Hacking Spaces
Where the hackers go to work. Bring your soldering iron! At Wired.
Via the Creative Review blog. Some photos by Peter Beste. The images of Norway's Black Metal fans are part of a show at Berlin's Pool Gallery
Farmer Wu Yulu drives his rickshaw pulled by his self-made walking robot near his home in a village at the outskirts of Beijing January 8, 2009. This robot is the latest and largest development of hobby inventor Wu, who started to build robots in 1986, made of wire, metal, screws and nails found in rubbish sites. (REUTERS/Reinhard Krause
More robot pix via The Big Picture.
Helen Philpot of Margaret and Helen asks who we need in charge:
"A Harvard law graduate and former constitutional law professor, or a disc jockey with a drug addiction who flunked out of college, divorced three wives and publicly made fun of a disabled person? Because that is the choice we have between Barack Obama as leader of the free world and Rush Limbaugh as leader of the Republican party."
Shot at a sushi bar in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan, here is a wonderful slice of life from Asia:
It won't be long before this kind of media will stream live via mobile devices from all over the world in real time.