May 2008
Best Of April 2008 →
Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. We read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll…
April 2008
Nova Releases Raw Footage To Consumers →
Nova releases the raw footage shot for NOVA’s “Car of the Future” documentary.
“This experiment marks the first time we have ever made raw video available to the public, and we’re eager to see what…
Core77 Calendar Highlight: Archetypes: An... →
The Friedman Benda gallery in New York City presents an exhibition opening tomorrow, May 1st through June 21st, devoted to the ideas and explorations of Ettore Sottsass. Here’s a snippet:
Cables Plus USA - Networking, Fiber Optic,... →
cheap network gear and cables
Puma Speeder →
You can always count on Puma to pull out a stylish classic from its never-ending supply of vintage sneakers. The Puma Speeder ($60), originally released in the late 1970’s, combines… Visit
The Government Can Seize Your Property Without a... →
This is not hyperbole. It is simply fact. Not in cases, but the precedent has been set. So what happens when the scope of the present state of the law is inevitably expanded?
Probable cause?…
Steve Ballmer uses a Mac for presentations →
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Macbook Pro
You may remember Steve Ballmer (CEO of some other company) criticizing the iPod and iPhone on several occasions. Something that he…
New electric vehicle with an unusual form factor →
Canadian teenager Ben Gulak has invented a rather unusual vehicle: a unicycle with two wheels. Well, isn’t that just a bicycle, you say? Not if the wheels are next to each other. Powered by…
The 60 second getopts tutorial →
nuff said
This guy is really pissed about Jazz’s death in... →
This guy is really pissed about Jazz’s death in Transformers. Check out this video.
Disillusioned With IT? →
cgh4be writes “I have been working in the IT industry for about 12 years and have had various jobs as a consultant and systems engineer. Over that time I’ve had the chance to do a little bit of…
Free heat hack, from soda cans →
This is a fairly amazing hack—this guy used soda cans, barbecue paint and leftover wood to make a solar heater for his garage. Without using fluids or pumps, this thing kicks out air…
Blockbuster Is in Talks on Taking Stake in... →
Merissa Marr / Wall Street Journal: Blockbuster Is in Talks on Taking Stake in Viacom-Led TV Channel — Blockbuster Inc. is in talks about taking a stake in the new Viacom Inc.-led…
DXG-569V HD Camcorder →
HD video recording for under $200 bucks? Apparently. DXG’s DXG-569V HD Camcorder ($170) records real HD (up to 1280 x 720) at 30 fps, letting even the poorest college students… Visit …
Buy Korg KAOSSILATOR Compact Music Creation Tool... →
part of me wants this really baaaaaaaaad
Great Idea for a House with High Ceilings →
Take a look at the pictures from this post …I’ve found them today on Apartment Therapy and I think that this suspended library is a great idea for a house with high ceilings. That empty space is…
(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos →
Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Excellent photos don’t only display some facts — they tell stories, awake feelings and manage to share with the audience the…
Roll Call: The John Woo edition →
Do not f**k with rice in front of the Chinese. One of the things that fascinates me about real estate is that how seemingly unrelated incidents have an affect on the real estate market. For…
Furniture for “The Addams Family” - Coffin Couches →
Sometimes people are so creative that you’ll say “What a crazy idea !“. One of these ideas came from the folks at Coffincouches who have managed to grab the 18 gauge steel coffins from the local…
Airplane seat design: ignore your seatmates at a... →
While air travel is still in a dreadful state, at least progress is being attempted in the area of design. Thompson Solutions has designed new “Cozy Suite” airline seats, which are staggered…
First time playing with the Kaoss mini-KP →
Better known for their hugely popularly Kaoss Pad (now at version KP3), Korg’s new mini-KP puts the power of the dynamic effects processor in the hands of the everyday music tinkerer….
Abercrombie Behind Obama →
Jeff Haynes / Reuters, USA Today All these people in A&F behind Obama - not a product placement. Which brings up an old question: what’s the effect of news photography on a brand?
Jazz in Transformers 2 →
I’ve recently become aware of a large community of Transformers fans that were devastated by the death of the autobot Jazz and are begging Michael Bay to put him back in Transformers 2.
