God, this is so sexy.  It is a glimpse into the future of technology and computing.  Sorry for the poor video quality.

Adding a dimension time to typography.

What happens when one of the world's most accomplished violinists poses as a street musician in the DC Metro?  Will people take notice?

Pearls Before Breakfast

A well crafted and insightful social experiment journalistic piece on our attention to the beautiful.  From the Washington Post.

The following video is merely to give you a taste of the caliber of this musician, and is unrelated to above article. 

Wow, I'm very impressed with these guys.  Here's more Beirut, playing "In the Mausoleum".  It gets a little noisy at the end.

You should probably just head over to YouTube and watch all the videos.  I'll use "Cliquot" as a carrot.  So beautiful!

Beirut performs "Nantes" live from a stairwell.

Seemingly straight out of the pages of a science fiction novel, this masterpiece was created with the absence of leadership, organization or planning.  Could humans ever produce such organic, emergent (even improvisational), agile, massively collaborated works?  I would like to think it's in us.

As some may already know, I have been preparing some time for an extended trip to South America.  Three months is the intended stay, preceded by a week in D.C. for Christmas with the family.  Yesterday, after having cleared my room for the subletter and selecting a backpack's worth of belongings to accompany me, Jason chauffeured through the Seattle tundra to the airport.  The distinction between street, sidewalk and yard had vanished and we forged a path in the urban frontier.  At the terminal, lines coiled around the partitions.  The departure screen was littered with canceled flights.  De-iced planes were able to make it to the runway before having to be de-iced again.  From seat 41-C, I was given the opportunity to read, nap, get acquainted with other passengers and partake in a snack.  The pilots allowed us to deboard and forage for food, only to return to yet another abandoned flight. 

Reschedule: Dec. 25, 11:35 PM

Current location: home

Students from Zurich School of Applied Sciences put together a simulation of all the commercial flight paths over a 24-hour period.

From the website:

Inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can pass to another is the wisdom is has gained from experience, the Wisdom project...seeks to create a record of a multicultural group of people who have all made their mark on the world....