Pete Ware

ckck: Ferris Wheel, Gyro Globe and The Hurricane, circa...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:56:27 -0500

ckck:

Ferris Wheel, Gyro Globe and The Hurricane, circa 1949.

Photographs by Andreas Feininger.

Very cool time-lapse photography of very night seens.

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:14:06 -0500

Very cool time-lapse photography of very night seens.

Ah, the stupid things we do when we’re young — even...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:09:06 -0500

Ah, the stupid things we do when we’re young — even Tom Hanks

Photo

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:56:15 -0500

Day 1: Apple Store at Grand Central Station Will’s laptop...

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:11:00 -0500

Day 1: Apple Store at Grand Central Station

Will’s laptop needed repair so I thought it’d be nice to see the new Apple store at Grand Central Station.

Thu night at Carnegie Hall.

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:16:27 -0500

Thu night at Carnegie Hall.

Day 0.5: Shake Shack Nirvana

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:43:04 -0500

Day 0.5: Shake Shack Nirvana

Cool demo of oscillating motion. What it shows: Fifteen...

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:31:05 -0500

Cool demo of oscillating motion.

What it shows: Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion. One might call this kinetic art and the choreography of the dance of the pendulums is stunning! Aliasing and quantum revival can also be shown.

How it works: The period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. The length of the longest pendulum has been adjusted so that it executes 51 oscillations in this 60 second period. The length of each successive shorter pendulum is carefully adjusted so that it executes one additional oscillation in this period. Thus, the 15th pendulum (shortest) undergoes 65 oscillations. When all 15 pendulums are started together, they quickly fall out of sync—their relative phases continuously change because of their different periods of oscillation. However, after 60 seconds they will all have executed an integral number of oscillations and be back in sync again at that instant, ready to repeat the dance.

Ski-parachuting past an avalanche. Seriously.

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:57:01 -0500

Ski-parachuting past an avalanche. Seriously.

fudehouse: cool as a cucumber. a cutting technique.

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:03:20 -0500

fudehouse:

cool as a cucumber.

a cutting technique.

A Year in New York by Andrew Clancy is a collection of moments...

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:38:49 -0500

A Year in New York by Andrew Clancy is a collection of moments around NYC.

Time lapse movie of the sky over San Francisco. Each square is...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:13:03 -0500

Time lapse movie of the sky over San Francisco. Each square is from a single day of the year (360 squares) and each frame of the movie is from the same time of the day, for example 8am. It’s an interesting way to look at the overall weather for an entire year.

If you watch in HD, you can see the timestamp on the lower right corner.

For work, we went to a vegetarian japanese restaurant...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:19:49 -0500

For work, we went to a vegetarian japanese restaurant http://kajitsunyc.com/. Great, amazing food. Atmosphere could’ve been better.

Cool time-lapse video flying 200 miles above the earth in the...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:52:17 -0500

Cool time-lapse video flying 200 miles above the earth in the international space station. It’s really cool how you can see the edge of the atmosphere.

"A public union employee, a Tea Party guy, and a bank CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a..."

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:14:39 -0400

““A public union employee, a Tea Party guy, and a bank CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the Tea Partier and says, “Watch out for that union guy; he wants your cookie.””

- Political Animal - Thursday’s Mini-Report

This Henry Blodget article gives a succinct description (with...

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:45:25 -0400

This Henry Blodget article gives a succinct description (with charts) of what the “Occupy Wall Street” protests are about: unemployment, income inequality, and ridiculous corporate profits. E.g. Banks made $211 Billion in first six months of 2011 by borrowing money from US at 0% and loaning it back to government for a few percentage points — easy money!

Dennis Ritchie just died at 70 (1941-2011). This is a photo of...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:33:31 -0400

Dennis Ritchie just died at 70 (1941-2011). This is a photo of Dennis (standing) along with Ken Thompson in 1972. That’s a PDP-11 in the background.

IOS 5 update is a little bit slow downloading!

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:31:43 -0400

IOS 5 update is a little bit slow downloading!

(via Dilbert: Gold vs Stocks)

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:52:57 -0400

(via Dilbert: Gold vs Stocks)

With the FBI foiling yet another FBI designed, financed, and...

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:56:05 -0400

With the FBI foiling yet another FBI designed, financed, and planned terrorist plot comes this very cool video (well, maybe it is the opposite of very cool but I liked it).