Bookmarks van 6 tot 14 september

# Gepubliceerd door Matthias op 16 september 2011

ZOMBIES, RUN! Running game & audio adventure for iOS/Android … - You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first few steps outside. You’ve barely covered a hundred yards when you hear them. They must be close.
A robot that flies like a bird – YouTube — http://www.ted.com Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.
Cracking Fort Knox — A look inside the most secure vault of the world.
Wefi Surfboards on Vimeo — Hollow Cedar Surfboards shaped by Randy Weflen.
Respublika. Motion graphics on Vimeo — Respublika. Books. Music. Perspective.
EF – Live The Language – Paris on Vimeo — Commercial for EF International Language Centers.
DBpedia 3.7 released, including 15 localized … — The new DBpedia data set describes more than 3.64 million things, of which 1.83 million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 416,000 persons, 526,000 places, 106,000 music albums, 60,000 films, 17,500 video games, 169,000 organizations, 183,000 species and 5,400 diseases.
Back to (the wrong) school — As we get ready for the 93rd year of universal public education, here’s the question every parent and taxpayer needs to wrestle with: Are we going to applaud, push or even permit our schools (including most of the private ones) to continue the safe but ultimately doomed strategy of churning out predictable, testable and mediocre factory-workers?