Saul Griffith is an inventor and entrepreneur. He did his PhD at MIT in programmable matter, exploring the relationship between bits and atoms, or information and materials. Since leaving MIT, he has co-founded a number of technology companies including www.optiopia.com, www.squid-labs.com, www.i... More.
In other news, world's high school math teachers declare Wolfram Alpha, "dead to us."
Have you ever given up working on a math problem because you couldn't figure out the next step? Wolfram|Alpha can guide you step by step through the process of solving many mathematical problems, from solving a s... More.
The Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers started rotating last Friday and will continue to rotate until February 28th 2010.
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I'm very happy to welcome my friend Paul Spinrad back as a guest blogger. If you missed him the first time around, do yourself a favor and check out his previous posts on Boing Boing.
Paul is one of the most original thinkers I know, and a warm, friendly person. He's a freelance writer/editor w... More.
djBC writes, "After four years of Christmas collections, and with a 18/mo little girl, I decided it was time to take a stab at a Hanukkah mashup/remix collection. The 8 tunes (8 days, 8 tunes, get it?) have a sort of klezmer/traditional Kewish music meets dub/house/pop/hip-hop sort of feel, and th... More.
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May I ask if Mr. Paul Spinrad is related to the classic science fiction author Norman Spinrad?
• AND, if anyone has ever heard of a surname better suited for SF, I would like to hear it. Stanislaus Lem is pretty SF, as is Ursula K. LeGuin and Issac Asimov, but Norman Spinrad takes the proverbial cake. And then adds space-fairing robots.
Loved the VJ book! Too bad I never got the chance to use it, but it was really cool to read about and imagining making trippy live visuals.
After I saw the "Bodily Fluids" title I was disappointed to find that the "VJ" book was not about VJJ.
Woo hoo - Spinrad rules!
I once met Spinrad in Minraud.