January 2012
5 posts
December 2011
2 posts
New Balance Shoes Supports SOPA
My letter:
I am a Boston native and a long time dedicated New Balance customer. I
have worn New Balance sneakers on all seven continents and am wearing a
pair right now. I think the product is great (I tell everybody who asks),
and more importantly I feel like I can relate to the values and ethics of
your business (more than I can say for most companies in your industry).
Which is why I am...
November 2011
7 posts
Star Wars: A New Heap
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By John Powers; see also Star Wars Modern and John Powers Sculpture.
October 2011
5 posts
Mexico City Sewer Diver
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My hero!
2 tags
September 2011
12 posts
keyglove.net
I probably saw this on Kickstarter last spring and was skeptical of it, but I was able to try it on and it worked pretty well: after a couple minutes I could type out almost as fast as old-school texting. By Jeff Rowberg
WatchA favorite from last weekend’s Maker Faire: a 3D display using a generic projector and very carefully positioned strings of yarn. By Matt Parker.
Click through for full size. I found this on psyche.cc, though i’ve been enjoying gif.tv as well.
The Postman →
With the USPS close to a default and Congress giddy for symbolic blood lettings, now is a great time to wallow through Kevin Costner single-handedly conning the United States back into existence with a mail carrier’s uniform in this late-90s adventure flick based on a book by the ever perceptive David Birn.
If our reliable public mail service finally goes obsolete, the wait for silent...
August 2011
8 posts
Psyche →
Node Knockout entry with Toby and Scotty
The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis →
“What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed—-and hurricane season is approaching.” By Joe Morgenstern in the New Yorker, 1995.
July 2011
2 posts
“Societies everywhere fall between two extremes. First, there are societies in...”
– Etay Zwick in The Point
May 2011
4 posts
Watch(http://vimeo.com/23944519)
Jail for $193,000 phone fraud (Australia) →
I find it really sad to see judicial systems acting as enforcers for digital services companies (or copyright holders). There is theft and wrong-doing here, but the value is wildly inflated. It is analogous to claiming thousands of dollars loss over a bathtub of water by using the cost of bottled water on an airline instead of the cost of tap water. Simple non-destructive abuse of a wireless data...
April 2011
2 posts
Source Code Search and Analytics →
I’m thinking about starting a company/co-op/project around these ideas. Send me comments or advice!
March 2011
1 post
January 2011
7 posts
Budget Solution (nytimes.com tool) →
Won’t let me completely abolish the nuclear weapons program or introduce additional logarithmic tax brackets. Also, flash, meh.
IQ.org on archive.org →