I was browsing the net when I stumbled upon this beautiful poem. Enjoy! Crush test dummy I love the brick wall Went ahead to smash my head To get close to my beloved brick wall Could I be one with the beautiful wall? My silly and blind imagination for the wall Yet it stands still and we are still apart I crush my self with the...

"Progress is the realization of Utopias." -Oscar Wilde I have never ever held any 'pay' memberships other than the gym. Professional memberships that cost $$$ like AIA, IDSA, ASID or AIGA--never thought about it. Super Pro memberships that cost $$$$ like ACM--never ever thought about it. Why? I don't see the point of joining the...

Found clipping about Richard Kearton, wildlife photographer | 1862 - 1928 photo by Cherry...

I began writing this as a comment to Chris Arkenberg's recent post, but felt compelled to expand...

I've seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to do a little brain dump. Bear with me. Insight #1 An article by Rosabeth Moss Kanter was just published today on the Harvard Business Review website, titled On Twitter and in the...

My grandmother is writing a novella about a young woman who begins a journey through time to discover her family secrets. Because this woman is a geneticist, grandma must explore this field to get familiar with the basics. This is how she found this site... I could never grasp the size until I actually travelled from a coffee bean to a...

“I hear a very gentle sound… With your ear down to the ground…” Talk of the global mind...

Part of the Viewer Series, 2009 #workinprogress

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at...

Part of the Viewer Series, 2009

Here you can see an important slide show of Jamais Cascio presentation at the singularity...

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They sure didn't bomb the moon for nothing! The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists and space enthusiasts alike. NASA today opened a new chapter in our understanding of the moon....

So what can we do about the environment, the third world, and the economic crisis? By incorporating 3 attributes to our solutions, we can create powerful, lasting solutions to many of the world’s problems. These attributes are enemies to the money system and will help bring about its demise. Automation Efficiency Generic production...

Solar rework from flight404 on Vimeo. great processing animation made by flight404 - maybe some...

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It is an open and never ending question, the yeast that animates the brush into a stroke and...

http://benfry.com/allstreets/ Average Distance to the Nearest Road in the Conterminous United...

work in progress

I was quite surprised to see this debate on PBS of all places. Not only is it impressive for being...

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INFINITE PHOTOGRAPH—AS SEEN ON EARTH Yesterday I went to a NPR and National Geographic...

Before Columbus, Dobyns calculated, the Western Hemisphere held ninety to 112 million people....

"Toward a Civilization of Collective Intelligence" identifies the most important changes...

research by project & text. Petros Phokaides and Michael Vlasopoulos WE chose to study the...

Make it simple! Make the irrational rational! All Rational Shidron Rulers are made of two...

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Part of the Viewer Series, 2009

I wrote this post last December but didn't publicly post it here. I don't why, other than I immensely hate facebook, I was ranting and thought I'll keep it to myself. But, appearing in this past year, there are already solutions to what I perceive to be internet problems (ie CargoCollective, Behance Network and Google Wave are three...

graph 1.a: you can tell from my eyes that i spend little time sleeping. hey, hello. it's...

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How can the power and scope of social networks, combined with human capital metrics, be used to...

The basics. Jerry Coyne's blog

Returning to the place of my birth has begged me to ask many questions of myself, namely,...

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You can go here to talk to anonymous strangers from around the world. I've met many different kinds of people from around the world and had many interesting conversations. I have learned things about other cultures and even some things about myself. What will you experience?

1. Tor hidden services The concept of Tor is simple: complete anonymity on the Internet. Tor...

This animation is assembled from A. M. (Arthur Mason) Worthington's drawings of .15 inch...

Expected results I made Euclide's elements with golden log spirals and it works. I think you...

Now here’s a story: a guy in Oregon has figured out how to turn the hulks of four to six...

Last week apears an incredible video related with the concepts i had explain on an old post...

Simulated linear optical feedback + unsharp mask | gaussian blur + resaturate | contrast enhance =...

It never seizes to amaze me how the human mind works. Sometimes I have days where I forget my...