Vision of Students Today

From swissmiss:



Amazing! Thanks T.R.E.

NY Street Snaps

What is this?!

Why is it laying in the street on 26th & 11th?

I love you, New York City.

Best Aptera Video

This is the best Aptera video I've seen yet. It's funny, you go to their website, and the video they have of the car is people standing around, looking at the car.

Show me how it moves.

Sell me.

Getting better all the time.

Ooooh, wait! They've got this video up now:
Popular Mechanics viddy on Aptera's site


The Aptera: Now for tattooed, baguette-buying muscle men too!

Great Image

(image via NY Times)

Look at this amazing picture.

Louis Armstrong playing the horn for his wife, Lucille. Giza, Egypt 1961.

They seem like a fun couple.

The Man Who Walked

From Dothegreenthing.com:

(I warn you, it gets a bit saucy.)

High End Coffee

I love coffee.

Now I'm an espresso man myself, but you've got to appreciate the level of performance and nuance in each video.

These cats are taking drip coffee to an entirely new level.

Enjoy.




The Clover.




And you must read the incredible piece in today's NY Times!:
"At Last, a $20,000 Cup of Coffee"

Nahalal

(image via yannarthusbertrand.com)

(image via nahalal.org)




Nahalal is a planned agricultural community in Israel.

It is also, needless to say, visually stunning.

A recent National Geographic article points out that Nahalal has "one structural kink (in) this design: Growth is limited. Once a rigid circle is drawn, there's little room to go forth and multiply." - Alan Mairson

I politely disagree.

There is always up.


(image via inhabitat)


Here's the wiki: Nahalal

Spaceship Two!

(image via NY Times)

From NYtimes.com:

" “2008 will really be the year of the spaceship,” said Sir Richard Branson, the British serial entrepreneur, at the heavily attended press conference at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Sir Richard, who founded a company, Virgin Galactic, that promises to take tourists on brief trips to the edge of space, was there to show off the sleek pod of a spacecraft and its spidery carrier plane.

WhiteKnight, a two-fuselage, four-engine plane in its new incarnation, will ferry the smaller spacecraft high into the sky and release it. The spacecraft pilot then fires the craft’s rocket engine, which burns a combination of nitrous oxide and a rubber-based solid fuel, and shoots the vehicle upward to an altitude of more than 62 miles, the realm of black sky.

Once there, the pilot is to activate the craft’s innovative feathered wing, which rotates into a position that greatly increases aerodynamic drag and slows the craft for a glider landing back on earth."

Well done, Sir Richard. Truly a master of the media machine.

Pandora.com

I love Pandora.com

Go there, type in a few bands you like and then listen to ad-free streaming radio, that you can tailor to your preferences. Plus they play things you might like, and you can give them a thumbs up or down.

Awesome.

Clothing Recycling

The amazing Christine Norrie just hipped me to this great organization: Wearable Collections.

You call them, they bring your building a clothing bin. You and your peeps put clothes you don't want into the bin.
They pick up the clothes which are then donated to charity, rather than being "trash-piled."

Darn Fine.

Their site: Wearable Collections
(And what a clean and beautifully designed site it is! A for effort, y'all.)

Things I Love: Kimchi!

I love Kimchi. Even typing the word makes my mouth water.

From Wikipedia:
"Kimchi, also spelled gimchi or kimchee, is a traditional Korean fermented dish made of some select vegetables with varied seasonings, most commonly referring to the spicy baechu variety. Kimchi is the most common Korean banchan, or side dish, eaten with rice along with other banchan dishes. Kimchi is also a common ingredient and cooked with other ingredients to make dishes such as kimchi stew (kimchi jjigae) and kimchi fried rice (kimchi bokkeumbap). Kimchi often tastes better with age.



Kimchi is made of various vegetables and contains a high concentration of dietary fiber, while being low in calories. It also provides up to 80% of the daily required amount of ascorbic acid and carotene. Most types of kimchi contain common ingredients like onions, garlic and peppers all of which have well-known health benefits. The vegetables being made into kimchi also contribute to the overall nutritional value. Kimchi is rich in vitamin A, thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), calcium and iron,[9][10] and contains a number of lactic acid bacteria. In 2000, a novel bacteriocin-producing lactic acid bacterium (strain MT-1077T) was isolated from Kimchi and was named Lactobacillus kimchi.



Kimchi has a reputation of being a healthy food. The US magazine Health named kimchi in its list of top five "World's Healthiest Foods" for being rich in vitamins, aiding digestion, and even possibly retarding cancer growth. However, some research focused on high-sodium dietary dependence has found overconsumption of kimchi and soybean paste ( hangul: 된장 similar to miso ) to be a risk factor in gastric cancer (most likely due to nitrates and salt) while unfermented alliums and unfermented seafood were found to be protective factors. One oncological study found one type of kimchi to be a protective factor against gastric cancer while two other types of such high-sodium kimchi as dongchimi (hangul: 동치미) were risk factors.



Here's how to make your own:




A few simple ingredients and a modest outlay of time and you're but a heartbeat away from supreme deliciousness.

If you've never had kimchi, make today the day!

Enjoy.


-J

p.s.

Turbine Power

(from Treehugger.com)


So, how long would a wind turbine have to run before it made up for the energy used in its manufacturing?

6.8 months.

"The life cycle assessment of a 3.0 MW wind turbine indicates that it would have to generate electricity for only 6.8 months , of their assumed 20 year useful life, before it produces as much energy as is used during the manufacturing phase. “This, they say, means the turbine model earns its own worth more than 35 times during its energy production lifetime.”

More wind turbines, less coal and nuclear.

Yay! The present is a very exciting time.

Nanyang Tech's Green Roof!

"(This is the) 5-Storey Teaching Facility at Nanyang Drive for School of Art, Design and Media.

Located at the junction of Nanyang Ave and Nanyang Drive, the new iconic School of Art, Design and Media is situated in a wooded valley, right in the heart of the campus.

The design was conceived as 3 intertwining blocks that are apparent natural extensions of the ground. These blocks interweave to enclose a picturesque plaza and landscape. Major spaces such as the Auditorium, Media Studios, library and art galleries surround this outdoor activity node."
(from NTU.edu)

We need more buildings that look like this.

Don't you just want to roll around on it? I don't often think that about buildings.

Outdoor Activity Node? Sign me up!

Yet another good reason to visit Singapore.