oh sure, you’ve seen time lapses from the international space station but how many throw in a cool comet shot for free ( at the 2 minute mark ).
Monthly Archives: December 2013
happy frida is happy.
she’s a happy, happy puppy. especially when she’s waiting for food 🙂
SkyJack – autonomous drone hacking
i swear it’s not going to become all drones all the time around here but skyjack is an interesting proof of concept, “…engineered to autonomously seek out, hack, and wirelessly take over other drones within wifi distance, creating an army of zombie drones under your control…” by taking advantage of the fact that none of the 500,000 parrot ar.drones sold since 2010 come with wireless security enabled ( and it looks like the maybe even though it’s running embedded linux the atheros chipset can’t run wep )? whoops.
the future you were promised is almost here – drones, humanoid androids, flying cars and jetpacks!
not content to let amazon prime air get all the attention the UPS is working on delivery by drone where they will shuttling packages from one UPS location to another and still be delivered by a friendly human. and google lets the cat out of the bag that the guy behind android is working on a humanoid robots ( see what they did there ) that would most likely in the short term be used for supply chain automation perhaps by shuttling around packages in flying cars that they may – or may not – be stealthily building. and for short hop delivery the humanoid androids could jump in a personal jetpack. will the humans accept our brave new an automated logistics system?
Kubrick // One-Point Perspective
Kubrick // One-Point Perspective from kogonada on Vimeo.
excellent supercut that shows kubrick’s use of one point perspective. reminds me of how many scenes in his movies are burned in my brain. [via]
Open-plan offices were devised by Satan in the deepest caverns of hell
the harvard business review blog covers research from the university of sydney that finds that, “…enclosed private offices clearly outperformed open-plan layouts…” the guardian has better headline writers with their coverage of the study, “Open-plan offices were devised by Satan in the deepest caverns of hell”. the findings support previous research which found, “…collaboration-friendly environment with minimal cubicle separations “proved ineffective if the ability to focus was not also considered,” according to a new study by the design firm Gensler. “When focus is compromised in pursuit of collaboration, neither works well.”” if only robert probst inventor of the cubicle could see the current open office designs. he died regretting his contribution to what he considered a “monolithic insanity.”
Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History
“Here is an economic fact: the number of fools is limited.” garynorth.com. update: is bitcoin a speculative bubble?