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Since 1997 ThrustSSC holds the World Record for land speed, going as far as to officially break the sound barrier - something that the Budweiser Rocket claimed doing much earlier, but under unoffical circumstances - or outright suspicion and disbelief. With Thrust SSC looking like something out of a Podracer lineup, the inboard and outboard video is something to behold. While workman-like and almost boring in calculated precision, it can get hairy.
posted on Jun-4-08 at 5:52 PM
Video of a man going totally beserk in a Russian office. Cellphone video here, w/ audio.
posted on Jun-3-08 at 5:22 PM
Google's Android goes live for demo. Lots of video and stills. Cache.
posted on May-28-08 at 11:37 PM
The uncanny valley just got deeper. "Treat yourself to the perfect woman."
posted on May-27-08 at 9:40 PM
In 1974 - or 1976, depending who you ask - Armistead Maupin began writing "an extended love letter to a magical San Francisco” in the form of a serialized, fictional drama published originally in the Pacific Sun, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner, originally called "The Serial" which then became collectively known as Tales of The City. It is a suprisingly beautiful, deep, emotional, cosmopolitan and lasting tale about life in San Francisco in the turbulent, heady days of the 1970s and 1980s. Widely credited with and cherished for helping spread a little of the openess, tolerance and acceptance that San Francisco is now famous for. It then became a series of books - Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You - and lastly, the spin-off tale of Michael Tolliver Lives. Almost exactly twenty years after first publishing, it then became an excellent miniseries from the United Kingdom's Channel 4, which aired in the United States on PBS, but not without protest or limitations.
posted on May-4-08 at 1:20 AM
We've seen a number of Rube Goldberg machines in advertising before, but here's the first one I've seen that actually uses the controlled chaos of one to describe what their product actually does. Or doesn't, really. If you've ever worked in a print shop, you've probably seen something like this happen. Usually once or twice a day.
posted on Apr-29-08 at 9:06 AM
ArsTechnica is reporting on the practice of altering and editing web-traffic enroute from the server to your client/browser. Is your ISP, work or connection path altering your requested documents? Find out here.
posted on Apr-16-08 at 1:44 PM
Narcoleptic cat. (via Flickr Video)
posted on Apr-9-08 at 7:52 AM
Rain + server room in basement = nerd horror
posted on Apr-2-08 at 3:28 AM
Dave Grohl for President!
posted on Mar-20-08 at 7:39 PM
Top ten chemistry videos. (Wired, YouTube)
posted on Mar-2-08 at 5:32 PM
Erotic Falconry
posted on Feb-29-08 at 2:45 PM
Ron Murphy cut records, but not just any records. Responsible for cutting the actual vinyl master plates of much of the now revered Detroit Techno including Jeff Mills, Carl Craig, Underground Resistance's seminal Knights of the Jaguar, and much more - he demonstrated impeccable craftsmanship and skill in both mastering records for sound and aesthetics at company known as Sound Enterprises source link AKA National Sound Corporation. Schooled in Motown, dubplates and jukeboxes, he is the bespoke-crafted, analog link between the digital future and analog past that is the roots of Techno music and modern techno DJ culture.
posted on Feb-13-08 at 2:55 AM
The Cult of Wikipedia - An expose by The Register on conflict of interest at Wikipedia.
posted on Feb-7-08 at 6:50 AM
Some skaters blowing shit up.
posted on Jan-27-08 at 1:50 AM
How to win at the internet: Horse mask? Check. Wild mushrooms? Check. Improbable thongs and partial nudity? Check. Dancing? Check. Craziest goddamn thing I've ever seen on the internet? Absolutely. As if I even need to say it, this isn't safe for work, for human consumption, or retaining what few shreds of sanity you believe that you may still cling to.
posted on Jan-23-08 at 7:33 AM
The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science - an allegory told with iPods as Universal Machines.
posted on Jan-19-08 at 9:19 PM
Balls!
posted on Jan-16-08 at 4:30 PM
Evolution of an artist.
posted on Jan-8-08 at 6:17 AM
Crazy Rulers of the World: The Men Who Stare at Goats - A rather clear look at attempts to use the paranormal in the US military. (Part 2: Funny Torture, Part 3: Psychic Foot Soldiers)
posted on Nov-26-07 at 12:31 AM
Household Hacker offers a growing variety of bizarrely improbable or impossible "hacks" using household items. How many errors can you spot?
posted on Nov-23-07 at 7:19 PM
Smile - a very creepy short student film.
posted on Nov-17-07 at 8:08 PM
Miss Rockaway Armada. A photonarrative.
posted on Nov-16-07 at 5:30 AM
High speed camera.
posted on Nov-4-07 at 4:12 AM
Guy playing a guitar on a trampoline.
posted on Oct-29-07 at 1:39 AM
Dude, pop that zit.
