Stools colored, printed, and arranged to suggest a giant numeric keypad. Totally useless, and completely delightful. Also somewhat enigmatic, at least to my shamefully monolingual brain. The photo appears to originate from this Japanese site called Pantograph, which, sadly, I cannot read. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
Why the other line is likely to move faster… Bill reveals how “queueing theory” – developed by engineers to route phone calls – can be used to find the most efficient arrangement of cashiers and check out lines. He reports on the work of Agner Erlang, a Danish engineer who, at the opening of the […]
Super creepy Museum Of Torture Tools… The Museum of Torture Instruments is situated in the Petropavlovsk Fortress in St. Petersburg. Here you may see many tools for torturing and also the description of some most violent methods…
I remember seeing the old footage of Star Wars sound designer and foley artist Ben Burtt, banging on a steel radio tower guy wire with a crescent wrench to record blaster-sounds, from a TV documentary when I was like five years old. Which is one of the reasons I thoroughly enjoyed this video interview with him, in spite of the fact that it’s part of a puff video for Lucasfilm’s new book about Star Wars sound effects. Click the embedded player to be taken straight to Ben’s interview at 1:05. [via Gizmodo]
Cardboard Tube Radio Kit via RetroThing. With the tube radios on world reception Make your own radio, combining the new and old technique together. The tubes works for strong reception and for the tube radios typical pleasant sound. A modern Audio-IC and high class loudspeaker works for optimal volume. With this tube radio you can […]
Cool story about MAME being used to reclaim assets for a publisher…. The publisher insisted that the map be a perfect replica of the original, with all the right tiles in all the right places. Given enough time I could have reversed engineered the ROM and reconstructed it that way, but with only a day […]
If I were going to be a super hero, it would be hard to choose between Carl Sagan Man and James Burke Man. I love this show, and now I can watch it to my heart’s content, for free. All three Connections series are available, as well as The Day The Universe Changed. [via adafruit]
