http://monkeyplunger.com Monkey see monkey doo. Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:17:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Originally from BLDGBLOG on December 13, 2009, 4:15pm http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5527 Originally from BLDGBLOG on December 13, 2009, 4:15pm http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5528 kkleiner writes "Organovo and strategic partner Invetech hope in 2010 to release a commercial version of their 3D organ printer capable of producing very basic tissues like blood vessels. While it is still limited to simple tissue structures (full organs are a long ways off), Organovo ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5520 Originally from BLDGBLOG on December 4, 2009, 4:26pm http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5521 Where better in the world to introduce elegant moving screens than a country that made narrative on flat surfaces come alive, from painted screens to manga? Magician, visualist, and technologist Marco Tempest sends this brilliant video documentation of the work he’s been doing with what he ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5522 ">Modul8 2.6 feature: Sound Analysis from modul8 on Vimeo. As visualism evolves, part of making tools smarter is making them more musical. So what better way to show off the new 2.6 update to Modul8 than to show visuals popping away to butt-bopping beats by David Last. ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5523 Mobile gaming mastermind ZodTTD has updated his mame4iPhone app to use BTStack, allowing the use of a Wii remote as a controller. I could see using this with the iPhone app video out hack as a low-cost casual gaming console. It would be pretty cool to ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5524 From airplane wing desks to shopping trolley chairs. Reestore take everyday waste objects and upcycle them into quirky yet functional pieces of furniture and accessories. All products are created with as many eco design principles as possible, reclaimed trolleys, reject barrows, space saving hanging chairs, stools ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5525 Originally from Peak Energy on December 4, 2009, 4:26pm http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5526 Originally from Twine | david mcconvilles Items and Comments on November 19, 2009, 9:33am http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5458 Originally from Twine | david mcconvilles Items and Comments on November 19, 2009, 9:33am http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5459 Originally from Twine | david mcconvilles Items and Comments on November 19, 2009, 9:33am http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5460 Originally from 3quarksdaily on November 19, 2009, 3:54am http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5461 Our own Kris Kotarski in The Calgary Herald: Earlier this fall, British company Internet Eyes figured out a way to cash in on CCTV. It bills itself as "an online instant event notification system" that will allow "viewers" to "anonymously monitor random video feeds streamed from ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5462 Carl Zimmer in Discover: Numbers make modern life possible. “In a world without numbers,” University of Rochester neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon and her colleagues recently observed in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, “we would be unable to build a skyscraper, hold a national election, plan a ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5463 Darryl Campbell in The Bygone Bureau: After all, almost no one in the under-30 set — certainly no one under twenty — can remember what it was like to grow up under the shadow of the Soviet Union. We Millennials grew up fearing nuclear power plants ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5464 No offense to other etiquette guides, but Laura Claridge says these are impeccable. From the Wall Street Journal: 1. On the Civility of Children's Conduct By Erasmus 1530 The great classical scholar of the Northern Renaissance, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, also had some thoughts about proper behavior. Teach manners early, Erasmus believed. ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5465 by Tolu Ogunlesi To the outside world, we are all “Africans”. ‘Africa’, that continent of “colourful emergencies” (a term coined by novelist Helen Oyeyemi in a 2005 essay); ‘African’, that oversized brush dripping a paint handy for tarring every living thing found within a thousand-mile radius of ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5466 What makes economies grow? It’s a question that has occupied thinkers for centuries. Most of us would tick off things like education levels, openness to trade, natural resources, and political systems. Here’s one you might not have considered: hell. A pair of Harvard researchers recently examined 40 ... http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5467 ads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NBbBh6ENOwcsx_ndGC2NmA-TpIA/0/da"> Originally from 3quarksdaily on November 15, 2009, 5:10am http://monkeyplunger.com/archives/5468