A great idea from Mitchell Joachim. Not sure meat houses are ready for the public, but growing wooden houses from vegetation is a radical and brilliant solution to ecologically-friendly communities.
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Every now and then someone at TED presents a technology or an idea that’s so utterly amazing, or ridiculously simple that it can’t help but change the world. David Merrill shows off an MIT project called Siftables in this talk, and even though I’ve been messing around with computing for 25 years my jaw is still dragging along the floor. Check it out.
Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the 2006 best seller Eat, Pray, Love, and in this year’s TED talks gave a fantastic talk on the nature of creative genius. In a room full of scientists, this talk on being possessed by a creative muse, a spirit of genius, raised a standing ovation. This utterly enthralling talk is an interesting perspective on creativity.
Don’t save the world, just learn to listen. Starting with John Francis, who didn’t use any form of motorised transport for 30 years, and didn’t speak for 17 of them.
I’m working on a short story about different perspectives over a long period of time at the moment, as was bouncing around the interwebs for inspiration when I came across this little gem from the 2003 Academy Awards for short films. It didn’t win, but it clearly deserved the nomination.
There’s a higher resolution version (definitely recommended for some of the details in the animation) available too.
It’s freezing outside, though unfortunately snow’s not mentioned in the forecast. Still, for those of use who remember Aled Jones wailing about through the film of The Snowman, this advert for Irn Bru should warm the heart:
The BBC has just released Flash streaming for iPlayer’s 7 Day Catch-Up feature. This is just about the best news to come out of the fiasco that is iPlayer, and for those of us unwilling or unable to install the bandwidth-destroying Kontiki client it’s the only way we can get our on-demand BBC programming.
Unfortunately, the BBC only makes the streams available on their site. I checked the iPlayer terms and conditions, and there’s nothing stopping remote embedding, it’s just a technical hurdle.
Fortunately, the internet eats technical hurdles for breakfast.
So, in the half hour before I go out to the pub, I’ve knocked together a little WordPress plugin that will take an iPlayer URI, and embed the streaming video into your page for you.
Like so:
Streaming full-screen Doctor Who on my website. Excuse me whilst I geek-out a moment, this is the coolest thing I’ve played with all week!
I’ll tidy up the code and release it to the community as soon as I get back from a night of drinking and dancing!
Not as we know it, this cover comes from somebody who has their finger on the button.
Have loved this clip since I first saw it ages ago. The deadpan delivery has me rolling around in laughter every time I see it.
