapsed into a…
NASA to hold Pheonix press conference tomorrow,... →
Engadget
Filed under: Robots
It’s been a while since we’ve reported about the doings of our robotic friend on Mars, but a press conference tomorrow (Thursday) could uncover Phoenix’s…
Burlesque Chicken Commercial →
Boing Boing
Shane Glines found this funny and well-made chicken commercial on YouTube.
I was excited to find this rare commercial produced by José Luis Moro’s “Estudios Moro”. The…
White iPhones Are Cracking - How Frequently, We Do... →
Gizmodo
One report, it’s an anomaly. Two reports, maybe one’s fake. But more and more reports have been surfacing—with photos—of cracking white iPhone 3Gs. So is the white iPhone constructed in…
Marvin The Martian Gets Title Role In CG Film... →
io9
Everyone’s favorite skirted alien is about to become a leading martian in his own film. Warner Brothers is developing a Loony Tunes feature staring Marvin as he wreaks havoc during the Earth…
Top 10 Command Line Tools →
Lifehacker: Top
When you need something done quickly, efficiently, and without any software overhead, the command line is where it’s at. It was the first way humans told computers what to…
!!! H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y M E G !!! →
Cute Overload
Please accept this leetle gift on your special day! XoXoXo, Sparky + C.S.O.
Public Megaphone Takes Drunk Dialing to Insane New... →
Gizmodo
More often than not, very public art installations are pretentious and, well…pretty damn stupid. But every once in a while you come across a rare gem like the “Telemegaphone Dale.”…
Heart Robot loves to be hugged, express emotions →
Engadget
Filed under: Robots
Here’s your afternoon dose of cuteness, ready or not. David McGoran’s Heart Robot has made its way into London’s Science Museum, and for good reason. This…
First look: Ars reviews Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 →
Ars Technica
Mozilla has officially released the first Firefox 3.1 alpha. Ars takes a close look at the tab browsing features, enhancements to the Awesome Bar, and web development hotness.
Read…
If Warhol Made Hard Drives... [Storage] →
Gizmodo
…they might not have been so different from these external drives from Meninos Design Studio. Acrylic cases coated in customizable vinyl, 250-500GB, 7200RPM drives are hidden behind…
Meridian 10MP Projector Displays on 25-Foot Screen... →
Gizmodo
Meridian’s 810 projector boldly claims to be the Reference Video System, and after seeing it for myself I think that’s a fair assessment. The $185,000 box (that’s right!) uses…
Eyewitness: La Perla Sale →
Fashionista
To: Natalie@fashionista.com
From: ATeamAhopper@iseebra.com
Hey F,
Have you been to the La Perla sale at Spring and Greene yet? (I think their uptown store’s having the sale,…
The True Story of the Hurricane Katrina... →
Gizmodo
Joe Davis is telling me about his design for a 110-foot lightning-laser tower that will literally seize a hurricane’s force, bottle it up and hurl it angrily back into the sky. It’s…
Toy Camera Photography Show at Lucky Ju-Ju Pinball →
Laughing Squid
guest post by Todd Lappin (Telstar Logistics)
This Friday, August 1st Robert Holmgren and Joe Reifer will be hosting a show of their toy-camera photographs…
iPhone 3G Data Plan for Deaf: $50/Month [IPhone... →
Gizmodo
The iPhone 3G’s data plan for the deaf will be $10 higher than the original, just like it is for everyone else. It comes with unlimited texting, email and web browsing for $50 a…
Cautionary →
xkcd.com
Flickr Find: the Fluid icons pool →
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Filed under: Software
The team down the road from me at Carsonified have been doing it, and you can do it too. Fluid is a fantastic free app that…
Vortex Fountain Scares the Piss Out of Traditional... →
Gizmodo
The Vortex Fountain eschews gentle, soothing streams for a powerful water funnel. The illusion of a standing block of water is created by an acrylic case hidden by transparency and…
The Milky Way Over Ontario →
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed
The Milky Way Over OntarioSometimes, after your eyes adapt to the dark, a spectacular sky appears. Such was the case earlier this month over Ontario, …
How to Transfer iPhone Voicemail to Your Computer →
Lifehacker: Top
When your five-year-old nephew sings “Happy Birthday” to you on your voicemail, you want to keep that message to play back to his friends when he’s in college. If you’ve got…
85 Famous Works of Art 'Improved' via Modern... →
Gizmodo
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to put modern technology in famous works of art. I’ve got to be honest, these might be the best results from a Photoshop Contest…
Tiramisu cupcakes →
Cupcakes Take The CakeHow do Southern California bakeries Dolcissimo, Susie Cakes and Mrs. Beasley’s stack up? The blog Nibbles of Tidbits did a taste test. Below is the tiramisu cupcake…
A Floating Ecopolis for the Age of Rising Seas... →
io9
When climate change allows oceans to wash over the lands we once called home, you’re going to want to immigrate to one of the ecopolises that Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut created…
Prosthetic Limbs that Fuse with Your Skeleton... →
io9
Your next prosthetic arm will be almost as good as the one you were born with: It will fuse with your existing skeleton. Veterinarians at North Carolina State University have developed a…
My place is deliciously cold. Walking around it elicits the feeling of biting into a crisp, chilled apple. Yay for free a/c.
LEGO Mindstorms ready for Tuesday space launch →
Engadget
Filed under: Robots
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of LEGO Mindstorms, a group of professors, middle-school students, and corporate nerds will be launching several Mindstorms…
Scrabble cupcake →
Cupcakes Take The CakeTo go with today’s cupcake word games theme, a Scrabble cupcake! from Flickr user twinsline7
Book: Night Visions: The Art of Urban Exploration →
Boing Boing
Todd Lappin says:
Photographer Troy Paiva has a new book out, and it’s chock full of superb nighttime photos taken at abandoned military bases, aircraft boneyards, auto…
Video: Button Hack For Speak & Spell [Speak... →
Gizmodo
The Speak & Spell was likely one of the first gadgets you ever owned. You pressed buttons and the robotic voice would pronounce the corresponding sounds in its own crazy robot voice….
Comic-Con 2008 Wrapup: Get the Big Fat Summary of... →
io9
Comic-Con was psychotic, exhausting and wonderful. We’re sorry if you got turned away from our packed io9 panel on “science fiction that can change your life,” but we’ve summarized it…
Will Futurama's Fry And Leela Finally Find Love?... →
io9
Bender is a king and Leela is a centaur in the highly anticipated third Futurama DVD, Bender’s Game coming to Blu-Ray on November 4th. The Futurama Comic-Con panel assembled the voice…
Spaced's Pegg Talks Trek, Who, And Why America Is... →
io9
He may just be getting his first SF role as Star Trek’s new Scotty, but that doesn’t mean that Simon Pegg doesn’t know his science fiction, as a new interview reveals. Discover the Pegg…