MAYA

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1. Core77 best of 08…

2. Feeling like understanding the conflicts in the middle east a little better? Watch this to first understand the arrogance of our news media in thinking they understand things Then read one of Zbig’s books (I read this one a while ago and found it to be a deeply documented and reasoned analysis of the last three presidencies and their approach to the world). He (Zbig who has been a national security advisor to a democratic president) just came out with a new book (really a conversation) co-written by Brent Scowcroft (the other main character in the conversation, who has been a national security advisor to a republican president). Sounds like they agree on quite a few things in terms of how the world is shaping up and what we can do to help make it less disastrous.

3. Custom scooters

4.Digging into the wayback machine using dynamic visualization…

5.Can visualization be taken too far (see I didn’t snark at all about correlation versus causality on that last link but clearly there is a question posed by this one)?

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DIY language learning

This week in DIY multitouch

Calculate your roofray…

Self-balancing table

Wireframe chair…

An unending collection of stop motion films.

One of those things I wish I’d thought of…

More appliance porn.

I had one of these as a kid, only it had four wheels and was powered by 6 Estes rocket engines in a coffee can…

Art Basel, Miami.

Start the new year out right, watch a bit of Feynman.