(via MAKE)
Finally, humans can rest easy
Posted by Ben on August 17, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/finally-humans-can-rest-easy/
Weirdly addictive
ColorFlip Hedgehog Launch MKSR. I don’t know. This one might just be addictive for me.
Posted by Ben on August 13, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/weirdly-addictive/
What people ask when they can ask anything
Forget the Golden Gate Bridge and House of Nanking and Zeitgeist on a summer night — the heart of San Francisco beats loudest on the carpeted second floor of that South Van Ness building you thought was Bank of America. … “Thank you for calling San Francisco 311, this is Kyle speaking, how may I […]
Posted by Ben on August 6, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/what-people-ask-when-they-can-ask-anything/
Just in time
Researchers in Spain have proven that metamaterials, materials defined by their unusual man-made cellular structure, can be designed to produce an acoustic cloak – a cloak that can make objects impervious to sound waves, literally diverting sound waves around an object. The research, ‘Acoustic cloaking in two dimensions: a feasible approach’, published today, Friday, 13 […]
Posted by Ben on June 25, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/just-in-time/
Problem
Exhibit A: Over a six-hour period this morning, high-powered radars in the Arctic Circle broadcast an advertisement into space for the first time. The advertisement, for Doritos tortilla chips, was being directed towards a solar system in the Ursa Major constellation, just 42 light years from Earth. The solar system contains a habitable zone, and […]
Posted by Ben on June 14, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/problem/
The things we need, they are not like things
The cover story1 of the July/August edition of The Atlantic hits an interesting note, if one that’s hit with a fair amount of frequency (if not depth). One of the points is that the way our tools2 process information affects the way we process information. Which should be obvious enough, but isn’t always. The article’s […]
Posted by Ben on June 5, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-things-we-need-they-are-not-like-things/
Things That Are Ridiculous
Two words: Velociraptor Safari The stillness Fears of the end of the universe Prosthetic legs with secret iguana-smuggling compartments Bikinis cultivate impatience, in more ways than you might expect
Posted by Ben on June 4, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/things-that-are-ridiculous/
If I say “Zone of Eternal Evil,” what do you think of?
I bet it wasn’t this: (via WFMU)
Posted by Ben on June 4, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/if-i-say-zone-of-eternal-evil-what-do-you-think-of/
Catching Up
100 Best Non-English Films Ever Made (Edward Copeland, via FirstShowing.net) Because everyone, apparently, has exactly the same feeling when they’re in one place. Fold a towel monkey, towel dog, even a towel lobster. (via Lifehacker) Portal to museum podcasts (via Research Buzz) “Is your child a tagger?” Coming up next in the series: “Does your […]
Posted by Ben on April 17, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/catching-up/