Der Australier Peter Terren hat in seinem Garten einen Tesla-Transformator stehen und jede Menge Spaß damit. Auf seiner Website Tesladownunder ist jede Menge
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"sneak peak into the next movie mash-up coming this Winter. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg weren't satisfied with ruining single movies. Now they will ruin two at once!"
"For an 80s-themed Halloween party, I wanted a costume that was unique, incorporated technology, and would be fun for fellow partygoers. I’d been toying with the idea of making a mini arcade machine for my game room, so I decided to come up with one that I could also wear as my costume. What follows is a guide to making your own wearable Pac-Man that guarantees you’ll be the life of the costume party. It’s fun to build and to wear. And I’ve since converted it to a bar-top arcade machine, so this costume can play long after the Halloween parties are over." Playable Pac-Man Costume
"The segregation of public washrooms is one of the most basic ways that the male-female binary is upheld and reinforced. As such, washroom signs are very telling of the way societies construct gender. They identify the male as the universal and the female as the variation. They express expectations of gender performance. And they conflate gender with sex." Go Where? Sex, Gender, and Toilets(via MeFi)
"The Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven is a sculptural installation drawing on the ecology and biodiversity of two sites on opposite sides of London; Duncan Terrace Gardens in the East and Cremorne Gardens in the West. The installations reflect the forms of the surrounding architecture; a combination of Georgian town houses, and 60's social housing around Duncan Terrace, and the World's End Estate adjacent to Cremorne. The Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven has developed out of a recent London Fieldworks project called Super Kingdom ..."(via Animal)
"... Perfectly designed user experience and multi-touch make us forget that the easy-to-use interfaces are designed not only for our benefit ... With the AppStore, Apple has not only created a platform for programs. The back then hardware manufacturer now controls all small programs, books and magazines on its devices, music and videos to a great extent. How free are authors in the realm of an emerging überpublisher, for example when publisher and topic inevitably collapse? We wanna find out it and try with William Tell 2.0 an indeed political update of the old play ..." Wilhelm Tell 2.0 – The long-awaited update of Schiller’s famous piece(via Notcot)
(via Glaserei)"My work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. Using the methodologies and processes of both disciplines, I translate scientific data related to astronomy, ecology andmeteorology woven sculptures. My method of translation is principally that of weaving – in particular basket weaving – as it provides me with a simple yet highly effective grid through which to interpret data in three-dimensional space. By staying true to the numbers, these woven pieces tread an uneasy divide between functioning both as sculptures in space as well as instruments that could be used in the actual environment from which the data originates ..."
"We created this site for those of you that have a song stuck in your head and you can't get it out no matter what you do. Using the latest techniques in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology, we've been able to allow our users to "unhear" songs by hearing equally catchy songs. So all we're doing is making you forget your old song by replacing it with another one... sorry."Hat bei mir prima funktioniert – das Problem ist nur, dass ich jetzt schon seit einer halben Stunde auf der Seite festhänge, um den Ohrwurm zu ersetzten, der den Ohrwurm ersetzt hat, der den Ohrwurm ersetzt hat, der den Ohrwurm ersetzt hat, der den Ohrwurm ersetzt hat, der den Ohrwurm ersetzt hat, der den Ohrwurm ersetzt hat ...
"Die NASA wird heute Teil der Commons auf Flickr. Zum Start zeigt sie drei Alben mit Symbolcharakter, die die mehr als 50-jährige Geschichte der US-Raumfahrtbehörde umfassen. Der Commons Account der NASA wird mit seinen Fotos Einblick in die Geschichte der Weltraum- und Mondmissionen sowie der beteiligten Menschen und Orte geben." Flickr-Blog