February 2012
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WatchOMG i want one.
heathkillen:
Mute Synth
Built by Dirty Electronics
8 creepy mystery ingredients in fast food →
One of the more-enduring urban legends about McDonald’s is that their hamburgers contain cow eyeballs. While this has not proven to be the case, their Baked Hot Apple Pie does contain duck feathers, or at least an ingredient commonly derived from such. Truth can be just as strange as fiction.
How have duck feathers become a viable ingredient in apple pie? Welcome to the world of food additives....
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Watchdigitalewolke:
Board of Awesomeness
Crazy Shit! It’s an incredible use of Kinect’s technology. The team over at Chaotic Moon based in Austin, Texas specialize in having as much fun with technology as they possibly can, hence the creation of the “Board of Awesomeness”.
It’s an electric longboard that is controlled using motion picked up by a Kinect, then transmitted to an as yet unreleased...
Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money →
And herein lies the real power of money: it coordinates the actions of millions of strangers. Our lives are critically dependent on the actions of others; thousands of people contribute daily to our well-being, and all but a tiny fraction of them are strangers to us. How shall we acknowledge our debt to them, and they to us, except by the medium of money? Money then, is not so much a medium of...
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January 2012
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The Truth About Sleep & Productivity →
“They indicated what every other productivity study has shown since: that, up to around 40 hours a week, we’re all pretty productive but, after that, we become less able to deliver reliable, cost-effective work. Why? Because when we get tired, we make mistakes—and the extra hours we put in are absorbed by correcting our errors.”
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