Cooper Griggs

A UAV developed by a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab team can stay underwater for months, waiting out of sight until it's called to duty. When the machine does get deployed, it can swim up and fly into the air, just like any other quadco...

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Otter chewing ice cubes gets a brain freeze. [video]

Working late on a Friday night
#darkhallways #workinglate #friday #weekend #santamonica #california #losangeles (at Santa Monica, California)

Super Tiny Beetle
Day 4 of #naturephotographychallenge #beetle #insect #hawaii #2009 (at Mountain View, Hawaii)

Some Kindle users will need to install a mandatory update by March 22 in order to continue using their e-readers.

You may know that the Stagefright security flaw is theoretically dangerous, but it hasn't been that risky in practice -- it's just too difficult to implement on an Android device in a reliable way. Or rather, it was. Security researchers at NorthBit...

When traveling, you sometimes have to use all your adapters.
#fbf #2010 #travels #trip #rtw #africa #southafrica #power #adapters #safetythird (at Cape Town, South Africa)

#selfie (at A & S Case)

renstability:

Hillary is only half way to the nomination. That doesn’t mean give up, if you guys give up and go oh she’s going to win. Then guess what. She’ll fucking win. The only reason Hillary has so many delegates is because most of the states she’s won in have been SOUTHERN states, which are known for being hard to primary and are majoritively republican.

We have until July when votes are finalized and the nominee is picked. If Hillary gets the nomination, whoever is the republican candidate will win. Every statician has estimated that. But if Bernie gets the nomination he will win against ANY Republican candidate.

Unless you want President Trump. Get your asses out during the primaries and fucking vote. These haven’t snuck up on you, since March of 2015 information about the caucus/primaries have been circulating all around the website.

This just means we have to fight harder, everyone 30+yrs old has given up on Bernie, they don’t believe in us or our numbers. Fucking prove them wrong, If there was ever a time we could make the previous generations eat their fucking words about us. This is it.

Do not give up. Get out there and vote;

No excuses get out there, vote, and get Hillary knocked back some. He’s only 300 delegates behind her. That is NOT that much, her lead is NOT as big as news stations make her out to be. They over estimate her numbers and the gap between them.

Close the gap, get Bernie the nomination. Seriously get up off your ass and vote in the primaries. You can seriously google ‘caucus results’ and it give you the entire primary schedule out to fucking June.

We have time, and there are more states still to go. DO NOT GIVE UP.

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A Robot That Helps You Argue on the Internet. [video]

[Simone Giertz]

In a bid to stop audiences from distracting actors on stage, staff at a London theatre are shining lasers at audience members who won't turn off their smartphone. The Times reports that Jermyn Street Theatre, a small auditorium in the West End, adopt...

One of my oldest sources of visual inspiration on the internet (and one of a handful of early art/design blogs that inspired me to start Colossal in 2010) was Things Organized Neatly, an exhuastive catalogue of objects compusively organized just so. From toy collections, to artworks and editorial photography, the site collects thousands of images of neatly arranged things that have a near Zen-like impact on your brain as you scroll through the site.

Run by blogger and curator Austin Radcliffe, Things Organized Neatly has picked up more press and awards over the years than almost any other tumblelog. Now, after six years of publishing, the very best of Things Organized Neatly has made its way to print in a new book published by Universe, with a foreward by artist Tom Sachs. Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy.

On my walk around the neighborhood tonight 😃🍀
#marvista #losangeles #california #stpatricksday (at North Venice Little League)

Rolled Up
#newzealand day 3 of #naturephotographychallenge #fern #treefern #worldtour #fbf #2009 #travels #trip #rtw (at New Zealand)

via http://www.carldetorres.com/graphic_explorations/motion_study

There was never hard proof that the government was after Edward Snowden during its pursuit of now-defunct secure email service Lavabit, but that's changed. In an embarrassing gaffe, the feds released unredacted court documents confirming the suspicio...

It looks like Netflix is now snapping up new foreign films for domestic distribution. The video-on-demand service will premiere the French-made animation The Little Prince in the US, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Paramount was supposed to rele...

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i’m studying french in the hotel lobby when the hotel concierge hands me a shot.

i love st. patty’s in chicago. the best.

The spirit of anarchy and anti-establishment still runs strong at Apple. Rather than comply with the government's requests to develop a so-called "GovtOS" to unlock the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, The New York Times' half-...

Pachyderm park
#krugernationalpark #southafrica #safari #tbt day 2 of #naturephotographychallenge #worldtour #2010 #africa #elephant (at Kruger National Park)

“A person of good intelligence and sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.”

- George Carlin
(via wnq-movies)

Feds might seize even more "hoverboards" now that the US International Trade Commission has banned most of them from being imported into the country. The ITC didn't issue the order because they're prone to exploding and catching fire -- it did so bec...

Recently constructed by Benthem Crouwel, this expansive new pedestrian and cycling tunnel in Amsterdam features a fantastic tile mural depicting a fleet of ships in rough seas. The 361-foot path called the Cuyperspassage connects the city center to the IJ waterfront and sees some 15,000 commuters daily.

The darker cycling lane incorporates sound-absorbing asphalt and steel grates, while the pedestrian side is almost completely wrapped in a mural of 80,000 delft blue tiles. The artwork was designed by artist Irma Boom, heavily inspired by the work of Dutch tile artist Cornelis Boumeester. The two lanes are further delineated by LEDs to create a safe multi-function corridor with minimal barriers. From Benthem Crouwel:

Along the footpath wall is a tile tableau designed by Irma Boom Office. The design steps off from a restored work by the Rotterdam tile painter Cornelis Boumeester (1652-1733). His tile panel depicting the Warship Rotterdam and the Herring Fleet is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Irma Boom replaced the original crest on the stern with the Amsterdam coat of arms. The cyclist or pedestrian leaves the old historic part of Amsterdam through Cuyperspassage and heads towards ‘new Amsterdam’ in the north, or vice versa. The tableau fades away towards the IJ-river, the lines of the original work gradually dissolving. Then it builds up again in an abstract form from light to dark blue, as if encouraging cyclists to slow down as the ferry comes into view.

You can see more views and read more about the Cuyperspassage on both Arch Daily and Designboom.