Katamari Baby Beanie Rolls Up Our Paternal ... [Katamari Damacy] (11)
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Katamari Baby Beanie Rolls Up Our Paternal Instincts - So cute. So cute. The King of the Cosmos couldn't possibly say mean and nasty things to this guy. [Boing-Boing]
Geometry Wars 2: Developer Spotlight (4)
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Take a look behind the scenes of one of this year's most exciting XBox Live Arcade games.
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"We wanted too create sort of a composite between P1 from Adventure on Atari and the Brutes from Halo 3."
Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP (19)
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Co-presented with Rabble.
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Dom Derrien said:
XMPP / AtomPub / XMPP PubSub: look at the presentation for more information. There are many interesting ideas (not just because I've the same point of view ;) and explanations for a proof-of-concept!
Kool-Aid Man Wanted on Destruction of Property Charges (16)
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Scott Van Den Plas came across busted out brick wall in a Chicago neighborhood, so he promptly “took the proper corrective measures” and plastered some Kool-Aid Man Wanted posters on the surviving area of the wall. Looks like Paul Addis has some competition. via Urban Prankster photos by Joe Van Wetering Related PostsPaul Addis Pleads Guilty To Damaging Property at Burning Man 2007Least WantedPeep Destruction, Harshing Your MallowPaul Addis Arrested, Planned To Set Fire To ...
Mapping Walkability – San Francisco (11)
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So for as long as they’ve been around, I’ve been a bit fan of Walk Score. It’s usually been just a toy, however as I get ready to move to San Francisco, I’ve been using it to compare against craigslist apartment rentals to the point where I think I’m getting RSI. So it made sense to clear things up and take a look at the big picture Read on for how it was done… (more…)
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David said:
Great map of SF Walkability
HOWTO Make a Sesame Street YipYipYip costume (5)
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Here's a fine instructable for making a YipYipYip Martian costume from Sesame Street, consisting primarily of lots of fabric, a couple styrofoam balls, sponge and pipecleaners. Link (Thanks, Kevin!)
Chris Anderson is wrong. FreeDOM, not free, is the future of business | CenterNetworks (1)
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I respect Chris Anderson and his work regarding The Long Tail. But his prediction that free is the future of business is wrong. There are many reasons why. I’ll start with the one I think is most critical.“Free” increases alienation of laborAt the beginning of the industrial revolution, Karl Marx argued that under capitalism, workers inevitably lost control of their labor, and hence became separated from:1) their humanity, being treated more like machines2) their community, ...
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Ben said:
I'd rather pay directly for the media I consume instead of paying indirectly through advertising (which costs attention now and money later as a sort of tax whenever I buy an advertised product). Overcoming the difference between free and non-free is difficult, though (on both technical and psychological levels).
Early retirement is a false idol (8)
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The classic argument for enduring 80 to 100 hour work weeks for years on end — sacrificing relationships, hobbies, and anything else that doesn’t progress the mission — is that at the end of the rainbow lies early retirement. The reward for risking it all on a crazy startup idea. This wonderful place is filled with anything you want it to be. Never a dull moment again, all the flexibility and freedom in the world. ...
A-Ha's Quake On Me [Quake] (1)
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More Quake mods! While that Simpsons one from the other day was admirable for its craftsmanship, this one is notable for its vision: a recreation of the style, if not the exact setting, of A-Ha's Take On Me video. Sadly, the vid cuts off before we get to see what must be an inevitable boss fight against those creepy blokes in motorcycle helmets, followed by a polygonal reunion with that girl with the awful hair. ...
Retro Gaming on real backgrounds (3)
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Une amusante sélection d'instants de jeux retro-gaming comme Donkey Kong, Yoshi Island, ou Street Fighter mis en parallèle sur des fonds et des photographies réels. Plus de 13 images à découvrir dans la suite. Dans le même esprit : Evolution of Nintendo Characters
More Wiimote Projects - A Brain Dump (2)
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. That’s largely because I’ve been traveling a lot, giving talks, and most recently relocating to a new city. It became clear to me a while ago that I wasn’t going to get around to making more videos anytime soon. So, I figured I would make a post about the projects that I would probably make videos of if I had more free time. The content of this ...
