February 2011
35 posts
OutRun - Garnet Hertz →
Garnet Hertz’s video game concept car combines a car-shaped arcade game cabinet with a real world electric vehicle to produce a video game system that actually drives. OutRun offers a unique mixed reality simulation as one physically drives through an 8-bit video game. The windshield of the system features custom software that transforms the real world into an 8-bit video game, enabling the...
January 2011
58 posts
Star Trek: First Draft Pitch →
“I am also convinced…that technological progress comes from doing things differently in an unpredictable way. The future is not an extrapolation of the past. Microcircuits are not just small vacuum tubes; lasers are not just better light bulbs, nuclear reactors are not just better chemical combustion chambers. All involve new physics.”
-Physicist Stanton Friedman
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Impersonating a Time Traveler
Just as the bus started honking and slamming brakes, I grabbed her and pulled her back…this lady was sorta stuck between thanking me, and catching her breath, when I pulled out my PDA and said, ‘This is Commander Navarette, I saved the subject. The time is 4:39 PM.’
I followed up with, ‘Your grandson is very important.’
‘I don’t have a grandson,’...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech analyzed by Nancy... →
Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech analyzed by Nancy Duarte from Duarte Design on Vimeo.
Edward James Olmos connects Battlestar Galactica to Blade Runner
“And if you really want to get your mind blown with this whole thing,” he suggests, “when you finish seeing ‘Battlestar,’ if you start from the beginning, and you go through it, at the very end when you get to the final scene of the final episode, and it goes to black, put in Blade Runner, and you’ll see where the story...
WatchClosing Keynote: Vernacular Video, Bruce Sterling on Online Video
The Russians Used a Pencil: Idea to Market in 5... →
russianpencil:
On July 11th, 2010, Tom Gerhardt and I had an idea for an iPhone accessory: a tripod mount that doubled as a stand. Five months later, customers began to receive our product, the Glif, in the mail. This turnaround, from idea to market in five months by two guys with no retail or manufacturing…
Chuck Yeager →
Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot. He was the first pilot to travel faster than sound (1947). Originally retiring as a brigadier general, Yeager was promoted to major general on the Air Force’s retired list 20 years later for his military achievements.
His career began in World...
"screw the pooch" →
Etymology
The term was first documented in the early “Mercury” days of the US space program. It came there from a Yale graduate named John Rawlings who helped design the astronauts’ space suits. The phrase is actually a bastardization of an earlier, more vulgar and direct term which was slang for doing something very much the wrong way, as in “you are fucking the...
“Zen Principles of Aesthetics
FUKINSEI (imbalanced)
Asymmetry, odd numbers,...”
– http://ckck.tumblr.com/post/306428262/zen-principles-of-aesthetics (via dontcallmecliff)
“What an astonishing thing a book is. Across the millennia, an author is speaking...”
– Carl Sagan (via invaderxan) (via teachingliteracy)
Illustration Magazine Archives, Online Free in... →
Watchbashford:
Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD (by gnd)
100 Things to Watch in 2011 →
Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the... →
Google Will Become an AI Company →
“Children could own cars. Don’t feel like schlepping your kid to soccer practice? Just buy them a car. Age restrictions on driving only exist because children can’t be trusted not to kill themselves or others on the road. If a machine is driving for them that’s no longer an issue. Parental controls will easily alleviate other concerns.”
List of Science Fiction Clichés →