Saturday, February 21, 2009

Avi @ boingboing



Patent drawing for an X-Wing

Einstein audio

Turneresque painting of Mumbai trains

Improving the Tibetan dung-stove with wire coat-hangers

X-rays of flowers

Lego Russian ray-gun

The Everything is a Remix theory of creativity

Shu Sugamata's origami spaceships

Comet Lovejoy + Total Recall = awesome

Quest, a Saul Bass short fim based on Bradbury's "Frost and Fire"

Podcast of "The Machine Stops"

1923 animated film about Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

Digi-Comp 1 emulator toy for learning the foundations of computers

Voynich Manuscript online

ICanStalkU twitterbot nags Twitter users about disclosing their location

Kid builds working farm equipment out of Lego

HOWTO get a DIY education and credentials online


HOWTO get a free Stanford Comp Sci education

India's Phat Phats: ingenious steam-powered toy boats

HealCam: a ChatRoulette for health

Deploying the British Granny Cloud to tutor Indian classrooms over Skype

HOWTO make a spherical multitouch interactive globe

Highly recommended: New Ted Chiang novella "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"

Learn like a kindergartner all your life: play, design and share

Linda Stone on email apnea and continuous partial attention

HOWTO teach kids to be makers

Bollywood music video set in Walt Disney World, 1977

Animals at Play: ethology for kids shows that play is universal

Ideo's Human Centered Design Toolkit, free download

Sympathetic ethnography of surrogate mothers

Sapolsky's outstanding Stanford lecture on "The Uniqueness of Humans"

Mickey Mouse comics drawn by concentration camp prisoner

Scans of Google Books with fingers in them

Hi-rez lunar astronaut portrait scans

Evolution, religion, schizophrenia and the schizotypal personality

Papercraft Wing Commander spaceships

Art from Basil Wolverton's Bible

Brain Rules: Oliver Sacks meets GETTING THINGS DONE, paperback ships, DVD goes free

Studio portraits of Mumbai's itinerant nomads

Stanford's Sapolsky on primate sexuality: funny, fascinating, educational

Sapolsky on primate sexuality part two: required viewing for the horny

Ted Chiang's story Exhalation -- free podcast

IDEO's deck of "Method Cards" for doing humane design

Stanford's Sapolsky and National Geo produce a documentary on stress

Black Swan author's rules for living

Heat maps of the world, colored by news-agencies' reporting on each country

Explaining food vs. nutrition: Michael Pollan talks at Google

Ex-IDEO lectures on creativity and management

Rare MLK speech on civil disobedience

Podcast of Ted Chiang's THE MERCHANT AND THE ALCHEMIST'S GATE

XO laptop -- a green miracle of energy efficiency: Video

Douglas Adams lecture: "Is there an artificial god?"

HOWTO build a yurt

Globalization of snacks: Vada Pav (TM) to kick McDonalds' ass in India

Indian epic Ramayana as comic

Corridor: a graphic novel of India

India's first professional DJ academy

Amul Indian Butter Ad Archive

Charles Darwin on Tsunamis (1835)

Yale Photonegatives Collection

Radio Free Mars

Psychology of bad probability estimation: why lottos and terrorists matter

Ghost dance video from "India's filmic Shakespeare"

Bollywood-star mudflaps

Indian infocomic: Yoga At Home

Help track down versions of King Solomon's Ring

Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell's Message Board

Slides from wonderful "engineering climate change" talk

Get your fresh, raw Mars image data right here, folks

Dogs that know when their owners are coming home experiment

Disney's 10 rules of theme-park design

Peter Ward dives to meet a wild Nautilus

Merlin Mann's productivity talk at IDEO

In memoriam: Parveen Babi, Bollywood Diva

The Nmap Revisited

6th man on moon says space aliens are real (and have visited us)

American Legion WWII posters

HG Wells's "Tono-Bungay," a memoir about quack remedies, as a free audiobook

Clay Shirky on the relationship between physical space and creativity

Bosch-like paintings from Michael Hutter

DIY Mars Curiosity Lander Lego kit

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