Ever seen a picture that just takes your breath away? Try a large version of this one on for size. This one, titled Chinese Fairy Tales, comes from Yury Pustovoy’s photo tour of China. There will be a photo tour to Iceland from July 27 to August 7 with an optional trip to Greenland for 4 days to shoot the icebergs. He can be reached at pustovoy-y@mail.ru. Here’s Yury’s original post of his night fishing photograph.
Night Fishing by Yury Pustovoy
Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars
Visionary Elon Musk enjoys a question and answer session with Wired’s Chris Anderson.
Edit Your Neighborhood in OpenStreetMap
Sick of the errors in the new iOS 6 Maps app? Consider adding or updating OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. OSM is a crowd-sourced world map, think wikipedia for maps, that can easily be edited once you create a free account on their website. OSM is one of the data sources used for generating what you see in the iOS 6 Map app.
Pixar’s Enrico Casarosa’s short film “La Luna”
I’m an animation geek and have been a fan of Pixar Animation Studio since the Listerine ads from the early 90s– before I knew that there was such a thing…
How the “Mother of All Demos” Changed our Lives
I recently learned about a computer demonstration dubbed “The Mother of All Demos” given 40 years ago by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. Douglas showed off the NLS computer to a crowd of 1000 computer pros. The demo of this system given on December 9, 1968 is now considered one of the most important in modern computing history.
“The City of 7 Billion” wins $100,000 Latrobe Prize
The grant is named for architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The Latrobe Prize is awarded biennially for research leading to innovations in architecture.
Trent Reznor Announces New Nine Inch Nails Album in 2013
I got to meet Trent Reznor during the 2009 NIN|JA tour, that’s where the photo above comes from. As a huge fan of Nine Inch Nails I was flipping out after reading this…
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