Folding: it’s detestable and boring, as any Gap employee can tell you. But it’s also a totally fun thing you can do in a video game! And today it’s particularly exciting because players of the online game Foldit have redesigned a protein, and their work is published in the science journal Nature Biotechnology.
Back in 2009, Vimeo developer Casey Pugh requested the internet’s limitless denizens come up with 15-second recreations of scenes from Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The internet responded, heartily and, in 2010, Pugh secured an Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media for his efforts. Since then, the scenes have existed in isolation, snippets of a potentially greater whole. That was until now.
It’s always a bummer when you decide to try something new, only to discover that it’s not your scene. Crowdmug for iOS helps you avoid these situations by harnessing the most effective crowd motivation tool of our time: money.
What could possibly go wrong here! Facebook, the same place where people drunkenly message their exes and solicit assassins, is now going to birth Iceland’s next constitution. The government wants user feedback while they make a new one. Prudent.
Phoenix-based Local Motors has been busy building off-road rally cars designed by crowdsourcing. Yesterday, it showed off the results of the same process applied to the idea of a military hauler. [Jalopnik]
One interesting nugget buried in Apple’s we-don’t-have-a-problem-but-we’re-fixing-it-anyway Q&A release is further confirmation that they’re actively tracking us – remotely – to gather road traffic data. They’ve said it before (under congressional pressure), but now we know it’ll be anonymised, and out in “a few years”. [BusinessWire]
Did You Feel It is an earthquake monitoring project from the United States Geological Survey that not only gives you zipcode-by-zipcode data on earthquake reporting but encourages you to participate in monitoring seismic activity.
