3D crop-glyph, DIY chopper, sleep deprivation, SMS for geeks…

• 1 – F*ck the job – wreck the office.
  Cool subversive cartoon in the style of airline safety card graphics, designed to be posted in pre-paid response envelopes. Not safe for work, but what the hell, go look anyway. Link via Metafilter.
  (tags: humour work satire revolution protest subversive mail junk business art comic)
• 2 – World’s first 3-D crop circle found in English field
  I’m a sucker for crop-circles, having grown up in one of the major hotspots for them. This one steps the intricacy up another level. Link via PosthumanBlues…cheers Mac. I want to believe!
  (tags: Oxfordshire symbol petroglyph dimensional three 3D field corn UK formation circle crop)
• 3 – Granny’s Nightmare – How to make a bicycle chopper
  Step by step guide to taking a junk-yard pushbike and turning it into a super-fly raked street-ride. Requires welding skills – anyone got a gas-and-air kit for loan?
  (tags: style recycle junk DIY modify mod hack chopper bicycle bike make howto)
• 4 – Frequently Awkward Questions for the Entertainment Industry
  The EFF challenges the content moguls to answer some simple questions about their approach to intellectual property and copyright infractions. Link via BoingBoing.
  (tags: piracy lawsuits video music use fair property intellectual copyright sharing file peer RIAA)
• 5 – Wake up to the reality of sleep deprivation
  “The National Sleep Foundation released its annual poll March 28 that confirms what most people already know, if they could escape their groggy haze long enough to form a coherent thought: Nobody gets enough sleep.” I hear ya. Link via MetaFilter.
  (tags: stress perpetual tiredness fatigue deficit rest sociology insomnia sleep health)
• 6 – France to Offer LowCost PCs to Families
  Good on them, too – puts the UK to shame, or it will if it all goes through as they say it will. Vive la difference!
  (tags: families income program cost low connection internet computer initiative France)
• 7 – Singularity FAQ for Dummies
  Just what the hell is that Singularity thing I keep battering on about? J-W Bats at Our Technological Future lays it down for n00bs.
  (tags: intelligence artificail transhumanism futurism nanotechnology singularity FAQ AI)
• 8 – 120mm FanDuct Computer Mod
  Step-by-step guide to a basic case-mod…installing front-panel fans that look like jet turbines. Nice…if only I had more time on my hands, not to mention a hefty set of tools. Like via MAKEblog.
  (tags: howto hack system cooling accessory computer geek modding mod case PC)
• 9 – SMS Shorthand for Geeks Using Server Response Codes
  Strictly for those who spend too much time using computers…hi James! Link via LifeHacker.
  (tags: humour language response server code geek text SMS mobile)
• 10 – How-To: Build your own CNC machine (Part 3)
  Does what it says on the tin, believe it or not. Complete with backlinks to parts 1 and 2 also.
  (tags: geek hacking hardware machine manufacturing CNC make howto DIY)
• 11 – UK Indie Recording Labels Blaming ISPs For Their Own Failure To Innovate
  Insert your own ‘bandwagon’ joke here.
  (tags: ISP legal sharing file peer labels indie BPI copyright music internet international)
• 12 – Big Shot
  The world’s most powerful laser – it’s one hardcore piece of kit, for sure, and will be built in a facility the size of a football stadium. Link via OhGizmo.
  (tags: super technology science power terawatts National Lab Ignition laser powerful)
• 13 – Paint-on semiconductor outperforms chips
  Easy to make by a long way, and apparently now performs better as well. This could have an interesting effect on the market in a few years.
  (tags: cheap performance manufacturing wet crystal grown chip computer technology semiconductor)
• 14 – Flying over the cloudy world – science updates from Venus Express
  The ESA’s little probe is busily feeding data to salivating space-boffins – there’s a lot more to Venus than we originally thought, it seems. No aliens yet, though.
  (tags: pole south eye double vortex pictures data research ESA Express Venus satellite probe space)
• 15 – Protein-coated discs could enable 50TB capacities
  Another day, another huge-capacity data-storage format idea. Still, it’ll be fine if it comes to pass – protein coatings that react to light to form intermediate molecules, which can be used as data bits. A long way from completion, though.
  (tags: technology capacity high coating protein microbe marsh salt discs storage data computer)
• 16 – This Is a Computer on Your Brain
  DARPA-funded research develops a machine to help boost the human brain’s visual processing ability by ten times. Could be handy for the people employed to check social-network images for dodgy content…
  (tags: computer control hardware prosthetics cyborg futurism interface machine brain implant neural technology science)
• 17 – Brain-implant enables mind over matter
  Paralysed guy can check emails, play computer games, move robotic arm…all using his brain.
  (tags: control hardware prosthetics cyborg futurism interface machine brain implant neural technology science)
• 18 – Model of inflatable space hotel set to launch
  Does what it says on the tin. I can’t even think of a decent punchline…what a let-down, eh?
  (tags: tourism futurism technology prototype launch inflatable orbit hotel space)

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