A Java zoom from outer space all the way down to subatomic particles. I remember seeing the original film with that title (same subject – a zoom from a galactic scale all the way down into an atom) a long time ago back in Germany on TV and I was mightily impressed with how such [...]
Wired Magazine just ran a small feature about Predicta – a company building custom-finished TV sets in a very 1950s-60s style. I probably won’t be one of their customers for a little while longer, but I have to applaud the great engineering that goes into TVs like their Holiday. What an amazing TV! Product design [...]
A friend of ours, Ayako, invited us to a party of the Omulu Capoeira Group, a non-profit organization that promotes and teaches capoeira here in the Bay Area. Capoeira is a Brazilian form of martial arts that – at least to my eye – looks far more elegant and fluid than the more aggressive Asian [...]
We are just coming back from a night out at the movies. “Finding Nemo” is by far the most heart-warming and funny movie in a long time. It’s sparkling with inventive characters, dazzling locations and a great story line. And apart from everything else that can be said about this movie, what struck me most [...]
I did some Quicktime VR development back around 1997 when the expensive developer license was the only way to go and actually developing something was pretty complicated and not always successful… Well, things definitely have changed! Check out Panoramas.dk for some amazing Quicktime VR movies from all around the world – many of them are [...]
GoodLogo!com has a large collection of corporate logos and users can vote on them, Hot-Or-Not style. It’s an interesting experience to vote on these logos – we see them all the time, but we usually never take the time to actually look at them. Our brain keeps this kind of stuff close at hand for [...]
I’m the first to admit that I’m quite possibly the laziest student of the Japanese language ever, but in the rare moments when I try to work my way through a Japanese website, then Rikai has been an invaluable help. Type in an address for a Japanese-language website and that site will come up with [...]
The Internet Archives hosts a great collection of movies, among them a slice of the Prelinger Archives. This archive is one of the biggest collection of eqhemeral films from the early decades of the last century. It contains many industrial movies and old educational and amateur material. Currently there are more than 1900 movies you [...]