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It is the largest thing we have ever built,and we have assembled it from transistors — the smallest things we know how to make. It is a chrysalis we are forming around the planet…a table where we sit to gossip, a suq where we buy and sell; a shadowy corner for planning mischief; a library holding the entire world’s information; a friend, a game, a matchmaker, a psychiatrist, an erotic dream, a babysitter, a teacher, a spy….The best and worst and most ordinary of us reflected — and perhaps distorted—in a silvery fog of bits.
— George Whitesides describing the Internet, in No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale (via bioephemera)

1 month ago

December 29, 2009
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Among the compensations of advancing age is a wholesome pessimism, which, while it takes the fine edge off whatever triumphs may come to us, has the admirable effect of preventing Fate from working off on us any of those gold bricks, coins with strings attached, and unhatched chickens at which Ardent Youth snatches with such enthusiasm, to its subsequent disappointment. As we emerge from the twenties we grow into a habit of mind which looks askance at Fate bearing gifts. We miss, perhaps, the occasional prize, but we also avoid leaping light-heartedly into traps.
— P. G. Wodehouse (in Something Fresh)

2 months ago

November 27, 2009
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Inspired by jeannr, I flowcharted the Beatles classic, ‘Hey Jude.’

loveallthis:

Inspired by jeannr, I flowcharted the Beatles classic, ‘Hey Jude.’

3 months ago

October 31, 2009
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DEADLINE post-it stop motion

8 months ago

June 12, 2009
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Rube Goldberg Machine Destroys Easter Eggs

10 months ago

March 29, 2009
photo Univers Revolved is a three-dimensional alphabet. It invites the readers to play with their imaginative mind and think beyond the conventions of their familiar reading method.

Univers Revolved is a three-dimensional alphabet. It invites the readers to play with their imaginative mind and think beyond the conventions of their familiar reading method.

10 months ago

March 20, 2009
photo Obama Sushi

Obama Sushi

10 months ago

March 19, 2009
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In contemplating Man, as at the head of those animals with which we are acquainted, a thought occurred, that no sentient being, whose mental powers were greatly superior, could possibly live and be happy in this world. If such a being really existed, his misery would be extreme. With senses more delicate and refined; with perceptions more acute and penetrating; with a taste so exquisite that the objects around him could by no means gratify it; obliged to feed upon nourishment too gross for his frame; he must be born only to be miserable, and the continuation of his existence would be utterly impossible. Even in our present condition, the sameness and insipidity of objects and pursuits, the futility of pleasure, and the infinite sources of excruciating pain, are supported with great difficulty by cultivated and refined minds. Increase our sensibilities, continue the same objects and situation, and no man could bear to live. Let man, therefore, be contented. His station in the universal scale of Nature is fixed by Wisdom. Let him contemplate and admire the works of his Creator; let him fill up his rank with dignity, and consider every partial evil as a cause or an effect of general good. This is the whole duty of man.

10 months ago

March 18, 2009
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GMail Art

11 months ago

March 2, 2009
photo Brammo Enertia electric motorcycle

Brammo Enertia electric motorcycle

11 months ago

March 1, 2009