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Tom had a lot of anxiety about his email inbox and couldn’t stop checking his email compulsively while working. So he embodied his anxiety in a clock that compulsively checks his email for him, and worry over the amount continually coming in, so he wouldn’t have to. This clock would run at a normal pace when there is no email waiting, but every new kilobyte of email would drive it hyperactively forward. A java application living on an application server checks his email accounts, noting when new data arrived. Link.

Rocketboom has my favorite DIY car film of all time- C’etait un Rendez-vous by Claude Lelouch. In 1976 Claude mounted a 35mm camera and did a high speed drive through Paris. It’s 8 minutes, one take, it’s amazing. There’s a lot of speculation about how it was actually done, if he really drove and if he was really arrested at the premiere. Enjoy- Link.

..if you have ever dreamed of being reduced to the size of an ant to finally be able to see how insects and plants really looked like when viewed through a microscopic lense, MACROdream may be the place for you. A year ago I had started posting my own macro work on my site. Many of my friends and members of my photo club here in Paris, France told me that I should create a real portal for macro photography. That’s how I created http://macrodream.iloweb.com a few days ago Link.

Fun Linux hack…Ever wonder what all the data in your hard drive sounds like? Or simply want to kill the silence in your server room? Simple, just direct devices into the audio device and listen to the sweet beatiful sound of your data (or other device). Reminds me of the good old days of 56k dialup. The more cluttered the data in your drive is, the more interesting the sound is. As root issue the following commands. Link.

Nissan is currently developing a system that will eliminate blind spots from around the vehicle with a bird’s-eye view of the surrounding area displayed on a central monitor. I think you could make a version yourself pretty easily (and cheap)- I’ll work out a spec soon. Link.

Excellent. Benini, a technology education teacher a rural Parish Hill High School in Chaplin, Conn., thought it sounded like the perfect project to challenge his students with. He found plans to build a standard hovercraft on the Internet and purchased them for his class. “We build our first craft in just over 10 weeks,” he said. “We were never completely sure it was going to work, but we decided we were going to give this our best shot and see what would happen.” Link.

This spring we asked the Princeton University community to submit imagery produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science. The response was overwhelming: more than 200 entries from nearly 100 individuals in 15 departments. We selected 55 of these works to appear in the 2005 Art of Science Exhibition. Here are the winners. Link.