Meet Wolfie Blackheart: a non-neurotypical, animal-identified teen in Texas who finds herself at the center of controversy: allegations of animal torture, mental health, and the wrath of /b/. "I would never kill a canine," the self-described 'wolf woman' said, "I am a canine." (via Julian Dibbell)... More.
Before Steve Jobs had even brought yesterday's iPad-announcing keynote to a close, I called together a quorum of indie gaming's Justice League -- a handful of the best and brightest developers pushing the medium forward across every new device -- to ask: what's the iPad going to mean for the futur... More.
Zooko sez,
Tahoe-LAFS is a p2p filesystem. You pool your spare hard drive space together with that of your friends. This forms a distributed filesystem which endures even if some of your friends' computers are unreachable. Everything is automatically encrypted, so backing up your files onto th... More.
In "Fear the Boom and Bust," John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek perform a gangsta rap about their competing economic theories:
John Maynard Keynes, wrote the book on modern macro
The man you need when the economy's off track, [whoa]
Depression, recession now your question's in session
Have a ... More.
Spanish group Basurama have converted an abandoned electric trainline in Lima, Peru, into a very long, very narrow, very cool amusement park:
The Ghost Train park features amazing bright colors and games made with recycled materials such as car tires, a canopy line, swings and climbing structur... More.
Minor correction. It's not an 'Alice in Wonderland' adaptation, because that would be just a little too awesome for all the undeserving, literate people.
No, it's a brand new, "original" story with a teenage Alice, and the ghost of Michael Jackson as Willy Wonka.
Please make one of these with the eyes that follow you!
(Like the little dragon.)