I liked reading this short interview with Peter Martinez, Jr. of The Bronx who operates Master Fire Prevention, one of the city’s largest fire extinguisher sellers and rechargers. Due to the city’s strict codes for fire safety, Martinez’s business has remained quite constant over the years as restaurants, businesses, and households come to him to buy fire extinguishers and to install fire prevention systems. It’s not the most glamorous of jobs, but it seems to make this man pretty happy.

WNYC posts this video of a demo unit of an airport avatar that will soon make its way to NYC airports. The avatars are unfortunately not interactive and will only spit out pre-recorded information (or ads) at LaGuardia, JFK and Liberty Newark airports in early July. This sounds like a terrible idea. Why not go the extra step and make them interactive? And I don’t think I’m the only one in saying that this airport avatar seems a bit too suggestive.

Christopher Hewitt films a gorgeous slow-motion tribute to the ocean waves and the female body for Tribord. Must watch video of the morning!

If you’ve seen the Google Doodle for yesterday and today and was wondering what that floating arrow above the keyboard was, well, then Google’s got the rundown for you. The keyboard is a working Moog Synthesizer that you can record and play songs on.

Google notes:

Much like the musical machines Bob Moog created, this doodle was synthesized from a number of smaller components to form a unique instrument. When experienced with Google Chrome, sound is generated natively using the Web Audio API—a doodle first (for other browsers the Flash plugin is used). This doodle also takes advantage of JavaScript, Closure libraries, CSS3 and tools like Google Web Fonts, the Google+ API, the Google URL Shortener and App Engine.

All the more reason to use Google Chrome as your browser of choice!

Slightly better than his last hit “The Baddest” especially with the line about killing great white sharks. Seriously, why has this kid not gotten a record deal yet? I mean, Soulja Boy got one, right? [via]

MadC, a female graffiti writer (a relatively rare pairing) goes and does a piece on this wall with Molotow Neon colors. Skills. Definitely.

If you’re in Europe and are looking for a custom bike company to try out for the summer, you should head on over to Dry Drill. You can play around with their site, but I would probably recommend calling in to their offices or sending them an email as their site has a few kinks to iron out (specifically, their bike builder which offers 3 bikes to choose from but only allows you to customize one). Still, they seem like a legit and decent custom bike company intent on getting more cyclists on the road. Who can argue with that, right?

Check out this post here for more photos of the bikes.

I’m not an engineer, so while this may be common knowledge to some who studied this field, this to me is sort of like rocket science. But Bill Hammack explains it so simply that I feel like I can probably explain this to somebody else now too. I won’t so I’ll just let you watch the video above on how an accelerometer is made — or etched — out from a piece of silicon.

Stop what you’re doing and click on over to Alexander Semenov’s gallery of underwater photos from the Red Sea. Jellyfish are scary but gorgeous creatures! [via]