Headline of the day. Hands down.
It may take explosives to dislodge a group of cows that wandered into an old ranger cabin high in the Rocky Mountains, then died and froze solid when they couldn’t get out.
What was that about truth and fiction?
UPDATE: Obliterating Animal Carcasses With Explosives from the Dept. of Agriculture.
Three hauntingly beautiful portraits shot by Jacob Sutton. (via designspiration & thisiscolossal.com)
My favorite distributed genetic fractal visualization, ElectricSheep is now available as an android live wallpaper.
First created in 1999 by Scott Draves, the Electric Sheep is a form of artificial life, which is to say it is software that recreates the biological phenomena of evolution and reproduction though mathematics. The system is made up of man and machine, a cyborg mind with 450,000 participant computers and people all over the Internet.
via: Scottdraves.org
The world’s first chocolate 3D printer is now available for purchase.
3D chocolate printers can directly produce 3D chocolate objects without using expensive molding tools. It can also deposit complex and artistic 2D patterns onto other foods or substrates similar to a chocolate chef pipes chocolate onto cakes, dishes, deserts, etc. The 3D chocolate printer can be broadly used to make creative, artistic, personalized and decorative chocolate products and gifts.
Kickstarted funded and then some. Here’s hoping this comes to fruition. It’s got an API to make apps, I’d love to make a sleep monitor with this
Clean, simple design, virtually logo-less. I’ll have to get my hands on one to see if it’s rugged enough to replace my old standby, the Timbuk2 Classic Messenger.
