Listening to: Running - Evermore

Doogie Howser forwarded me this insightful article by Jeff Foust. Foust toys with the idea of the space industry being a solution looking for a problem:

The Segway and the space industry, in essence, share a common conundrum: they offer advanced technical solutions that fail to solve the problems of most of its potential customers, and their high prices suppress the casual experimentation that might stimulate the development of new markets.

Listening to: The Scientist - Coldplay

Dodecagon Star with Negative Space, backlit, WIP

Originally uploaded by EricGjerde.

Listening to: Believe Me Natalie - The Killers

I found this link over at Tommi’s
S60 applications blog. Given the barcode
generator is free… it does open up a world of opportunity. Imagine graffiti
with 2D barcodes embedded in it, linking the art to some sort of online compnent…
a whole new world of urban art.

Listening to: Touch, Feel, & Lose - Ryan Adams

Grand Illusions have a great
example of diamagnetic levitation using neodymium magnets and pyrolytic graphite.
The video kicks
off all those ‘woah cool’ reactions I had doing science at school.

…if we only use a single magnet and try and suspend our diamagnetic
material in mid air, we will fail, and it will simply slide off the magnet. The arrangement
we have here uses four 12mm neodymium magnets, with alternate north and south poles
pointing upwards. In effect the pyrolytic graphite becomes trapped between the four
poles, and so floats above our magnets indefinitely!

src: MAKE:Blog

Listening to: “C” Moon Cry Like A Baby - Simple Minds

Check to see that the dust
cover has been removed from the rear vents.

src: TUAW

Listening to: Blue - Lucinda Williams

One of the books responsible, for me, for sketching out the future and shaping how
I think about that future is now available online. Engines
of Creation.

src: Boing Boing

Listening to: I Think It’s Better - Jill Scott

GNU Radio is all over the place today.

• Software
  Defined Radio: All Your FM Are Belong to Us (Gizmodo)
• GNU Radio: the universal,
  software-defined radio (Boing Boing)
• GNU
  Radio (MAKE)
• GNU Radio Opens an Unseen
  World (Wired)

It’s a big deal… one device that can suck data out of the sky and allow it’s user
to remix it… we’re talking a whole new world of mix-up. This is going to ve very
fun to watch.

Listening to: Don’t Get Lost In Heaven - Gorillaz

The Washington Note has had a raft
of very interesting articles over the past 48 hours. THe highlights for me were:

• Brent Budowsky: Election
  2006: For Whom The Bell Tolls
  
  Think about it: George W. Bush has created such enormous and intense antagonism
  among 48% of the Nation that they are unanimously opposed to him and counting the
  days until they come out in gigantic numbers to end one party…
• Steven Clemons: Applause
  for the Inconvenient Gore
  
  Al Gore in 2000 was inconvenient, but it turns out he would have been the right
  man at the right time in November 2000. I seriously underestimated him at that time;
  or perhaps he is a dramatically new and…
• Mohammad Mohamedou:
  “Ethical Training” — What about Moral Leadership?
  
  New revelations about massacres of civilians in Iraq are certainly not needed to
  confirm the abysmal failure of the “adventure in Iraq”, which is a euphemistic way
  of putting it since this whole thing is no less than a full-fledged…
• Jeffrey W. Legro: Bush
  Doctrine: Back from the Grave?
  
  Last weekend President Bush returned to West Point to address the Class of 2006
  and defend his foreign policy doctrine on the same podium he previewed it in 2002.
  He claimed to be on the same path as President Truman…

Listening to: Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz

/. is looking a lot less rough ’round the edges.

Listening to: El Mundo Pequeno - Ian Brown

It’s great to start seeing the Long Now clock turning into objects we can now see. Laughing Squid has a Flickr set of the clock models

The
Long Now Foundation

Originally uploaded by Laughing
Squid.