This is how some system administrator in Russia prepares himself a quick meal during those long nights at the office — with a 220-volt hotdog. He stabs a fork in each end, connects the clips, plugs in the plug, and presto: death by electrocution just waiting to happen. The guy even sticks LEDs in the [...]

Front: How many Java programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Back: You’re still thinking procedurally. A properly designed light bulb object would inherit a change method from a generic light bulb class, so all you’d have to do is send a light bulb change message. Front: I manage programmers freakin’ primadonnas!! Front: [...]

Dubai’s latest offering is a carbon-neutral ‘pyramid’ city “Ziggurat” is the name of the temple towers of the ancient Mesopotamian valley with the characteristic form of a terraced pyramid with successively receding stories. Now the name is about to enter a new phase. Timelinks, a Dubai-based pioneering environmental design company, has chosen it to describe [...]

Artist about self: “After getting aware of the viewpoint of an “empty self,” I started in 1999 a series of works using paper, titled “Linear-Actions Projects by Drawing and Cutting.” It looks like annual rings of a tree or topographical map or waive, but it isn’t. It is absolutely the traces of actions of a [...]

Clark Little grew up on the North Shore of Oahu and made his name as the pioneer of surfing at the Waimea Bay shorebreak. Clark had a unique talent for taking off on hopeless closeouts. He would get launched, pull into, and survive in perhaps the nastiest shorebreak in the world. After Clark stepped away [...]