Plant Gadgets (wanting an iPhone?)

This is definitely one of the most enticing things I have seen and iPhone do, but given the recent Patriot-Act-Like-information-monitoring-gestapo-style, I think I can still hold off... but dang. sweet. (via Boing-Boing Gadgets)








another awesome plant related gadget I have recently discovered is the Easy Bloom, a cheesy-looking electronic flower you stick in your garden for 24 hours, whilst it measures pH, water, nutrients, light cycles, and who knows what else... Then the fun happens when you plug this baby into your USB port, and voila! Read-outs and graphs galore, along with some software to tell you what's wrong (or right) with your soil/placement if you are trying to grow a specific plant. It also suggests plants based on what you've got, all for around 60 smackers (american).

1940? really?

new year op(portunity)

Terry Gilliam's inspiration for 12 monkeys

Fun with the city (and bikes)!!!

this is part of a larger project called XCLINIC: the fruits of many, including natalie jeremijenko, an incredible designer and fearless interdisciplinary thinker. check out some of her many projects.

Book (every 3) Month(s)

I am way behind on finish a book every month, so I am going to be reading a few kids books in order to catch up. Lame, I know, but this last one was really dense, but really awesome.

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel Delanda

Beyond the use of metaphor which merely scratches the surface of his better points (e.g. people and ideas move in waves, economic hierarchies are like geological strata, etc.) , I really enjoyed the giant step back from time scale in an approach similar to that of the Long Now Foundation. I found Delanda's analysis of material and energy formations over time extremely exciting and full of provocative questions about what the next 100(0) years will look like.

I loved the first two sections, Geological and Biological.
Auto-catalytic loops?!? Hierarchy vs. Meshwork? magnifique!
Even the linguistic history chapters got me towards the end.
Though I felt a truly objective approach slipping away at times, I felt that he managed a pretty neutral and factually based standpoint throughout.
The only thing missing in this beautiful work is an INDEX!

next up: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Plumbing Blog?

http://radiantplumbing.com/blog