A viral math trick may not be what bloggers claim it is, but it's pretty cool nonetheless.
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The Smallest Periodic Table in the World?
"Just think how many periodic tables you could put on my whole head!"
Read More »iPad as Chew Toy
In the app store, no one knows you're a dog.
Read More »The Dictionary of Lost Moving-Picture Media
Animaloscope, cinnomonograph, katoptiikum, lobsterscope, mutoscope, phenakistoscope, vivrescope, xograph�just a few of the turn-of-the-last-century's names for a strange new medium.
Read More »From When to Whenever: Mapping TV and Movie Time Travel
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.
Read More »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."
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