May 2010
8 posts
"Sell everything immediately" →
Philadelphia Parking Lot Transformed into Urban... →
Velcro Brings Magic & Revolution To The iPad →
The Scary Robots Are Coming →
The modern business plan →
Samsung demos 19-inch transparent AMOLED display →
Dave Barry on Death →
Google Reader bankrupt →
Recently I’ve taken note that a number of media outlets have spoken up against mindless regurgitation of content. The most recent example is this complaint on the louisgray blog.
The…
September 2009
13 posts
Help and learn from others as you browse the web:... →
As you browse the web, it’s easy to forget how many people visit the same pages and look for the same information. Whether you’re researching advice on heart disease prevention or looking for …
Ancient Church Renovated into Modern Bookstore →
Whether you’re religious or not, this old Dominican church will certainly bring you the enlightenment you’ve been seeking. After months of renovation this magnificent structure originally…
The Death of the Newspaper →
The newspapers used to make the news, now they are the news. Reports of their death may indeed be premature but there is no question they are dying. The recession hasn’t helped but the real story is…
POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche,... →
In this intense video, a skier with a helmet cam on gets caught in a huge avalanche, getting buried for four and a half minutes and then getting dug out. Good lord. The guy in the…
Talk to your customers – and let them talk to each... →
Last week my friend Spencer Fry from Carbonmade showed me a cool activity he participates in about once a month. His company sends out a message to its users inviting them into a Drop.io…
New High-Def Home Video From The Edge of Space... →
This amazing video was shot by a Canon Vixio-HF camcorder attached to a hydrogen balloon launched by a small group of Edmonton radio enthusiasts on August 24. It’s believed to be the first…
Little boys and their nukes →
MY five-year-old son is very interested in missiles. Also cannonballs, bullets, arrows, bombs, jet planes, torpedoes, robots, and killer whales. (The ozone layer and reducing carbon emissions,…
Clay Shirky and Accountability Journalism →
Shared by Carlos
Read the linked essay “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.“ Its amazing.
NYU Professor Clay Shirky published an essay, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable“, that…
Stunning Green Roofed High School by Off... →
High school students in Revin, France will soon be attending classes in a stunning new terraced building covered in green roofs. Seen from above the new Lycee Jean Moulin school will…
Today's New Auto Industry: A Cheat Sheet →
TheCarConnection.com submits:
By Bengt Halvorson
Over the past eighteen months or so, the auto industry has been going through one of the most pronounced periods of change ever. While the…
Unholy Disney Princesses And The Marvel Crossover... →
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if instead of Disney’s wussification of Marvel’s characters, the tables were turned and instead Marvel turned the Disney princesses into Skrull invaders and zombies like…
REMINDER: The Age of Stupid Opens Nationwide... →
We’ve been raving about British dystopian climate-change docudrama The Age of Stupid ever since we previewed the provocative film this summer, and today, we are thrilled to say that…
MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for... →
Shared by Chris
this is really sick
On September 2, Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh successfully took these images of Earth’s curvature and the blackness of space using only a weather balloon…
August 2009
8 posts
Facebooking Win →
Shared by Carlos
ohh wow.
Via our friends at Emails From Crazy People
Global Warming Could Actually Tilt the Earth’s... →
Lots of things cause Earth’s spinning top-like axis to shift — earthquakes, El Nino, and even volcano eruptions. Now scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory say that global…
Japan's Abandoned Mines Hint at the Ruins We'll... →
The mines in Osarizawa and Matsuo closed decades ago, leaving behind the ruins of industry and miners’ homes. The shattered landscape offers a foretaste of a not-too-distant apocalypse. Michael…
Perseid Meteors Shower the Sky [Space Porn] →
Didn’t get a chance to see this week’s Perseid meteor shower? Amateur and professor astronomy photographers have captured images of the shooting meteors from all over the world. The Perseid…
Corporate Culture (NetFlix) →
I have worked at a few different companies since I started my career, while in college at many traditional organizations and after college at a few startup environments. I came across this…
Living Growing Root Bridges Are 100% Natural... →
Shared by Carlos
Damn.
