2008

Jul

Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever.mp3 This hilarious mashup of annoying musical...

Jun

Powers of 10, a classic video made in 1977 gives a very humbling overview of our place in the world....

“When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders...”
— This all too familiar quote...

Think technology holds the cure to all of man’s...

These diagrams illustrate why several dimensionless physical...

Riddles riddle an upscale New York apartment—hidden by...

Also check out This American Life to hear what it’s like brainstorming ideas at The Onion....

“News creates social currency. […] They view news as...”
— From How to Build a Better...

May

The Direct manipulation video player emphasizes a sort of goal oriented video seeking, rather than...

The day there was no news.I have done nothing but read and watch the news for a week and a half....

Time and time again, social media breaks the news first....

Gnarls Barkley - Going On - Nerdcore(via humanist)

Pac-man, explained. (via kamikazechivalry)

Apr

Four guys turn the tables. Birdy Nam Nam.(inspired by humanist)

Before you watch, wonder: What happens when a paradigm is useful beyond its expiration date? Philip...

Sukiyaki Western Django is awesome.See also: Casshern. (via...

If you have never seen the double-slit experiment check out this video from a whacky pseudo-science...

on·o·mat·o·ma·ni·a

onomatomania: a passion or compulsion for certain words or names and their supposed significance;...

Duff’s device illustrates why switch is strictly...

Cities at Night, an Orbital Tour Around the World.We’re missing out on more than I...

Jack Aboutboul gave a great presentation on Red Hat and open source which included the video Truth...

The Brothers McLeod: Spamland animates spam emails. Make sure to check out the other two.

In case you missed it: A plane is on a treadmill opposing its forward motion. Will it take off?....

The Death of Socrates, Jacques-Louis David, 1787.In 21st...

Story is a 27 page comic drawn in 24 hours by Ling Zhou.Ling...

There Will Be Oil / LA in the 30s (via nevver)

Study Space at Ørestad College in Denmark.(via szymon)

Pixel Sofa.I love the fabric! (via Trevor Wernisch)

Mar

björk: “wanderlust”. UPDATE: predictably, video was removed. See high quality mov version. Behind...

The Art of TekkonKinkreet

John Mark Harris ‘performs’ Evryali, a piece by...

This video reminded me that what may seem like beautiful complexity may be a result of beautiful...

The state of Wyoming escalators.

The solution for the road coloring conjecture was recently...

Overheard on the Titanic

A paper was recently made available which proves any...

These ceiling blinds in a Japanese home create some...

A Weather: Spiders, Snakes. mp3. (via mecycle)

Book is an interesting experiment between four artist with...

“There is a question I could ask you that has a definite...”
— Bennett Andrews

Arthur C. Clarke / Dead at 90 Arthur C. Clarke was truly...

Noah Kalina Had a Really Good Idea

integrating web services for fun and profit

I had heard about this phenomenon on the Talk of the Nation podcast this morning walking to class...

Artist Brian Dettmer dissects the contents of books to make...

Is ____ down or is it just me?

Append via links to RSS description

Telescopic Evolution, an excerpt from Waking Life. I remembered this scene while exploring the idea...

Addiction, by the numbers: From your 165 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 12,554...

Fellow astronauts: CNN’s elite have uncovered our...

In Braid you bend time to solve puzzles. I have considered this theme for a few years now and...

Code code-switching (src, a kwout capture)

tumblweed, a sexy Adobe AIR application for Tumblr.

The simplest Universal Turing Machine has 2 states and 3...

I inexplicably found this Chemical Galaxy image on my hard...

Celemony DNA is audio manipulation software which makes cutting edge technology far more accessible....

High Voltage Cable Inspection. Update: Embedding disabled by request! View it on YouTube :\

Ever wonder who designs the computer graphics you see in the background of movies? Check out the...

Haloramics. Wow, the game doesn’t actually look this...

Similar to Fez, posted earlier, Echochrome is a game using an OLE coordinate system. See also: a PC...

“Flux-lock” causes a superconductor and magnet to both attract and repel each other. See...

A graphics engine implemented in Excel. The next generation of spreadsheet gaming has me pretty...

I Am Legend's Original Ending

An oscillating chemical reaction. (an oldie, but most recently via Centripetal Notion)

In Fez you play a 2D character trapped in a 3D world. See also: gameplay video. (via Andy Baio)

Feb

From the ancient internet past: Dinosuits. (via MAKE, Feb 3rd, 2007)

Incredible short on huge ant colony structures. (via FAZED) See also: The Florida harvester ant.

Introversion: procedural city generator. I wish I had this example when I was doing my research!...

Optical illusion

My Paper Mind by Javan Ivey using a technique he calls “stratastencil”. (via mefi)

(via neatorama)

When I was your age, checking the mail required over a dozen artists. Of course, broadband and AOL...

Radio City style home theater. (via the intrepid Kanye...

“Myriad Harbour” by The New Pornographers (via motiongrapher)

Expanding earth theory proposes a different reason for interlocking landmasses. See also: an...

Two iPhones, one DS. (via Viral Video Chart)

(via Cute Overload!)

Bravit L1 designed by Christophe van Bömmel (via szymon)

The fate of blue-eyed islanders

The blue-eyed islanders puzzle:1000 people are on an island. Some have blue eyes some have brown...

Rex Sorgatz interviews Adrian Holovaty about EveryBlock, a...

Apartment Therapy: The Amazing Staircase (via mocrlbmut)

If You Can’t Let Go, Twitter

Fazed.net: Skate slayer

Me: did you see that thing from that site?
Me: i broke my lollerskates on it.

Shorpy: Killing Machine: 1942.

Coding Horror proposes what I believe is nothing short of a...

Spore for PC, Mac, DS ETA 9/7

conceal bookshelf by miron lior/umbra design group. (via...

A piano ensemble performs beautiful musical surgery....

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Kipnis Studio Standard.

Neatorama covers the evolution of tech companies’...

Jen Bervin’s tiny chapbook, NETS…she’s set in gray typeface...

Groundhog Day screenwriter on the "how long?"...

Tilt Shift Fakery. Tilt shift is the new HDR.

Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue (.com)

Jason Kottke does an excellent article on Time merge media and gives several examples. Above is 134...

You may have seen an ironic viral video last week of a reporter covering a “local bird...

“ Austin Kleon - Hourly Comic Day! (a kwout capture) ”
— Austin Kleon - Forums

Build a simple 1$ Image Stabilizer. (via Dan Harrison)

TripIt organizes your travel

Improv Everywhere's Frozen Grand Central

When interviewed with Facebook in Palo Alto I was real lucky...

Jan

Guitar Zero Plasticky Goodness

An awesome exercise in infographics by Clemens Kogler. (via openradix)

Gameplay video for worldHack, developed by a local here named David Whitlark.

In “Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker” cdk007 uses a computer simulation to breed clocks...

Xenu Filters Google Translate

37signals has a powerful brand going on. Highrise is their...

Neatorama » Blog Archive » A Zen Windows Error...

“Slumless, Smokeless Cities” Note the...

Machinery (via bennett)

It's that time of year - free games all...

Sweeeeeet conway’s life on Vimeo (via Vimeo) — via bennett, god among men

your last day of work was yesterday

Automated Mario

Motorized cordless twin rubber band minigun,...

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

BECAUSE NUMBERS DON’T LIE

I am convinced that, after a certain point, these jugglers are able to freestyle the throws.