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Making Future Magic: iPad Light Painting
via Gizmodo: Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo. This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world. We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the…
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Houston, We Have a Trash Problem
Sean Cooper Wired Magazine, issue 15.05 Outer space is becoming a garbage heap. Some 15,000 pieces of debris, ranging from fingernail-sized paint flecks to 10-ton rocket stages, are hurtling through Earth’s orbit at 5 miles per second — about 10 times as fast as a speeding bullet. And the junk is multiplying, Asteroids-like, as large…
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Skeptics Discount Science by Casting Doubts on Scientist Expertise
from ars technica, via Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour (ep.64) [show notes]… Most surveys of the US public indicate that scientists are popular, trusted figures. The same, however, cannot be said about some of their conclusions, as topics like climate change and evolution remain controversial with many segments of the population. A recent Pew survey gives…
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Trivia Thursday
The aliens in Clarke’s Childhood’s End look like:A) SlugsB) DevilsC) PeopleD) FishE) Little Green Men What was Soylent Green? What is the sequel to The Peace War? What were Mortimer Dart, Weston, Vaughan, Mark Lebbreau and Hellstrom? Which of these movies features a walking tree terrorizing a South Seas village?A) From Hell It CameB) Green…
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Polymer Porn
Being a polymer scientist, I can’t look at porn or nudity. So I have to get creative. See the entire series here. (Potentially NSFW if your boss is against, um, polyamory.)
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Seen Online
I cry when I think about all the tap dancers and big-bosomed English Teachers that also must have died on the Death Star. — Beerhaze Burning a book will never lighten the darkness that is terrifying you. Reading it might. — juskewitch When Frodo was saved by giant eagles after walking all the way to…
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Link Dump
The Best SciFi Cartoons – An opinionated roundup. Ghostbusters Invoice – A prop used in the movie. Astronomy Photographer of the Year – These are just gorgeous. Bumper Sticker – Great gaming riffs on the “My Child is an Honor Student” stickers. Planet Cross-stitch – Free cross-stitch patterns of the planets. Geeky Wedding Cakes –…
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Neo Lebowski
The Matrix really ties the room together. (via BoingBoing)
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Trivia Thursday
Who is Slippery Jim diGriz? Who wrote and directed the horrible yet strangely entertaining movie Plan 9 from Outer Space? Who was Captain America’s arch-rival? What do these novels have in common? The Weapon Makers (Van Voight Vogt), Judgement Night (Moore), Dragonrider (McCaffery), Cosmic Engineers (Simak), Doorways In The Sand (Zelazny) What does Doctor Who’s…
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YouTube Time Machine
One night Justin Johnson was chatting with his friend Delbert Shoopman, thusly: I was regaling him with the tale of my previous night, in which I had been up very late watching Michael Jordan videos from 1996. It made me feel so awesome deep down inside … like it was Sunday afternoon, and I was…