Sep 26
Now that the new Bay Bridge is here, what to do with the old one…? Is the slow and expensive demolition
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Sep 26
Whether or not you’re someone who would take great care in selecting a deceased loved one’s clothing prior to burial, chances are that you probably wouldn’t think too much about what those actual clothes are made out of. But the garments worn into the great beyond have become designer Pia Interlandi‘s entire career.
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Sep 26
Even if you already boast a mastery of counting to ten, a refresher course is never a bad idea—particularly when it’s this beautiful. Marion Bataille’s Numero is a pop-up counting book, chronicling the numbers one to ten with simplistic layered shapes that are sure to entertain and educate kids, while also inspiring designers.
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Sep 26
Green Bay drivers were treated to an unwelcome surprise yesterday, when the discovery of a dramatically sagging pier on the heavily trafficked Leo Frigo bridge (named after a cheese magnate, because Wisconsin) forced its indefinite closure. The incident coincided with a new AP report about the deteriorating state of American bridges, which seems like a perennial source of national hysteria these days. But we shouldn’t regress to river-fording just yet.
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Sep 26
Endless Stair Sculpture: Escher IRL
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe Endless Stair makes it seem like you’re stepping into an Escher painting: it never ends. The temporary sculpture was a project of dRMM Architects, where they basically combined fifteen interlocking stairways to create the 25-foot-tall sculpture.
If you’re still thinking M. C. Escher, then you’re right on target, because the piece was inspired by the well-known Dutch artist.
dRMM’s Alex de Rijke explains: “Escher’s inspiration was something that drove us to make a staircase that was not possible necessarily to understand as a simple linear composition. It’s something that was complex, that was interlocking, and perhaps spatially impossible.”
He adds: “On stairs, people interact, they pass each other, they are always interesting places with spatial and social potential. We thought a staircase would be a good vehicle for exploring structure, space, and making a sculpture. Stairs are sculpture’s gift to architecture.”
The Endless Stair is currently on display in front of London’s Tate Modern, where visitors can walk up and down it’s intertwined steps daily from 9 in the morning until dusk.
[via C|NET]
Sep 26
It’s hard to decide what makes this house being built in Arizona most like a comic book. Is it the manta ray shape? The location on top of Mummy Mountain (an actual place)? The ten-car garage for escape vehicles? How about all of the above?!
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Sep 26
If you want a good idea of just how many people use Facebook on a daily basis, this dizzying site manages to cram every single user onto a single page—represented by over 1.2 billion colored pixels that can be zoomed to reveal the individual faces of every member.
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Sep 26
I’m a rather forgetful person. If it’s not written down the chances of me remembering to do it are pretty slim. That means I have a bunch of Post-it notes stuck all around my office to remind me of things that I have to do. The problem is if I’m not in the office to look at those Post-it sticky notes, I still forget.
That’s where these PA-Design’s wristwatch Post-it notes would come in. These things have sticky ends and you can write your own notes on the watch shaped paper. You can then wrap it around your wrist and stick the ends together so you have the reminder with you wherever you go.
These things are quite a bit more expensive than your normal pad of Post-it notes about $13(USD) per pack of 100 notes. The pad measures 8.25 x 1.5 x 0.4-inches. The only downside to these is that they appear to be out of stock on Amazon right now – though it looks like can still order them direct from PA-Design here.
[via This Is Why I’m broke]
Sep 26
By now we’ve all likely heard the deafening buzz proclaiming that sitting is the new smoking; sitting is ruining our bodies and irreparably hunching our backs; sitting is going to be the death of us all, damnit. But are you ready to give up the passive, sedentary pseudo-comfort of a long day spent in a chair? Can you commit to a standing workstation
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Sep 26
If you’re a PC user, the keyboard combination “Control-Alt-Delete” might mean something to you if you’ve ever found yourself at the mercy of your extremely unresponsive machine. The ole Ctrl-Alt-Delete has probably saved you from an unnecessary reboot, which would require you to slightly shift your body to the side in order to push the power button on your PC tower, resulting in possible serious injury depending on how physically fit you are. But according to Bill Gates, the keyboard combination was a mistake. (more…)
Bill Gates Admits Ctrl-Alt-Delete Was A Mistake original content from Ubergizmo. 
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