Thursday, December 29
su blackwell
su blackwell: 
see: su blackwell papercut art. so stunning!! i honestly went speechless when i looked at her delicate artworks. do you recognise which fairytales each of these works?
see: su blackwell papercut art. so stunning!! i honestly went speechless when i looked at her delicate artworks. do you recognise which fairytales each of these works?War dogs remembered, decades later
War dogs remembered, decades later: 
Maybe it was the sound of the wind cutting through the wire. Perhaps he caught a small vibration with his keen eyes. Or it could have been a slight difference in the air's smell.
Color Wheel
Color Wheel: 
Raf’s favorite colors are Green & Blue. Will’s favorite colors are Cheeseburger Brown & Pizza-Box White. And Ray doesn’t believe in colors.
NatGeo Downloader 2.0 Grabs Over 5,000 Wallpaper-Worthy Photos [Updates]
NatGeo Downloader 2.0 Grabs Over 5,000 Wallpaper-Worthy Photos [Updates]:
Windows: National Geographic's web site has some stunning photography, and a lot of it makes for good rotating desktop backgrounds. The NatGeo Wallpaper Downloader we've previously enjoyed has updated with interface improvements, bug fixes, and access to thousands more images.
The app's developer writes that while his first release of the app made it convenient to grab a few hundred of National Geographic's photography contest images, this 2.0 version broadens your access to more than 5,000 images. Future versions should expand the range even further. It's a Windows-only app, but Linux and Mac users with some command line savvy can still get in on the NatGeo action.
NatGeo Wallpaper Downloader is a free download for Window systems.
NatGeo Wallpaper Downloader [Novazi]
Dogs Filmed at 1000 Frames Per Second
Dogs Filmed at 1000 Frames Per Second: 
The above is a beautiful slow motion video (1000fps) shot of dogs jumping for dog treats flying through the air. It’s actually an advertisement for Pedigree, as you’ll see at the end. It’s interesting seeing all the little details our eyes can’t ordinarily pick up.
(via Boing Boing)
RadarVirtuel.com - Cloudless Real-Time Airplane Traffic
RadarVirtuel.com - Cloudless Real-Time Airplane Traffic:
Wait for aircrafts to appear. When the page is loaded, aircrafts should appear within 10-20 seconds at most. Then they are refreshed with the same rate, depending on our website bandwidth. Click on airplanes. When clicking on an airplane, the INFO tab displays all latest information we have for this airplane , and its path is displayed on the map. Customize Information Layers The CONTROL tab currently allows you to modify the label displayed ...
Miniature Paper Laboratory Diagnoses Diseases With Comic-Book Colors [Medicine]
Miniature Paper Laboratory Diagnoses Diseases With Comic-Book Colors [Medicine]:
Costing just a cent to produce and requiring just a single drop of blood to function, this paper chip, designed by chemist George Whitesides, can diagnose HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and more. What substance makes this tiny marvel possible? Comic-book ink.
The water-resistant ink pushes the blood into the different paper channels, each of which contain chemicals that react with the blood and change color to indicate the presence and severity of the various diseases.
In developing countries where technology for diagnosing diseases needs to be cheap and easy for individuals to use themselves, it's hard to imagine a test simpler than Whitesides' "zero cost diagnostics". The Harvard chemist presented his idea at a recent TED conference and summarized it in a video for CNN:
In his presentations, Whitesides explains how the paper tests could be produced cheaply in great numbers by inexpensive wax printers and proposes that individuals could send their results to doctors with cheap camera phones. Solutions for third world problems are often weighed down by their ambition and complexity, but the advantages of Whitesides' work rests in its simplicity. [CNN via PopSci via Inhabitat
The Apartment Decoration Cycle
The Apartment Decoration Cycle:
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