posted on Oct-21-07 at 3:55 AM
I knew it would eventually happen. I didn't expect it so soon. The Church of Google.
posted on Oct-17-07 at 11:01 PM
Mirror prank. (YouTube, SFW)
posted on Oct-16-07 at 9:14 PM
On the menu this evening: 3) Human Catapult, trebuchet-flavored with a side of net. Human catapult, with parachute landing. Short version. Human catapult, without release. 2) Hammer juggling, well done. 1) X-wing vs. Y-Wing.
posted on Oct-9-07 at 8:36 PM
Bored with Talk Like A Pirate Day? Investigate the real thing in the Straits of Malacca with National Geographic.
posted on Sep-19-07 at 11:30 AM
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
posted on Sep-10-07 at 11:42 PM
Tonight I present to you Wikipedia articles that are too technical. Warning: Your brain may explode.
posted on Aug-30-07 at 7:36 PM
Inside Out A topographical bedtime story. (Warning, contains spheres!)
posted on Aug-28-07 at 10:18 PM
Real Life Super Heroes! Perhaps you've heard of Angle Grinder Man, Superbarrio and Terrifica. How about The Eye, Tothian or Mr. Silent? There is, of course, the Wikipedia page for Real Life Super Heroes. A Myspace group chock full of spandex and gadgets. The member list is a great place to start browsing.
posted on Jul-25-07 at 3:37 PM
The Buckminster Fuller Institute is now accepting submissions for it's new, annual design challenge contest. Submissions must be applicable with real-world technology, solving real-world problems with a minimum of ecological impact. The offered prize is $100,000, on par with some of NASA's challenges. ( Buckminster Fuller on Wikipedia, and E2 )
posted on Jul-20-07 at 2:05 PM
Get the hell off our Internet.
posted on Jul-16-07 at 9:51 PM
The Levitra Couches
posted on Jul-8-07 at 4:34 PM
HELLO KITTY HELL
posted on Jun-23-07 at 8:37 PM
How to build and start a fire. How to build and start a fire with stone age tools. How to start a fire in an emergency. How to start a fire without matches. How to start a fire with sticks. How to start a fire with air - and possibly inspire the birth of the diesel engine. How to start a fire with ice. How to start a fire with chocolate and a coke can.
posted on Jun-11-07 at 12:13 AM
Telephone Central Office Histories - A fascinating collection of personal anecdotes and histories about telephony from the US and around the world, from The Telephone Exchange Name Project. Coral Cache links -1- -2- (via)
posted on Jun-9-07 at 1:03 PM
Dr. Vernard Eller is no sex maniac. He is not even very sexy, although this is something you can never be sure about. He is probably just about normal, whatever that is. From the books you read about sex, being normal isn't normal these days. And being abnormal isn't as abnormal as it once was.
posted on Apr-17-07 at 2:08 AM
All these worlds are yours, save Europa. Attempt no landings he...llo! What the hell is wrong with you!? Did you just nuke Jupiter?
posted on Apr-9-07 at 4:14 AM
Bay Area Yuri's Night 2007 Bay Area Yuri's Night 2007 Yuri's Night Bay Area will be held at Moffett Field in the NASA Ames Research Center's massive SOFIA hangar, home to the world's largest aerial observatory. Our host for the evening is pioneering space traveler Anousheh Anasari, the first privately funded female to reach orbit. She is joined by Dr. Chris McKay, world renowned expert in astrobiology and terraformation with the Space Science Division of NASA Ames Research Center, as they welcome you to a dazzling array of interactive art installations and science demos, interwoven with musical and acrobatic performances by some of the world's finest entertainers. Complete write up. Partially via MeFi's own lannanh.
posted on Apr-6-07 at 2:08 PM
Coffee + laser = instant awesome!
posted on Mar-26-07 at 4:33 PM
The Codpiece [coral cache] - An illustrated review of what is quite possibly one of the worst comic books of all time. (Not safe for anyone.)
posted on Mar-10-07 at 4:50 PM
Music Porn - Synthesizer sex.
posted on Mar-4-07 at 4:11 PM
I Am Trying to Believe. Well, maybe not. (Previously: Best, shortest review of a NIN cd, ever.)
posted on Feb-13-07 at 12:36 PM
Breakfast of the Gods: The Last Good Morning. A serialized webcomic featuring the sugary, crunchy stars of your childhood - destroying your childhood dreams one after another. Via Monkeyfilter.
posted on Feb-11-07 at 10:22 AM
PhET - Physics Education Technology offers this astoundingly large library of online physics simulations. Play orbital billiards. Land on a cheesy moon. Experiment with sound. Or try more advanced quantum physics simulators. Still bored? Try the "cutting edge" catagory. Here's the complete index. (Warnings: Frames, Flash, Javascript, Java applets, graphics, sound, quantum timesuck.)
