William and His Windmill

Came across this story a few days ago and it made me think of what Stewart Brand’s been saying for a while now…. “given access to the information we need - humanity can make the world a better place.” In “Whole Earth Discipline” he also makes a counterintuitive case for why booming slums and squatter [...]

Time’s Best Inventions of ‘09

Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 19:37 | Category : Future, Musings, Technology
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The remainder of the list is here.

And now, for some kitesurfing porn…

Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 19:30 | Category : Musings, Sport, Technology, web
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Shot on the camera I’ve yet to play with, a sport I’ve yet to try:

Making of BAGUS MOVIE - Indonesia from Ne3ko on Vimeo.
One of the neat things I came across while traversing the web this aft…This was shot on the increasingly popular Red One. The shots are stunning. Kitesurfing goes on my must-try [...]

Human ingenuity knows no bounds…

Thursday, 26 November 2009, 22:13 | Category : Musings, Technology, Uncategorized
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This Chinese farmer is a robotics enthusiast in his spare time…He uses spare parts and leftovers…

Crisis of Credit Visualized

Sunday, 15 March 2009, 11:48 | Category : Musings, Technology, Uncategorized, web
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This simple, elegant use of an informative online vid is what gets me excited about the web:

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Another one of Jarvis’ projects:
OverPowered - Losing Control is an exercise in controlling power…strike too hard, and you bring the system down…

OverPowered - Losing Control from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Microsoft’s take on 2019…

Monday, 9 March 2009, 20:57 | Category : Technology, Uncategorized, web
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Video: Future Vision Montage
Makes you forget about the economy…almost.

David Bergman’s Gigapan Shot of the Inauguration

Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 18:09 | Category : Musings, Technology, Uncategorized, web
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Our site designer, Matt Carson, first brought this to my attention last week…Like the hordes of people who subsequently brought Bergman’s site down, I was in awe…One might wonder about the security implications of these types of shots.
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a>
You can view the image, and the specks on Gigapan.org. Here’s Bergman’s [...]

Lego NXT Rubik’s Cube Solver

Thursday, 4 December 2008, 21:50 | Category : Musings, Technology, Uncategorized
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Watch from the 2:20 min mark, when it goes from analyzing to solving.

Time Magazine’s Top 10 Inventions of 2008

Friday, 7 November 2008, 0:24 | Category : Future, Technology, Uncategorized
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levelHead: Augmented Architecture

Simone Jones, Dean of Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art & Design, mentioned her colleague Julian Oliver’s neat creation during an interview we did for DiscoveryChannel.ca. I love the idea.
It plays into ideas of Augmented Architecture and Augmented Reality - concepts that deal with altering your reality, rather than providing you with [...]