This video of a frozen pizza factory just keeps getting better and better as you watch. The pepperoni machine is my favorite.

Charter For Compassion :: projects – interesting crowdsourced effort to help unify the world’s religions…which of course reminds me of the similar effort written about in Dune…

A fantastic long article on the “used future” of Star Wars – ties together George Lucas, Jane Jacobs, Robert Morris, Jonathan Swift and more. The presentation is also excellent, in a side-scrolling page format with half the space dedicated to excellent pullquotes from related works. (via kk)

Three brightest objects smile down from the night sky – the moon, Jupiter, and Venus formed a smile for Australians yesterday…

“I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.”

Very cool self-contained vehicle wheel – includes engine, brakes, suspension, and tire.

PledgeBank – Tell the world “I’ll do it, but only if you’ll help” – perhaps also a way to bootstrap a new product? Confirm sales if you get enough…

“In nonzero,

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for. Between these two answers you can determine the identity of any person.” – Thomas Merton. Man, would that make small talk more interesting.

YouTube – “Mankind Is No Island” – a convicting story, beautifully told in the text of street signs.