Month: December 2016

  • Here’s the mistake I made. I looked at the people who were 5 or 10 years ahead of me, people with 6- and 7-figure businesses, and thought I needed to do what they were doing. I had to get professional head shots, get a logo, be on every social media platform, start a podcast, post videos to YouTube, have…

  • lgbt-history-archive: “MAKE THAT MOVE, FIGHT RACISM – dare to struggle, dare to win – DYKES AGAINST RACISM EVERYWHERE” pinback, c. 1981. c/o @lgbt_history. #HavePrideInHistory

  • 2010book: 2010book: At the town depot there are also other pipes–giant pipes that run the length and breadth of the country. This is a clean, efficient way to ship anything from a box of nails to a crane. If someone buys a new electric car, this is the way it is delivered. The car is…

  • If you want a society more frank about its integral reliance on technology, steampunk outfits are a far more affecting means to argue for your technophilic future than, say, a fake bluetooth headset. 47. Stephen Becker normally writes about architecture, but today he’s interested in cyborg fashion. If we’re all already cyborgs, why do some…

  • Behind the scenes of a 30-player video game theater

    Behind the scenes of a 30-player video game theater

  • The Origins of Pasta

    historical-nonfiction: Pasta, as we know it today, can only be made from triticum turgidum var. durum, or “durum wheat.” Because of its high gluten content, this type of wheat allows hard, dry pasta with a long, safe shelf life. Because the ancient Etruscans and Romans did not know about durum wheat, they could not have…

  • iamdanw: (via Faraday cage.wmv – YouTube) generator inside a faraday cage (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • br4vest: superheroesincolor: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2009) “Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school…

  • The promise of the Internet of Things has duped folks into thinking that the traditional manufacturing process + software = orders of magnitude higher productivity. Software is helpful, but if you’re redesigning a system, software’s benefit is marginal — you get greater returns by changing the Thing than the Internet behind it. In indoor farming, we see…