Mad Quickies 11.9

It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• Lalage Snow photographed We Are The Not Dead – a riveting comparison of soldiers before, during and after war. Click the gallery {via @planetx}
• International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Cast your vote! {via Ryan C.}
• SciAm’s image of the week: Giant flightless bats from the future. Wot? Here’s the whole story.
• Lunar timekeeper at Yanko.
• The Insanely Great History of Apple at Pop Chart Lab.
• Wondermark: The Menace of the Moment. {via Steve D.}
• What’s the Greatest Bond Song of All Time?. A rigorous, semi-scientific countdown? {via Jason R.}
• 70-ft sculpture breaks free of ground, looks astoundingly like the Lab’s Brian G.

Jump for much more!

• Manhattan User’s Guide posted: Sandy Flickr Pool Picks.
• An ad agency creates passive-aggressive parking signs. My favorite is the “Inconsideration Notice”.
• Towering flower sculptures on display in the Netherlands. Crazy gorgeous!
• Creative Engineering makes Science your obedient servant. {via boingboing}
• This looks like so much fun!
• Adorable! Robot wedding cake toppers.

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Strangely hypnotic…
Sugar Glass Meltdown

http://vimeo.com/43794430

For the explanation: check out The Finch & Pea.

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Also strangely hypnotic…
Sort Your Skittles!
{via Victor}

from the page

This is a machine I designed to sort Skittles. It uses a BASIC Stamp 2 and 3 servos for actuation. An IR LED and phototransistor are used to stop the turnstile in position. I fabricated may of the parts from epoxy including the body, the turnstile, the chute header, etc. The base is wood and the funnel is from a hummingbird feeder. The rest is made from telescope parts and PVC.
I’ve made some recent modifications to the machine. Now the color detection stage is visible and I painted some previously unfinished parts.

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Not hypnotic in the least…
Kid plays PVC pipe
{via @tlegower}

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Featured image is an excerpt from The Awakening by J. Seward Johnson.

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