Jazz was…
Iron Man: Invincible Upgrade Winners! →
Editor’s Note: The following entries are the winners and finalists from the Iron Man: Invincible Upgrade contest announced earlier this month, with prizes provided by Westfield Comics of…
Inspirational Hyperreal Vector Artists and Images →
by Sean Hodge
Hyperrealism is an art movement,which requires the same level of technical ability as photorealistic illustration. To get an idea what is actually meant by that, you can take a…
Bedroom Design Pictures and Inspiration →
A bedroom is a place in a home that a person spends an average of 5 to 8 hours each day. If you think a little at this, you’ll find out that actually you spend a lot of time in the bedroom. It is a…
RPMforge/Using - RPMRepo Wiki →
all the current links to the latest rpmforge install rpms
Spanish Rice II - Allrecipes →
the OG
Record-breaking mentos & coke explosion in... →
There’s something weirdly cultish about 1,500 students dressing in matching poncho’s, but when it’s about breaking the record for mentos & coke explosions, you gotta love it. Youtube has…
Umbrella Bag. →
Umbrella Bag.Here is a nice & efficient solution to keep your wet umbrella inside & not wetting the area around umbrella stand. The simple & amazing idea is of designer S.H. Son. The Inside…
New Magazine For The Uber Rich- Snob →
Mikhail Prokhorov — whose wealth is estimated at around $22 billion — plans to spend $150 million setting up a magazine, website and television station called Snob, the general director of the new…
Morgan Stanley exec named new Google CIO (Stephen... →
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com: Morgan Stanley exec named new Google CIO — Google has found its new chief information officer, CNET News.com has learned: Benjamin Fried, a…
Book Review: VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise →
VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers, by Edward Haletky, is a book I’ve been working on reviewing for quite a while now. It’s a fairly hefty tome,…
Processing XML on the Command Line →
The other day on the cURL email list, someone asked:
Could someone please tell me (preferably with an example) of how I could parse and xml like the following:
<?xml version=”1.0″…
Wow. →
Wow.
Spring Cleaning at APhotoEditor.com →
I thought I’d air this place out a bit and offer a little transparency in an attempt to move the conversations we have here on to the next chapter. I’m sensing a vibe of suspicion among a couple…
Clue Premier Edition →
Like a Candy Land board made of real candy, Clue Premier Edition ($150) ups the game’s realism with nine sunken, three-dimensional rooms, each with precise details including the appropriate…
Virtual Wall: traffic light of the future? →
Hanyoung Lee’s clever “virtual wall” traffic light concept provides a visually strong barrier that would hopefully prevent motorists from blocking the box. And if the visual barrier isn’t…
Mass bicycle storage, the tech-fetish Japanese way →
This ridiculously sophisticated, automated bicycle storage “server” has to be seen to be believed. And it comes from, surprise surprise, Japan. Sometimes I think that in Japan, the scene in The…
Google's Ginormous Free Food Budget: $7,530 Per... →
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider: Google’s Ginormous Free Food Budget: $7,530 Per Googler, $72 Million A Year* — Sick of hearing about the great, free, food at Google? Skip…
Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP (Mike... →
Mike Ricciuti / CNET News.com: Ballmer: You want XP, we’ll keep XP — The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated. — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the…
Thanks a lot guy that broke into my car! Now that... →
Thanks a lot guy that broke into my car! Now that my other rental car’s window is broken, the only car available for me was this. I look like a fucking idiot!
How To Be Invisible On Streets. →
How To Be Invisible On Streets.Here are some really cool ideas if you just want to get invisible on the streets. Though these might not be practical & shouldn’t be taken in a strict sense. …
Sun to Fully Open Source Java →
Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf brings news that Sun Microsystems will be removing the last restrictions on Java to make it completely open source. Sun wants Java to be easily available for use in…
Photographers Leading The Way →
I’ve been thinking that National Geographic photographers are uniquely poised to discover all the ways photography can reach consumers next. They already have one of the largest built-in audiences…
visualizing CO2 emissions →
an Australian advertisement that demonstrates how the energy we use, when produced by fossil fuels, leads to Carbon Dioxide emissions. each black balloon in the advertisement acts as a unit…
Vita →
I enjoyed looking through this newly posted Flickr photo set called Vita, by user Zeissizm. It is a series of gorgeous black and white animal photos. This polar bear shot is one of my…
Hand Sculpted Desk Furniture by Allan Lake →
If you are a regular reader of this blog you might remember the Sculpted Bedroom Furniture Collection by Allan Lake a great piece of sculpted furniture for someone who want something unique….
HypoSurface: Display with Moving Parts →
“HypoSurface is the world’s first display system where the screen surface physically moves! Information and form are linked to give a radical new media technology: an info-form device. The…
Random Excellence: Andri Pol →
Andri Pol, Airshow (See, now isn’t that more fun than Photoshop?) ____________________ Mike (Thanks to Adrian)