"Officials are pushing to deploy state-of-the-art rail rockets. Next stop: the future."

Popular-Science-reading childhood Andy, meet public-transportation-enthusiast adult Andy. You guys are both gonna love this. (via Colin)

The future always wins.

Even better, “THE JOY OF NOT BEING SOLD ANYTHING NO LONGER BEING NOVEL”

iteeth: … :fuckyouverymuch:

We welcome January.

this is the time

tumblelikeyougiveadamn:

the worst that can happen really isn’t that bad. the best that can happen is that your life will never be the same again. and no matter what, you’re going to learn a hell of a lot about yourself and what you’re actually capable of. and i think it’s a lot.

take a risk. make a leap. here, we can do it together.

Word.

"I see humans as rather like the first photosynthesisers, which when they first appeared on the planet caused enormous damage by releasing oxygen — a nasty, poisonous gas. It took a long time, but it turned out in the end to be of enormous benefit. I look on humans in much the same light. For the first time in its 3.5 billion years of existence, the planet has an intelligent, communicating species that can consider the whole system and even do things about it. They are not yet bright enough, they have still to evolve quite a way, but they could become a very positive contributor to planetary welfare."

That’s one way to look at I guess … I’m intrigued by James Lovelock’s “optimistic pessimist” perspective. Read it in the New Scientist.

I wonder, when will “2010” stop feeling like the future?

(I hope never)

The hipster Holy Grail: a bike that talks to your iPhone.

It’s sort of like ‘Biking 2.0’ — whereby cheap electronics allow us to augment bikes and convert them into a more flexible, on-demand system

arielk:

“For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the way browsers understand the website’s code and create a unique (de)generative piece after each new user. Because each unique visit produces a new composition through self-destruction, Temporary.cc can never be truly indexed, as any subsequent act of viewing could irreparably modifiy it.

Eventually, like tangible media, Temporary.cc will fall apart entirely, becoming a blank white website. Its existence will be remembered only by those who saw or heard about it.”

Zach Gage, on his project, the self-deleting website Temporary.cc.  Via today and tomorrow.

I love it.

Exelon is working with SunPower to put a solar photovoltaic plant on an old brownfield site on Chicago’s South Side. The 10-megawatt plant will have 32,000 solar panels and should be able to power between 1,200 and 1,500 homes.

“The Future of Electric Power” in Businessweek. (via smartercities)