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It’s Friday, you’ve been swimming in a sea of iPhone news… so what’s better to distract you than this amazing vid. It’s a demonstration of the joys of non-Newtonian liquids (look ‘em up: amazing things), showing exactly how they can confound your expectations. In this(…)

ContextFree.js & Algorithm Ink from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Mozilla coder [Aza] is connected to the past and the present: he wanted to celebrate the release of Firefox 3, but pines for the days when one could use small amounts of code to make compelling art. As a way of addressing both things, he(…)

This top-down Google Maps-based driving simulator is one step closer to our ultimate dream: simulated driving on any street, anywhere, based on data available from Google Maps/Google Earth. Geoquake’s 2D Flash version may be really simple—you only have a choice of four vehicles and there’s(…)

Here’s what you do when you’re a student in the Belgian town of Leuven. You don a blue plastic poncho alongside 1,499 undergraduates, all standing in line at very long table, on which is placed a bottle of Diet Coke and a Mento. On the(…)

The infamous Kalashnikov has a long and illustrious history of murder and mayhem, which makes it the perfect centerpiece for a contraption developed by unemployed Afghan electrical engineer Hanif Molavizadeh. With only a small movement outside his window, the device will trigger a “song like(…)