Kind of Bloop (above): An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?. Art of the arcade. How to develop groove in your playing. 12 Greenest colleges and universities in the U.S. Osmos has a [...]
From the monthly archives:
August 2009
We Are The Friction (above) is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs A short manifesto on the future of attention. The mystery of Times New Roma. Finalists for the 2009 James Dyson Award. Lessons from slime mold: how to survive and [...]
Cuddle your electronic gear with Pijama Cases (above). New DSLR bags from Incase look sweet. Design your own SIGG bottle at CafePress. Scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that electrons in quantum-scale wires can break into two smaller particles, called spinons and holons. The iPhone ecosystem is toxic, says Steven Frank. Costlier health care is [...]
Track and Field: Drawing from the Arena (above), by Cassandra Jones. 5 Reasons your marketing plan will fail. New editions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series let you create your own cover art. An investigation by The Smoking Gun unmasks the leader of Pranknet and the miscreants behind a year-long wave of phone [...]