Posts filed under 'Articles'

High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas

Wired has an article on the High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas who wrangle and rescue huge ships.

Add comment February 27th, 2008

How Camera Lenses are Made

1 comment February 26th, 2008

Halo 3 update

I’m not by any means a very good Halo 3 player, but I do play my fair share. The latest patch addresses the infamous Melee controversy among other things, including glitch exploits. Will be interesting to see how this pans out.

Add comment February 21st, 2008

The Most Competitive Man Alive

The Most Competitive Man Alive by Todd Levin - an article about a computer gamer

Add comment February 2nd, 2008

The Kotatsu

Core 77 has an article about the Japanese kotatsu, a low table which you sit on the floor to use. It also has built-in leg warming features :)

Add comment February 2nd, 2008

Kite Powered Cargo Ships

Seemingly silly and incredible, the idea of using a kite sail to pull cargo ships along their route is apparently less fiction and fantasy - and more fact. Fuel usage reduced by quite a bit. Which, considering cargo ships are major polluters, is a great idea!

Add comment January 30th, 2008

paper art by jen stark

pingmag has an article about jen stark and her crazy paper art sculptures

Add comment January 30th, 2008

On Psychopaths

From Damn Interesting - The Unburdened Mind

Add comment January 22nd, 2008

On Mastering for HD

Interesting article on the process of mastering movies for HD

Add comment December 7th, 2007

Manga Translator

translator.jpgPingMag article about the career of Manga Translator. It addresses some interesting facets of the translation such as how translation is handled when typography is used as a part of the composition instead of just in dialog / narrative.

Add comment August 21st, 2007

The Beginners Guide To Lock Picking

lockpicking.jpgI’ve always wanted to be able to do super technical nerdy things like magic tricks, being able to solve a rubik’s cube, and picking locks. The Beginners Guide To Lock Picking might be a good place to start for the least wholesome of the three (though magic can be quite tasteless…)

Add comment August 19th, 2007

Chinese gold farmers documentary

Boing Boing posts about a Chinese gold farmers documentary in the making. Check out Anda’s Game while you’re at it.

Add comment May 23rd, 2007

The roundest objects ever built by hand

NASA makes theroundest objects ever built by hand and then puts em to work.

Add comment May 8th, 2007

Food Quantity Perception

New York Times article, Your Plate Is Bigger Than Your Stomach, discusses the interesting study of how our food containers affect how much we eat - large plates make useat more, etc.

Add comment May 8th, 2007

WoW New Races Level Progression

Interesting flash clip showing Level Progression of Blood Elves and Draenai in Jan 2007

Add comment February 15th, 2007

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