Explore the new CSS transforms features and create a 3D carousel that rotates from panel to panel. Paul Hayes takes you through the project and explains browser support and fallbacks along the way
via Build a rotating 3D carousel with CSS | Tutorial | .net magazine.
As you can see there’s no drivetrain and the crank has been locked, with the pedals replaced with mere foot peg holders. In testing, Tiedeken has reportedly done 60 m.p.h. plus on this thing.
Harald Belker is a California-based industrial designer specializing in concept vehicles for Hollywood, and he’s worked on everything from the Batmobile to the lightbikes from Tron and the race cars in Iron Man 2. Belker’s recently-released graphic novel/coffee table book, Pulse, is a collection of futuristic vehicle renderings tied together by a fictional narrative:
via Entertainment Designer Harald Belker’s Mag-Lev Racecars – Core77.
In 1990, Godwin got fed up with Nazi comparisons on bulletin boards, Usenet newsgroups, and the WELL discussion site. So prevalent had these comparisons become that Godwin began to wonder “how debates had ever occurred without having that handy rhetorical hammer.”He believed that most of these comparisons simply trivialized the Holocaust and the true horror of the Nazi regime and so consciously decided to build a “countermeme designed to make discussion participants see how they were and are acting as vectors to a particularly silly and offensive meme.” The result was Godwins Law in its original form:As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
via No Nazi comparisons? Sounds like something Hitler would say!.
Imagine you found a great deal on a flux capacitor. Not only does it make time travel possible, but the new version is able to freeze time and only requires half a gigawatt to operate. Plus, it’s 33 percent cheaper than the one Doc Brown built into the DeLorean. Sounds like a no brainer, until you read a couple online reviews claiming it set their cars on fire. And so you remove it from your shopping cart. This isn’t unusual, and according to a new study, it happens far more often than not.
via Maximum PC | Study: Negative Online Reviews Influence 80 Percent of Shoppers.
What could be better than building concrete structures without creating more CO2? How about this: a new form of cement that actually absorbs carbon dioxide rather than being a primary source of its man-made emissions.
via Constructive Concrete: Incredible Carbon-Negative Cement | Designs & Ideas on Dornob.
It’s like something out of science fiction or a horror movie or both: in order to facilitate transplants, we can now keep human hearts alive and beating and toasty warm inside a special electromechanical box full of fresh blood.
via This is a human heart, alive and beating, in a box | DVICE.
Over the last twelve months, its BandPage application has grown from around 3 million monthly active users and 150,000 daily active users to 32.4 million MAU and 1.56 million DAU, according to our AppData tracking service. On Facebook, it is by far the largest Page app for musicians, and the seventh-largest app overall. By some measures, it is now bigger than long-time leading music fan site MySpace.
via RootMusic Raises $16 Million Second Round, Following Hit BandPage Facebook App for Musicians.
Naturally, there are a lot of restaurants on the world’s largest social network, though there could be a lot more, and many of the ones that do have Facebook Pages could be better. To that end, Mashable spoke with social media stars from the hospitality industry about some best practices when it comes to Facebooking food.
Maybe Steve Jobs was on to something when he refused to hide away his disappointment or displeasure. That, at least, is the takeaway of a new paper by Matthijs Baas, Carsten De Dreu, and Bernard Nijstad in The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Their first experiment was straightforward, demonstrating that anger was better at promoting “unstructured thinking” on a creativity task, at least when compared to sadness or a neutral mood. The second experiment elicited anger directly in the subjects, before asking them to brainstorm on ways to improve the condition of the natural environment. Once again, people who felt angry generated more ideas. These ideas were also deemed more original, as they were thought of by less than 1 percent of the subjects.