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  1. Hope to catch this talk tomorrow night: Out of Water: Innovative Technologies in Arid Climates: http://is.gd/gSv37 (via @friendlyoffice) about 8 hours ago via web
  2. Using injections of bacteria to biologically heal cracked concrete: http://is.gd/gPhMx (via @lindseymysse) 10:26 PM Nov 7th via web
  3. Quick post about a house in California so infested with bees that honey is now flowing from its electrical outlets: http://is.gd/gPhij 10:18 PM Nov 7th via web
  4. Developing "over 500 miles of NYC’s waterfront, defined as New York Harbor and its tributaries, creeks and bays": http://is.gd/gOHch 2:23 PM Nov 7th via web
  5. @pruned I saw them, buddy. 12:13 PM Nov 7th via web in reply to pruned
  6. More origami from a cool Flickr set: http://is.gd/gOrUD / http://is.gd/gOs3t / http://is.gd/gOsaD / http://is.gd/gOsly / http://is.gd/gOsrf 11:35 AM Nov 7th via web
  7. This thing is blowing my mind: http://is.gd/gLCOA Out of control self-intersecting origami surfaces. 7:19 PM Nov 5th via web
  8. Nicaraguan military temporarily "invades" Costa Rica due to a Google Maps error: http://is.gd/gJEYo (via @subtopes) 9:08 PM Nov 4th via web
  9. Google Street View goes live in Germany, but most of the houses have been surreally blurred out: http://is.gd/gJ50b (via @Jonathan_Rennie) 2:27 PM Nov 4th via web
  10. Cool story of a 3km-tall "aerial wave" in the sky over Australia, "the equivalent of an airborne ocean": http://is.gd/gIW9g (@atlasobscura) 12:58 PM Nov 4th via web
  11. io9 is offering $2000 prizes "to two people who write the best stories about environmental disaster": http://is.gd/gIUOf (via @annaleen) 12:45 PM Nov 4th via web
  12. A museum of outsider art constructed inside a converted panopticon prison: http://is.gd/gITPy (via @freduarte) 12:35 PM Nov 4th via web
  13. Pushing forward with real-time, 3D holographic communication: http://is.gd/gG18n Imagine future architectural simulation-at-a-distance. 10:11 AM Nov 3rd via web
  14. @billbarol Thanks for the link on Boing Boing! 9:52 AM Nov 3rd via web
  15. Don't miss this Friday evening event in NYC on "design and existential risk," including nuclear waste and earthquakes: http://is.gd/gD8BH 12:12 PM Nov 2nd via web
  16. In other words, jets of seawater can act as "quick, temporary antenna[s] that could just as easily be dismantled": http://is.gd/gCPyI 9:49 AM Nov 2nd via web
  17. Turning "the ocean’s most abundant resource into communications equipment, making antennas out of geysers of seawater": http://is.gd/gCPyI 9:48 AM Nov 2nd via web
  18. If so, contact @nicolatwilley: "Overheard or seen anything good/weird/memorable while in line for a food truck/communal table?" 12:40 PM Nov 1st via web
  19. RT @nicolatwilley: Calling all eavesdroppers! Overheard or seen anything good/weird/memorable while in line for a food truck/communal table? 12:39 PM Nov 1st via web
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