It’s the Friday Quickies! Which means that we’re serving up the sublime with a side of kooky.
- The awesomely named Institute for the Future or IFTF presents A Multiverse of Exploration: The future of science 2021 based on results of a recent conference. There are downloadble PDFs of this glorious thing.
- And speaking of the Multiverse, if you missed it first time around here, check out The Sound of Multiverse with Blue from Hello, the Future.
- Women are throwin’ down and winning, this time in sci-fi publishing. {thanks to bibliotequetress}
- The question on everyone’s mind? It’s: Did Stanley Kubrick invent the iPad?
- This is out of this world. No. Really. It is! The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
Activist art, AT-AT, Apple and more, after the jump.
- Tired: LEGO. Wired: Gingerbread! An AT-AT from the badass Black Market Bakery.
- One of the earliest known examples of math homework.
- You’ve got to get close up to really appreciate this. The detail! The work! The craziness needed to make this! Spidey eye collage
- A new kind of calculation. Fashematics.
- From the Why-Didn’t-I-Think-Of-That Department: the vertical chess board.
- Every year, 30 NaNoWriMo novels-in-progress are selected to receive a cover design done by a professional designer. Here are ten best of the 30 covers in 30 days.
- Art that fought the Soviet Union. The exhibtion “Samizdat: The Czech Art of Resistance, 1968-1989” features 120 works on paper.
Apple Startup Sounds and Death Sounds 1
{Does anyone remember the car crash sound?}
Apple Startup Sounds and Death Sounds 2
Windows Sound History
http://youtu.be/Gcz8wdfXD10