In the forests of Meghalaya, India, the War-Khasis people have discovered a patient way of crossing the many rivers of their wet region. By guiding the roots of…
A 300 Million-Year-Old Spider, Recreated [Before... →
When scientists look at ancient fossils, we usually only see flat, sketchy outlines of the creatures they are investigating. But a team at Imperial College London has turned an ancient fossil…
Holograms Are Ready for Your Groping [Holograms] →
The premise of a realistic hologram is no longer so far-fetched, but what about actually touching the thing? Researchers from The University of Tokyo have found a way. The clip explains…
July 2009
10 posts
The Folly Of ‘Magical Solutions’ For Targeting... →
By Roger A. Pielke, Jr. Setting unattainable emissions targets is not a policy — it’s an act of wishful thinking, argues one political scientist. Instead, governments and society should…
Video: Google Wave public beta rolling out in... →
Shared by Carlos
Everyone needs to get this.
It’s hard to tell if Wave — Google’s new collaborative, universal messaging platform — is revolutionary or simply, well, neat. It’s…
The silliest smear →
Shared by Cody Wells
amen.
IT’S hardly a new charge against atheists, but it has come up again several times recently in the blogosphere: that today’s secularists, atheists, anti-theists and…
CV.IM - A New Kind Of Investment Management... →
Our portfolio company Covestor launched a new kind of investment account today, called Covestor Investment Management (CV.IM).
I had written a longish blog post explaining why I think this is…
Plantagon: Geodesic Dome Farm of the Future →
Lots of cities have farmers markets, but most — if not all — of the produce comes from rural farmers that use oil-intensive methods of transportation to cart around their food. With 80%…
Sleek Solar and Wind Powered Hybrid Street Lamps →
As designers strive to create a more sustainable future, we’re thrilled to see designs that integrate a variety of renewable energy technologies into objects we encounter in everyday life….
Regnum Tower for Istanbul Features BioClimatic... →
Steeped in centuries old architectural gems, Istanbul has historically been considered the ornate centerpiece of Turkey. Today, Istanbul has become a focus for investors and talented…
Tornado Tower Features Energy Generating Facade →
The Tornado Tower is a spectacular modern and unique design that is characterized by a rotating facade, which generates power from high altitude winds. The exterior of the tower is…
World’s First Cargo Ship Propelled by Solar Panels →
These days, it seems everything from rooftops to cell phones come equipped with solar panels. Now, huge cargo ships are the latest entities to join the solar power fray. The M/V…
Virtually Waterless Washing Machine Cuts Water Use... →
Xeros Ltd. is on the verge of saving us a LOT of water. Their new washing system (prototype stage) uses nylon beads to tumble wash clothes with 90% less water than conventional washers….
June 2009
18 posts
Ben Bernanke: Smooth Criminal →
I know this isn’t a universally held opinion, but to me there is a simple reality. Between September and December we were facing a significant chance of another Great Depression. Beyond that, we…
Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing... →
Shared by Carlos
Whoa!
Brooke Greenberg looks like a toddler, but she is actually sixteen years old. She is only 30 inches high. Now scientists are studying her genome to figure out…
LOOWATT: Toilet Made From Poo Transforms Excrement... →
Design gets very literal in this toilet made from poop!
Form follows function to whole new level in Virginia Gardiner’s energy generating toilet - which is literally made from poop!…
Feds lend Tesla $465M for electric car →
The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it. It’s one of three loans totaling almost $8 billion that the…
15 Year Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System →
Thanks to 15 year old Texan Javier Fernández-Han, we feel a little more hopeful about the next generation’s ability to adapt to a world of limited resources. The high school student…
Google Voice invites on their way →
A couple of months ago we announced Google Voice, a service that gives you one phone number to link all your phones and makes voicemail as easy as email. We are happy to share that Google Voice is…
Foster + Partners Break Ground on Virgin Galactic... →
It’s an exciting time for space fanatics everywhere as construction recently began on the world’s first commercial space launch pad, Spaceport America. Designed by Foster + Partners,…
US Government May Bulldoze 50 Cities; Create More... →
It seems virtually everyone—from Wall Street bankers to small business owners—has been affected by the economic downturn. Now, the recession’s latest victims may be American cities. The…
Google Analyzes Your Vacation Snaps to Figure Out... →
Shared by Carlos
Nice.
Image recognition technology spots landmarks, makes photo galleries smarter
By Jeremy Hsu
Where were we when this was taken? Do you remember, dear?
Tired of trying to…
Coffin Couch Helps the Non-Dead Resemble the... →
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Probably tacky, but I would buy this.
If Buffy, Twilight, Trueblood and the collective Anne Rice novels have taught us anything, it’s that women dig vampires. To exploit the…
OLED data glasses let your eyes do the walking →
Shared by Carlos
Cant wait to get these.
(Credit: Fraunhofer Institute)
If you thought there were enough menaces on the road with people yakking away on Bluetooth headsets and texting…