A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 21
Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Kevin Smith Riffs on Spoilers, His New Show for Movie Geeks
Kevin Smith likes to talk. He’ll riff for hours on pretty much anything — comics, farting, hockey, Bruce Willis, the general state of the internet — but mostly he likes to talk about movies. A lot. With people. And with his new Hulu series, that’s pretty much all he has to do. The master of the Star Wars reference talks at length about Spoilers, fandom and how the internet changed everything.
Watch Live: Annular Solar Eclipse Creates Ring of Fire
Join Wired Science for some live feeds of the annular solar eclipse, which will be visible today over eastern Asia and western North America.
A former pony-tailed student communist leading a rag-tag band of ex-Trotskyists, Maoists, champagne socialists and greens
*Given the state of things, it’s a wonder that European “extremists” aren’t a whole lot extremer than the likes of this guy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/18/greek-leftist-leader-alexis-tsipras
“I don’t believe in heroes or saviours,” says Alexis Tsipras, “but I do believe in fighting for rights ? no one has the right to reduce a proud people to such a state of …
The DIWire Bender, a wire-bending fabricator.
*Gosh, I love wire art. I bet there’s some way to mash-up an app for Calder-style mobiles to a gizmo like this, and go completely nuts.
*That’s really a beautiful example of “cheap complexity” in 3d manufacturing.
The DIWire Bender
by PENSA! 2 weeks 3 days ago
“The DIWire Bender is a rapid prototype machine that bends metal …