Pluto lost its status of being a planet after the definition of planet was changed by the International Astronomical Union. “Pluto was automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune’s” the BBC reports. Now “the eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune,” said the IAU resolution which was passed […]
Read Article »onAirNow 1.4 — released today. onAirNow 1.4 is a simple WordPress plugin for displaying information about your currently playing song which is even more flexible than it’s predecessors and has some neat new features: onAirNow 1.4 (August 22nd, 2006): changes since version 1.3 If no artist and title info was found inside the pseudo XML […]
Read Article »“Who Needs A Computer Anyway?” is Apple’s 1989 student’s guide illustrated by Matt Groening.
Read Article »BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder posted an article entitled “If the liquid could be explosive, why are you dumping it in a crowd?“. CNN reports about today’s events in London and how any liquid is now considered as potentially dangerous. So why on earth is security personnel dumping “possibly explosive liquids into a garbage can in a […]
Read Article »Imagining the Tenth Dimension is a book by Rob Bryanton. The average person has barely gotten used to the idea of there being four dimensions: how can we possibly imagine the tenth? … asks the author. Gladly his website contains a flash animation which helps you understand the 10th dimension and every dimension on it’s […]
Read Article »PingMag — the Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” — talked to Joe Nishizawa who took pictures of Japan’s giant underground installations1: A enormous underground tunnel that runs through 40metres under the Hibiya Junction Tokyo or an underground dome that lies 500metres below deep in the mountains of Gunma…? In Japan unimaginably large spaces […]
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