- Evolution Door – YouTube
A new kind of door made of hinged triangles.
- The Food Lab: The Science of the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies | Serious Eats: Sweets
Thanks siderea for bringing this to my attention! This man spent a lot of time and effort exploring how each aspect of a chocolate chip cookie recipe contributed to its flavor, texture, etc… Good reading next time you want to make cookies.
- Tunnel vision: how an obsessed explorer found and lost the world’s oldest subway | The Verge
Neat article about the fight over the fate of an abandoned subway tunnel in Brooklyn. Also neat is the CSS trick they use expand a smaller image in the article to full size.
- LA building’s lights interfere with cellular network, FCC says – Network World
One more reason to find an alternative to fluorescent lighting.
- The Daily Dot – How the creator of ‘Vampire Diaries’ used Kindle Worlds to get back at her publisher
This is really kind of awesome. The creator and original author of ‘The Vampire Diaries’ series was fired by her publisher (it was a work-for-hire arrangement.) The same publiser later joined the Kindle Worlds program that lets fan-fiction authors sell their fanfic of certain series through Amazon, receiving some money while the rights-holders also get their cut. So the original author has created fan-fiction of her own original creation, is selling it through Amazon, and it’s currently topping the charts. She’s using the platform as a way to finish the story in the way she intended before she got cut loose by the publisher.
- How to Use Your Google Maps — Offline | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Thanks to andrewducker! A simple trick to store a section of maps for offline use. This’ll be great for when I’m using the iPod.
- Nightmare Before Christmas Live – YouTube
An extremely well-done liver performance of “Jack’s Lament” from ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’. The actor playing Jack has a great physicality that matches well with the movements from the movie.
- Flappy Bert
Flappy Bert. Of course. Because Sesame Street has turned into the spiritual sucessor of the original Muppet Show.