Hydro-fold, a 3D printer of sorts.
By adding water to printer ink and printing fold patterns onto regular paper, self-folding origami is possible. Whilst not quite as impressive as conventional 3D printers, the possibility of printing a self-assembling structure with volume from a normal printer is somewhat exciting
The fact that I’m considering splitting #microformats examples lists into “publishing” and “consuming” is testament to the progress which has been made in the past month
Thank you @spreadly @pfefferle for rolling out #microformats 2 support, hoping to see even more in the future! To other companies: there’s still time to catch up!
#microformats2 wild examples list growing quickly, will your site be the next? microformats.org/wiki/microformats2#Examples_in_the_wild
Laughing at the @twitter docs using “t.co” and “best practices” in the same sentence: dev.twitter.com/docs/tco-url-wrapper/best-practices
Near-realtime Marine Traffic marinetraffic.com #bookmark #mapping #geo /via @briansuda
My new theory: adding “unexpectedly” to the middle and “in real time” to the end of any given sentence is guaranteed to improve it.
Unexpectedly guaranteed to improve it in real time, that is.
Guess what I’m #baking (clue is in the flour and purple splats):
Loving Django’s prefetch/select_related
— that, along with a few small changes, reduced a task which was taking > 500,000 queries to 4558
#iceland is green, white and blue:
One wonderful project which could really use some design work is www.gutenberg.org, especially the distributed proofreaders system — I can’t imagine just how many people want to contribute but are put off by the incomprehensible #ui
left-arrow.net ⇦ ⇤ ⇠ ↩ ⇶ ↣ ⇰ right-arrow.net #bookmark #typography
Jovian Salak looking good!
@karltryggvason thanks for the suggestion, we listened to it at work — amazing stuff! I need to listen to more radiolab now :)
@wilto what, like this:
Erin Richie which company is that? I’m doing some research on the UX of data export at the mo and they sound like a good bad example :)
What is it with facebook games being called “xyz saga”? They barely qualify.
This is a saga: youtube.com/watch?v=Jisqle37uWI
(I hope you’re taking notes, facebook game developers)