I love maps and I love subway maps. New York City is the largest in the world, with 660 miles of tracks, and it just got a new map. It is not the one you are seeing above. More »
New York City – Subway – Urban Transport – Transportation and Logistics – Transit Systems
Feast your eyes in these detailed videos of the beast that is designed to match-and-crush 5th generation American combat jets. It’s the Sukhoi PAK-FA, and it comes loaded with some amazing technology from the other side of the fallen wall. More »
F-35 Lightning II – Military – Aviation – United States – Aircraft
I love the eerie feeling of Kim Høltermand‘s architecture photographs. She makes everything look like long time abandoned structures from alien planets. This is the 62-meter-high Hyllie Water Tower, in Malmö, Sweden. [Høltermand via Behance] More »
Architecture – Art – Business – History – Telecommunications
This NASA time lapse video shows how the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster evolved from April 20, the day of the explosion, to May 24. The images were taken by the MODIS instrument in NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites. More »
NASA – Space – Gulf Oil – Gulf of Mexico – Technology
In 1915—one year into World War I—bullets were too expensive to use in air-to-air combat pilot training. Camera manufacturer Thornton-Pickard had a great idea: Make a machine gun that used film—the Mark III Hythe Machine Gun Camera. More »
World War I – History – Twentieth Century – Wars and Conflicts – World War
There’s a lot of complex math equations that describe the interaction between fluids and masses of lipids wrapped in keratinocytes, melanocytes, Langerhans cells and Merkels cells in the presence of gravity. This video doesn’t solve any of them. [Gawker TV] More »
Fluid dynamics – Physics – Fluid Mechanics and Dynamics – Companies – University of Massachusetts Lowell
After seeing two men fleeing the Gresham, Oregon, AT&T store with multiple stolen iPhones, Roger Witter tried to stop them. They escaped. He’s in jail. More »
IPhone – Smartphone – Handhelds – Apple – AT&T
Spanish photographer Chema Madoz doesn’t like digital photography, but he loves to warp reality in impossible ways. Like this spoon with a fork shadow, which is a straight photo, with no Photoshop or laboratory manipulation whatsoever. More »
Photography – Business – Arts and Entertainment – Photographers – art
It’s sad, but the closest the space shuttle gets to retirement, the higher the public interest. Perhaps that’s why NASA is pushing now the most amazing videos of the mighty spacecraft, thanks to the overload of high definition cameras. More »
Space Shuttle – NASA – Space – Technology – International Space Station
I really like this t-shirt featuring an all-in-one of the most famous arcades of all time. I like it even more because a invisible shark is wearing it. [Threadless via Likecool] More »
T-shirt – Clothing – Shopping – Casual – Threadless
There are flying cars and there are Flying Cars. This is a FLYING CAR. And that’s not all, because it can transform. More »
Death Star – Recreation – Star Wars – New Zealand – Star Trek
Those damn BP liars are making things even worse trying to fix the catastrophe they caused. Their efforts are turning the massive oil flood into giant underwater clouds made of corrosive particles. Here’s the underwater video to prove it. More »
Gulf Oil – Scuba Diving – Oil spill – BP – Underwater Photography
Lost became a mess and left many questions unanswered, but it also left us with some of the best scenes and sets in television history. This is the best building in the series, where it all started: The Swan station. More »
Lost – Television – Arts – Drama – Programs
As if they weren’t scary enough, scientists have discovered that sharks can become invisible to prey/you using an optical trick. Not scared yet? Well, one of the invisible shark species is nicknamed the phantom hunter of the fjords. Run. Now. More »
It only measures seven atoms but, according to project lead scientist Michelle Simmons, computers made with this transistor—the smallest ever made—will “solve problems that would take longer than the life of the universe with a classical computer.” More »
Computer Science – Michelle Simmons – Technology – University of New South Wales – Quantum computer
See that trail? That’s what a big-as-a-house boulder does while falling into a 60-meter-wide crater on the Moon. Why? NASA said that maybe it was an earthquake. Or micro-asteroids impacts. I’m going to blame the the Moon Nazis. [NASA] More »
NASA – Moon – Space – Earth – Technology
After successfully following these instructions to make a paper classic Macintosh trashcan, please don’t use the resulting paper classic Macintosh trashcan to trash any failed paper classic Macintosh trashcans. The paradox can destroy the Universe. Thank you. [Codeco via Designboom] More »
Cosmic 140 is the star chart of the Twitter universe, its 140 most influential people. At its center, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey. In the outer systems, much less important people, like Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, and Conan O’Brien. More »
