Jul 13
| #1. World Clock: A clock that counts things like HIV infections, bicycles produced, deaths, births, divorces, cancer incidence. It is eerie and unsettling to watch. The whole creation is groaning. | |
| #2. A building with walls of water. This MIT designed building will have walls that are curtains of falling water. The water output is finely controlled, so that messages can be written in the water-wall simply by turning off water output to parts of the wall. It’s like a scrolling LED screen, but in water. HT: Boing Boing |
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| #3. Explaining the quantum Cheney-verse, or, why, if a tree falls in the forest, it won’t be on Dick Cheney. | |
| #4. Why terrorism is not effective in achieving its (supposed) goals: people see all the killing and mayhem and assume that’s the real goal, regardless of any other announced goal. Of course, one could apply this argument to why military occupations are not that effective either. People may see the “collateral damage” and assume that’s the real goal. | |
| #5. Marble Adder. Here’s a beautiful wooden adding machine that uses marbles and adds in binary. There’s a video of it in operation, too. |  |
| #6. How to get your passwords to survivors after your death. | |
| #7. Bring back the Victrola. Tired of tinny ear-buds? Here’s an invention that Edison would be proud of. Place your earbuds (playing music) on the receiver and the horn amplifies the sound from tinny to beautiful. No batteries required. |  |