2 month ago
deusx : Sound Chaser - "A train-style record player. Users connect the chipped pieces of records together to make new tracks. The records pieces are from cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops. This record player revives forgotten, old records."
Andy Baio : Sound Chaser - broken vinyl used as train tracks; don't miss the video [via]
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24 month ago
plasticbag : My Society put up some beautiful travel heatmaps a while back that I wanted to talk about but haven't had time - One thing I'd suggest is to overlay maps where the starting location is different (either each major city or tube stop, or at the end of each square half mile). That should give you a sense of which areas in London are best and worst connected...
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31 month ago
plasticbag : Incredibly useful for the Silicon Valley run: Cal's "I Am Caltrain" - Essential for those who commute to and from San Francisco to the major heavyweight Internet and technology companies.
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42 month ago
jkottke : Riding Shanghai's maglev, the world's fastest train - "Four minutes of gravity-simulator-style acceleration later, in which the taxis on the parallel highway lose ground slowly, then quickly, then disappear as fast as if they were parked and you were whipping by at 220 miles per hour, you reach the peak
plasticbag : Riding Shanghai's maglev, the world's fastest train... - Sounds like a vaguely uninspiring experience, a waste of money and a tremendously impressive futurist folly. We need more of this...
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