"Pressurized water flows between the sphere and socket, creating a mechanical hydrostatic bearing that is nearly frictionless. The sphere can weigh thousands of kilograms, but the efficient bearing allows it to be spun by the force of a hand."(filed under: waterphysicsart)
I've got a board game doodle book out next month, with Viviane Schwarz. "Snaddering is a way to rapidly invent a board game about anything with your friends."(filed under: gamesdesignnomicbookscreationsboard)
"The combination of disciplines and methods is unique enough to warrant the founding of an entire new field of study: digital archeoludology."(filed under: boardgameshistorymysteries)
Hungarian game from 1960. "They do not build houses — nor hotels, either. The aim of the game, in proper socialist fashion, is not to amass an empire of property and wealth. It is to successfully buy, pay for and fully furnish an apartment."(filed under: gameshistorypoliticsboard)
"So much of real life is taking actions that don't matter. [...] You're using your faculties and senses in ways that you're not accustomed to, and you’re impacting the world around you in ways that are not normal."(filed under: gamesdesignpuzzles)
"Because the moon is considered lifeless, Nasa’s office of planetary protection does not frown on missions that spill Earthly organisms on its surface."(filed under: spacescience)
"By using your location, [TreeTalk] will create a circular walk from your home, or any other address, and will take you past interesting trees in your local neighbourhood."(filed under: treeslondonmapswalking)
"...by moving the cursor you were telling windows that you are the most important event running. When you stop interacting windows gives priority to other events. So installing programs even when in foreground would give priority to less important events."(filed under: computershistorydelusionstime)
"There is a danger that there is going to be so many different wacky sounds from lots of different companies that it going to be really hard to work out what is a vehicle and what is something else in a city."(filed under: transportsoundlondonillusions)
"There is a wealth of high quality rock samples of all types to be seen in the capital, mostly visible to the public from the pavement."(filed under: stonelondonmaps) (via: viv)
"The [RIBA] installation takes the form of a series of scaled folly structures extracted from real picturesque landscapes, extended into interactive virtual game environments through digital projections."(filed under: architecturesimulations)
