Optical Illusions Etc: free, scary, word & picture optical illusions: Even knowing that the two above are the same size it is hard to believe. Look at them how is it possible for them to be the same size? Well you don’t have to take my word for it, check out the video below. This […]

More Everyware: How to design systems that respect prerogatives of civil liberties, privacy, etc.? AG suggests five ethical principles: Default to harmlessness. Everyware “should default to a mode that ensures their users’ safety.” It’s beyond graceful degredation, because everyware takes so much responsibility upon itself to take care of people. Be self-disclosing. You should be […]

Julie Frost’s ‘Mvura’ Water Purifier Wins Design Award: The Mvura (African Shona for ‘water’) was one of the student exhibits at ChangeX, which we noted earlier this year. It has been granted Bronze Prize in the student category of the 2006 Australian Design Awards. Julie Frost identified that “1.2 billion people in the world do […]

Rare “Rainbow” Spotted Over Idaho: From The National Geographic: It looks like a rainbow that’s been set on fire, but this phenomenon is as cold as ice. Known in the weather world as a circumhorizontal arc, this rare sight was caught on film on June 3 as it hung over northern Idaho near the Washington […]

26 Cheap Camping Tips: According to the original poster: These low-cost equipment/ideas/fixes for Scouting and camping in general [were] originally found on a F-Net Scouting board and [were] reposted on Fidonet on Nov 11/92 by Steve Simmons. The file evidently originated with BSA Troop 886 in the USA. This list is HUGE. Here are my […]

The TV Thing: As with all TV Things, everything could go horribly wrong. But this is the deal I’ve been waiting for, with people who understand the project and format I want to work in. And you know something’s going right when people in TV are telling you to go more experimental and take more […]

Researchers teach computers to turn 2D images into 3D: Filed under: Robots Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University appear to have solved a problem long thought impossible, teaching computers to turn static 2D images into 3D models. It was apparently a hot area for research in the 1970s but was virtually abandoned in the 80s after […]

FRIDAY IS BLOOMSDAY!: Bloomsday on Broadway XXV: Passion! Politics! Plus Samuel Beckett Centennial Celebration! This Bloomsday marks a quarter century of annual Joycean reveling at Symphony Space, and will celebrate the life, language, lusts and literature of James Joyce’s Ulysses over twelve-plus hours. This year’s focus is on Mr. Leopold Bloom’s spiritual son, Stephen Dedelus […]