June 2008
30 posts
Casa 11 Mujeres →
A cliff-top house near Santiago in Chile by architect Mathias Klotz. Photographs by Cristobal Palma
Sawn-In-Half Cameras →
Photos from the Deutshes Technikmuseum, Berlin
Animal Age Database →
Find the longevity of any creature
The Brains Behind the Image Fulgurator →
The Fulgurator lies in wait until an unsuspecting photographer takes a picture using a flash. When the device’s sensor sees this flash, it fires its own unit, throwing up an image which is captured by the hapless photographer’s camera while remaining unseen by the naked eye.
Dynamic Tower Skyscraper: Every Floor... →
The only part of the tower built on site will be the skinny center core. Each floor will be made piece by piece in a factory in Italy and placed onto the core using a lift system. With this method, each story is completed in about six days. By comparison, traditional ground-up methods can take six weeks per floor.
Switching languages can also switch personality →
“Language can be a cue that activates different culture-specific frames”
Books Summed Up in Three Lines or Less.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!
日本にいる外国人が行うとびっくりする行動ランキング →
完璧の敬語を話せる外国人も驚きことと思う
The cloud by MIT mobile experience lab →
An organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers. constructed of carbon glass, spanning over four meters, and containing more than 65 kilometers of fiber optics, the cloud encourages visitors to touch and interact with information in new ways, manifesting emotions and...
Taipei 101 Tower's 728-ton Stabilizing Ball During... →
After reading the explanation watch the video.
東京メトロ：渋谷駅構内案内図 →
混乱している X＿X
Planet Tozer →
Bubble photography that look like planets.
How he did it.
How to nap →
Tips to help take a nap, since having a little siesta is built into our systems as mammals.
What the World Eats →
Photo essay of the different foods families eat from around the world.
Does the Pirahã Language Challenge the Idea of... →
The Smartest, Prettiest, Coolest, Funniest, Most... →
Before Photoshop →
“Goude photographed Jones in a variety of positions using boxes to hold up parts of her body and then combined the images in a montage that eventually became the amazing image that you see.”
My Photo of the Olympic Park on Schmap →
Centro Pro Typeface wins at the European Design... →
According to the jury, “PF Centro Pro is a type system, not just a type family … It is an almost ‘invisible’ typeface which has legibility as its main attribute and is ideal for a wide range of design works. It does not attract any unnecessary attention, but rather serves its purpose. A rare case of contemporary type family working across three alphabets…”
The making of Centro Pro
Chinese Fortune Cookies Originally From Japan →
There is one place where fortune cookies are conspicuously absent: China. Now a researcher in Japan believes she can explain the disconnect, which has long perplexed American tourists in China. Fortune cookies, Yasuko Nakamachi says, are almost certainly originally from Japan.
Tokyo Sky Tree →
The name for the new Tokyo Tower being built that will top out at 610 meters (2,003 ft). It will be completed in spring 2012.
What if someone invented a better mousetrap and... →
Nature Gave Him a Blueprint, but Not Overnight Success
Google News in an Ideal World →
Artist Repairs Walls In Italy With Lego Bricks →
