Sep/090
Eric Johanson
Eric Johanson has an impressive collection of retouched images.
I saw it in twiter jnak
Sep/090
Fart Detector
I have been trying to keep myself quiet these days about the A level that these guys got for their project: a device able to detect when somebody farts, and not only that, also is able to asses its quality based on the three pillars of farting: smell, temperature - this is new for me - and sound.
The device comes with some amazing features:
- It records the sound produce by the emission so you can endlessly play it later.
- It ranks the fart from 1 to 9 and if it ranks 9 a fan will automatically come on to blow it away.
Enough.
Sep/090
Just here
Moco loco published about this so called second generation book marker, it not only tells you which page but also which line you read last.
Sep/090
Dead planes
A quite impressive collection of pictures from a quite impressive place. Mojave Air and Spaceport is one of the only locations where planes are scrapped but at the same time pilots are trained. Ransom Riggs found it long time ago, but the other day he met someone that actually works there.
Sep/090
Cryosphere
NASA has released and short but well produced movie about the relation between the cryosphere - those parts of The Earth that are in a frozen state - and the climate at a worldwide level and how its dynamics have been affected in the last decades. The don't step in the lands of explaining why and I won't either, that is much better considered as an exercise to the reader.
Sep/090
Of how our everyday’s websites used to look
Daily Telegraph has published a very melancholic article where we can see how those webs that we all know used to look when they were born. For that they used an old website, which I almost already forgot about: web.archive.org. Web archive is ongoing project that started in 1996 meant to give access to historical web data - websites, images, texts and even software - to researchers, scholars, historians and general public.
It is worth to have a look at how the website of your university used to look 10 years ago - if they did have website at all. Mine looks just awful.
Sep/090
Endless interestingness
Interestingness is what Flickr calls a collection of pictures that has been - mostly automatically - selected from all over the pictures that the service hosts. Endless Interestingness basically shows all those pictures in and endless grid so you can get endless inspiration.
Sep/092
20q
I know is old, and most of you will know it already. In 2004 this little quiz took over our conversations and I remember some people ever dared to call it intelligent. Here is to show how bad we are estimating the power of statistics.
Sep/090
60s Ikea
Sara's mum managed to keep in mint condition a copy of what she claims to be the most printed "book" - please note quotes and italic there - after the bible. The Ikea catalogue from 1965, please go and check those chairs...