An amazing chart traces the routes of a variety of fictional time voyages, from Buck Rogers to Planet of the Apes to the several temporal joyrides found throughout the Star Trek franchise.
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Teach a Sim World to Sing in Isle of Tune
The music sequencer Isle of Tune is like a simple little city sim game�for a magical land of loopy, tuneful fancy.
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Blocks
It's not an ancient computer reverse-engineered in plastic blocks, but this Lego-inspired spoof of Call of Duty: Black Ops is good fun. Video after the jump.
Read More »Go to the gym with friends who aren’t there
Now you can bicycle to the Internet (almost), on a networked stationary cycle that adds layers of gaming, interactivity, and social media to the spinning workout.
Read More »No technology ever dies
An animated reverse-history of communications media that goes from apps to web to video to clay to slate and chalk. In six seconds.
Read More »Tracking disconsumption
A project to use barcodes to track consumer waste reminds me of what Slavoj �i�ek says while standing amidst piles of garbage: "part of our daily perception of reality is that this [trash] disappears from our world."
Read More »Video Game Choir
At Boston's Berklee College of Music, an a cappella choir treats video game music with a full measure of seriousness�and affection.
Read More »Hope is the thing with feathers and Twitter
Design fiction as poetry, "Tableau" is a nightstand that quietly prints out photos from Twitter and places them in its drawer. Emily Dickinson might have approved.
Read More »This Old Starship: build your own sliding door
Impress your Romulan visitors with this fashionable DIY sliding-door treatment. Video after the jump.
Read More »Understanding entropy, back to front
Entropy isn't just something that makes us lose our car keys; it also keeps time's arrow pointed in its familiar direction, as this deft film by John Pavlus ably shows. Video after the jump.
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