Team Hoyt is still the most inspiring story I’ve ever heard, but Patrick Henry Hughes and his father have solidified themselves as a solid second.
Grab a box of tissues and see what I mean:
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RSS feed for this section…One Trillion Dollars is impressive?
With numbers like One Trillion being tossed around in the news lately, it’s always good to step back and try to visualize what a number like that really looks like.
To help you get a grasp on it, PageTutor has created a rendering that shows what one trillion dollars looks like as stacks of $100 bills.
The result is below, but keep in mind that when you’re looking at this and trying to give it some meaning, each pallet you see here is holding $100 million dollars, and the pallets themselves are then double stacked.
Oh, and that tiny little red dot at the corner of the pile?
That’s you.
[Via: Boing Boing]
…Models don’t always look like models?
I’ve always been fascinated with the world of fashion and how it shapes and molds our sense of beauty, so it’s great to see the work of artists like Greg Kessler, who photographs models before and after the makeup artist gets them ready for the runway.
Like Dove’s True Beauty Campaign, it gives a fantastically honest look at what these people actually look like, and shows that even the supermodels can’t look like what they look like on the runway.
[New York Times - Model-Morphosis]
[Via: Neatorama]
…Flickr now allows you to upload in HD?
I don’t know if the Internet needs another HD video provider, but regardless, if you’re a Flickr Pro member, you can now upload videos in sweat, sweat HD.
Regular Flickr members can now also upload two videos per week (though not in sweat, sweat HD) so it’s more video goodness for all!
The quality’s not bad either. Check it out:
[Via: Yodel Anecdotal]
…BristleBots are part of a controversy?
Remember BristleBots, the tiny little ‘robots’ that use little more than a pager motor, a battery and a toothbrush head to create locomotion?
Well apparently, Klutz and Scholastic claim to have thought of the exact same idea with the exact same name at the exact same time as Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, and are making a book with the bots without giving credit to the original inventors.
It’s still up in the air as to what will happen with this whole situation, and you can follow the updates on the MAKE: Blog, but hopefully this will all get resolved in the right way, and credit will be given where credit is due.