The future is already here, it's just not well distributed yet.
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((Phonovision ran at 4fps and was the earliest TV recording technology. It used vinyl discs and recording the images as grooves.)) Restoring Baird’s TV Recordings: Imagery
Posted on February 4, 2010
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((Would like to know more about this)) birdlord:the many faces of an ideal cook, 1927- 1996
Posted on February 4, 2010 via variety meats with 3 notes
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There is very little about the monstrous beach ball cell that we do know.
((It might even farm bacteria for food.))Zoologger: ‘Living beach ball’ is giant single cell - life - 03 February 2010 - New ScientistPosted on February 3, 2010 with 1 note
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((Something about these make me feel like I’m in a horror movie. Click through for the whole series)) A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window… - but does it float
Posted on February 2, 2010 with 6 notes
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Posted on February 2, 2010
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The bulk of humanity doesn’t want a computing experience it can tinker with; it wants a computing experience that works.
Posted on February 2, 2010 with 1 note
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The basic premise is that when someone is confronted by a corrupt official for a bribe they give them the zero rupee note, allowing them to make a statement without having to say anything at all.
Posted on January 30, 2010
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I’m often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they’re thrust back to a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges.
Posted on January 30, 2010
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looneynerd: Back when shit was awesome
Posted on January 30, 2010 via LooneyNerdNews with 1 note
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((I could not have asked for a more perfect illustration of the ideas in the Woven Spaces post.)) Creating Spatial Barriers With Electronics - PSFK
Posted on January 29, 2010
Being a collection of quotations, images, and the occasional moving picture relating to the obsessions and themes that drive
Quiet Babylon.
GENESIS 11:1-9
1 Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
2 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
4 They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
1 Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
2 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
4 They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
