Two of ancient man’s greatest inventions, the knife and the wheel, come together as the Round Chop Knife to help you chop chocolate, herbs and what-not effortlessly.
Just don’t use it after watching Tron, ok?
Two graduate students, intrigued by a growing wealth of material on the Internet, built a huge fucking lobster trap, absorbed as much of human history and creativity as they could, and destroyed all of it.
→ Internet archivist Jason Scott rips Yahoo! a new one
Moon was a fabulous film directed by Duncan Jones and he’s the guy directing the upcoming Source Code. I’m not a big fan of Jake Gyllenhaal but the crossing over “into another man’s identity in the last 8 minutes of his life” idea is pretty fascinating.
Absolutely stunning body of photographic work (especially the waterscapes series) by Akos Major, a 35-year-old Hungarian amateur photographer.
With Kitaras, drum machines, Auto-Tune and what-not, the next generation of Milli Vanilli wannabes have it all too easy.
Me listening to The Cult’s Love album from 25 years ago makes me realize that I have become one of those people whom I used to laugh at in the 90s—as an insufferable teenager—for listening to 60s music.
I actually realized this inescapable rite of passage some time ago, but with The Cult in my ears, everything just feels overly dramatic.
If Google Demo Slam was the NBA, this presentation document would be a cheeky, towering and fearsome back flip slam dunk by Google Docs over the head of MS Office.
LT24 is an experimental movie by Lucio Arese, which squashes 24 hours of footage into 184 seconds. It is sound tracked by a 184 second piece of music that is ‘projected’ onto the 24 hour time span of the video.
I actually don’t fully understand what I just tried explaining, but the video and audio end-product is just fantastic.
When it comes to augmented reality (AR), the shit we mostly see includes some kind of marker and waving your mobile device stupidly at it (or worse still, furiously waving an AR marker on a paper in front of your computer for frivolous content). Word Lens, a translation app for the iPhone, kicks things up a few notches beautifully with a great AR implementation. Stunning, seamless and useful.
Only xkcd can bring out the long-dead CS nerd in me with humour that relates to things like tree structures and ternary heaps.
1 × 1 = 1
11 × 11 = 121
111 × 111 = 12321
1111 × 1111 = 1234321
11111 × 11111 = 123454321
111111 × 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 × 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 × 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 × 111111111 = 12345678987654321
While this pattern is mind-boggling enough, the middle digit of the result indicates how many 1s there were on either side of the multiplication sign.
Great idea and execution by Wieden+Kennedy (Tokyo). And I have to admit, the Japanese women just make it all very cute, too.
Hello all ISPs of the world. We’re going to add a new competing root-server since we’re tired of ICANN. Please contact me to help.
→ Peter Sunde of the Pirate Bay