This is really kind of brilliant: a good, clear guide to the subprime mess, in a pretty funny and direct style. http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&skipauth=true&pli=1 (Via David Levinger)
Read more →“The Maison is plug-and-play: there was never any plumbing, and it is wired for electricity. It ships in six containers. Christie’s is compiling a short list of potential bidders with substantial properties in Mustique, Antigua, the Hamptons — name your playground — who might like a 59-foot-by-32-foot–by-16-foot-tall folly/outdoor sculpture/guesthouse/vintage metal toy to park on the [...]
Read more →Random tinkering is the path to success. And fortunately, we are increasingly learning to practice it without knowing it–thanks to overconfident entrepreneurs, naive investors, greedy investment bankers, confused scientists and aggressive venture capitalists brought together by the free-market system. We need more tinkering: Uninhibited, aggressive, proud tinkering. We need to make our own luck. We [...]
Read more →Just… watch it. It’s huge. I think this could be done using eyeball tracking without the sensor bar too.
Read more →http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5005557-description.html Notably it’s about the how, and references older work on the basic concept. Odds-are that means the diode, if it’s covered at all, is under the Australian patents for the Solar Kettle design.
Read more →People keep posting stuff about this. Maybe it’ll actually be reissued if they keep it up. Probably won’t sell any better this time either… http://www.designverb.com/2007/11/10/heineken-world-bottle-beer-to-bricks/
Read more →Basically, the space below each stair is storage for books. Very nifty picture at the link below. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/19/library-built-into-a.html
Read more →http://www.viruscomix.com/page382.html Nifty, nifty.
Read more →The issue is patents. Open Source derives it’s power from copyright law – they use the property right of “copyright” and then pool it by using the GPL and other such licenses which rest on copyright. Patent is a huge pain in the ass. You could do an open source patent pool, but that’s a [...]
Read more →This is a bit more complex to describe. Here’s how it works. Take two disks of glass, one black, one clear. Let us say they are 4″ in diameter, of indeterminate thickness. Now take a ring, say 1″ thick, 4″ in diameter, made from a strong insulator. Separate the two disks with this ring, enclosing [...]
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