Technically it’s the day after Christmas, but I haven’t gone to bed yet, so I’m going to count it.
Merry Christmas everyone. I had a wonderful day and I hope you all did as well. Here’s to New Years and a healthy and happy 2013!
My MNN writing- Not what you expected: Jumping a swimming pool in a JeepWhen Kenny McLean and his brothers had to take down their backyard pool, they didn't slowly drain the water before taking down the panels and folding up the liner. No — they drove their Jeep into it. They built a perfunctory ramp made up of a few grossly overmatched wood pallets, packed their Jeep full of friends, and then ... Well, and then you sho […]
- Yurts: Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to askYurts!
- Watch: Baby fox walks up to people asking for helpCheck out this wonderful video of some Russian guys who discover a little baby fox whose curiosity had got the best of it. The poor little thing was desperate enough to approach them asking for help, which they very kindly rendered. Via Reddit
- Watch: Sir David Attenborough deals with a band of cannibals the British wayCheck out this video of Sir David Attenborough, the famed English naturalist, recalling a run-in he had with a band of New Guinea cannibals while out on expedition.
- Everyone loves a dog in uniform: 20+ adorable service puppies in trainingBesides being known as man's best friend, dogs can also be our best workers. Humans and canines have operated in partnership for thousands of years (you protect me from bears and I will feed you and clean up your poop) and today dogs can be found sniffing out explosives at airports; helping physically disabled people go about their day; and comforting t […]
- Meet Thomas Backlund, the computer programmer who gave it all up to move to the woods and write codeThis is what Swedish programmer Thomas Backlund posted to his new blog on March 21: I’ve quit my job. I’ve quit my apartment. 7:th of May I’m moving out into the Swedish forest to live and work from a tent. I do not know for how long. There I’m gonna code om my startup idea. I have a laptop, battery pack, solar cells and mobile broadband. […]
- MIT researchers develop world's most accurate solar potential software for rooftopsThe green technology train keeps rolling at MIT with the latest advance being a piece of software written by a team attached to MIT's Mapdwell Project that maps the solar energy
- Facebook billionaire Sean Parker hit with $2.5 million fine after Big Sur wedding runs afoul of conservation rulesNapster founder and Facebook billionaire Sean Parker recently wed singer-songwriter Alexandra Lenas in an elaborate ceremony in California's Big Sur. Parker rented an entire campground at the Ventana Inn & Spa for the months leading up to the event, building movie-set-like features for his rich and famous guests. […]
- Swedish artist creates a city of bread just to watch it molderA post over at Boing Boing about a moldering city of bread caught my eye after I had written a not-particularly-cheerful post about how quickly Mother Nature starts to take back the world in the absence of humans.
- 28-geared cube hints at a bright future for 3-D printing3-D printing isn't that different from the 2-D printers most of us have near our desks or at the office; instead of printing a single layer of ink on a sheet of paper like 2-D printers, 3-D printers print layers of material (usually plastic) on top of one another, building up the printed image from the bottom up. […]
- Not what you expected: Jumping a swimming pool in a Jeep
