January 2012
32 posts
Time Traveling Flower
A 2000 year old seed is found in an old village in Japan. The seed was planted to reveal amazing results. Click through for video.
Inside the Homes of Mexico’s Rich and Infamous
THERE are precious few real estate secrets in the United States. Web sites have turned nearly every neighborhood into a big open-house, with slide shows, video tours and price histories, while celebrities, from A-listers to D-listers, regularly open their doors to TV cameras and magazine photographers.
But here in Mexico, only vacation properties receive such treatment. The homes where...
Exeter Chess Club's 10 Rules for the Opening
Get your pieces out into the centre quickly. The opening is a race to see who can get their pieces out first while keeping at least a share of control of the centre.
This is the main point to remember; all the other rules are just footnotes to this one. Sortez les pieces!
Get a firm foothold in the centre - a pawn on one of the ‘little centre’ squares e4/e5/d5/d4 - and...
The Mathematics of Lego
The world of toys and games is not immune to mathematics. From the Rubik’s Cube to Monopoly, fun pastimes can be quantified. And the same is true of Legos. Lego blocks, the building toys that are truly amazing and that I have never quite grown out of, are amenable to math.
To see that, we have to begin thinking about how we combine things together. Most objects are made up of smaller parts,...
Top Albums of 2011
I was looking back through my drafts / unpublished posts and found this. I remember writing this up and then simply stashing it away due to some stupid apprehension I felt against the absurdly large number of Top XX lists that come out towards the end of the year. I was originally going to write a little about each album but instead I’ll just share my favorite song from each album. Enjoy.
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“Tonight, the rapper drilled his audience of 6 million followers on a new dream...”
– bobbyhundreds of The Hundreds
I agree. Dream out loud.
(via keepsdiary)
5 Lessons From The Best Interaction Designs Of...
Like many of you, I was delighted to find an Amazon Kindle Fire sitting on my desk a few weeks ago, when it was first released. My delight was heightened by the fact that I hadn’t actually bought it. The Fire belonged to another Robert in frog’s New York studio, Robert Curtis, who was more than happy to unbox the product with me so that we could both get a sense of the quality of that crucial...
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December 2011
57 posts
Benedek - That’s My Jam (Benedek’s...
GROUCHO MARX
August 18, 1943.
Dear Corporal Darrow,
You asked me if I have a message for the soldiers in the jungle. I could probably send one but it would be collect and would only run into money. I imagine it’s difficult enough to stay awake on those lonely islands without having to read messages from me.
I don’t want you to worry much about the 4-Fs back home — true,...
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WatchNYC in the 70’s
