What a great contest.
microdose if you are reading I think this contest is tailor made for you.
Discover Magazine has a brilliant contest challenging people to video tape themselves explaining string theory
I am listening to: Presidents of the United States of America
Pretty cool aggregator+
In their own words:
Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code.Here is an aggregate pipe I created....if you like this blog you will probably like this pipe....it is a subset of what I read daily.
by Nelson DeMille
Enter perrine architecture with their perrine pod (available Mar 1) Not only is this cool on one story, but they are stackable to 30 stories and the expandable to your hearts content. Think life size lego home on steroids with a great look. Anyway if you spend some time and poke around their site, they have already thought of some cool ideas.
From the architect:
Anyway, I'm a fan....I wish the price point wasn't outrageous, but hopefully this will come down over time, or someone will blatently rip-off the idea and provide it more affordably. digg this del.icio.usPicture a design so sophisticated and fabulous that it seems futuristic, yet so simple and uncomplicated that you wonder why no one has thought of it before.
"My design is about appreciating the beauty of simple, uncluttered space." The perrinepod is very functional, very sexy, very simple, with the form of the spaces inside following the function, there's no pretense, just simple, beautiful designs. It's a really cool thing to have no falseness - for example, the bathrooms are simply designed as a place to wash, backed up by quality materials.
Living spaces have become as transient and irrelevant as clothes. It's no longer a look for a generation, the look of 'now' only lasts for a three to four year period.
That approach is not sustainable and people are putting themselves under a lot of unnecessary pressure trying to keep up. The Perrine Pod is the antithesis of all of that - simple design, beautiful materials that will remain classic. It's not a 'look at me' statement, but a home that is comfortable, stylish and above all, functional."
- Jean-mic Perrine
Truth be known I am a huge google fan, there have only been a few moves that they have made that I haven't been a fan of, but all and all I think they are absolutely advancing the way we utilize huge information sets. A tool that I feel does this particularly well is Picasa, it has allowed me to very easily do everything I need with my digital photos, and I love features like the timeline. If you haven't checked this out yet you need to. (see picasa section on the right to download)
Another tool that is worth checking out because I believe it will revolutionize real tiem collaborative authoring and the model for application procurement and delivery in the corporate sector is Google Docs and Spreadsheets
I am listening to: We are the Dinosaurs by the Laurie Berkner Band
Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a robot is damaged or its environment changes unexpectedly, it can't adapt.
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