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US Department Of Defense engineers and Sony built the most powerful computer in the Department’s inventory by linking 1.760 PlayStation 3 gaming consoles.

Dead Drops is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space by Aram Bartholl. Via ’injected’ USB flash drives in walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public spaces – so far 5 in NYC – you can plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files.

I sometimes really wonder how people come up with their ideas.

A New York Times’ photoset celebrating the 106th anniversary of the New York City Subway spanning all the way back to 1916.

The extreme nature of the Antarctica environment combined with its bizarre statelessness, provides the location for a freezing architectural expo, with each country having its own icy pavilion.

Thanks Mo!

Linotype: The Film is a documentary about Ottmar Mergenthaler‘s amazing Linotype typesetting machine and the people who own and love these machines today.

“… Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short. The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. (…) New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.”

Read the whole statement here.

Take a peek at a traveling exhibit celebrating the work of Dieter Rams during its stop at the Design Museum London. Next stop for the exhibition is Frankfurt’s Museum of Applied Art (their website needs a makeover by the way) from May 22 – Sep 5 2010. Via

The Confederate P120 Fighter is made of 6061 aircraft-grade aluminum, maximized torque-to-weight with 120-cubic inch radial twin engine with 160 horsepower. Only 50 produced. Via

The Porsche 918 Spyder prototype : Hybrid drive with 718 PS, fuel consumption of only 3.4 litres, 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds, top speed of 320 km/h (198 mph) plus.

Square is a simple and impressive (not new though) way to accept credit card payments and transfer money via Smartphone.