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Art/Design, Geek, NYC

Design and the Elastic Mind

Feb 26. 2008

Yesterday, New York's MoMA began an exhibition called Design and the Elastic Mind, which, according to their website, "focuses on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use." In other words, geek art. Right up my alley. Here are three works from the online gallery that particularly caught my eyes: "Attracted to Light," from the Long Exposure series, by Geoffrey Mann "Attracted to Light narrates the erratic behavior of a moth upon the stimulus of light," explains the designer. The trajectory is captured through cinematic technology and the echo of the path, materialized through rapid prototyping, forms a delicately poetic hanging lamp. The Long Exposure series,...

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Starship Kimchi

Feb 25. 2008

An article in today's NYTimes caught my eye: Starship Kimchi: A Bold Taste Goes Where It Has Never Gone Before Ko San, the first Korean astronaut, blasts off into space onto the ISS on April 8, and he will be bringing a hefty supply of kimchi. While bringing a cherished food on a long journey might seem like a simple act, taking kimchi into space required millions of dollars in research and years of work. “The key was how to make a bacteria-free kimchi while retaining its unique taste, color and texture,” said Lee Ju-woon at the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, who began working on the project in 2003 with samples of kimchi provided by his mother. Ordinary kimchi is teeming with microbes, like lactic acid bacteria, which help fermentation....

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Geeky Proposals

Sep 25. 2007

As a huge geek, I can't help but be smitten by geeky proposal stories. So here are my top three favorite geeky proposals:   3. Dashboard Widget Proposal Earlier this year, a Mac geek created a Dashboard Widget (which, according to Apple, are "mini-applications that let you perform common tasks and provide you with fast access to information") to propose to his girlfriend. When she was using his computer, he told her to hit F12 and an image of a ring popped out with the words "Will you marry me?" Needless to say, she said yes, and all (Mac) geeks reveled in delight. You can get more details on this proposal here.   2. The Joy of Tech! Proposal The Joy of Tech! is one of my favorite comic strips, concentrating...

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Education, Geek, Personal

Science Labs

Aug 12. 2007

I'll be the first to admit that I was never good at math and science. I never possessed the analytical, logical mind to excel in the subject; I much rather preferred social and language studies. I'm one of the few Asians I know who actually did better in the verbal portion of the SAT's. Not surprisingly, I usually dreaded the few times a week we were required to attend science labs. Whether it was physics or biology, chemistry or life sciences, I never had the patience to clock the amount of time it took for water to boil, let alone follow intricate instructions meticulous enough to obtain expected results. I would usually end up making one mistake, panic, then do something completely...

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