Category — Cool Stuff

Wikimedia Commons:

Not sure why I hadn’t run accross the Wikimedia Commons site before today, but I’m glad I finally did. Every time I find another wiki site like this I just find the concept very powerful. I just think it’s so cool that people would put their work into the public domain without the normal restrictions that copyright imposes. There are pictures, paintings, maps, drawings, audio files…and it appears new submissions are coming fast and furious.

On a side note, it’s actually pretty impressive the way the Wikimedia Foundation seems to be growing. If people start to really accept the idea of sharing content for the greater good, we may very well be on our way to a better place.

Looking at some of the premium photos, I think a masthead redesign here just may be in order…

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this is really great…..

Fear & Loathing in the Afterlife – Jackson Specific:
Rest in peace, brave and insane soldier. We will carry on your work. We will aspire to your greatness. You cut a swath through a jungle of inequity. We follow behind, cursing the gnats.

MountMap Pop-up Topographic Ski Map:
Combining the thrill of pop-up books with the danger of handling tricky paper folds while perched on the edge of a snow-covered mountain, MountMaps offers topographical maps of ski resorts printed on waterproof, recyclable plastic. Well, two resorts, at least, but you get the idea. The maps fold out of a small case to show elevation, ski paths, buildings, and cave dwellings of the fierce but proud Snowboardin’ Yeti. Each case also includes a 16-28 page key for using your MountMap, which doesn’t sound awkward at all.
Mountmaps were originally conceived by Stephen Brittan and Fletcher Morgan on a chairlift in Chamonix, France, and executed with “two thousand year old oragami techniques and lots of mathmatics and science.” You’re putting your life in the hands of two Englishmen at high altitudes that like making paper cranes. (Thanks, Andy!)
MountMaps: The World’s First Pop-up Topographical Ski Map [MountMaps]

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yep, that is cool

Harry Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”:
Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial — notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.

Working with PCs made simpler for people with severe disabilities:
Thanks to high-performance sensors, developed by the IPCA project, people with severe motor or speech disabilities can now operate a PC.
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cool….

SEQUENTIAL Pictures \ Star Wars Episode III: A Lost Hope [Revenge of the Sith parody]

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pretty funny….

Music

cool brazilian 60’s pop

Things You’d Like To Say At Work, But Can’t

Things You’d Love to Say at Work, but Can’t

1. I can see your point, but I still think you’re full of shit.

2. I don’t know what your problem is, but I’ll bet it’s hard to pronounce.

3. How about never? Is never good for you?

4. I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

5. I’m really easy to get along with once you people learn to see it my way.

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and there’s more!

Philip Johnson, the innovative architect who promoted the “glass box” skyscraper and then smashed the mold with daringly nostalgic post-modernist designs, has died. He was 98.

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he was one of my favorite architects.

BleachSoft:
http://www.bleacheatingfreaks.com/science/OB2/

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if you have spare time….