A conspicuous lack of media hype leads me to present this nice boombox: Why pay 500$ for Klipsch's latest speaker system? You can make something that looks way cooler for the price of a DIY amplifier and some HDDs out of a dumpster. It doesn't sound quite as good but who cares! There really isn't m...
[Research] A glance at Sperber and Wilson
Taken from ANALYSE EMPIRIQUE DES COMMUNICATIONS DISTANTES DANS LE CADRE DU CONTROLE AERIEN by Cécile Dumazeau Ainsi, Sperber et Wilson (1989) préfèrent parler de connaissances « manifestement mutuelles ». D’après eux un fait est considéré « manifeste à un individu à un moment donné si et s...
[Prospective] Low Tech Taxi
Last week end in Lyon France) I saw this amazing new concept: cycling taxi, it costs just 1 euro: ...
[Prospective] Bruce Sterling's quote
Interesting Bruce Sterling quotes taken from this interview NG: There seems to be a division between your work up to the mid-Eighties--usually set off Earth or in the past--and your output since then, which concentrates on the near future and the socio-cultural realities engendered by the informati...
[Weird] Bear Suits
What an incredible project: projecttroy.com! Troy Hurtubise of North Bay, Ontario, created and personally tested a 147 pound grizzly bear-proof armor suit. He won the 1998 Ig Nobel in safety engineering. ...
[Prospective] Wireless area in cities, who's gonna pay?
It is indeed a nice question, who is going to pay for wireless cities? Technology Review provides a good discussion of this issue. One reason cities and towns appear eager to leap into the wireless fray is the inclination—and pressure—to serve their constituents. "Local governments very much want t...
[TheWorld] We are sorry you cannot access www.fvap.gov
Read in IHT, Pentagon blocks site for voters outside the US. Internet service providers in at least 25 countries - including Yahoo Broadband in Japan, Wanadoo in France, BT Yahoo Broadband in Britain and Telefónica in Spain - have been denied access to the site of the Federal Voting Assistance Prog...
[Space and Place] Concrete Cathedrals under a skyscraper cluster
Last week end for "Les journees europeenes du patrimoine", it was possible to access to the concrete underground below Paris skyscraper cluster ( La Defense), it looks like the following picture. What is crazy it those huge voids between the structures, which are called "Cathedrals Englouties". ...
[LifeHack?] Ali G fooling techniques
Via Slate: former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman (who conceded that, yes, whale feces "have got to be massive") and archconservative Patrick Buchanan (who said that Saddam Hussein "was using BLTs on the Kurds"). In one episode, Richard Kerr, a former deputy director of the CIA, found hims...
[Space and Place] Glimpses of an empty start up
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