PCWorld.com offers this hilarious guide that will help you recognize different types of fanboys.
You’ve heard stories about them. You may even have encountered one in the wild. Or in an Internet forum, where they commonly congregate and are notorious for their savage and often ill-thought-out verbal attacks on other fanboys and noobs. You knew you were looking at a fanboy of some kind, but you weren’t sure which kind it was.
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Thanks, Randy Krum.
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I browsed through my old computer the other day and found this piece. It is the first assignment I worked on when I was an intern at The New York Times in the summer of 2006.
Karakuri are mechanical puzzle boxes created by Akio Kamei, a Japanese puzzle designer. The artist in his own words:
At first I began to create wooden boxes with an idea of a secret box and then looked for a broader meaning. I gave it the name “Karakuri box” (trick box) rather than the secret box. Finally “Karakuri box” (trick box) was born. The trick box which you open yourself, can’t be opened if you don’t enjoy humor. Someone who has no experience with trick boxes and others who have many experiences, toe the same line. Sometimes the knowledge or the experience disturb his trial. I’m usually thinking about how I can deceive people with my puzzles. And so I wonder if my personality has come out in my work.
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Oil & Gas Next Generation recently released this beautiful graphics about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now 80 miles across and the size of Jamaica, and according to new reports is five times worse than first thought, leaking around 5000 barrels into the sea, as opposed to the 1000 barrels first estimated.
Thanks, Nicolas Ramallo.
The guys over at Column Five Media created this hilarious infographics for Fast Company.
In a future full of iPads, iPhone OS 4, next-gen iPhones, and iPod Touches with cameras (plus whatever Gray Powell leaves at a German beer joint next week), a significant portion of your tech life will likely bear an Apple logo–and keep Steve Jobs in the finest stonewashed jeans regionally available. The question isn’t, “Do you use Apple devices,” but “Which one?” And “Where?” Here’s a cut-out-and-keep cheat sheet.
In a study of building efficiency, the folks at IBM have compiled data based on a survey of 6,486 office workers in 16 U.S. cities. The questions dealt with issues including building security, office temperature, use of alternative energy sources, environmental and conservation issues, and, of course, elevator time. The company organized its elevator results into the graph shown above…
Head over to INFRASTRUCTURIST for other interesting findings.
Thanks, Tiff.
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