July 2010
72 posts
Retrovelo - Frame Bag →
this would make me buy a bike
June 2010
65 posts
Guillaume Delvigne's dpi Series Lighting Comes... →
where’s my retina display lamp
International Space Station sex ban - Telegraph →
Poindexter, seriously? “”We treat each other with respect and we have a great working relationship. Personal relationships are not … an issue,” said a serious-faced Mr Poindexter. “We don’t have…
Gulf oil spill - A hole in the world | Naomi Klein... →
“By far the most sociopathic reaction, however, comes from veteran Washington commentator Llewellyn King: rather than turning away from big engineering risks, we should pause in “wonder that we can…
The Spot on Vimeo →
“Fucking magnets. How do they work?”
The 7 Best Neighborhoods in San Francisco | 7x7 →
the mission: youngest, best food, sunniest / marina: most single, most white
Street, invented; mind, blown; cowpaths, traced «... →
Blizzard Decorates Airplanes & Offers ‘StarCraft... →
“Blizzard has revealed two Korean Air jumbo jets branded with StarCraft 2 imagery.” i saw one of these in incheon airport and thought all the planes in korea looked like that
h-and architects →
the korean firm woosang works at, does some amazing work
The Mid-Century Modernist →
stewf’s reskin looks hot
Archinect : Discussion Forum : General Discussion... →
out of work architect offers up real estate for an internship, everyone dies a little
China's Desert Ghost City Shows Property `Madness'... →
on madness and Ordos “Policy makers are considering a property tax in some cities to increase the cost of holding empty homes. About 50 percent of apartments are bought with cash, said Glenn Maguire,…
David Foster Wallace on iPhone 4's FaceTime →
i loved this exhaustive future-of-videophony part of infinite jest
The Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project →
“To accurately map the progress of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin over the course of the 21 novels by Patrick O’Brian. (38% complete)”
Gestalten - Books Detail: Container Atlas →
just went to the building on the cover in seoul
Red Devils so proud of Taeguk Warriors →
an unreal night “Police estimate more than 60,000 people flocked to boulevard near COEX alone, despite the3:30 a.m. kickoff and a pre-dawn chill.”
clipper futures (tecznotes) →
“MTC have gone to great pains to assure users of the system that their data is safe from “getting zucked”, and they’ve begun to provide free personal monitoring services to users of Clipper. “
NYC The Blog: Sidewalk Graffiti Provides... →
People are creative; industries, not so much. And... →
“I’ve never heard anyone accuse Zürich, for example, of having a blistering DJ scene, cutting-edge galleries or forward-leaning popup shops. Yet they seem to be doing OK when it comes to the cheddar,…
Magic tables, not magic windows – Blog – BERG →
this is exactly how jen and i have been using the ipad, and why it wins “It shows that the iPad can be a media surface to share, rather than a proscenium to consume through alone.”
Voltron Verbs →
“Finally, Voltron is the pinnacle of modern, but is an ancient technology that was resurrected by young fighters to defend Arus. The parallel with voltron verbs is obvious, considering their…
Svpply →
i see what you did there
Unfold - Projects - Written on the body, a tribute... →
“Unfolding a digital 3D body scan into a pattern and using this pattern to make personal jewels in different materials: silver (arm), porcelain (neck) and leather (belly).”
Plantation 1 « Diffusive Architectures →
” Although the plantation has little direct benefit for humans, and may even be unsightly (bamboo, rabbits, and derelict washing machines are all counted as pests in some locations), they are…
Big Contrarian → This phone is an asshole. →
“There’s a sense, not just from reviewers, but from fans of the device, that what Android really needs is just killer hardware.
Which is just absolute horse shit.”
n+1: World Cup Preview →
“One of the great things about sports is how they can serve to eliminate or at least undermine national or ethnic stereotypes, but sometimes Germans come along, play with the cold mechanical…
Computing Kaizen Studio Toys →
looks like a fun studio let by proxyarch [processingarch?]
architectural photogrammetry →
“I have been practicing architectural photogrammetry in one form or another for nearly twenty years. I’ve done accident site reconstruction, aerial mapping, 3-D modeling/digitizing of architectural…
One family, 30 years… « How to be a Retronaut →
“On June 17th* every year, my family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop, for a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by”
OpenFlights: Airport and airline data →
Getting Shit Done - The Daily Dish | By Andrew... →
Dilbert's Scott Adams on Betting on the Bad Guys... →
“I hate BP, but I admire them too, in the same way I respect the work ethic of serial killers.”
Knight Foundation Announces Winners of 2010 News... →
fuck yeah stamen
'Diverging Diamond' Traffic Flow: Way Of The... →
interesting highway layout
Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: I'm Comic... →
“Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark…
I am in Shanghai and I think I am tweeting via...
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South Africa 2010: Twitter Buzz - CNN.com →
this makes me appreciate by contrast how awesome stamen is
PHOTO'S OF A MEXICAN DRUG LORD'S HOME AFTER BEING... →
“The money and valuables found in this one house alone, would be enough to pay for health insurance for every man woman and child in the U.S.A. for 12 years!”
Explore →
everywhere from here
At the White House, getting in touch with the... →
fap fap fap
Box Speakers or New Soccer Shoes for Settlers of... →
haha “I have 2 large box speakers and one pair of new kelme brand soccer shoes (men’s size 9) that I’m interested in trading for a Settlers of Catan board game. “
Flickr Photo Download: Popular Science 1872-1922 →
wow
Why I Sold Zappos, Page 2 →
don’t take this the wrong way but it is an awesome idea “In fact, one Amazon distribution center recently began experimenting with its own version of Zappos’s policy of paying new employees $2,000 to…
Attack Of The Tweets: MTV’s Movie Awards Twitter... →
“Not surprisingly, when I logged on this morning, it looked like a partial promo for the Twilight series, with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s enlarged faces eerily presiding over the frenetic…
BBC News - Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia' →
thanks for the list of “troubled genuises”, bbc
MyWi - Rock Your Phone →
The Afghan Conflict - A Map of Possible Scenarios →
posted as a comment on home and away on infosthetics
Hey BART, is This Really Your New Signage? « Spots... →
“Stuff like this makes me sad. It makes me sad because sometimes I like to entertain the notion that San Francisco is a special place where the people who live here and the people in charge of stuff…
The Times to Host Political Polling Site... →
“The New York Times said Thursday that it would begin hosting the popular blog FiveThirtyEight and make its founder, Nate Silver, a regular contributor to the newspaper and the Sunday magazine.”
YouTube - U3-X Personal Mobility Prototype →
from the comments “Did we learn nothing from Wall-E?”