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Ben said:
The foldable displays video is really neat, even if it is totally impractical as demonstrated with the fixed projector. I wonder if it would be feasible to make a wearable projector for something like this?
Am I Bored With “Web 2.0”? (3)
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I read a comment on my “Looking For Inspiration” post this morning that suggested I was just getting bored with Web 2.0 like many others. It’s something I’ve considered a lot lately. I am certainly not bored with the investments we have made at Union Square Ventures and many of them would be classified as “web 2.0”. There’s pretty much nothing I’d rather do outside of family time than spend a few hours talking with ...
SuperSCAF: Carbon negative power plants (1)
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I thought I'd try my hand at envisioning what a 200 megawatt carbon-negative power plant might look like. It would have to be low-tech, simple, and based on current technologies. Now, I can't claim that this design is very efficient or that it would make a dent in the carbon that's already in the air, but it wasn't hard to come up with. A little more thought and we could probably do a lot better. ...
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Indoor windmills! I just had to share this because the first thing that got Larry Page excited about Google Reader was the potential for experts to use the shared-label features to produce streams about this kind of solar-powered "indoor windmill" (and other types of green power plants, but this was the kind that happened to be on his mind that day).
The time cost of free goods » PopMatters | Blogs | Marginal Utility (1)
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...Linder argues that as we become squeezed for consumption time, we’ll consume more expensive things over cheaper things when possible to make use of more goods on a total-cost basis. But when the cost of goods is zero, what happens then? As behavioral economists (most vociferously, Dan Ariely) have pointed out, we find the promise of free things hard to resist (even when a little thinking reveals that the free-ness is illusory). So when with ...
in action: a skyscraper’s amazing 728-ton stabilising ball (5)
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image source: popular mechanics the enormous steel ball you see in the photos (and the incredible video below) is the world’s largest ‘tuned mass damper’ and sits near the top of the world’s largest completed skyscraper on earth, taipei 101 in taiwan. the idea behind a tuned mass damper is quite simple: as a building sways (resulting from high winds, earthquakes etc), its tuned mass damper, essentially a finely tuned and ridiculously heavy pendulum, will ...
Self Catching Fish (2)
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Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood’s Hole, Massachusetts, are testing a plan to train fish to catch themselves by using a sound broadcast to attract them into a net. If it works, the system could eventually allow black sea bass to be released into the open ocean, where they would grow to market size, then swim into an underwater cage to be harvested when they hear the signal.
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Ben said:
Bert and Ernie have been doing this for years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFTjeaDlxDI
Annals of Science: Darwin’s Surprise: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker (1)
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When the sequence of the human genome was fully mapped, in 2003, researchers also discovered something they had not anticipated: our bodies are littered with the shards of such retroviruses, fragments of the chemical code from which all genetic material is made. It takes less than two per cent of our genome to create all the proteins necessary for us to live. Eight per cent, however, is composed of broken and disabled retroviruses, which, millions ...
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With modern science and technology, so-called "junk DNA" can be useful as a log of evolutionary events even if it's not being used to make protiens. This long article describes some fascinating (and kinda scary) viral research.
David Weinberger and the Ninja Gap (1)
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David Weinberger somehow manages to find time to write books, write thoughtful blog posts, AND produce a periodic newsletter - Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization - that’s one of he best reads on the ‘net. I’m deeply flattered that the current issue features David’s thoughts on some of the topics I’m obsessed with: media attention, caring, international understanding. More generously, he gives me the chance to react to his essay within the essay… David’s generosity ...
When Crazy Isn’t Crazy Anymore: Life Balance and Insanity (1)
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[Note: Bear with me here at the beginning. The second half is better than the first]. Conventional wisdom says that a well-balanced meal contains all the major food groups. On the contrary, nutritional research indicates that nutritional balance just isn’t necessary during each meal. Balance among the food groups isn’t even necessary over the course of a day. In fact, nutritionists generally believe that while a diet might not be balanced with regards to a ...
