Kris Kuksi
Infusion Profusion
Put room-temperature booze into the cream whipper. Add herbs, seeds, whatever. Close the whipper and charge it with nitrous oxide (N2O –the regular whipped cream chargers). Swirl gently 30 seconds…
open source cell phone system could help save the world
OpenBTS is built on Linux and distributed via the AGPLv3 license. When used with a software-defined radio such as the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP), it presents a GSM air interface…
Resilience Science
coping with ecological surprise in a human dominated world
An Industrial Workspace State of Mind
Photos titled “Workspace,” from photographer Joseph Holmes. The beautiful images center around people’s desks, which often end up being cluttered workbenches and messy industrial nooks around New…
Nozomu Shibata’s biomechanical sculptures
Nozomu Shibata’s biomechanical sculptures
Nozomu Shibata’s biomechanical sculptures
Nozomu Shibata’s biomechanical sculptures
There’s More to Singularity Studies Than Kurzweil
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings published in PNAS this September are putting some long-overdue experimental rigor behind the uncanny valley. Last spring at Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute, Asif Ghazanfar developed a…
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Odani Motohiko Sculptures
Everyday Magazine : Mikael Fløysand
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The true literature machine will be one that itself feels the need to produce disorder.
“The true literature machine will be one that itself feels the need to produce disorder.”
–Italo Calvino (viacarvalhais)
The Ice Kingdom
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extracts of local distance
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195 Yachts, Cargo Ships, Tankers, Barges, Riverboats, Hospital Ships, Cruise Lines, Ferries, Military Ships, and Motorboats
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LAPRISAMATA DISEÑO E ILUSTRACIÓN
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cryp.sr faq
cryp.sr is an experimental minimal host-proof cryptographic list manager. It has no authentication, uses no cookies, no email is required for registration, and your password never leaves your…
No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion?
Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid…
No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion?
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time is distance
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Membase, The Database Powering Farmville
Membase, is a “NoSQL” database optimized for storing web applications. Membase was developed by Zynga, NorthScale, and NHN, and its source code released as open source in June of this year.
Uncertain Times
Magnus
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Language Log » The Linguistic Diversity of Aboriginal Europe
“What was Europe like, linguistically speaking, between the end of the last ice age and the coming of the Indo-European languages? This question has been in the background of many Language Log posts…
Language Log » The Linguistic Diversity of Aboriginal Europe
43 Statements on Computer Art
Written by one of the early pioneers of computer arts, these words by Brian Reffin Smith are part tongue in cheek, part humorously accurate statements on the value, practicalities and nature of…
Item 56: NGV Hoarding / Les Mason / 1960s
“The corrugated fence surrounding the building site of the National Gallery of Victoria, on the main thoroughfare into the city of Melbourne, is expected to stand for a construction period of seven…
PLoS Medicine: A New Estimate of Pharmaceutical Promotion Expenditures in the United States
Citation: Gagnon M-A, Lexchin J (2008) The Cost of Pushing Pills: A New Estimate of Pharmaceutical Promotion Expenditures in the United States. PLoS Med 5(1): e1. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050001
PLoS Medicine: A New Estimate of Pharmaceutical Promotion Expenditures in the United States
Memetics: Culture and Evolution
This is an epic article that relates chaos and complexity theory to the cultural evolution of memes. I will go into detail about a number of phenomena that these fields present us, and how they apply…
Nationalize Drug Development
While over $300 billion worth of prescription drugs were sold in the U.S. in 2009, the pharmaceutical industry is now bringing fewer new drugs to market each year now than it did in the mid-‘90s….
