A bunch of Rube Goldberg machines made from household objects. Apparently these are interstitials on a popular Japanese kids show. Much more clever than the usual marble-ramp stuff--there are lots of little surprising details.

Jim Woodring now has a blog, syndicated for your convenience at woodringmonitor.

(Yes, I know, I probably would have been informed had I been reading all your livejournals, which I haven't been lately, because I suck.)

Infinitely zooming recursive picture mosaic. Requires the Shockwave plugin (remember that?), but it's worth it.

http://www.world.honda.com/HDTV/ASIMO/

The running and cornering look impressively human, but the creepiness comes in when it delivers drinks to smiling office workers and bows politely. You just know there's some kind of seething robotic rage boiling within.

This is incredibly cool: A camera with a special lens that, in a single exposure, captures information that allows you to dynamically change the focal point and depth-of-field in post-processing. This means you can do things like create a deeper DOF in software without having to narrow the aperture ( Read more... )

Our Faith in Science

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

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I hate people who can draw.

Inventor Creates Soundless Sound SystemElwood "Woody" Norris pointed a metal frequency emitter at one of perhaps 30 people who had come to see his invention. The emitter - an aluminum square - was hooked up by a wire to a CD player. Norris switched on the CD player ( Read more... )

The alphabet fotolog is an open fotolog where people post pictures of accidental letters.