Projected Art: an English mansion used as a pinball machine, and a Pac-Man game

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John Nack's blog at Adobe.com often features these magnificent things. Where does he find them? One wonders.

As per his advice, do check out the 3:45 mark at least. Exquisite!

Baseball, books and forgotten history

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Charming story, this. A reminder of the value books, as physical objects, will hopefully always continue to have, no matter how much of their function is co-opted by Ebook devices!

B-b-b-b-baaad to the... horns?

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How did he get her ON there?

I love you, Polka-dot sack of uranium dust!

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For those of you who think the chilluns are deteriorating due to PlayBox and WiiSP 360, learn this lesson. Seeing a kid's brain underutilized due to sit-down-and-stare videogames is still better than seeing it turn into a radioactive sponge!

The literal pie chart

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Quantum leap: not as far as you think

About a year ago I was going nuts over the announcement of Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, for all the wrong reasons: the advertising.

Only Apple Inc. could hang a huge promotional banner declaring 0 New Features to thunderous, and legitimate, applause. Snow Leopard was about tightening all the bolts, spending a year's engineering resources on tuning and improving the invisible core of the operating system. Normally, this kind of effort is secondary to creating new user-focused features one can advertise.

Bold, Steve.

But there was one piece ofp romo work that threw me into paroxysms of ecstasy, featured here:

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The term quantum leap has been used plenty often in ad copy throughout the decades, always evoking a sense of advancement, of scientific innovation with lasers and clean rooms and, oh yes, crystals.

http://www.youtube.com/v/cf3bRXGmkJE&hl=en&fs=1

Also a pretty cool TV show starring Count Bakula of Star Trek Enterprise fame. But they were all terribly, terribly wrong.

Erwin Schrödinger teaches us (well, not him per se, but considering I just pimped his work in the Schrödinger's Litterbox piece I thought I'd call him back) that quantum jumps are electrons transitioning from one quantum state to another within an atom thruogh a brief period of superposition.

In other words, it's an infinitessimally small change, one that can't be directly observed by mere mortals.

Like a desktop operating system which offers almost no new user-facing features.

Bingo.

Oh man, I totally want one of these next to my pool. Also, I want a pool.