As a kid I learned so much from George Carlin. Just from listening to his records I learned to question authority with a tongue planted firmly in cheek. I learned a lot about authority and religion and humor. Many many years later I got a chance to meet George and thank him for all he [...]
Tim Russert was great at what he did and we will miss having his particular variety of analysis during this and upcoming political campaigns. I used to wait for his reports on the Today Show the morning after a primary so I could know what just happened and what would happen next. He would always [...]
People who lose part of their sight to macular degeneration, diabetes or other diseases may now benefit from some new technology. Several portable video devices that enlarge print may help them make the most of their remaining vision. A great creative use of technology!
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Apparently during the WW I years (early 1900’s), Mole and Thomas made some incredible human pictures by using thousands of sailors or soldiers in uniform to create images. I’d never heard of them before but clearly they should be remembered. Here is a link to some more images from these guys. Nice work in very [...]
It’s December. Time for inflatable holiday decorations. It’s crazy how elaborate these things are getting!
You’re looking at the new face of grocery shopping. Well, one of them anyway. Certainly there have always been small improvements in the shopping experience as the years have gone by. First at some point there was air conditioning where there hadn’t been, then plastic bags (easy to use even though bad for the [...]
These are very cool and at a minimum make a great desktop background. Check out the stills and then play the video. These flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The [...]
Nice political statement with this cartoon series. I’ve heard a number of stories questioning the Chinese government’s approach to preparing for the games including moving people from their homes and businesses without much if any warning. There’s probably still a lot of rough stuff going on over there. This cartoon may help [...]
The Red Sox have announced that they are planning to go green! There aren’t a lot of details in this article from the Boston Herald, but it sounds like they’re willing to try some fun stuff, including audience participation.
You’ve heard and seen a lot about the Microsoft Surface technology over the past few months. Here is a pretty nice video summary from Popular Mechanics via Brightcove with all the bells and whistles and of course glass on display. Thanks to Steve Ratner for this one.
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