Just loaded with cool, modern features, Maison NW, in the city of Saint-Ouen near Paris, blows away concept dwellings with simple, useful, flexible, and elegant designs many more architects should explore. For example, a net under tension not only separates one level from another, but also provides space to sprawl, throw pillows, and relax with little but air underneath.

In principle, architect Nathalie Wolberg uses the body to define the shape of space. The dwelling uses global, area, and element scales and transfigures from just 1937 square feet a home for Nathalie plus needs for intimacy, autonomy, and sharing for nine artists!

Be sure to see the photographs!

McKinsey & Company, supported by ten leading global companies and organisations including The Carbon Trust, ClimateWorks, Enel, Entergy, Honeywell, Shell, Volvo, World Wildlife Fund, has assessed more than 200 greenhouse gas abatement opportunities across 10 major sectors and 21 world regions between now and 2030. The results comprise an in-depth evaluation of the potential, costs and investments. The potential exists to reduce emissions by just enough to stay on track until 2030 to contain global warming below 2º Celsius.

Old-fashioned (or new fashion) delicious and tangy boiled mayonnaise tastes better, has less fat, and costs less than store-bought preserved mayonnaise. Here's an awesome and simple recipe. I adapted it and skipped the heavy-bottom sauce pan and double boiler in favor of an old glass mayonnaise jar as the inner vessel, which saved me another dish to wash.

This Forest Service map shows trails in the Ansel Adams Wilderness west of Mammoth Mountain leading to Devil's Postpile, the Minarets, and the location where Steve Fossett crashed his Bellanca Super Deluxe. A friend hiked this region a month ago: http://nibot.livejournal.com/679223.html

Built on satellite images taken mid-morning either Friday or Saturday 2005 as used in Yahoo base Maps, geocoded photos match only 2005 exactly. See in the satellite orthophotos the Dutch Windmills have already burned—Thursday evening, September 1. In 2006 Black Rock City moved about one kilometer northeast to Special Recreation Permit Site B.

The dilemma then becomes, should placement match geographic coordinates or rough features of the city? Whatever the solution, Yahoo could update the base Map at their choosing and break existing placement for most photos. Currently beyond the capability of Flickr Maps, the solution lays not just in geocoding but also in timecoding each photo and placing it on the correct annual map.

Computer science and house cats together make a lot of nonsense and also an abnormally popular way to show off the latest experiments, some of them quite literally nonsense. You know what they say: given a few million years, even a roomful of monkeys can generate a dissertation. Maybe it'll even be funny.

Manfred Warmuth, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz and probiotic food enthusiast, presents this workshop on making tempeh, a cultured soybean product. In traditional tempeh making, the starter culture often contains other beneficial bacteria that produce vitamins such as B12. In western countries, it is more common to use a pure culture containing only the fungus Rhizopus oligosporus.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempeh

On the themes of choices in life, following your heart, living almost every day as if it were the last…one of the most inspiring speeches i've ever heard. Made two summers ago, it remains inspiring. Knowing the history of Apple, NeXT, and Pixar makes it all the more.

A direct link here made available as a free download by Stanford University via Apple iTunes store, Stanford also makes available the video of the speech. At http://YouTube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA is a another. At http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html is the text.