shardcore » the truth
A cursory glance at these gossip sites reveals that the tone and structure of the language used is quite different to more traditional approaches to reportage. This experiment attempts to capture the…
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Unit Structures: A Survey Of Self-Configuring Modular Robotics
“The future of modular robotics is about enabling us to live better lives. For me that means making it easier and more fun to interact with other people. Modular robotics offers the potential of a…
Unit Structures: A Survey Of Self-Configuring Modular Robotics
Fresh from China: how to use electronic retail to censor and purge the analog book market
An Announcement Concerning the Strict Prohibition of Contraband Books and the Self-Examination of Booksellers
Fresh from China: how to use electronic retail to censor and purge the analog book market
Medieval Guilds - Economic History
Guilds existed throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. Guilds were groups of individuals with common goals. The term guild probably derives from the Anglo-Saxon root geld which meant ‘to pay,…
How I Learned to Fly*
(*In a Week)
Uncorporate Identity
States draw their legitimacy from symbols. Crowns, currency, flags, passports, mythology, monuments, skylines, cultural output – these symbols constitute a state’s power, its brand identity. And the…
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hunterfreeman.com - superb #photography
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Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything
“You can’t accelerate a nine-month pregnancy by hiring nine pregnant women for a month. Likewise, says University of North Carolina computer scientist Fred Brooks, you can’t always speed up an…
The Dynamics of Ecological Crisis
ANNA BLUME / Kurt Schwitters / Leporello / 24 Seiten / 2006
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tf–idf - Wikipedia
The tf–idf weight (term frequency–inverse document frequency) is a weight often used in information retrieval and text mining. This weight is a statistical measure used to evaluate how important a…
Hidden Landscapes I : Junior Taxi
asymmetric
OnSite Installations by Sebastien Wierinck
The Work-Sharing Boom: Exit Ramp to a New Economy?
The recent revitalisation of work-share programs in the US provides a golden opportunity to move towards a saner economy. Equitably reducing work hours not only tackles unemployment, it also improves…
Tools for indie ARG producers
Alternate reality games and other kinds of distributed story/play projects place heavy demands on their creators’ abilities to manage and deploy content. […] Thanks to freely-available social…
DAN SLAVINSKY
A SERIES OF DRAWINGS FROM THE END OF TIME
The Truth About Robotic’s Uncanny Valley
Mori’s paper sounds like a revelation, an academic’s articulation of the robot creep factor that so many of us experience. It’s a compelling argument. But from the skeptic’s perspective, the uncanny…
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‘The Architectural Possibilities of a Threshold’
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Maybe there’s something beckoning over the horizon that’s not design and not futurism but just something we might call…
“Maybe there’s something beckoning over the horizon that’s not design and not futurism but just something we might call speculative culture. Like, can we find a set of principles or a way to grapple this larger set of social possibilities? I’d just like to list a few of the approaches that I think both design and science fiction have in common: scientific experiment, scenario work of all kinds, user observation studies, simulation, story boards, story telling, flow charts, analytical software, interaction design, brainstorming, historical analogy, extrapolation and last but not least mash-ups.”
Heidelberg S Cylinder press
How to Make a Mediocre Photo Into a Good One
The Longest Photographic Exposures in History
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The Longest Photographic Exposures in History
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The Traffic Guru
In the last few years, however, one traffic engineer did achieve a measure of global celebrity, known, if not exactly by name, then by his ideas. His name was Hans Monderman. The idea that made…
Generation X Neo-logisms
Douglas Coupland’s Generation X Neo-logisms
The New Lost Generation | Foreign Policy
During the first half of 2009, more American soldiers committed suicide than were killed in combat.
Living through Interesting Times - Charlie Stross
We are living in interesting times; in fact, they’re so interesting that it is not currently possible to write near-future SF.
Factory ‘Closure’ Order Less Than It Might Seem
China’s order this past weekend to shutter inefficient and polluting industrial capacity was clearly intended as yet another sign of the government’s resolve to tackle pollution and improve energy…
HyperSpace Polytope Slicer
HyperSpace Polytope Slicer
The applet provides a way of visualizing and manipulating the 6 regular convex polytopes and several non-regular convex polytopes that exist in 4-dimensional space. You can use it to create some…
Buckymun
Boy drops DS in gorilla cage
Ocean greenery under warming stress
Marine phytoplankton — the vast range of tiny algae species accounting for roughly half of Earth’s total photosynthetic biomass — have declined substantially in the world’s oceans over the past…
Pavlovsk seed bank faces destruction
“It is a bitter irony that the single most deliberately destructive act against crop diversity could be about to happen in the country that invented the modern seed bank,” said Cary Fowler, of the…
Deep Security: Keeping Up With the World?
Biological Terrorism: The Australian Experiment
It was a classic purely scientific experiment. Australian researchers were interested in, of all things, mouse contraceptives. To this end they modified a mousepox virus to contain the gene for…
“Clearly you’ve never been…”
Occasional and illustrated accounts in the elongated and dubiously edited style of the day pertaining to films and television that claim to represent the island-nation of Singapura with rare…
TNHB Book covers
v100 Modbox
DIY camera lens tutorial
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are 12 Times Support for Renewables
“One of the reasons the clean energy sector is starved of funding is because mainstream investors worry that renewable energy only works with direct government support,” said Michael Liebreich, chief…
FM3 BUDDHA MACHINE
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