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Those of you interested in the anthropological patterns of social networking might want to plan a trip to British Library’s Growing Knowledge exhibition, where CASA’s (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) Tweet-O-Meter currently calls its home. The Tweet-O-Meeter is a real-time analog monitoring system that tracks the current Twitter activity of 9 major cities. The machine was developed to help better understand “social dynamics among Twitter users around the world.” But we imagine the result is a sort of timezone effect,... Continue reading

Using that 1989 GT Mach One with a rusty chain isn’t going to get you any ladies. I think it’s time you upgraded your ride to a simple road bike. It doesn’t matter what it looks like, because once you get one for dirt cheap, you’re going to re-do it at Geekhouse. For a fee, the company will use a new powder coating technique to recreate any design on your bike. Saw a repeating pattern on YTMND that you thought... Continue reading

Santa Monica recently held its first GLOW festival on July 19th, an all-night event of media art, performances, music, and sculpture. The most memorable of all was perhaps Usman Haque’s art installation called Primal Source. It looks like a smaller-scale northern lights, being made up of a large water spray screen that projects light patterns aided by the perfect backdrop of a darkened sky. The coolest and most engaging aspect of the design was Haque’s idea to use microphones around... Continue reading