You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
– Franz Kafka
Category Archives: Awesome
AwesomeYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world
September 16, 2011 – 5:12 pm
Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney
September 9, 2011 – 5:22 pm
Steve Hendrix, reporting for the Washington Post:
Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She had her hand on the throttle of an F-16 and she had her orders: Bring down United Airlines Flight 93. The day’s fourth hijacked airliner seemed to be hurtling toward Washington. Penney, one of the first two combat pilots in the air that morning, was told to stop it.
The one thing she didn’t have as she roared into the crystalline sky was live ammunition. Or missiles. Or anything at all to throw at a hostile aircraft.
Except her own plane. So that was the plan.
Via: Daringfireball.net
Real World Side Scrolling Game
September 9, 2011 – 5:09 pm
These guys managed to build a side scrolling game in a brown box.
It’s a video game in a box!
Using a Teagueduino and a few inputs and outputs, we put together a physical side-scrolling video game. To control it, there’s a knob on the side. As time advances the game gets faster and faster — can you avoid all the obstacles and make it to the end?
Brilliant.
I can’t escape from you by Brendan Byrne
September 6, 2011 – 6:40 pm
Every time the train stopped, I thought they were going to take me off and shoot me. And we stopped often; oh shitgibbering loveless god did we stop often. For the work crews to lay down new tracks, the old ones shoddily made and never maintained. New, new, make it new; everything has to replaced, don’t you know. Otherwise, nothing works.
Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge Suspender Cables-October 7, 1914
September 2, 2011 – 3:56 pm
Soap Bubbles and Ferrofluids
August 31, 2011 – 4:42 pm
I combined everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures, drawn through by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism.
(via kottke)
Tessier-Ashpool T-shirt – AI Research & Development
August 17, 2011 – 3:28 pm
Bringing light to the poor, one liter at a time
July 12, 2011 – 7:34 pm
A simple water bottle, a little bit of bleach, and a little hole in the roof brings sunlight from the rooftops into homes below. Brilliant, simple, cheap and most importantly, effective.
Bringing light to the poor, one liter at a time | Video | Reuters.com.
Essential Life Lesson #1: Over is Right, Under is Wrong
July 12, 2011 – 4:43 pm
Roomba Art
July 5, 2011 – 1:43 pm
Roomba Art, created by attaching LEDs to a roomba and using a long exposure to capture it’s trail. Check out the Roomba Art Pool on flickr for more.
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