New York versus Paris

I love this illustrated guide to differences between two spectacular cities.  All the illustrations are from the new Paris versus New York blog, run by Vahram Muratyan — cofounder of ViiiZ art direction + graphic design studio.  It's really cool how the pictures highlight how similar the two cities are, as well as how different.  When we were in Paris, I remember feeling strangely at home there until I realized it's a lot like New York.  I felt like I knew the people, understood the city, and it fit a familiar old glove.

Where did the phone go?

If, like me, you end up losing your precious cellphone every 5 minutes and end up having to turn the entire house upside down to dig it up again, you will appreciate this.  This website allows you to punch in your phone number, and they will call your phone so you can use echolocution to get to it instead of random search.  Very cool!

Now just remember to not leave the phone on vibrate. Dang. The idea is brilliant though!

The physics of parenting

Newtonian physics explained (as experienced by parents) by Christoph Niemann on his awesome NYT Blog, Abstract City.

Make your own space program

This Dad actually built a small craft to go up into stratosphere and take some pictures of the earth to show his son. I assume NASA has contacted him to see how he was able to reduce costs from their millions of dollars to what appears to be just a few hundred bucks. That is one lucky kid. As as aside, someone please remind me to retire well before this kid enters the workforce - or any others like him. I shudder to think there may be more of them. In the olden days, we didn't launch any spacecraft until well into our college years. :)


Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.