Spiders flee Australian flood. You must see these photos. 1) massively coordinated and brilliant response to the spider’s end-of-the-world scenario 2) we have no idea how things will splatter when sh*t hits the fan. the earth will devour us when things go haywire
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Tunneling time, magnetism, and greater data storage
Using a light source that creates X-ray pulses only one quadrillionth of a second in duration, the Boulder team was able to observe how magnetism in nickel and iron atoms works, and they found that each metal behaves differently. One quadrillionth of a second is a million times faster than [...]
if this then that
Really interesting tool for creating automated shortcut actions on the webs. For example: changed your facebook profile picture and automatically have your twitter updated with the same pic. Star an email in gmail, automatically have it added to your evernote. Have an sms trigger a phone call. ifttt.com/recipes
Institute for Applied Autonomy
The Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) was founded in 1998 as a technological research and development organization dedicated to the cause of individual and collective self-determination. Our mission is to study the forces and structures which affect self-determination and to provide technologies which extend the autonomy of human activists. http://www.appliedautonomy.com/ [...]
Waag Society
Waag Society develops creative technology for social innovation. The foundation researches, develops concepts, pilots and prototypes and acts as an intermediate between the arts, science and the media. Waag Society cooperates with cultural, public and private parties. http://www.waag.org/
CENS – Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
Embedded Networked Sensing Systems promise to reveal previously unobservable phenomena widely impacting society by connecting the physical world to the Internet. UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is a major research enterprise focused on developing wireless sensing systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and societal pursuits. [...]
JS library for Vectors & Visualization
Raphael JS. Really simple elegant and beautiful examples. raphaeljs.com D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. As a trivial example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, [...]
Menus since 1840
Menus digitized not just as images, but as fully searchable. Great opportunity for research into economics, health, culture and so much more. http://menus.nypl.org/
The Nature of Code
Daniel Shiffman: Can we capture the unpredictable evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in software? Can understanding the mathematical principles behind our physical world world help us to create digital worlds? http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/
divided edge bundling
Divided Edge Bundling is a technique that takes a node-link graph diagram and visually simplifies it without the viewer losing the ability to identify directional patterns. http://selassid.github.com/DividedEdgeBundling/
NY Times Cascade
The NY Times R&D lab has developed an interesting tool for exploring news + social sharing. Hopefully they’ll open source the code built on open source tools. Cascade allows for precise analysis of the structures which underly sharing activity on the web. This first-of-its-kind tool links browsing behavior on a [...]
NYC Open Data
NYC Open Data About NYC Open Data NYC Open Data makes the wealth of public data generated by various New York City agencies and other City organizations available for public use. As part of an initiative to improve the accessibility, transparency, and accountability of City government, this catalog offers access [...]