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Apr 14, 2009
Subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale.
This is really cool, but they missed Detroit’s People Mover, which covers - brace yourselves - 2.9 miles.
Apr 11, 2009
Morel hunters.
Apr 11, 2009
I’ve been on vacation in Southern Indiana visiting family. Yesterday we hunted for morels on some family land. We found tons.
I can’t begin to describe how much fun it is to just wander around in the woods. Cubicles and traffic and fast food can shove it - the hunter/gatherer lifestyle suits me fine. They got it right at the end of Battlestar Galactica.
Apr 8, 2009
BLDGBLOG Book - a set on Flickr
Geoff Manaugh is posting a bunch of pics of the new BLDGBLOG book on his Flickr page. It looks really cool.
Apr 8, 2009
Pirates - GOOD Magazine
Piracy is the new terrorism - just another phenomenon signaling how the world is crumbling toward chaos. It’s nuts out there folks.
Apr 8, 2009
Coming soon. Having read the blog for several years now, I’m really curious to see what the book will be like. BLDGBLOG.
Apr 8, 2009
Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics
Yep, it won’t be long now before we’re running from the Cylons (hell, my iPhone is already better than me).
Not only are computers making new scientific discoveries on their own, they are apparently also rediscovering old ones. Wired:
In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum’s swings. (…)
The program started with near-random combinations of basic mathematical processes — addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and a few algebraic operators.
Initially, the equations generated by the program failed to explain the data, but some failures were slightly less wrong than others. Using a genetic algorithm, the program modified the most promising failures, tested them again, chose the best, and repeated the process until a set of equations evolved to describe the systems. Turns out, some of these equations were very familiar: the law of conservation of momentum, and Newton’s second law of motion.
Apr 5, 2009
Scanwiches
This dude scans sandwiches. Nobody ever would have anticipated this use of document scanner technology. Just when you think you understand what will happen, how something will be used, what people will do - forget it. Deviants reign.
By the way, the sandwiches scan beautifully and are making me hungry.
Apr 5, 2009
To see what the world looks like when people are gone and nature retakes the landscape just visit Detroit. Griffioen’s images are surreal, yet all of them are of actual places that are only about thirty miles from my home.
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