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The as-yet-unnamed robot uses electro-adhesion to cling to the wall, generating electrostatic charges between the wall substrate and itself to keep from falling.
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YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.
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12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School.
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A web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time, which significantly speeds up the creation process.
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An artist collaborative that does beautiful laser etchings on moleskines, including custom orders.
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Design and Manufacture of Inflatable Structures and Architecture.
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Small, flat database in a python environment. 20k!
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Recevez chez vous gracieusement des livres et faites en votre critique publique, bonne ou mauvaise, comme bon vous semblera. Il n’y a rien d’autre à comprendre : un livre en l’échange d’une critique, c’est aussi simple que ça.
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A 3D virtual world that runs inside your web browser. It enables you to build your own room, house, or even your own world, and fill it with a wide variety of items and fun activities.
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The CitizenNews channel is where we’ll be highlighting some of the best news content on YouTube.
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A rifflet is a piece of a song–a bass line, a guitar riff, a drum beat or something else entirely. Share your rifflets and combine them with others, or even upload a finished song. Here’s the catch: every rifflet must be less than 60 seconds.
LibraryThing
- Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway 30 Jun 2009Chelsea Green (2001), Paperback, 240 pages
- Le Dessous des Cartes : Coffret en 2 volumes : Atlas géopolitique ; Atlas d'un monde qui change (1DVD) by Jean-Christophe Victor 24 Jun 2009Tallandier (2008), Relié, 457 pages
- You, Inc.: The Art of Selling Yourself by Harry Beckwith 18 Jun 2009Business Plus (2007), Hardcover, 336 pages
- Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth by Steve Pavlina 18 Jun 2009Hay House (2008), Hardcover, 288 pages
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard 15 Jun 2009Penguin Press (2005), Relié, 272 pages
- Understanding Healthcare by Richard Saul Wurman 14 Jun 2009Top, Broché, 336 pages
- An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers by Danny Gregory 14 Jun 2009How Books (2008), Broché, 272 pages
- Sketch Book: Conceptual Drawings from the World's Most Influential Designers by Timothy O'Donnell 14 Jun 2009Rockport Publishers Inc. (1999), Relié, 192 pages
- Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by James F Kurose 13 Jun 2009Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc (2009), Edition: United States ed of 5th revised ed, Relié, 864 pages
- Le livre de la paix (French Edition) by Bernard S Benson 11 Jun 2009Fayard (1980), Unknown Binding, 211 pages
agrumes
- Must the Greens Hate the Rich? Class War in NC 4 Jul 2009Image credit: Sami Grover Protesters Attack Luxury Green Apartments Recently fly posters have been appearing around my town - "Greenbridge: Classism Applied Liberally"; "Greenbridge is Racist", and my personal favorite "Greenbridge Only Cares About One Thing" (Illustrated with a pile of dollar bills). The target of all this an […]
- Reality show gives points to clerics for converting Atheists 4 Jul 2009A new Turkish game-show asks clerics to convert atheists and awards prizes for the most conversions; I think the atheists should get points for resisting the pitch, too -- it's only fair (and the atheists should win supreme if the cleric loses faith altogether!). A new game show on Turkish television will pit a Greek Orthodox priest, a rabbi, an imam an […]Cory Doctorow
- One-ton manta cyclonic feeding frenzy 4 Jul 2009Marilyn sez, "Pretty cool photos from July National Geographic. These manta rays in the Maldives have a 12-ft-wingspan, and the photographer Thomas Peschak was right in among them during feeding frenzies to get these shots. I especially like the last one in this gallery, which shows them lining up one behind the other in chain feeding behavior before sw […]Cory Doctorow
- Yesterday's Old T-Shirt, Today's Cool Reusable Bag 4 Jul 2009Participants in the Istanbul bag-making workshop. Photos courtesy of Buğday. Paper bags aren't too commonly used in Turkey, but shopkeepers just love giving out plastic ones -- for a tiny item that you could easily tuck into your purse or a pocket, for a single soda you'll probably just drink on the way home anyway, for a few nectarines that are […]
- Street Legal Golf Carts On the Rise 4 Jul 2009photo via Flickr As a native of South Carolina, sharing the road with golf carts is nothing new. With the highest number of golf courses per capita in the United States, we’ve taken our golf carts off-course for ages. Now the rest of the country is finally catching on....
- Quoi de neuf en jeux vidéo ce samedi ? 4 Jul 2009Vidéo(s) du jour : Démo(s) du jour : Aucune nouvelle vidéo ce jour ;) Aucune nouvelle démo ce jour ;) Captures d'écran inédites : Fallen Earth (Icarus Studios), 8 nouvelles captures Retrouvez [...]
- Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 : images, impressions et infos 4 Jul 2009À l'occasion d'un événement organisé conjointement par Valve et Electronic Arts à Londres, nous avons eu l'occasion, d'abord de jouer encore un peu plus à Left 4 Dead 2 et ensuite de discuter rapidement [...]
- Live Japon : l'hygiène du technophile 4 Jul 2009Comme chaque semaine, retrouvez-ici la chronique de Karyn Poupée, dont on saluera une nouvelle fois l'excellente connaissance de l'univers nippon. Notre émérite correspondante vient en effet de se voir [...]
- Wear patterns as information leakage from security keypads 4 Jul 2009Bruce Schneier points out that keypad wear is a form of "information leakage": "There are 10,000 possible four-digit codes, but you only have to try 24 on these keypads. The first is most likely 1986 or 1968. The second is almost certainly 1234." Information Leakage from Keypads...Cory Doctorow
- Hitler finds out Michael Jackson has died (Der Untergang remix) 4 Jul 2009Video. Adolf Hitler is pretty pissed off to learn that Michael Jackson has died and won't be able to perform at his birthday party. Evidences the true marks of a great internet meme: infinite expandability, extremely bad taste in multiple respects, and an unfairly long lifespan. (via @andrewbaron) Previously:EFF chairman makes a Downfall remixThe Downfa […]Xeni Jardin
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