Zach Weiner, Destroyer of Homophobes | Bad Astronomy My pal Zach Weiner is a good guy. Smart, funny, talented — and he draws Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, my favorite web comic bar none. And it’s that last bit which has elevated him into my exclusive pantheon of personal heroes. Let me tell you this tale […]
$30,000 My Keepon Robot On Sale Soon—For $40 [Robots] Shared by jftesser hurrah! i have wanted one of these since the original youtube True, it’s not the exact robot that initially cost a large percentage of your house, but the My Keepon toy-robot can still recognize music beats and dance in rhythm—so he’s doing better […]
February 3, 2011
Bat Everyone makes Batman comics sometime. And I said not long ago, because of this, “you will never see me do a Batman comic.” But, dear readers, a fact: Batman is fun. Batman is so much fun, and that is why everyone makes comics about him. Case closed, everyone make Batman comics and feel good […]
January 24, 2011
Clear iPhone 4 mod Shared by jftesser ooohhhh…this is maybe better than white…I may also have an ifixit kit Yesterday the general public learned what a pentalobe is. You might be asking yourself why you’d need such a thing, but if you’re like Uwants member mkmarken, then you’d want it to disassemble your iPhone 4 […]
January 22, 2011
Apple And Our Culture Andy Crouch (h/t: Alexis) understands the strange confluence of despair and hope in the naughties: In the 2000s, when much about the wider world was causing Americans intense anxiety, the one thing that got inarguably better, much better, was our personal technology. In October 2001, with the World Trade Center still […]
January 19, 2011
Sierra Point-and-Click Adventures: From the Web to your iPad [Gaming] With the advent of touchscreen gaming, point-and-click adventures are experiencing something of a rennaissance. Thanks to a cunning soul, now you can play Sierra On-line’s classic line up of point-and-clicks straight from the web on your iPad. Titles like Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest and […]
January 16, 2011
5th annual thing-a-day It’s that time of the year again! February is Thing-A-Day month: Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint where, every year in February, participants commit to creating one new thing a day and post it on a collective blog.Sign-up now to get inspired and fight the mid-winter blues! Registration opens Jan 21st and […]
January 15, 2011
SparkFun Free Day returns Last year, SparkFun held a free day where they gave away $100,000 in merch to anyone who could refresh their browser fast enough. This time they’re upping the ante with $150K in swag: On January 13th, 2011, Boulder-based SparkFun Electronics will give away $150,000 worth of products in the second annual […]
January 13, 2011
Stereotypical People I Find Uncanny “[The Uncanny] is closely related to Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection where one reacts adversely to that which has been forcefully cast out of the symbolic order. Abjection can be uncanny in that the observer can recognize something within the abject, possibly of what it was before it was ‘cast […]
January 8, 2011
A Decade of Fear Made Pretty by Liz Colville The data-makeover blog Information Is Beautiful strikes again with a colorful chart of ten years of fear-mongering media crazes, many of which just won't go away, even when given ten years to do so. It's not as scary as the witch-bat-ghost triumvirate that caused the bird […]
January 7, 2011
TV Documentary The Joy of Stats: Now Available Online “The world we live in is awash with data, that comes pooring in from everywhere around us. On its own, this data is just noise and confusion. To make sense of data, to find the meaning in it, we need a powerful branch of science: statistics!” […]
January 6, 2011
Micachu and The Shapes Gregory Mitnick at Cool Hunting writes: Following British musician Micachu through the aisles of a hardware store and along the streets of NYC, our video on the 23-year-old documents how she builds her experimental instruments. We also learn how her classical training compares to songwriting and get an impromptu performance with […]
January 4, 2011
