Post-apocalypse housing, The KLF’s manual, the Long Bets Foundation, quantum dots…

• 1 – Ultimate Secure Home
  I’m a sucker for post-apocalypse pads, and this one pushes all the right buttons. Link via BoingBoing.
  (tags: shelter apocalypse post architecture home underground secure)
• 2 – Wearing a helmet puts cyclists at risk, suggests research
  “Drivers pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than when overtaking bare-headed cyclists, increasing the risk of a collision, the research has found.” That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it.
  (tags: traffic danger risk urban bike use space overtaking cars safety road helmet bicycle)
• 3 – Gaviotas
  “If you drive east out of Bogatá, Colombia into the eastern llanos of the Vichada province…you will come across a small village of roughly 200 people.” Worldchanging reports on that rarest of things – a successful social experiment.
  (tags: economy reforestation energy renewable ecology experiment social village sustainability Gaviotas Columbia)
• 4 – Remote VJs control
  “For the VJ who wants to join clubbers on the dance floor and still keep control over the video, Belmer Negrillo has imagined Go Dance . So far, there’s only a prototype. But the concept is brilliant.” Cool stuff.
  (tags: glove concept DIY technology tool control performance mixing video VJ music art)
• 5 – The Manual: how to have a number 1 the easy way
  “After their first UK no 1 single Doctorin’ The Tardis [the KLF] wrote the manual, in which they discribed how to write a number one single. The original issue is very hard to find…” Unless you look on the intarwebs, of course.
  (tags: single one number copyfight books anarchy culture music humour manual KLF)
• 6 – Betting on a Long-Term Future
  “A partial spinoff from the Long Now called the Long Bets Foundation is increasingly active in providing a competitive arena for predictions about the future.”
  (tags: futurism charity gambling speculation future prediction Now Foundation Bets Long)
• 7 – Amazon Kindle: meet Amazon’s e-book reader
  “Say hello to the Amazon Kindle, their take on a book reader device…” Looks like a bit of a scoop at Engadget.
  (tags: technology device reader book electronic plaque epaper wireless Kindle eBook Amazon)
• 8 – Biodegradable napkin could quickly detect biohazards
  “Once fully developed, the biodegradable absorbent wipe would contain nanofibers containing antibodies to numerous biohazards and chemicals and would signal by changing color or through another effect when the antibodies attached to their targets.”
  (tags: technology simple hospitals detection indication bacteria virus biohazards pathogens cleanliness health medicine)
• 9 – Quantum dots used to track protein traffic
  “Quantum dots – brightly reflective nano-crystals – could allow biologists to watch biological activities that cannot normally be resolved under a microscope…”
  (tags: drugs technology crystal nanoscale observation microscope tracking protein bond dot quantum medicine health)