The US can’t do this because someone would fall down and hurt themselves, sue the city, and bankrupt the entire county somehow. Too bad, though.

arainert:

Why don’t we do fun municipal stuff like this in our cities? 

kenyatta:

Dutch Railway Installs a Slide To Get To The Train

It’s officially called a ‘transfer accelerator’ by Dutch railway maintenance company ProRail, but everyone else would say it’s a slide. An awesome slide. Installed next to a stairway at the newly renovated railway station Overvecht in the city of Utrecht, the slide offers travellers the opportunity to quickly reach the railway tracks when they’re in a hurry. 

Be sure to click through for the video

via The Pop-Up City

Interesting post on how products achieve a patina over time.

Too bad that digital things don’t acquire their own patina over time - bits slowly morphing to show repeated use, or cherished files.

Cosa interesante de como las cosas envejecen con el paso del tiempo.

Sería bueno si lo mismo pasara con las cosas digitales - los bits, poco a poco, cambiando su pinta para mostrar el uso repetitivo, o ficheros queridos.

(via Patina – Blog – BERG)

Rings made of (grown-in-a-dish) human bone

Anillos hecho de hueso humano (criado en un laboratorio)

(via 2creativo)

(Source: andmonroe)

Companies that have corporate color schemes that equally use Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow must get much more even usage of their toner cartridges than we do.  And of course, they only sell the cartridges in three packs of CMY.

(Sort of) Solved: Wacom Cintiq 12WX with a MacBook Air 11

Ever since buying the MacBook Air 11, there’s been one little thing holding me back from full-on, unabashed enjoyment: it won’t play well with my Wacom Cintiq 12WX. So whenever I’m working on something in Photoshop or Illustrator, I end up having to copy the relevant files to an older computer which is connected to the Cintiq.

A long series of Google searches later, and the answer seems to be either “Use the VGA cable instead” (which flickers and generally looks like ass), “Buy some $100+ adapter thing” (which makes me mad in the face), or “Wave your hands up in the air and sing yeah, yeah, yeah” (which hasn’t worked so far).

I’ve even tried a few email exchanges with a nice tech at Wacom, but the answers so far are pretty stock and don’t have anything to do with the specifics of my situation.

However, I do seem to have come across a (partial) solution:

1. Connect the Wacom to the Air
2. Set the Wacom to 1280x800 at 60Hz
3. Close the lid on the Air and wait for it to go to sleep
4. Tap on the Wacom with its pen to wake up the Air (so it’s the only active display)

The Air will then wake up with just the Wacom as a display, and the dreaded ”Signal out of range” should have disappeared.

Good luck!

Update: If that still isn’t working for you, try this as well:

5. Go into Preferences and Displays for the Cintiq 12WX
6. Set Rotation to 90º, and once it’s rotated, hit [Esc] to get back to normal
7. Turn the 12WX off, and then on again

It might seem like the next step is to eat a bat dipped in garlic or something, but I swear it appears to work for me

(via Lui Ferreyra - Painting)

Doodling in the margins

Dibujitos en los margenes

murketing:

(via The Culture of Combat Rations » Sociological Images)