April 2011
7 posts
awesome and scary robot uses insect movement...
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/04/inchworm-bot-curls-up-thats-ju.html Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
listen to recordings of a funny man sleeptalking....
http://www.sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
if this is not the most entertaining video game...
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/22/a-naked-truth-cargo-released-impressions/-57682 Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
best. videogame. trailer. ever.
http://kotaku.com/#!5790858/asuras-wrath-is-insane-see/gallery/1hilarious. the finger of god. Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
glasses-free 3D can be done cheaply with a head...
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/11/ipad-2-gets-glasses-free-3d-display-using-front-facing-camera-fo/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
DARPA crowdsourcing submarine naval tactics using...
huh.https://actuv.darpa.mil/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Kinect + Parrot Drone = magic
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March 2011
9 posts
need a kidney? print one
http://www.economist.com/node/15543683 Makes me recall this little Larry Niven story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jigsaw_Man Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
free textbook license agreement requires only that...
http://learnat.sait.ab.ca/ict/txt_information/Intro2dcRev2/pagecopyright.html#copy.html%23copyright.html%23copy Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
The government = business analogy is completely...
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=13817 Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
uh oh: BREAKING: 1000X normal radiation levels at...
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/76948.html Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
best of unusual Google street view pics
http://9-eyes.com/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Bill Gross Dumps US Debt
Check out this website I found at SurlyTrader Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Ultra-high shutter speed photos of subway cars...
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663348/surreal-photos-of-subway-cars-being-thrown-into-the-ocean-slideshow#12 Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
3D printers create edible objects
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/02/28/technology-3d-printers.html Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
this should be getting more news coverage, perhaps
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/02/china-economy-yuan-idUSBJA00246420110302How much longer will the U.S. dollar remain the world’s reserve currency? Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
February 2011
2 posts
Best 'under construction' website, courtesy of...
http://www.presidency.gov.eg/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Snoop says - no paparazzi, please
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January 2011
5 posts
Egyptian Internet shutdown - network level data
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtmlIsn’t the government doing tremendous damage to its economy without actually stopping any protests/revolutions? I mean, I’m pretty sure there were plenty of protests and revolutions before the Internet was invented. I must be missing something here. Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
history buffs take note
http://amazingstuff.co.uk/humanity/wartime-russian-cossack-dancers/ Cossacks were breakin’ a long time ago. Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Google won't autocomplete "bittorrent" but will...
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/wSvV35pIWS8/google-wont-autocomp.html #Thingsthatmakeugohmm Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Sundance film festival is streaming Life In A Day...
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next time you want to shake your head and say...
http://code.google.com/more/table/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
December 2010
6 posts
oops - look like the NASA arsenic news may have...
http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/pagenum/all/Guess I should checked whether the research had been peer-reviewed first….. Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Kinect --> Minority Report
Every day brings another creative hack of the Kinect hardware. But here we are getting very close to the interface in Minority Report.http://kotaku.com/5709939/kinect-can-just-filed-a-minority-report Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
first private spacecraft launch into orbit a...
http://gizmodo.com/5709153/the-first-private-orbital-spacecraft-launch Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
I've been thinking of something like this since...
http://www.noelhodson.com/index_files/foodtubes-project-team.htm Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
biostorage is here
90 GB of data in 1g of bacteria:http://2010.igem.org/Team:Hong_Kong-CUHK Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Interactive 360 degree VIDEO
Why can’t I watch movies like this 360 degree panning interactive VIDEO (snowboarding) : http://whitelines.mpora.com/videos/wltv/360-degree-interactive-snowboard-video-laax.html I suppose they don’t want the crew in the shot….. Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
November 2010
9 posts
if you are one of millions of americans who...
http://pragcap.com/america-problem Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Scientists reverse aging in mice!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/28/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humansWon’t work in humans due to cancer, but still…. Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
(BN) N. Korea Attack on South Kills Two, Sets...
Bloomberg News, sent from my Android phone Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) — North Korea lobbed artillery shells at a South Korean island near their border, killing two soldiers and setting houses ablaze in the worst attack on its neighbor in at least eight months. South Korea returned fire with 80 shells and scrambled fighter jets as President Lee Myung Bak vowed to respond “sternly.” Local...
antimatter trapped for the first time!
Not just anti-protons, etc., we’re talking full anti-hydrogen atoms!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11773791 Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
inflation/deflation is not either/or
http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/08/the-flations.html Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
QE2 Is Equivalent to Issuing Treasury Bills
I can’t see any flaw in the argument, even though it seems to contradict 99% of what you read about this matter. QE2 Is Equivalent to Issuing Treasury Bills via Credit Writedowns by Randall Wray on 11/18/10 Randall Wray shows that quantitative easing will be ineffective except to the degree it can induce a shift in private portfolio preferences. He uses a recent post by hedge fund manager...
cable industry cord-cutting - has it finally...
http://gigaom.com/video/cord-cutting-q3/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Night of the Living Dead: the interactive YouTube...
Is this the future of movie remixing? Night of the Living Dead: the interactive YouTube game via Joystiq by Andrew Yoon on 11/17/10 Perhaps this weekend’s episode of The Walking Dead got you hungry for some zombie survival? Canadian design company Analogue has cut the Romero classic, Night of the Living Dead, into a playable choose-your-own adventure game on YouTube. Continue reading...
MNMP 20th Anniversary Concert at Joe's Pub -...
Download now or preview on posterous mnmp 20th anniversary concert.pdf (120 KB) Dear Friends, I serve on the board of the Manhattan New Music Project (MNMP), and you are invited to our 20th anniversary party on November 30th (6 PM) at Joe’s Pub, which will include performances of: great jazz by Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society (which...
October 2010
9 posts
2.8 million reasons why you shouldn't trade in...
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/xlf-sets-world-record-quote-stuffing-233-quotes-millisecond Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
higher education inflation outstrips everything
http://www.surlytrader.com/collapsing-the-ivory-towers/Averages can be misleading. But still. Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
holy shit, the mortgage signing scandal gets...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Robosigners-Mortgage-apf-382327091.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode= Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Chinese party elders call for free press in China
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/10/20101013125048141291.html Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
"diminished reality" -- realtime video removal of...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/11/german-university-makes-objects-disappear-in-real-time-will-bri/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
the long tail revisited
Amazing that this still rings true four years later, esp. with regards to attitudes towards piracy:http://blogmaverick.com/2006/10/28/is-the-internet-a-long-tail-ghetto/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
love this business model - $5 services, like the...
http://www.fiverr.com/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
Yellowbike
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Snoopy!
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September 2010
7 posts
don't forget that you're awesome
http://www.awesomenessreminders.com/ Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
defaults account for most of consumer debt...
Oops: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/09/18/number-of-the-week-defaults-account-for-most-of-pared-down-debt/ SOURCE — Flow of Funds report: http://federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/Current/z1.pdf Posted via email from danielg’s posterous | Comment »
happy monday
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