January 2010
10 posts
December 2009
30 posts
Watchbackflip to manual is pretty great
“Hoopty Scoop
Anyone out there ever heard the phrase ” Hoopty Scoop”?
My wife...”
– http://www.eons.com/blogs/entry/261890-Hoopty-Scoop (via sadiesosha)
Perfect. →
via julieoh
(via unshared)
A New Years resolution for 2010 is to write a poem a day.
serious.
Way to spin all DIY biologists as potential... →
I know you write virtually zero of your own articles any more, but if you could consider taking a different angle than everybody else — just once in a while — it would really help me to think of you as more than just a re-printer.
MIT’s big wheel in Copenhagen →
another solid whack at smartphone-augmented reality. and a sweet looking demo bike.
(via frankiesb)
“To drive his point home, Weber calculated that a completely local diet would...”
– NewScientist: “Food miles don’t feed climate change – meat does”
it is so important that all of you read this
via the explo
homebrewing GF beer -- yes please! →
For the record: I am drinking Anheuser-Busch’s Redbridge right now, and it tastes good. Good with french fries. How great is small-batch going to be?!
Many thanks to you, great Anheuser-Busch Beer Producing Company, for giving this wide enough distribution that I can get it at Andronico’s and BevMo.
“They say it’s impossible to stop now,” Evelyn Torres, 48, of the Bronx, said of...”
– nytimes bit on what appears to be ridiculous overuse of anti-psychotic meds. dark.
“Not a real Torah, but sort of a mock Torah,” he said. “I feel sorry I’m not...”
– Orrin Hatch
Howard Gardner, the "multiple intelligences" guy,... →
”[…] “deciders” were selected and rewarded on the basis of whether they could cut corners and whether they could make it appear as if they were gaining ever greater profits.”
via the explo
Samson helps you destroy the museum →
via the explo
frankiesb:
Absolutely incredible fully articulated, machined models. In bronze and stainless.
(via makeblog)
the preservation of favored traces →
Data visualization is hard.
This visualizes a 150,000-word book evolving over six editions.
That is a large set of data.
The limit comes when trying to read the multi-colored passages with a laptop trackpad. Easier with a mouse. But does all of the text need to be readable? Any of it?
ken from the block on top gear →
this is so good.
it's a trap →
for nate
UPS Delivers....by bike! →
i really like that using bicycles saves ups money: “The bike initiative, which totals 45 routes throughout Northern California, should eliminate the need for 20 to 25 rental trucks and save UPS about $45,000 to $50,000 in fuel and maintenance costs in the region, Daclison-Dickey says.”
iaminlikewithmybike:
bigspoke:
…and not just to be “green”, but because it makes sense. Smart...
when the seas rise, much of millbrae will be under... →
hell yes, SFMTA, you are cleaning the floor, your... →
The piece of chrome plating that cut into my...
The best home-surgery tool you can have at your disposal is tweezers. Tweezers with sharpened tips.