Ekranoplans!
Holy Sh*t! Designed by the USSR to take out US carrier fleets. This things are bonkers.
More info about this giants here.Deep Thought - Planet Hardrive
Woah. Pretty deep thought about the nature of information storage and the universe over at the Bldg Blog. I'm still chewing on all the brain gum it conjectures.
I've been fascinated by what might be called the geological nature of harddrives – how certain mineral arrangements of metal and ferromagnetism result in our technological ability to store memories, save information, and leave previous versions of the present behind....perhaps someday we won't actually need harddrives at all: we'll simply use geology itself. In other words, what if we could manipulate the earth's own magnetic field and thus program data into the natural energy curtains of the planet?The earth would become a kind of spherical harddrive, with information stored in those moving webs of magnetic energy that both surround and penetrate its surface.
Hipster PDA 2.0
Having given up on Palm Pilots, Pocket PC's and all other electronic organizers a year or so ago I have gone back to paper and pen. And because I'm always attracted to the pragmatically classic and the cool I have been using various Moleskine notebooks for different purposes (daily journal, project management, date book, etc.). I like the Moleskines because they're the perfect size and I dig the extra folder pocket in all of them where I keep a few extra index cards, some postage stamps, etc. and I have a binder clip holding the whole thing together. I manage all my day-to-day notes and whatnot with it just fine. But I'm always on the lookout for alternatives. So I found myself at the Swap Meat at Coudal Partners and saw these nifty small notebooks from some new operation calling itself Field Notes I had to order a set to check them out.
