12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com (author caveat: unfortunately, you can only watch the whole 7 minutes if you stick to 480p).

Working on this video was fascinating because the past year was filled with dramatic events (from the Chilean miners [0:39] to the Arab Spring [3:38] and the Japanse Tsunami [4:54]) that I got to watch unfold time and time again. Watch out for them in the video; I took special care to slow down certain time periods.

Author is Phillip Mendonça-Vieira (blog). Yes, that guy who wrote ReadLess. Better explained by himself, in a TED-like video:

thesis from Phill MV on Vimeo.

He also wrote a Timelipse video HOWTO.
via Kottke

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[Fibre Lorraine] Je n’aime pas trop le madrier mais le time-lapse est sympa et c’est du bois francais, mossieur!

Entendu sur bfm business: Philippe Pichat, inventeur (« avec mes amis », dit-il) de la fabrication du béton « vert » à partir de la soude.

Ce procédé s’inspirerait des ciments romains (mais connaissaient-ils la soude?), et offre l’avantage d’être très faiblement consommateur d’énergie et d’une grande simplicité de mise en œuvre. Pichat a brevete de nombreux trucs, dont le beton a la soude (« meme en Chine ») [wikipatents, google patents].

Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave

« I met my wife on;line so I know about Sub-optimal results »

Steven K. Roberts, « venerable ‘high-tech nomad,’ best known for his net-connected, gadget-laden Winnebiko and BEHEMOTH bike projects from the 1980s » [x], now at the head of Nomadic Research Labs once had his workshop invade by mice. Another example of what can happen if you forget the details when roofing.

Steven K. Roberts has -despite from his geekiness which took him to first ride (on several techno-laden bikes) then sail, always surrounding himself with loads of techno-stuff- a lot of entrepeneurship ideas