Incredible gallery of abandoned cannons in Russia via Buzzfeed. This is an abandoned army base on the sea coastline near the Murmansk city. It looks like it stays abandoned for quite a while and was built back in 1946 to protect Russian Northern coastline from somebody who might come without peace.
Wow, David sent along this fantastic cover from TIME Magazine, 1954 – he writes… The August 2, 1954 cover of TIME… And not only is it about DIY, but the cover was done by one of Mark and mine’s favorite illustrators, the amazing Boris Artzybasheff.
Dale (our publisher) writes – I came upon this exhibit of old tractors and tools at the Mendocino County Fair, which ran this weekend in Boonville, California. I saw this unusual sign for the exhibit: I wondered what the heck it meant and learned that it was a phrase in the local Boontling dialect created […]
Check out this sculpture by Nemo Gould, entitled Little Big Man. It has a little robot inside the radio cabinet body of the bigger one, and it appears as though the little one is driving the big one. The very simple movements bring a lot of life to this guy. Look at his site for […]
The integrated circuit is 50 years old today – doesn’t look a day over 110010 via /. It’s half a century since the first integrated circuit was demonstrated by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments Jack Kilby’s first integrated circuit If it wasn’t for the invention of the integrated circuit, then computers today would probably be […]
Jake von Slatt writes: Last year I had the privilege of tapping a segment for Wired Science with Chris Hardwick. As far as I know the piece never aired (“not sciencey enough” I heard through the grapevine! ;-) ) but it’s finally turned up on the Wired Science website. Steampunk Workshop [Editor’s note: As some […]
PopSci has an interesting feature and video on making your own ammo, it’s as simple as pouring it off a roof :) About 230 years ago, molten lead that rained from the sky–historically something to avoid at all costs–became a clever new way to manufacture an important commodity: shotgun ammo. Precisely round pellets fly straighter, […]
