Inexplicable Robotic Mouth
The mysterious technical aspirations of this creation make it great. Translation neither given, nor desired.
[Via Tranism]
18 Columns, 18 Rows
New fave toy YooouuuTuuube. Make your own!
Screen shot above from Alice, can’t figure out how to embed directly.
via DGSF Jennifer
DNA Radio
Via Ray Kurzweil’s Blog
Two German biotech experts are converting the entire human genome to audio and streaming it to the Internet, 24/7. “It will take about 23.5 years until all code has been distributed over the Internet,” they say.
They’re also making images of it. Above.
The Soft-O-Meter
Deliberately incoherent, but a nice reversible smoking jacket tho. [via bioephemera]
Running from Camera
The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.
= fave new blog!
via Appleyard
Our World: One Giant Hologram
For real:
For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at [...]
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
So you know your venn diagrams from your hyperbolic trees from your gantt charts from your swim lane diagrams. Via Coudal
Melvin Edward Nelson
Via Accidental Mysteries:
Melvin Edward Nelson, aka M.E.N. which also stands for Mighty Eternal Nation, was born in 1908 in Michigan. Nelson, an inventor, was fascinated with the universe, planetary bodies, and atoms. He built a “Planetron” — a device that allowed him to track UFOs. One night, a UFO landed in a clearing near his [...]
LSD: The Dream Emulator
A note from someone who owns this amazing video game (Wiki entry here):
LSD: The Dream Emulator was a Sony Playstation game released in 1998 only in Japan. The game is a series of dreams, based to some degree on someone’s dream journal. As you wander through different settings, pushing on anything transports you to another [...]