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America’s landlord is visiting this week – Here’s another interesting blurb from the NYTimes, people are always asking what “we make now”… planes, 200 of them – The White House announced shortly after the ceremony that the Chinese government had agreed to buy 200 airplanes from Boeing in a $19 billion deal, the centerpiece of […]
Now in 3D! NYC’s secretly a video game, clearly evidenced by this leak in the matrix. We covered the first (to us) Pixel Pour back in 2008, and a reader has written in with these pictures of a new, more blocky version, photographed by Benjamin Norman. More photos after the jump. More: Pixellated water helps […]
The latest from art pranksters Ariel Schlesinger and Aram Bartholl in Germany is Looptaggr, a simple fixture for a spraypaint can that spins a stencil in front of the nozzle, effectively printing the same message over and over in a line. Photo tutorial included. More: Bike accessory leaves a trail of chalk behind you Tour […]
Michal Zalewski’s Homeland Security threat level indicator is just what you need to keep the fam informed.
Tour around New York City via a RC plane (video)… via Twitter Team Black Sheep flying in New York, over the Brooklyn and Verazano Bridge, around Downtown Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Enjoy! How to build your own / FPV system information, camera and transmitter details, etc – here.
Michal Zalewski created this really great Useless Machine — which counts the number of times it has been triggered — and Michal also throws down some back-story about UMs that I didn’t know about. The original Ultimate Machine is famously attributed to Claude Elwood Shannon, one of the fathers of modern computing. In “Voice Across […]
