Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology programmed racket-equipped quadrotors to volley ping-pong balls at each other in the school's Flying Machine Arena. Via io9...
THE CHARACTER from Candice Breitz on Vimeo. Fifteen children were each asked to watch a Bollywood movie prominently featuring a child character. During the shoot that followed, each child was asked to verbally portray the child character in the movie that s/he had watched, to describe the role and plight of that character within the movie’s...
Pyongyang Style from Steve Gong on Vimeo....
BACK IN SEPTEMBER 2009, a group of 25 students, neighbors and professionals from companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo! and Intel met up at the Los Gatos, California, home of Denny Mayer—“a classic Silicon Valley neighborhood gathering,” he said—to fiddle with a tiny new product called Poken, which allows users to exchange contact information and links...
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via YMFY The researchers, after controlling for all other attributes (height, weight, attractiveness, etc.), calculated how much extra income (relative to the income of the average online male dater, $62,500) a man would need to overcome the racial barrier. Here are some of the estimates (there weren’t enough data to do all the interracial permutations) of...
A teaser for GeGeGe no Nyōbō, based on an autobiographical book by the wife of manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, father of GeGeGe no Kitarō: ...
In Bangkok in the mid-'90s, my boyfriend and I would go to Pizza Hut on special occasions like birthdays and payday. Compared to Los Angeles, the city was super accessible to the young and the skint, but Western food (even the crap fast kind) was an extravagance. It was at a Sizzler--our anniversary!--that I first...