Wired News: Gadgets for the Lazy
In today's automated world, there's a fine line between efficient time management and laziness. Here are a few gadgets we think cross the line most egregiously. Check out our other photo galleries on our photo blog
Category: cool stuff
SketchUp
SketchUp – Home
SketchUp is a simple, free but powerful too, from Google,l for quickly and easily creating, viewing and modifying your 3D ideas.
pencil icon Click on a shape and push or pull it to create your desired 3D geometry.
pencil icon Experiment with color and texture directly on your model.pencil icon Real-time shadow casting lets you see exactly where the sun falls as you model.pencil icon Select from thousands of pre-drawn components to save time drawing.
Why Rice Krispies Go Snap, Crackle, Pop!
LiveScience.com – Why Rice Krispies Go Snap, Crackle, Pop!Collages Using Money
Art MoCo: “The World is Yours”
Christopher (or C.K.) Wilde is a collagist who creates with currency. Wilde painstakingly cuts various shapes out of paper money from around the world to form collages with economic and political undertones and overlays.
Click here to see the full collection in more detail
Tax Season Only Comes But Once A Year
Blog Cliches
Blog § Unqualified Offerings
If you’ve followed blog threads, you appreciate this thread that skewers every blog cliché ever written, such as Nazi analogies (Godwin's Law).
Robert J. Lang Origami
Robert J. Lang OrigamiThanks to Tom Eldridge for this one.
Go to this MIT site and click on “Open image gallery” to see more Origami
The Universe is Trapped in its Own Web
RedOrbit – Space – The Universe is Trapped in its Own Web
Astronomers from the University of Nottingham, UK, and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain), have found the first observational evidence that galaxies are not randomly oriented.
This discovery confirms one of the fundamental aspects of galaxy formation theory and implies a direct link between the global properties of the Universe and the individual properties of galaxies.
Galaxy formation theories predicted such an effect, but its empirical verification has remained elusive until now. The results of this work were published the 1 April issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Julian Beever – 3D Chalk Drawings
Julian Beever – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Julian Beever is an English artist who is famous for his art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. Its peculiarity? Beever gives his drawings an anamorphosis view, his images are drawn in such a way which gives them three dimensionality when viewing from the correct angle. Click on the Wikipedia link above to read more…
This is a January 15th 2007 video from Union Square in NYC of Julian creating a commissioned work.
Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future
2Spare – Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future
# «We will bury you.»
Nikita Krushchev, Soviet Premier, predicting Soviet communism will win over U.S. capitalism, 1958.
# «Everything that can be invented has been invented.»
Charles H. Duell, an official at the US patent office, 1899.