I randomly stumbled upon a bunch of photos just now, from a flash mob event in London where everyone showed up at a transit station with their own music and headphones and just started dancing. Check them out - they're pretty amazing. The guy who posted them also wrote about the event in his blog: "...when I took off my headphones to rest and take ( Read more... )

Being a long-time fan of geography and pictures, I think Flickr's new geotagging feature is really fucking cool. I'm having a lot of fun going through my pictures and trying to remember where I took them; check out my map so far. What's even more fun, though, is going to random parts of the country and looking at other people's pictures that were ( Read more... )

Wow, someone's actually doing it. And in Rails, no less.Open Congress is a public resource website under development that connects citizens to what is happening in Congress. The current site brings together government and non-profit data with blog and press coverage for a comprehensive "snapshot" of every congressional bill. But to truly narrow the ( Read more... )

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In preparation for my trip to San Francisco, I was doing some research on the BART when I discovered that they make a version of their transit maps and schedules formatted for iPods. Of course this was a bandwagon I had to jump on:


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rubicante_kid was IMing this video around the office last week, and I I found it to be suitably hilarious to merit downloading and saving it on my computer. After showing it to my parents just now, the resulting debate over its veracity inspired me to do a little research, whereupon I found this wonderfully detailed article outlining the complete history of ( Read more... )

This site (which is somewhat precariously lacking a domain name) sells the results of their oddball electrical experiments. The most interesting of these are Lichtenberg Figures, which are bursts of electricity that, through some sort of crazy zapping process, are permenantly etched in clear acrylic. I kind of want one:


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This guy's work is fucking amazing.

My favorites are the Rebellious Cabinets, Glassbulbs, and Staples. I'd link to them directly, but it's a flash site. That's one of my biggest pet peeves about flash sites - no hotlinking.