Archive for September, 2009
Jenga Apartments
September 6th, 2009
Some really great apartments are about to be built in Singapore. Do want.
The Encyclopédie
September 3rd, 2009
French writer/philosopher Denis Diderot is probably best known for editing the Encyclopédie, a series of collaboratively-written books meant to compile all the knowledge of late-1700’s Europe. I just learned that the University of Michigan hosts a hypertext-ed translation of the whole thing. You can read a blurb about the project here. Some highlights:
Aside from some offensively dated ideas about race, I’m really impressed with how modern most of the thinking is. Compare that with, say, the Pseudodoxia, written just a century earlier. Way to go, Enlightenment.
Bobby McFerrin Hacks Your Brain
September 1st, 2009
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the universal knowledge of the pentatonic scale.