FRED

May
13th

Tue

The Art of the Push up.

Column in this week’s Science Times, which explores why the push-up remains an enduring symbol of fitness.

May
6th

Tue

DVICE: Sarcos exoskeleton: sooo close to being a cyborg

All I can say is the future is now. Ironman, Matrix, any Japanese Anime film, Alien.

Apr
26th

Sat

Gryphon Glider Is Wicked Freaking Sweet - Geekologie

WOW!

Apr
13th

Sun

TED | TEDBlog: Wii Remote hacks: Johnny Lee on TED.com

Johnny Chung Lee, creator of the “poor man steady cam” at TED conference, talking about his amazing Wiimote hacks bringing useable, inexpensive yet innovative technology to the masses and YouTube.

Apr
12th

Sat

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

— ~Ernest Hemingway. Don’t get me started on Ernest…he’s my guy.

Apr
11th

Fri

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in,” says Hemingway. “That kind of symbol sticks out like raisins in raisin bread. Raisin bread is all right, but plain bread is better.” He opens two bottles of beer and continues: “I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things. The hardest thing is to make something really true and sometimes truer than true

— Ernest Hemingway on how he approached symbolism in his stories:…

Apr
9th

Wed

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

Apr
3rd

Thu

All offices should be designed like this

A video about the Google headquarters in Zurich. I love that part of the design was that noone was to be more than 100 feet away from food.

C.

Mar
29th

Sat

GorgeousIII

Mar
25th

Tue

Incredible

Art from spam data. Marcel Duchamp would have been proud.