Transition Rig

A brilliant new sail design. article, profile and photos of it in action on a windsurfer.

BME - Brano Meres

An excellent bamboo framed bike. The original carbon fibre.

Heaneyland!: I predict a riot

"The first such warning I remember seeing was on the back of Elvis Costello's 'The Delivery Man'. Elvis clearly wasn't pleased about it being there, adding this disclaimer above it: 'This artist does not endorse the following warning. The FBI doesn't have his home phone number and he hopes that they don't have yours.'

Dimensioning the Dimension - The Daily WTF

How I explained REST to my wife...

James Jean

Excellent artwork.

Some great drawings...

Ricky Gervais... Obviously.

Some cute little videos.

A School of Visual Arts Grad Remakes the Pill Bottle

FOR SALE/BARTER: My body in Persistent Vegetative State...

Webjay - "Getting high on words" by bricolage

Some great audio files on this list. In particular, the following two are required listening: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman on the nature of vision.

Acoustic Radar.

This is awesome. How planes were located before radar.

RollingStone.com Politics: The Long Emergency

Wired News: Surprises Lurk in Satellite Snaps

Our Orlando Vacation: Day 3 "The Happiest Place on Earth" - a photoset on Flickr

Looks best as a slideshow.

National Day of Reason

On the 5th May, as a counter-point to the National Day of Prayer, which is funded by the US government!

buzztracker

A gallery of walls with stuff written on

Piercing the peer–to–peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience

The New York Times > Magazine > Our Ratings, Ourselves

Hacking Sony's Network Walkman's "secure" file format

People do this in their spare time, the major companies don't have a chance (story and specs.)

Postal Experiments

Some guidelines on what can and can't be posted. Discovered empirically of course.

Project Foil

A prank that covers everything...

Merging Google maps and Craigslist

Very cool.

Corporate Fallout Detector

A barcode scanner that converts information on corporate responsibility, actions and ownership into "Geiger counter"-clicks.

Shakeskin.com - a gallery of shaken faces / Shaken

The wind changed...

The vOICe Learning Edition - Synthetic Vision Software for the Blind

This is pretty neat, a nice story about it here too: Quirks & Quarks

A real life mech!

Wired News: What a Little Moon Dust Can Do

"Moon dust is much more jagged than dust on Earth because there's no water or wind on the moon to toss it around and grind down its edges."

Wired News: Windmills in the Sky

"Wind energy in the jet stream can reach 100 times the average amount of solar energy on the surface of the Earth per unit area."

sketch_050403c : Built with Processing

New Scientist - Metallic glass: a drop of the hard stuff

The World, Dubai Islands

Wired News: Low-Cost Laptops for Kids in Need

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail