This is apparently pretty popular but in case you haven’t already seen it: People don’t like to wait at pedestrian crossings, which causes accidents and traffic delays. Someone came up with the neat idea of making it more fun to … Continue reading
HBO’s John Oliver does an excellent job explaining why net neutrality is important and why politically powerful opponents are winning the game. (As he points out, it was Obama who nominated a top cable company lobbyist to head the FCC.) … Continue reading
A piano in a Chicago train station apparently allows a remote performer to see and hear what’s going on nearby, permitting the pianist to ad lib musical accompaniments to whatever’s going on nearby and to perform duets with passersby. It’s … Continue reading
Irish comic Dara O’Briain imagines how a modern person who found himself in Renaissance Italy would explain our advanced technology to Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Botticelli: Link: http://youtu.be/BVxOb8-d7Ic by … Continue reading
I recently received an email from LinkedIn claiming that it was sent at the request of a friend of mine. But it turns out that the person in question had not asked LinkedIn to send me an invitation. So how … Continue reading
Recently when visiting my blog (at least with some browsers) the embedded YouTube videos would start playing themselves automatically. Worse, since by default the front page holds the latest 10 posts, and since a lot of the posts contain embedded … Continue reading
Link: http://youtu.be/z5u_2bGPdUY by … Continue reading
The Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is experimenting with an interesting new way to extract energy from the wind without the use of turbines. It works by producing a thin, electrically charged mist that’s blown by the wind … Continue reading
Here’s another example of the same technique: Link: http://youtu.be/OylPN4pjRSI by … Continue reading
OK, this is getting weird. I’m sure I put the embedding code here before… by … Continue reading