Month: February 2014
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Amazing Light Sculpture Responds to Human Movement
A structure made from hundreds of metallic flowers that fold open in response to human movement.
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The Shining Code
A one-hour walk-thru of The Shining making the case that the film is Kubrick’s coded confession for helping to fake the moon landing.
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Yikes: Ship's Anchor May Have Hit Transbay Tube
Oh holy fucking God I always think about drowning in that tunnel. http://sfist.com/2014/01/31/yikes_ships_anchor_may_have_hit_tra.php Yikes: Ship's Anchor May Have Hit Transbay Tube Transbay Tub (Photo: Eric Fischer) BART trains temporarily stopped service Friday
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2001: A Space Odyssey | Typeset In The Future
Fantastic collision between sci-fi nerds and font nerds: An exhaustive study of the fonts in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (via MetaFilter) http://typesetinthefuture.com/2001-a-space-odyssey/ 2001: A Space Odyssey | Typeset In The Future 1960s- Eurostile- Futura- Gill Sans- Univers2001: A Space OdysseyJanuary 31- 2014daveLeave a comment2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi masterpiece […]
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At 40 Years Old- Dungeons & Dragons Still Matters
At 40 Years Old- Dungeons & Dragons Still Matters Ethan Gilsdorf looks back on four decades of pen-and-paper role-playing tradition.
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Tobacco Virus Jumps 1.6 Billion Years of Evolution to Honeybee
“This is the first evidence that honeybees can be infected by plant-virus contaminated pollen, but it might not have been the first or last.”
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Rom-Com Death March Reduces Divorce Rate
“Discussing relationship movies, it turns outs, was just as effective as more intensive skills-building programs.”