Archive for April, 2010
“Keyboard Drawn from Memory” by Guthrie Lonergan
“Keyboard drawn from memory (quickly from a to z)” by Guthrie Lonergan. I’m also especially fond of Katrina cursor and “Ramones Debut with Lead Guitar“.
May all goes well for you.
I like this spam email/concrete poetry, written by “catlady01″. I especially like the end:
Hey，good news!
I
ordered one black
apple iphone 3gs 16gb from this website
one weeks ago, today I’ve got it . Amazing,beyond my imagination, it’s genuine and as good as expected,but much cheaper. I’m pleased to share this good news with you! May all goes
well for you.
! May all
goes well for
you.
sibyll
Don Jr.
Wow. This video from YouTube user USDA33 (who is apparently named Don Jr.) illustrates exactly what we hear him say using stock photos pulled from the internet. This might just be brilliant. Highly recommend “Donkey in Da Back” as well, which uses lots of the same photos mixed with images of big butts.
Screw drive types
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Slotted (flat or straight) |
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Phillips (“crosshead”) PH |
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Pozidriv (SupaDriv) PZ |
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Square |
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Robertson (square) |
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Hex |
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Hex socket (Allen) |
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Torx T & TX |
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Security Torx TS |
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Tri-Wing |
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Torq-set |
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Spanner head (Snake-eye) |
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Triple square XZN |
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Polydrive |
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One-way |
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Spline drive |
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Double hex |
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Bristol |
From Wikipedia’s series on screw drive types, which is, thankfully, an actual topic. These are like mechanical emoticons.
Festo makes amazing things
Just lovely. Amazingly well-designed. A few things of note:
- The “Air Penguins” use a stock XBee module
- The “Interactive Wall” is run on a Max/MSP patch
- Not shown in the video, the “Bionic Handling Assistant” is meant to react by softening to touch, a very lifelike response
Long story short: I want to work for Festo.
Very weird dogs
After feeling a bit weird about following a post about the Marines fighting in Afganistan with this, I figure why worry about transistions. Somehow this image appeared when searching Google for “marja mud wall” for the previous post. I especially like their nylon-stocking beefy arms.
Weirdness from Photobucket user skohayes.
“A Firsthand Look at Firefights in Marja”
A photo of Marja, Afganistan by Tyler Hicks / NY Times
This amazing short video at the NY Times by C.J. Chivers captures the smaller moments of war and their relationship to the landscape. Hiding behind simple, surprisingly resiliant mud walls, a group of Marines hold a position against Taliban insurgents with WWII-era sniper rifles.
It’s just flat and utterly empty Helmand Province landscape (no trees, no hills, just flat, packed dirt) and bullets from an unseen source. And almost nothing happens. Certainly, lives are at stake, but overall it’s the mundanity and strangely purgatory nature of it that is so interesting.
Unfortunately no embedding of video from the Times.
Via: NY Times
Image above by: Tyler Hicks
Logic gates as Venn diagrams
Logic gates represented as Venn diagrams. Who knew? Created by Wikipedia user Zander Schubert.
Via: Wikipedia
Venn diagram of 4 sets
“Venn diagram of 4 sets (A, B, C, & D) with all 16 possible areas numbered (0 to 15)” created by Wikipedia user Cburnett.
Via: Wikipedia
US National Geodetic Survey flag
This is the flag of the US National Geodetic Survey, which is a “United States Federal executive agency that defines and manages a national coordinate system, providing the foundation for transportation and communication; mapping and charting; and a multitude of scientific and engineering applications. Since 1970, it has been part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the Department of Commerce.”
Via: Wikipedia
