An artificial leaf and a gallon of water could generate enough energy to power your house for a day
artificial photosynthesis may have happened? A little cloudy but fascinating. (via @ajayfry)
Flying Robotic Swarms To Create Wi-Fi Clouds
yeah, nothing like a plague of ominous robot insects to make people feel better after a disaster
The end of the office
Clive Thompson, from last year, on technological and generational changes that make a shared physical workspace far less significant
Renewistan
“the land area dedicated to renewable energy (”Renewistan”) would occupy a space about the size of Australia to keep the carbon dioxide level at 450 ppm.” But we’d have to get it lower than that, and also cut our consumption drastically. Unless we can do this, we unfortunately need nuclear power.
Nukes: Improve them, but don’t even think of abandoning them
Doug Saunders on why nuclear power is still vital despite the disaster in Japan. Good point: Germany’s massive wind power plans rely on nuclear.
An Impersonator Scopes Out His Inspiration
Dan Bejar of Destroyer has an impersonator – a conceptual artist also named Dan Bejar.
Why Japan embraced nuclear power after suffering the atomic bomb
A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions
NYT is rolling out their subscription in plan, first in Canada, then the world. It’s $15/mo for smartphone + website, $20/mo for tablet + website. 20 pages free a month. Suddenly I have an incentive to not read the Times.
Outside In
a homebrew IMAX film that uses only photographic images from space probes to create a long-take tour of the solar system. (via)
Bullying Victim Snaps
(via)
Trails of Tarnation
Cowboy web series from the creator of Perry Bible Fellowship and friends
Microworld
Threat of nuclear meltdown sparks a quiet panic in Japan
poor Japan. what a nightmare
20 Sad Etsy Boyfriends
modeling their girlfriends’ crafty creations
Rob Ford: Cycling advocate?
by Dave Meslin. Points out that Ford supports separated bike lanes.
iPad 2 release spells a bleak 2011 for other tablet makers
this is on point. Other tablets can prosper by either being cheaper or different than the iPad, but not by copying it (and being more expensive)
J. Hasbien – Talent Agent to the Sci-Fi Stars
a classic
The Disposable Woman
About Sheen’s history of abusing women. Also from waxy
The Uses of Charlie Sheen, A Wittgensteinian Investigation.
good question: how much of this is performance?
YouTube – Winning – a Song by Charlie Sheen
autotune the news style. (via)
The Technium: Computational X
Kevin Kelly is writing a lot more this year, which is great.
The Paleo Diet: A Link Primer
I’m kind of fascinated by some of the theories behind this diet right now. Not sure I could pull it off though.
Video: Inside Google’s Self-Driving Cars
craziness (via)
Viral videos a slippery slope for late-night hosts
ratings are consistently down among late-night talk shows as people increasingly just watch choice bits online. Question is, would those bits still get play in the absence of the hour-long show?
EU raids publishers in ebook price-fixing probe
“ebooks … can cost more than twice as much as their printed cousins.” Which makes no goddamned sense.