A French animator’s soundtrack visualization brings to mind the Kaossilator. So, this video by animator Renaud Hallée isn’t quite a pure infographic–but as you’ll see, it’s pretty damn close.

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Infographic of the Day: All Music Should Look Like This

It hasn’t officially been rebranded, of course; God is notoriously conservative about updating that Bible of His. But, as reported by the New York Times , Reboot, a nonprofit Jewish think tank, has come up with a new version of Shabbat that is not only restive but sort of cheekily appropriate. And if you notice a lack of Jews on the internet, starting about now, you’ll know why

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Nation’s Jews Abandon Facebook and Twitter, One Day Per Week, Starting…Now

You can make anything from 3-D printing, from impossibly complex lamps to chain-mail bags to entire buildings . So it’s actually kind of surprising that 3-D printed shoes aren’t more common

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3-D Printed Shoes: Quite the Feet

Ninteno’s guru Shigeru Miyamoto has just revealed that Nintendo might be aiming at a surprising new market for its games consoles: Schools. With all the controversy about distractions and violence, is this sensible? Miyamoto’s words came during an interview with the AP .

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Nintendo DS in Classrooms to Help Japanese Schoolkids Find the Square Root of Mario

A pair of senators, one red, one blue, have today proposed a biometric ID system to “mend” immigration. It’s part of a bipartisan immigration bill backed by President Obama, and proposes to replace everyone’s social security cards with one that stores biometric information about the individual.

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Why the Bipartisan Proposal for Biometric ID Cards Will Probably Fail

Good news for anyone who has old records but no record player: you can make your own record player pretty easily–just add cardboard. Griffiths, Gibson and Ramsay Productions (GGRP), a Vancouver-based sound design studio, exploited the idea in a direct mail marketing piece. The company created a record player from a corrugated cardboard envelope that can hold a 45 rpm record in place

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Cardboard Record Sleeve Turns Into Record Player

A week after the FCC debuted a beta tool for consumers to measure their broadband speeds, we’ve got the first set of stats. 150,000 people decided to avail themselves of the widget, available on Android, iPhone and Web platforms, giving the commission a more realistic idea of the state of the U.S.’s Internet connections than the figures bandied about by the ISPs

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FCC’s Broadband Measuring Tool Gets 150,000 Takers, Shows West-Coast Bias

In the future DARPA’s ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it’s also a little more magical than the Goodyear blimp as it’s almost totally automated. In fact, the Integrated Sensor Is the Structure has almost nothing in common with the Goodyear aircraft apart from its shape and helium-filling

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DARPA’s Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance

Most of us don’t think about the cultural context of our washing machines–we just toss in clothes, turn on the device, and don’t ponder it further. But the reality is that the majority of people on the planet wash clothes by hand, mostly because of poverty and lack of available resources.

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Open Source Washing Machine Project Rethinks Clothes-Washing

Got spare change? A Coke robot, a used panties dispenser, a pet cockroach machine, and other coin-operated tools of instant gratification cater to inexplicable needs

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The Weirdest Vending Machines in the World

If you assume a desktop computer’s a big box full of chips, hard drives and other paraphernalia, it’s hard to see how to make it cheaper. Unless you go down the virtualization route: NComputing thinks the ultimate cost could be zero

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How Cheap Could Computing Get: Free? NComputing Thinks So

Film maker John Waters famously dubbed the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA)’s annual fund-raiser, “Dining by Design,” the “Cannes of Tabletop.” And with good reason. If these tables could walk, they would have been at home strolling the red carpet at the Palais des Festivals, dressed to kill. Such design heavy-hitters as David Rockwell, David Stark, Vincente Wolf, Joseph Carini, and Michael Tavano put their talent where their heart is this week by ponying up designs for the event, which is being held at New York’s Pier 94 in conjunction with Architectural Digest’s Home Design Show.

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Top Designers Strut Their Flatware at "Cannes of Tabletop," DIFFA’s Dining Extravaganza

Jonze’s experimental, branded short film is out now on the web, and here’s an interview with its executive producers. Today, Spike Jonze’s new movie for Absolut Vodka, I Am Here, is finally available for everyone to see on the Web . It’s beautifully shot, and worth a look.

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Now Screening: Spike Jonze’s New Film for Absolut

Unlike middling entries from the U.S.

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Eye Candy: British Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 Is Part Cleopatra Jones, Part Pinhead

Geekiness never tasted so sweet. Okay, so we’ve seen buildings embedded with QR codes that tell you about the occupants; and read about why QR codes might soon replace business cards .

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Friday Fun: QR Code Cupcakes

“Oh ar, oi’m a movie pirate, I am. Oh arrrr!”…does that sound sexy to you

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Renaming Digital Piracy: A Smokescreen to Hide Movie’s True Worth?

Every company envies the buzz that accompanies new products released by Apple .

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Apple’s iPad Secrecy Obsession Comes With Blacked-Out Windows

Danish kitchenware maker Bodum may be best known for their simple coffee makers. Their clean design, perfect functionality, and ability to make an amazing cup of coffee on the cheap has made the name Bodum synonymous with the French Press. But they actually have a much broader spectrum of products than the classic glass plunger-carafe, and their new rugged-ish Bistro line looks fantastic

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WANTED: Bodum’s Bistro Kitchen Appliances

Reads like this: He had bought a small plot of ground a few miles from where they lived and he had just erected on it two glass-houses in which he proposed to cultivate tomatoes for profit. He had come back one evening and asked her if she’d ever noticed tomatoes in the shops.

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Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neil’s Hotel by William Trevor

Last week, the Administration on Aging (AoA) held one of several 2010 Listening Sessions on the Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (OAA) in Alexandria, VA. The listening sessions allow the public to lend their voice to ongoing conversations concerning the reauthorization of OAA. At the hearing, WOW’s Associate Director of the Elder Economic Security Initiative, Stacy Sanders, provided testimony on the importance of evaluating the full array of support programs funded by OAA through the lens of economic security

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WOW Testifies at OAA Listening Session