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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
The Marionette Maestro
This weekend I had the great pleasure and privilege of meeting Nicolas Coppola, who founded Puppetworks, Inc. in Brooklyn. Nick is puppetry royalty. So many folks who eventually went on to found their own companies, first worked for him. Below is a profile of Nick and his work.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Amish Barn Raising
Perhaps if Americans would once more behave like this, we could begin to solve our problems. The work was done in 10 hours, 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Oh and they took off more than an hour for lunch. More info can be found HERE.
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
A 19th Century Stockholm Covered In Thousands Of Phone Lines
From Colossal...
"In the late 19th century, shortly after the patent of the telephone, the race was on to connect everyone to the phone grid. However, due to technical limitations of the earliest phone lines, every telephone required its own physical line strung between a house or business to a phone exchange where the call was manually connected by a live operator. The somewhat quixotic result of so many individual lines was the construction of elaborate and unsightly towers that carried hundreds to thousands of phone lines through the air."
"In the late 19th century, shortly after the patent of the telephone, the race was on to connect everyone to the phone grid. However, due to technical limitations of the earliest phone lines, every telephone required its own physical line strung between a house or business to a phone exchange where the call was manually connected by a live operator. The somewhat quixotic result of so many individual lines was the construction of elaborate and unsightly towers that carried hundreds to thousands of phone lines through the air."
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Monday, September 1, 2014
Feynman Lectures Released Free Online
From SlashDot....
"In 1964, Richard Feynman delivered a series of seven hour-long lectures at Cornell University which were recorded by the BBC, and in 2009 (with a little help from Bill Gates), were released to the public. The three-volume set may be the most popular collection of physics books ever written, and now the complete online edition has been made available in HTML 5 through a collaboration between Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website."
Volume One
Volume Two
Volume Three
"In 1964, Richard Feynman delivered a series of seven hour-long lectures at Cornell University which were recorded by the BBC, and in 2009 (with a little help from Bill Gates), were released to the public. The three-volume set may be the most popular collection of physics books ever written, and now the complete online edition has been made available in HTML 5 through a collaboration between Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website."Volume One
Volume Two
Volume Three
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