This is a brilliant analogy - one that I intend to expose to my architect friends. Please Cory - make sure to post a link to your followup on payments.

Understood Cory, but Materialicious thanked their source. The other blogs working back from boingboing failed to link their source. I'm just frustrated that others don't follow through on their sources. I'm not saying Materialicious "discovered" it, clearly they did not - its not about discovering per-say. This genre of blog is all about bringing attention to unique and thought stimulating ideas. The discretion as to what to post, and what might be interesting is where a blog creates value - I think everybody here at boingboing knows that. I find too much of this goes on among design oriented blogs and its just bad form. Enough OT though, I appreciate your reply.

This was first posted at Materialicious. Second time this week folks. Its not BoingBoing's fault -these other blogs are not linking back to the originator. Bad form.

http://www.materialicio.us/2008/04/10/garbage-architecture/

BoingBoing should update this post. Crib candy got it from curbly, who got it from Materialicious. Check the dates if you care. Link backs are the commerce of blogging - they should be dealt out fairly.

apparently financial independence involves a pistol and a lunch box..

you forgot to link to materialicious that first blogged the stair:

http://www.materialicio.us/2007/07/20/didden-village-mvrdv/

the smile, and teeth, dip into the uncanny valley

Wow, that ranks up there with Tarzan, Tonto, and Frankenstein singing xmas carols on SNL...

Terri Gross repeated her interview with him after he died and in that interview she put him on the spot about the statements quoted above about race and the south. In the interview he justified what he said on the basis that many were illiterate and therefore incompetent to participate in our democracy. Its awfully convenient for him to plead for basing our laws on reality when it comes to pot, and then in that case ignore the very fact that it was one party denying the other education that caused them to be illiterate in the first place. I call this duplicitous, and cast my vote for the spoiled rich brat theory.

Whatever - I find it pretty fascinating myself, that mechanical principals continue to work on such a tiny scale that the surface feels smooth to the touch. You can tell from the shape of the mushrooms that they would grab the mesh and grip when pulled laterally - shear, perfect for a diaper waist band. But if you need to open the join the ramped surface on the underside of the mushroom tops will ease the mesh sliding off the mushrooms making it come apart without destroying itself (completely at least).

boy, lots of arm-chair bookshelf designers here. Lets all see your bed bookshelf combo.

Wow. Kirk could have brought down Harry Mudd with these and spared Spock the silly poetry.

VPN? for crying out loud - give it a rest already.

Somebody go into the magazine vendor in the Denver Airport and pull an issue of Maxim off the rack. Then ask the censors why you can buy this titty mag in the airport but you can't read BoingBoing.

I wonder what you might find offered in the magazine stores in the airport.

Wow, all that pasta talk's made me hungry.

and I can't say Tom's little talk ever made me crave science...

Come on - the plane takes off, of course!

Friction from the wheels? No way. The wheels spin twice as fast as on a stationary runway, no big deal. For a 100mph lift off speed your wheels would be spinning at 200mph. The wheels and bearings would destroy themselves before they would ever overcome the thrust of the plane. Now if you were dragging the stumps of your landing gear, then we'd have something to talk about.

The wheels hinder the plane's acceleration on take off, yes, but doubling the rpms is not enough to prevent the plane from reaching airspeed.

Yeah - good thing ol' George took the fight to the terrorists or he would have had to unleash the death ray on our shores.

Oh darn! He's already aimed it at our rights, and turned their blood into water... sort of a reverse jesus thing..

you rock, richard too.

The ball coming over the hill and the surface and back drop rolling by reminded me of some footage that was often repeated in speed racer cartoons.

I've seen hacks like this before - the coil is like a machine shop power cord, and you can snake other cords inside it. But adding or removing a wire can be a tremendous pain. There are a number of products out there that are segmented "spines" that manage cables on runs from desk to floor. The heftier versions could also run to a ceiling. Their cool in an alien kind of way.

http://www.thebackshop.co.uk/products/products481-details103.html
http://www.restockit.com/Monarch-Freestyle-Vertebra-Cord-Holder-(SMF36405MT1).html?source=froogle
http://www.shoplet.com/office/db/SMF36405MT1.html
http://www.mockett.com/default.asp?ID=4&action=detail&partCode=WM14
http://closet-masters.com/detail.aspx?ID=747

Alternating tread stair - you can get them for industrial use:

http://www.lapeyrestair.com/products/atsAll.aspx

Codes in the US don't allow such things. You belly-ache about flying today - building yourself a house has been much worse for years. All administered by small local governments, designed to save us from ourselves. Builders need to be regulated. Home owners should have more freedom to do what they want in their own homes if they can build it themselves.

Speaking of Major Matt, the guy on that trike looks just like him.

Everybody is so skeptical! I'm completely willing to believe that if the geometry was correct, and the polarity axis of the stators were synced as he said that this thing would spin.

I could see how 3 stators would provide more force to get the spinning to happen, but any slight mis-alignment would probably limit the rate it would spin - which would give credence to it accelerating when two are stopped - synchronization is no longer needed.

I am not sure though why the two stators don't introduce drag once their spinning is stopped - I'd think they would have to be removed from the field, but they are not. Anyway I'd guess you could get more rpms and more torque out of more and properly placed stators, but it would probably benefit from a microprocessor controlled servo positioning them precisely - once somebody understands where they need to be positioned!

More interesting is people seem to be willing to claim the physics are impossible, less willing to call the guy a liar!

glad I read down and out before it happened...

I just helped a friend who was having issues with Leopard and an older Westell wireless router from Verizon. The router needed a firmware upgrade. 10.4 worked fine.

A giant squid got em!

Whoever wrote the captions got one wrong - the Roadrunner Trapped in a Camouflaged Pot Hole, is Eaten - is incorrect. Anyone can see that this was - the Roadrunner, while pecking at birdseed, is crushed by falling piano.

and my noogies still hurt.

When they finally drag them to justice part of their punishment should be freeing the iPhone.

is there a hidden dvorak in my iphone?

how 'bout Spock?

If you like that and you ever did technical drawing then you might enjoy the Lead-holder museum:

http://www.leadholder.com/

ehhhh, gulp! I remember seeing this live!