Lesezeichen vom 10. Mai 2010

Iron Man’s suit isn’t as science fictional as you might think. Most of its components exist right now in research and development labs.

Jamais Cascio is a futurist who writes about the environment, technology, and culture. Here he argues that yesterday’s posthumanism is today’s boring quotidian.

Liquid Mountaineering is a new sport which is attempting to achieve what man has tried to do for centuries: walk on water.

For a nation that proudly declared it would leave no child behind, America continues to do so at alarming rates. Despite increased spending and politicians’ promises, our buckling public—education system, once the best in the world, routinely forsakes the education of millions of children.

Canadian geek artist Steve Mann has augmented his vision with wearable computers for most of his life.

Sehr hübsch anzuschauen, was Marc Czerwiec und Vivien Testard da mit Licht auf den Körper einer jungen Dame malen.

No, this is not the aftermath of a Justin Bieber concert, these girls are giddy for Jesus.

In the cool interiors of universities and art studios, something is afoot. Artists and scientists are breaking out of their moulds and venturing into each other’s territories.

For the local tv station Haarlem Bibi is going to check the toilets. And then…

The Beatbox Dog / Trololo mashup you knew was coming is now here.

CollegeHumor hat es mal schön auf den Punkt gebracht das Festival eigentlich immer das selbe Schema verfolgen.

In the amazing infographic below, you can see the rise of the iPod and iTunes (and how they’ve affected our lives) over the last nine years. It’s true: The rest of the MP3 market never stood a chance.

How could bees of little brain come up with anything as complex as a dance language? The answer could lie not in biology but in six-dimensional math and the bizarre world of quantum mechanics.

Chastity Featherstone woke to the exquisite sound of her harpsichord alarm clock, the burlesque tune invaded her dreams becoming more and more persistent with the passing seconds, eventually she clicked the little brass switch and the clock returned once more to a melancholy tick..tock.

Let’s start with the basics. What is the Singularity?

Rudy Rucker on Science fiction and quantum mechanics

Catrina Dulay hat eine Reihe von ätzenden Alltäglichkeiten gesammelt und in a perfect world zu Wünschen formuliert, die zwar weitaus bescheidener wirken als die nach Weltfrieden und allgemeinem Wohlstand aber realistisch betrachtet, genauso schwer zu erfüllen sind.

Bootsmann Misha Konstantinov vom russischen Forschungsschiff Akademik Fyodorov hat diesen tollen Zeitrafferfilm von einer Reise um die Antarktis mitgebracht.

Interessant dabei ist, daß Matthew Fox für die Rolle des Sawyer vorspricht, für den auch eine etwas andere Geschichte geplant war. Letztendlich hat diese Rolle Josh Holloway bekommen und wie wir wissen, spielt Fox Jack Shephard.

Bitquid is an installation by Jeroen Holthuis which shows digital information transferring in an analogue way, through the use of fluorescent liquid.

Voyager 2′s flight data system, which formats information before beaming it back to Earth, has experienced a hiccup that altered the pattern in which it sends updates home.

Der Film ist voller verrottender, vergammelnder Awesomeness und Musik und außerdem hat ihn jemand auf Youtube hochgeladen.

Mit einem Video, welches auf dem DDR SciFi Film Staub der Sterne von 1976 basiert, ziemlich trashig und auch ein wenig NSFW ist. Aber man muss einem Softporn Edit eben auch optisch gerecht werden.

from Cornelius Zappencackler’s DERANGE-O-LAB

100 der besten, lustigsten, grandiosesten und tollsten Bilder

Dan Riordan ist in diesem Frühjahr mit seiner Freundin durch Thailand und Kambodscha getrippt – hat das Ganze in wundervollen, atemberaubenden Bildern festgehalten und daraus diesen genialen Kurzfilm geschnibbelt

Er arbeitet mit unkonventionellen Materialien und findet seine Inspiration in alltäglichen Gegenständen.

wirklich jedes einzelne sieht Klasse aus

Enrique Serrano designed this tall banner-style infographic, Apple, Flash and H.264, to help explain the conflict between Apple and Adobe Flash.

Marc Sijan’s Superrealistic sculptures are “homages to humanity’s fascination with its own forms

Three spacecraft flying three million miles apart are to fire laser beams at each other across the emptiness of space in a bid to finally prove whether a theory proposed by Albert Einstein is correct.

there is a high price to be paid for understanding – admitting the existence of parallel universes

A demo of a quantum calculation carried out by Japanese researchers has yielded some pretty mind-blowing results

eine geniale Miniatur-Kanone, die u. a. auf Cola-Dosen losgelassen wird

While playing World of Warcraft and traipsing through Second Life might not sound like traditional academic disciplines, they are increasingly important for research into virtual communities.