Hyper-Realistic Sculptures

Wow, these are pretty amazing and somewhat creepy.  Try to look away, I dare you.

Striking Color Images from WWI

These pictures from World War I are some of the only color images that exist from that historic and bloody conflict.  They are especially dramatic because we don’t usually see color from that period.

Lost Generation Found

Brilliant creative here.

Steve Jobs’ Liver Transplant

Here is the full article from the Wall Street Journal.
Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule later [...]

Amazon Kindle DX photos leak out!

Engadget just got some blurry photos and specs for the new, decidedly more newspaper- and college textbook-friendly Amazon Kindle DX. Here’s what they know: it’s got a 9.7-inch display (as opposed to the current six-inch unit), a long-requested built-in PDF reader, and the ability to add annotations in addition to notes and highlights.
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The Obama Inaugural Address

Here it is, including Chief Justice Roberts bungling the 35 words he had to say.  Nice job dude.

E-waste looms behind solar power boom

Solar is a renewable source of energy and solar panels don’t pollute when they are generating electricity. But the upstream process of making solar panels involves a number of toxic chemicals.
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’S COMMENTS FROM THE STAGE AT CLEVELAND’S VOTE FOR CHANGE RALLY

This is from a concert before the election… on November 2nd to be precise.  I post it here as a great bit of writing and as a reminder on the eve of the inauguration that we still stand at a crossroads and it is up to us to move in the right direction.  Read the [...]

Small Things Challenge

A great spot.  A great idea.  I’ve posted about micro-loans before, but this is a really strong reminder of the power we all have to make a difference.

GE builds an OLED printer – A Revolution in Lighting is Just Around the Corner

GE R&D guys have produced a machine that prints OLED materials newspaper-style onto 8-inch sheets of metal foil in hopes that the sheets — which can be pinned to just about any surface — will start the process of home lighting biz regime change in 2010.
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