posted on Feb-3-07 at 9:47 AM
Picnik. Free, online photo editing tools.
posted on Feb-1-07 at 5:53 AM
posted on Jun-4-08 at 5:52 PM
Video of a man going totally beserk in a Russian office. Cellphone video here, w/ audio.
posted on Jun-3-08 at 5:22 PM
Google's Android goes live for demo. Lots of video and stills. Cache.
posted on May-28-08 at 11:37 PM
The uncanny valley just got deeper. "Treat yourself to the perfect woman."
posted on May-27-08 at 9:40 PM
In 1974 - or 1976, depending who you ask - Armistead Maupin began writing "an extended love letter to a magical San Francisco” in the form of a serialized, fictional drama published originally in the Pacific Sun, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner, originally called "The Serial" which then became collectively known as Tales of The City. It is a suprisingly beautiful, deep, emotional, cosmopolitan and lasting tale about life in San Francisco in the turbulent, heady days of the 1970s and 1980s. Widely credited with and cherished for helping spread a little of the openess, tolerance and acceptance that San Francisco is now famous for. It then became a series of books - Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You - and lastly, the spin-off tale of Michael Tolliver Lives. Almost exactly twenty years after first publishing, it then became an excellent miniseries from the United Kingdom's Channel 4, which aired in the United States on PBS, but not without protest or limitations.
posted on May-4-08 at 1:20 AM
We've seen a number of Rube Goldberg machines in advertising before, but here's the first one I've seen that actually uses the controlled chaos of one to describe what their product actually does. Or doesn't, really. If you've ever worked in a print shop, you've probably seen something like this happen. Usually once or twice a day.
posted on Apr-29-08 at 9:06 AM
ArsTechnica is reporting on the practice of altering and editing web-traffic enroute from the server to your client/browser. Is your ISP, work or connection path altering your requested documents? Find out here.
posted on Apr-16-08 at 1:44 PM
Narcoleptic cat. (via Flickr Video)
posted on Apr-9-08 at 7:52 AM
Rain + server room in basement = nerd horror
posted on Apr-2-08 at 3:28 AM
Dave Grohl for President!
posted on Mar-20-08 at 7:39 PM
Top ten chemistry videos. (Wired, YouTube)
posted on Mar-2-08 at 5:32 PM
Erotic Falconry
posted on Feb-29-08 at 2:45 PM
Ron Murphy cut records, but not just any records. Responsible for cutting the actual vinyl master plates of much of the now revered Detroit Techno including Jeff Mills, Carl Craig, Underground Resistance's seminal Knights of the Jaguar, and much more - he demonstrated impeccable craftsmanship and skill in both mastering records for sound and aesthetics at company known as Sound Enterprises source link AKA National Sound Corporation. Schooled in Motown, dubplates and jukeboxes, he is the bespoke-crafted, analog link between the digital future and analog past that is the roots of Techno music and modern techno DJ culture.
posted on Feb-13-08 at 2:55 AM
The Cult of Wikipedia - An expose by The Register on conflict of interest at Wikipedia.
posted on Feb-7-08 at 6:50 AM
Some skaters blowing shit up.
posted on Jan-27-08 at 1:50 AM
How to win at the internet: Horse mask? Check. Wild mushrooms? Check. Improbable thongs and partial nudity? Check. Dancing? Check. Craziest goddamn thing I've ever seen on the internet? Absolutely. As if I even need to say it, this isn't safe for work, for human consumption, or retaining what few shreds of sanity you believe that you may still cling to.
posted on Jan-23-08 at 7:33 AM
The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science - an allegory told with iPods as Universal Machines.
posted on Jan-19-08 at 9:19 PM
Balls!
posted on Jan-16-08 at 4:30 PM
Evolution of an artist.
posted on Jan-8-08 at 6:17 AM
Crazy Rulers of the World: The Men Who Stare at Goats - A rather clear look at attempts to use the paranormal in the US military. (Part 2: Funny Torture, Part 3: Psychic Foot Soldiers)
posted on Nov-26-07 at 12:31 AM
Household Hacker offers a growing variety of bizarrely improbable or impossible "hacks" using household items. How many errors can you spot?
posted on Nov-23-07 at 7:19 PM
Smile - a very creepy short student film.
posted on Nov-17-07 at 8:08 PM
Miss Rockaway Armada. A photonarrative.
posted on Nov-16-07 at 5:30 AM
High speed camera.
posted on Nov-4-07 at 4:12 AM
Guy playing a guitar on a trampoline.
posted on Oct-29-07 at 1:39 AM
Dude, pop that zit.
posted on Oct-21-07 at 3:55 AM
I knew it would eventually happen. I didn't expect it so soon. The Church of Google.
