October 2009
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Isolation tank - Wikipedia →
Want to build one of these
Controlled experiment - The National Newspaper →
Built in just 1,000 days from a seaside stretch of desert, the new university has already staked out one of the most ambitious research agendas in academia, and it has drawn its inaugural cohort of 71 professors from some of the world’s great universities. At a time when other research institutions are watching their finances dwindle, Kaust’s founding endowment of at least $10 billion – supplied...
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Some days I feel everything we make to sit on should be in the form of an animal. Preferably a relaxed animal.
“Mint was a key leader of the next generation of game changers. And now it’s...”
– Word
—Jason Fried, The Next Generation Bends Over on Signal vs. Noise (by 37 Signals) (via osakasteve)
SourceMap - Visualizing Supply Chains →
Somalian Pirates' achieve their goal →
Wonderful. Inspiring.
kateoplis:
Fisherman in Kenya have reported bumper catches of shark and shellfish because commercial fishing boats from China and Japan have been scared away by pirates. The massive factory trawlers which used to drain their fish stocks have been scared away and that means there is a huge bounty for local fishermen as well as helping to restore the health of the...
Tacolicious →
Their plum-hibiscus agua fresca was one of the best things I’ve put in my mouth. Digging through their site trying to find a recipe.
“He cites a confidential Nasa report on a space shuttle mission in 1996. A...”
– That’s it?! They’re doing it wrong. How uninspired. It’s settled then, astronaut is off my women I’d date list.
Astronauts test sex in space - but did the earth move? | Science | The Guardian
Using Human “Wetware” to Control Robots | h+... →
Ughhh. How many times must I warn you?
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Continue Time by Sander Mulder | yatzer | Design... →
Plans of famous TV homes by Mark Bennett |... →
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A bird I’ve never heard before outside my...
MICHAEL SORKIN: Interview by Aleksandra Wagner «... →
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BRE Properties - We Don't Care If You're Trapped
BRE Properties, (the company that owns the upscale apartment complex in Menlo Park, where my grandmother lives) is edging itself closer and closer to a lawsuit. As some of you know, I visit my grandmother regularly, and therefore experience the quality of BRE Properties practices many times a week. BRE Properties changes management faster than I change socks (some of you can vouch for that). The...
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Issei Sagawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Huh?!
Blue Peacock
Blue Peacock—dubbed by the press the chicken-powered nuclear bomb—was the codename of a British tactical nuclear weapon project in the 1950s with the goal to store a number of ten-kiloton nuclear mines in Germany, to be placed at target locations on the North German Plain in the event of war. The mines would have been detonated by wire or an eight-day timer. If they were disturbed they were set to...
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Regretsy - Handmade? It looks like you made it... →
Self explanatory?
Existential Halloween Crisis!
Originally going to be HAL. Strongly considering Cru Jones. But my old bmx bike is 2kmi away and I have no silver windbreaker pants!
Comb Your Hair Like Gavin Newsom Day, 10/9 - SFist →
You’re all doing this up there right?!
Out of Context Symposium :: NewMuseum.org →
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