interesting research project which has been dubbed spam: ‘steganography by printed arrays of microbes’, that uses fluorescing bacteria to convey messages, a kind of living typography as it were…
…scientists have developed fluorescent bacteria that encode secret messages, creating a living invisible ink. Simple messages can be encoded by genetically engineering bacteria to produce fluorescent coloured proteins, then printing them in a grid…
…the result is a truly modern breakthrough in road safety, designed specifically to grab the fly-like attention span of the people most likely to mow you down while texting about some shit they’ve just seen on Youtube, OK?…
british design magazine ‘blueprint’ recently asked a number of designers to reinterpret the classic road signs, as usual the contributions varied form the serious to the silly, amongst the better ones were these offerings from ‘modern toss’ who chose to do what they do best: make some modern toss…
all of the other complete sets can be seen here via blueprint
…this is concrete evidence of how climate change is altering the face of the planet forever – and doing so at an alarming and accelerating rate…
the BBC reports on some errors in the new ‘times atlas of the world’, redrawing the coastline of greenland to show the receding ice levels, but incorrectly it would seem…
wired magazine has an article on mister ‘scott e fahlman’ who sent the following email way back on the 19th of september 1982 and thereby invented the smiley emoticon…
19-Sep-82 11:44, From: Scott E Fahlman :-)
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use: :-(
a nice collection of vintage, colour maps of manhattan drawn in ‘bird’s eye’ view, in an age where this was impossible… (via ‘luis mendo’ and ‘sanne wijbenga’)
