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  • Best Library Facade Ever

    Best Library Facade Ever

    Awesome: The books for the facade of the Kansas City Library were nominated by local residents. This is perhaps a cause for hope. Or given your opinion about some of the choices, not. Still: awesome. References: * Kansas City Public Library [Neatorama] Previously: * French Band Requests That You Dance, Fight [Video] * Giant Scorpion Provides Scientific Data, Nightmares * The Things [...]

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  • Earthrise And Earthset From The Moon

    Earthrise And Earthset From The Moon

    The Japanese took some time off from creating the freakiest robots known to humanity to create this gorgeous video, a scaled down version of the hi-def version that they’re promising to release soon: The real downer? It was done in a Burbank studio. References: * Earthrise video [Pink Tentacle] * Earthrise, Earthset [pinktentacle3 / YouTube] Previously: * Second Life Brain-Computer Interfaces [...]

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  • 1994 Vision Of The Web [Video]

    1994 Vision Of The Web [Video]

    And even this would have been unthinkable three or four years before that: Not exactly Web 2.0. References: * DEC – Glimpse of the Future, 1994 [mgrdcm / YouTube] Previously: * Amazon Marketing And Its Discontents – Red Bull And… Wait, What? * Cog Sci Blog Roundup * Particle Physicists Do It Transparently Through The Rumor Mill (Plus: Promote NCA Open Bar [...]

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  • 20 Years Of Technological Progress

    20 Years Of Technological Progress

    On the left, what you needed to store 1GB of data in 1988. On the right, a tiny 1GB SD drive that’s already at least three generations old: So there you have it: over the course of 20 years, 1GB of storage has gone from the size of a Yaris’ engine to something smaller than a [...]

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