The New Sound of New York

Hunter College is inviting the New York general public to submit sounds recorded anywhere in the five buroughs. Sounds are archived on a (google generated) citywide map. Have a look at www.soundseeker.org

Blight of the Suburbs

New York Times article about the "spreading economic fallout of mortgage foreclosures" in the Cleveland suburbs. Interesting read for all the Long Islanders out there.

The Sound of Music

This piece by Andrew Demirjian tracks the stock prices of the three music mega-corporations and converts them into music. From VVORK.

Post-Post

"microsoft word doesn't understand duchamp"


and "hugsuit" by joshua schwartz

"The Great Global Warming Swindle"

This is from the latest post from RealClimate.org concerning a UK TV program that just aired entitled The Great Global Warming Swindle. Below are the YouTube videos for it, or watch the whole thing on google. Messed.

"Holy crap! That's the biggest f&$%ing squid I've ever seen!"

"Sick bro. Let's kill it!"
"Yeah dude."

Newsday- February 23, 2007

Get democracy

A Cooper Union grad and a WPI grad came together to put together a website called Democracy: Internet TV, a free press sort of sight. Check it out.

http://www.getdemocracy.com/

A sprinkle of water

This guy named Buckminster Fuller had a pretty cool idea about 80 years ago. First, the inspiration. He was at the helm of a boat cruising along after having gotten his hands dirty with grease. Must to his surprise, he found that the sea mist was taking the grease off of his hands. After a little experiment back home, he deduced that it was the mistiness that was key.

So here's his idea: have water come out of the faucet and shower as a fine mist. I haven't seen anything like this and it's been 80 years, so I was skeptical. I happened to have a little water spritzer handy and a dirty dish of encrusted pasta sauce, so I ran my own experiment. Guess the results.

Ok, so with about 20 little spritzes of water, my dish was wet enough to wipe clean. The water in the bottle was at room temperature and I didn't use any soap. I'm pretty sure it would have taken me at least a cup or two of water to clean it conventionally, compared to the table spoon or so of water I spritzed.

So what? Well, imagine all the water that could be saved by having spritzing faucets in public restrooms and apartments without dishwashers. Fuller had showers too, but I'm not such a fan of that application.

Run your own experiment at home with an emptied perfume/cologne bottle; or be messed, it's up to you.