Links

Via Mefi. This technical demo is absolutely brilliant. Rather than try to explain it, I’ll just suggest you watch it.

via Loronix: ‘A WEBPAGE DEVOTED TO BRAZILIAN RECORDS OF THE 1960s AND 1970s.’ Cool cover art and some downloadable music.

This is seriously interesting: ‘For the past few years, Craig Venter, the human genome pioneer, has been trying to build an organism from scratch… now it seems that Venter is turning over one or two of his cards.’

via MeFi: ‘Geddes was based in Yokohama between 1908 and 1918… photographic glass-plate transparencies depicting… scenery, street scenes, workers, farming, fishing, silk production, stone carvers, wood carvers, metal workers, potters, and artists.’

A teacher’s open letter to the Dept of Education: ‘I am a physics teacher. Or, at least I used to be. My subject is still called physics. My pupils will sit an exam and earn a GCSE in physics, but that exam doesn’t cover anything I recognize as physics.

What a Mac looks like after being in a house fire.