All three videos below came from this brilliant thread on Reddit.
Steve Hughes on Being Offended.
Bill Burr on Jobs and other things.
Stewart Lee on Only Fools and Horses and everything.
Author: Joel
“Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code”
Brilliant Article by Cecily Carver.
Automated video looping with progressive dynamism from Microsoft Research. Where is Apple Research?
Detecting pulse rate from head movement. Thanks to Lucy Campbell for the tip.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
All via Cicada 3301. Which reminds me of the Quizmasters in “The Long Earth” novel by Pratchett and Baxter.
“COMPUTER GRAPHICS & ART is a new international quarterly of interdisciplinary computer graphics for graphics people and computer artists. This new periodical is aimed at students, teachers, people from undergraduate and graduate institutions, researchers, and individuals working professionally in graphics. Its topical coverage is broad, embracing a variety of fields. It is useful, informative, entertaining, and current.“
Great post on a fascinating magazine from the 70’s on the always ace Triangulation Blog.
Insane article on what cheap plastic surgery is doing to Venezuelan mannequin design.
I really want a Hovding airbag for cyclists. Definitely better for Dyspraxics.
I would very much like to see one of these Philips/RealView systems in real life. I don’t think it’s a high resolution Pepper’s Ghost – as the user reaches into it. More a version of the Mirascope – a clever Parabolic Reflector. More videos here.
Thanks to Jonathan Harris for recommending Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers in conversation. Well worth watching.
Double thanks to Jonathan for recommending “The Scared is Scared” by Bianca Giaever.
The Chyron Corporation are the guys using Computer Vision to augment live television. Sports is the obvious low hanging fruit.
How long is it before CCTV becomes a broadcast channel or genre of itself? Perhaps it already has with Big Brother and the like. Truth is the killer app.
The Brough Superior was the worlds first superbike. Lawrence of Arabia’s motorcycle of choice. The brand has recently been resurrected.
yCombinator just posted all its videos from Startup School 2013.. Including the Jack Dorsey talk that I posted earlier.
Meraki was a company that grew out the Roofnet Project at MIT to make wireless meshing and networking easier. They were acquired by Cisco, and now have turned full circle to supply MIT with wireless networking.
How can it be cheaper for companies just to acquire rather than innovate? Shouldn’t have Cisco spent $1.2 billion on R&D instead? WPP is another company that behaves in a similar way – instead of trying to understand a new generation, they just bought Vice.
“The Sierpinski Triangle page to end most Sierpinski Triangle pages ™”
Wow. Just wow. If only most webpages were more like this one.
Two books recommended by Jack Dorsey recently:
- “The Score Takes Care of Itself” by Bill Walsh.
- “The Art Spirit” by Robert Henri.
Bonus: “Dorsey’s Daily List”
| Do | Don’t |
| Stay present | Drink hard liquor or beer (on weekdays) |
| Drink only lemon water and red wine | Avoid eye contact |
| Stand up straight | Be late |
| Say hello to everyone | Set expectations for someone and not able to meet it |
| Stand up straight | |
| Meditate on this list | |
| Video journal every single day | |
| 7 hours of sleep | |
| 6 sets pushups/squats/planks. Run 3 miles |
I’m trying to be better at these things. Set expectations for someone and not able to meet it is the one that I struggle with most. Not sure about video journal or meditating on this list.
Designs for Aliens in 2001 that didn’t quite make the grade.
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Accelerator on a Chip, Chat and JS AR
A particle accelerator on a chip. From the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park.
vLine link gives you free video chat in the browser.
An augmented reality flood fill simulator that uses HTML5.
Shouldn’t it be possible to make a completely online activity that generate content of some kind or other – then embed the business logic of the activity into the pricing system? You could make activities that live in the cloud, that only generate profit and always cover their costs.
Of course, The Activity is something completely different.
I love ELI5.
Was the one that got me into it. Attention blindness was something that I did that used to drive my brother and sister crazy – they could be shouting into my ear, but I would be lost in thought.
Elinor Ostrom was an economist who was particularly interested in the Commons. Near where I grew up in Wales there was a common where my brother and I would punt a rugby ball back and forth as the sun went down – we also shared the field with some rare orchids and several horses. I only realise now how lucky I was to have direct experience of common land.
The FNF are trying to bring an electronic commons to life in North America. Alter Mundi are trying to do the same in South America.