As I was going up the stair
I saw a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away…
Hughes Mearns
Laser-cut art book by Olafur Eliasson
[A] laser-cut negative space rendering of his house in 85:1 scale
Category Archives: Tech
I Know Where You Live
I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
To test whether I was being paranoid, I ran a little experiment. On a sunny Saturday, I spotted a woman in Golden Gate Park taking a photo with a 3G iPhone. Because iPhones embed geodata into photos that users upload to Flickr or Picasa, iPhone shots can be automatically placed on a map. At home I searched the Flickr map, and score—a shot from today. I clicked through to the user’s photostream and determined it was the woman I had seen earlier. After adjusting the settings so that only her shots appeared on the map, I saw a cluster of images in one location. Clicking on them revealed photos of an apartment interior—a bedroom, a kitchen, a filthy living room. Now I know where she lives.
Sometimes You Can't Stop at 10
Not without a parachute and some good brakes, at least.
15 Ridiculous Rocket and Jet-Powered Vehicles
Here’s one: a jet-powered luge.
There’s also a recliner, shopping cart, an outhouse, and more silliness.
Scrabble Keyboard
Candygram for Mongo!
Mongo, in this case, is a trebuchet. Mongo flings fireballs.
I haven’t named mine.
We Must Not Have a Water Bottle Rocket Gap!
Instructables: Water Bottle Bazooka
This Instructable takes the basic “water bottle rocket” science lesson and expands on it, combining the ability to aim with a convenient trigger mechanism. It can be built in a few hours using parts from a hardware store.
Which Way is Which?
Omni-directional wheels.
The Problem With Conventional Wisdom
9 Life-Changing Inventions the Experts Said Would Never Work
I still believe the part about not being able to fax a cat.
The Other Three Were Stolen
Your Guide to Screwing
When a Phillips is not a Phillips!
These screw types have a “+” shaped recess on the head and are driven by a cross-head screwdriver, designed originally for use with mass-production mechanical screwing machines. There are a few other recessed drive screws presented that you also want to be aware.
So, why all the confusion? Why all the damaged screw heads and drivers? Why is this screw and driver thing so awkward? Read on and be amazed while I unravel the mystery of screw drives and present some you may have never seen.
I didn’t learn any of this watching way too much Handy Manny last week.