posted on Oct-17-07 at 11:01 PM
Mirror prank. (YouTube, SFW)
posted on Oct-16-07 at 9:14 PM
On the menu this evening: 3) Human Catapult, trebuchet-flavored with a side of net. Human catapult, with parachute landing. Short version. Human catapult, without release. 2) Hammer juggling, well done. 1) X-wing vs. Y-Wing.
posted on Oct-9-07 at 8:36 PM
Bored with Talk Like A Pirate Day? Investigate the real thing in the Straits of Malacca with National Geographic.
posted on Sep-19-07 at 11:30 AM
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
posted on Sep-10-07 at 11:42 PM
Tonight I present to you Wikipedia articles that are too technical. Warning: Your brain may explode.
posted on Aug-30-07 at 7:36 PM
Inside Out A topographical bedtime story. (Warning, contains spheres!)
posted on Aug-28-07 at 10:18 PM
Real Life Super Heroes! Perhaps you've heard of Angle Grinder Man, Superbarrio and Terrifica. How about The Eye, Tothian or Mr. Silent? There is, of course, the Wikipedia page for Real Life Super Heroes. A Myspace group chock full of spandex and gadgets. The member list is a great place to start browsing.
posted on Jul-25-07 at 3:37 PM
The Buckminster Fuller Institute is now accepting submissions for it's new, annual design challenge contest. Submissions must be applicable with real-world technology, solving real-world problems with a minimum of ecological impact. The offered prize is $100,000, on par with some of NASA's challenges. ( Buckminster Fuller on Wikipedia, and E2 )
posted on Jul-20-07 at 2:05 PM
Get the hell off our Internet.
posted on Jul-16-07 at 9:51 PM
The Levitra Couches
posted on Jul-8-07 at 4:34 PM
HELLO KITTY HELL
posted on Jun-23-07 at 8:37 PM
How to build and start a fire. How to build and start a fire with stone age tools. How to start a fire in an emergency. How to start a fire without matches. How to start a fire with sticks. How to start a fire with air - and possibly inspire the birth of the diesel engine. How to start a fire with ice. How to start a fire with chocolate and a coke can.
posted on Jun-11-07 at 12:13 AM
Telephone Central Office Histories - A fascinating collection of personal anecdotes and histories about telephony from the US and around the world, from The Telephone Exchange Name Project. Coral Cache links -1- -2- (via)
posted on Jun-9-07 at 1:03 PM
Dr. Vernard Eller is no sex maniac. He is not even very sexy, although this is something you can never be sure about. He is probably just about normal, whatever that is. From the books you read about sex, being normal isn't normal these days. And being abnormal isn't as abnormal as it once was.
posted on Apr-17-07 at 2:08 AM
All these worlds are yours, save Europa. Attempt no landings he...llo! What the hell is wrong with you!? Did you just nuke Jupiter?
posted on Apr-9-07 at 4:14 AM
Bay Area Yuri's Night 2007 Bay Area Yuri's Night 2007 Yuri's Night Bay Area will be held at Moffett Field in the NASA Ames Research Center's massive SOFIA hangar, home to the world's largest aerial observatory. Our host for the evening is pioneering space traveler Anousheh Anasari, the first privately funded female to reach orbit. She is joined by Dr. Chris McKay, world renowned expert in astrobiology and terraformation with the Space Science Division of NASA Ames Research Center, as they welcome you to a dazzling array of interactive art installations and science demos, interwoven with musical and acrobatic performances by some of the world's finest entertainers. Complete write up. Partially via MeFi's own lannanh.
posted on Apr-6-07 at 2:08 PM
Coffee + laser = instant awesome!
posted on Mar-26-07 at 4:33 PM
The Codpiece [coral cache] - An illustrated review of what is quite possibly one of the worst comic books of all time. (Not safe for anyone.)
posted on Mar-10-07 at 4:50 PM
Music Porn - Synthesizer sex.
posted on Mar-4-07 at 4:11 PM
I Am Trying to Believe. Well, maybe not. (Previously: Best, shortest review of a NIN cd, ever.)
posted on Feb-13-07 at 12:36 PM
Breakfast of the Gods: The Last Good Morning. A serialized webcomic featuring the sugary, crunchy stars of your childhood - destroying your childhood dreams one after another. Via Monkeyfilter.
posted on Feb-11-07 at 10:22 AM
PhET - Physics Education Technology offers this astoundingly large library of online physics simulations. Play orbital billiards. Land on a cheesy moon. Experiment with sound. Or try more advanced quantum physics simulators. Still bored? Try the "cutting edge" catagory. Here's the complete index. (Warnings: Frames, Flash, Javascript, Java applets, graphics, sound, quantum timesuck.)
posted on Feb-3-07 at 9:47 AM
Picnik. Free, online photo editing tools.
posted on Feb-1-07 at 5:53 AM
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