The Dewey Decimal System has never looked so… dewy.Bo Brinkman, an associate professor of computer science at Miami … Read More >>
What Happens When Solar Power Is as Cheap as Coal
via Fast Company
It’s a horrible paradox that bad things are generally cheaper: Like Big Macs. Or H&M. Top of this list, of course, is coal … Read More >>
YouTube Wants to Drop $100 Million on 20 Channels Worth of Original, Professional Content [Video]
via Gizmodo
Following the lead of the independently-minded Vimeo, and the studio aspirations of Hulu and Netflix, Google is … Read More >>
A False Sense of Security, or How To Steal A Car With Your Computer [Crime]
The Data Viz Whizzes From Mint Are Launching A New Startup, Visual.ly
via SAI: Silicon Alley Insider
The team behind Mint.com’s popular graphics, Stewart Langille and Lee Sherman, are launching their own data visualization … Read More >>
Novation Serato Touchstrip Twitch; Pics Inside Details on the DJ ‘Controllerist’ Collaboration
The question of how to build controls to fly today’s live laptop music sets – whether “DJ,” “live … Read More >>
International Pillow Fight Day Video ~ Downtown Los Angeles
via LA TACO
There was a massive pillow fight in downtown Los Angeles yesterday. Really. And there is (a very nicely edited) video to prove … Read More >>
Food Studies: What’s on the Label, and What Isn’t?
via GOOD
Food Studies features the voices of volunteer student bloggers from a variety of different food- and agriculture-related … Read More >>
Video: Weta Makes a Mermaid Tail for a Double Amputee
via GOOD
The special effects wizards over at Weta (they’re the folks who made the costumes and creatures for the Lord of the Rings … Read More >>
Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions
Interesting: From Wikipedia: Robert Plutchik also created a wheel of emotions. This wheel is used to illustrate different … Read More >>