Amazing reshuffling of traffic footage

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I truly do not get how Cy Kuckenbaker did this, but I’m sure it took a decent amount of smarts and elbow grease. In a nutshell, he took some raw traffic footage of vehicles going under an overpass and sorted all the vehicles by color, then time compressed the whole thing.

Mac Pro is now live on Apple site

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I think I’m more excited about the Mac Pro than I was about the iPad Air. Both the base and high end models show US shipping dates of December 30th.

Huge Target data breach

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If you’ve shopped at Target between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, chances are good this applies to you. Yeesh.

Nirvana, Kiss, join big cast of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2014

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Pretty impressive group of nominees:

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced next year’s inductees: Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Cat Stevens and Linda Ronstadt will all join the class of 2014. The E Street Band will be given the Award for Musical Excellence and Beatles manager Brian Epstein and original Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham will both receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.

Data stickies, a graphene alternative to flash drives

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Data stickies is a design concept, but not necessarily a pipe dream. There’s some real science here.

dataSTICKIES are conceptualized to be made in graphene, a ground-breaking new material which is a flat mono-layer of carbon atoms tightly packed into a two dimensional honeycomb lattice with a minimum thickness of one atom. A paper thin sheet of graphene has the capacity to carry huge volumes of data.

Microsoft blogs progress of CEO search

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In a rare blog post, John W. Thompson, a member of Microsoft’s board of directors and chair of the board’s search committee, updated the world on the progress of Microsoft’s CEO search.

Double backflip superman

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Think about the physics involved in this bike trick. First, he flips the bike over. That pulls him into motion completing his first flip. And this gives him the momentum to complete the second flip. It’s all quite beautiful. Give it a watch.

Meet the people of the quiet zone

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A lot has been written about the National Radio Quiet Zone.

The United States National Radio Quiet Zone is a large area of land centered between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia and the Sugar Grove Research Facility at Sugar Grove, West Virginia. The Radio Quiet Zone is a rectangle of land approximately 13,000 square miles (34,000 km2) in size that straddles the border area of Virginia and West Virginia. It includes all land with latitudes between 37° 30′ 0.4″ N and 39° 15′ 0.4″ N and longitudes between 78° 29′ 59.0″ W and 80° 29′ 59.2″ W.

San Francisco rolls out 3 miles of free Wi-Fi along Market Street

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This is a pretty big deal.

“A quarter of a million people traverse Market Street every day, from all walks of life,” Mayor Ed Lee said of the new Wi-Fi service. “Now they can access information, find out when their next bus is coming, or peruse local job listings, all for free. This is a significant first step in my vision of connectivity for our city.”

The case for genetically modified foods

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The term Genetically Modified Food (or GMO) often produces a knee-jerk reaction in people. There are certainly causes for concern about the impact the foods have on our systems and on the farming ecosystem. But this article from MiT Technology Review focuses on the need for GMOs to feed the coming generations. Fascinating article.

Apple’s brand new Misunderstood ad

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This has immediately moved to the top of my list of all-time favorite Apple commercials. Touches all the right notes for the holidays. So very well done.

The new telemarketing robot who swears she’s not a robot

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This is comedy gold. A telemarketer called a Times reported trying to get him to sign up for health insurance. He sniffs out that she appears to be software driven (as opposed to a human reading from a complex script) and sets out to prove this.

Interstellar trailer

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This could be very, very good. Love Matthew McConaughey’s voiceover.

How iOS 7 is impacting Montessori education

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The linked article talks about the impact that Jony Ive’s decision to scrub skeuomorphism from iOS has had on the Montessori experience. Very thoughtful piece.

China probe just landed on the moon

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Impressive achievement.

China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon on Saturday, state media reported, in the first such “soft-landing” since 1976, joining the United States and the former Soviet Union in managing to accomplish such a feat.

High resolution scan of Gutenberg Bible posted on-line

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The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Vatican Library have joined together to digitize their collection of ancient texts. One of these (perhaps the most important, in my opinion) is the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book created using movable type.

Irn Bru ad

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Scotland is one of my favorite places to visit. And now I’ve got one more reason to go. I’ve never had an Irn Bru. Apparently, it gets you through.