Listening to: Lady Writer - Dire Straits

Found these photos over at MAKE:

Shopping trolley art in Birdfair 2006 England 6

Originally uploaded by sparkyfaisca.

Listening to: Sofa King - Dangerdoom

rhombus and hex weave - backlit

Originally uploaded by origami joel.

Listening to: Touch The Sky (Featuring Lupe Fiasco) - Kanye West

A photo of the modified 747 that will be used to transport sections of the 787.

Supersize Me

Listening to: Beat Song - Shihad

One of the photos from the Telsa appearance at Pebble Beach… charging at the golf cart station (smart co-opting of existing infrastructure):

Charging was no problem at all for us. We plugged in at Pebble Beach where they charge their golf carts. Nice, juicy 50-amp, 240-volt standard outlets. Our Mobile Charge Kit was just the ticket.

Listening to: Static Symphony - Strawpeople

I found an old favourite on Youtube… Jezz Santos’ video of the jet-powered wing suit:

Listening to: I Will Not Let You Down - Don McGlashan

A few months into leaving Provoke I finally decided what it was that I wanted to do next. Yesterday I was doing some of the proof of concept work and I got this exciting surge of adrenaline. There was this visceral pleasure in feeling all the various threads of research converge. Concepts and ideas that I have been researching for (in some cases) years all gave up their little keys yesterday… thrilling!

Listening to: Passenger 26 - Don McGlashan

Alex Bosworth has written a very sensible article about providing an Web API… it’s one of those things that can tie you in knots and he provides 5 nice points to keep in mind:

What are a few simple rules for providing a web API?

1. Keep it clean and simple
2. Stick to standards
3. Make it about data
4. Keep it working
5. Design for updates

src: Linked to the ACTUAL article (thanks craig)

Listening to: Courier - Don McGlashan

Peter Molyneux has recently given a speech at the Leipzeg GC Developer Conference. As part of the speech he showed the following tech video:

src: ars technica

Listening to: Blame - Don McGlashan

Researchers as the University of Arkansas have developed a paper made from long ‘nanowires’ of titanium oxide:

Tien says the material could have many applications, including filters against airborne bacterial spores, protective armor, and media for controlled drug release. But another application could be the future of printed paper. “We can, using ink, write things on [the nanowire paper], and when we shine a UV light on that, we can erase it. We can write, erase, re-write, re-erase,” says Tien.

I wonder what the strength characteristics of the material are? I wonder what it might do to the world of origami?

Listening to: This Is London - Don McGlashan

IBM developerWorks has a very useful article describing how to extend RSS using namespaces.

With great use, come a lot of headaches. Some developers complain that they need to shoehorn concepts in items and that the latter are too restrictive. To address the limitation, RSS 2.0 is designed as an extensible language. The principle is simple: the RSS elements themselves are not included in a namespace (for backward compatibility with RSS 0.92), but developers are free to extend RSS by adding elements in a namespace of their own.

When a tag has a namespace, RSS readers should try to recognize the extension from its namespace. If they succeed, then they can process the elements. If they don’t, they should simply ignore the elements.