December 2004 Archives

Wicked lasers »»

| Technology
http://www.wickedlasers.com/gallery.php
Played with a 5mW green laser last April in Tokyo and it was loads of fun. Now you can get 40-60mW ones, which can burn though plastic film and be seen up to miles away and produce a solid "light saber". Droool.

Phuket tidal wave »»

| Interesting
http://www.pbase.com/issels/phuket_tsunami
Gallery of photos of incoming tidal wave, taken from a hotel balcony. Hope the guy in the water managed to grab onto something. :\

Processing > Reas »»

| Interesting
http://users.dma.ucla.edu/~reas/
Reas, the co-developper of Processing (Ben Fry is the other) produces beautiful stuff!!

Child consumer culture remix art »»

| Interesting
http://www.artic.edu/~akijima/html_pages/gallery.html
Ai Kijima. Fused, machine quilted. Recycled materials including curtain, pillow case, bed sheets, clothes, apron, handkerchief, tablecloth.

Running robots! »»

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http://world.honda.com/HDTV/ASIMO/200412-run/
Honda's Asimo now runs! Cute AND creepy...

Collaborative sketchbook »»

| Interesting
http://www.imaginationcubed.com/FrameSet
Kinda neat. I wish I had better a better interface to it than a mouse or tablet.

The Passion of the Tokyo Subway »»

| Weird
http://jim.mmdc.net/archives/2004/12/fashion_of_the.html
Merry merry! Wow.

Globe and Mail: ISF 'collective' helps Montreal go wireless »»

| Technology
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041209.gttwwifitech09/BNStory/Technology/
Congrats to Mike and the ISf team!

Winter Music Sampler 2004 »»

| Interesting
http://stalelife.com/tsl/winter04/wintermusic04.html
Some more good trax.

The New York Review of Books: Passage to China »»

| Interesting
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17608
"The development of printing, had a powerful effect on the development of democracy, but even in the short run, it opened new possibilities for public communication and had enormous consequences for social and political life in China. Among other things, education achieved a new level of importance with the rise of learning, marked by the great spread of printing, literacy, and schooling."