Month: October 2012

  • blech: thingsmagazine: Action cards from The London Game, designed to be played around the capital’s underground network (at things) The page with all the cards is well worth a look.

  • Ask yourself: Why is it so vital that I be smoothened? There’s no functional advantage to eliminating clothing wrinkles—unless you are competing in a timed event that favors reduced drag coefficients. What you’re really doing when you leave your house in ironed clothes is engaging in an elaborate signaling ritual. You demonstrate that you have…

  • Tumblr Staff: This morning, our primary datacenter effectively lost its connection…

    Tumblr Staff: This morning, our primary datacenter effectively lost its connection… staff: This morning, our primary datacenter effectively lost its connection to the Internet after our upstream provider (ISP) suffered a major outage caused by broken fiber lines. It took nearly five hours before service was fully restored. Our failover procedures, designed to immediately rebalance…

  • curiositycounts: Whether today demands some much needed r&r or end-of week debauchery, don’t forget our previously discovered and wonderful challenge of “Phonestack”. Phone what?  A brilliant game (some call it social engineering masquerading as a bar game) that I think could completely recivilize dinner and social gatherings.  Here’s the deal: 1) As you arrive, each…

  • The space of flows is absolutely not smooth. It looks like a data center, and the coal plant that powers it. It looks like Julian Assange’s room in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. It looks like the Principality of Sealand. It looks like Sabu’s social housing unit on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The landing from…

  • sevensheaven: Mutant alien monster.

  • uncrate: LG 84-Inch 4K 3D TV

  • sanctuous: concept Mine Kafon This is the Mine Kafon By Massoud Hassani. Hassani, who grew up in Afganistan, has figured out a way to detonate the mines in his town so local people can use the land safely. He has designed a GPS integrated Mine Kafon Ball that rolls over mines and detonates them. The…

  • thisistheverge: Crafting a bamboo phone: ADzero’s journey from concept to crowd-funding reality Are you ready for bespoke smartphones from indie companies?

  • ronulicny: A DIY “Target” from 1970….pre-signed by JASPER JOHNS complete with brush and primary colored paints for you to do your own work….a collaboration of sorts if you will….I would so LOVE to own one of these….such a cool idea…. 🙂