Scientists at MIT have developed this freaky non-stick coating that keeps ketchup flowing. Amazing solution to an old problem. Also one of the weirdest videos you will see this week.
Both awesome and gross at the same time.
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Jonathan Ive Talks Design
core77.comIt’s a shame Jonathan Ive doesn’t grant more interviews, but it’s easy to see why: There exists a YouTube clip of Ive being interviewed by a British tabloid-style TV show some years ago, and rather than being given an opportunity to engage in…
Intelligent, irreverent upcycling of outdated technology.
This is actually a really good idea. I’m sure I have 1,000 AOL disks laying around somewhere…
Google Goes Back to What It Does Well: Finding Things
Jon Mitchell, readwriteweb.comSurprise! Google has completely transformed the way search works again. But this time, it’s a kind of search that would have made the old Google proud. Today, starting with U.S., English-language users, Google unveils the Knowledge…
Watch this: first episode of ‘Tron: Uprising’ animated mini-series
By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.comIf you can’t wait for the next installment of Tron (the rumor mill has been silent for quite some time on the third film), Disney hopes that you won’t mind the switch from live action and CGI to animation, as it’s releasing the 10-part…
IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA
throwaway236236, reddit.com
• UPDATE: Lulz, saw it on twitter and some news pages, answering now.
• UPDATE2: Taking a break, my eyes hurt from the horizontal text lines lol, I will check back in soon™I operate a ~10k botnet using a ZeuS software I modified myself,…
Not For The Faint-Hearted, Toys Get Butchered In Stop-Motion ‘Dubstep’ Video
designtaxi.comWarning! This video is not for the faint-hearted.
In a stop-motion music video—for the band Delta Heavy’s song ‘Get By’, directed by Ian Robertson—viewers are made to endure four minutes of toys being mutilated and butchered…
Bittersweet Dubstep
30 specialist (and super smart) search engines
Adam Vincenzini, thenextweb.comGoogle is widely (and rightly) recognised as the mother of all search engines. But, if you need to drill down your searches by more specific details, do you trust Google to give you what you need every single time?
Here’s a collection …
Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?
By Steven Levy, wired.comHad Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company’s Chicago headquarters lie only a long baseball toss from the Tribune newspaper…
Beercamp: A pop-up book styled site that pushes CSS 3D to its limits
Harrison Weber, thenextweb.comBeercamp, a yearly event for designers and developers, has become quite the playground for front-end experimentation. For 2012, Tom Giannattasio of nclud led the creation of a site that pushes SVG and CSS 3D transforms to the limi…
